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Students are strongly encouraged to consult with the Graduate Program Director prior to enrolling in this program.
Mining & Materials Engineering : A project of the student's choice, undertaken under the direct supervision of at least one staff member. The final mark is assessed on the basis of a final report that is examined internally, by the supervisor and at least one other staff member.
Terms: Fall 2014, Winter 2015, Summer 2015
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Chemical Engineering : The presence and role of microorganisms in the environment, the role of microbes in environmental remediation either through natural or human-mediated processes, the application of microbes in pollution control and the monitoring of environmental pollutants.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Yerushalmi, Laleh (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Civil Engineering : The course will expose the students to various environmental engineering issues. Lectures will be given by faculty and invited speakers from industry. Each student is required to prepare a written technical paper and make oral presentation.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Hadjinicolaou, John-Ioannis (Winter)
(minimum 22 credits)
One of the following courses:
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci) : General principles of experimental design, split-plot designs, spatial heterogeneity and experimental design, incomplete block designs and unbalanced designs, analysis of repeated measures, multivariate and modified univariate analyses of variance, central composite designs.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Dutilleul, Pierre R L (Winter)
3 hours lectures and 1 conference
Prerequisite: AEMA 310 or equivalent
Civil Engineering : Application of statistical principles to design of measurement systems and sampling programs. Introduction to experimental design. Graphical data analysis. Description of uncertainty. Hypothesis tests. Model parameter estimation methods: linear and nonlinear regression methods. Trend analysis. Statistical analysis of censored data. Statistics of extremes.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Nguyen, Van-Thanh-Van (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 302 or permission of instructor
Psychology : A course in advanced statistics with specialization in experimental design.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Yu, Hsiu-Ting (Fall)
One of the following courses:
Occupational Health & Hygiene : General principles of toxicology, routes of toxicant entry, human organs as targets of toxic action, adverse effects, time-course of reactions to toxicants. Risk assessment techniques, in vivo-in vitro toxicity models, links between human population observations and animal, cellular and biochemical models.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Heroux, Paul (Fall)
Occupational Health & Hygiene : An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial hygiene designed to provide the students with the knowledge required to identify health and safety hazards in the workplace.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Gauvin, Jean-Pierre (Fall)
One of the following courses:
Civil Engineering : Theoretical aspects of the chemistry of water and wastewater treatment. This will include acid-base and solubility equilibria; redox reactions; reaction kinetics; reactor design; surface and colloid chemistry; gas transfer; mass transfer; stabilization and softening; disinfection; corrosion.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Civil Engineering : Process kinetics and reactors. Population kinetics of microorganisms and their role in the various waste treatment processes. Unit processes for wastewater treatment, such as suspended-growth, attached-growth processes, sludge treatment, and nutrient removal. Biological treatment techniques for groundwater decontamination. Laboratory pilot plant exercises.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Frigon, Dominic (Fall)
Civil Engineering : Theory and design of specific processes used for the physical and/or chemical purification of waters and wastewaters, including mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, flotation, filtration, disinfection, adsorption, ion exchange, aeration, membrane processes, distillation, removal of specific inorganics and organics, taste and odour control, process control, sludge treatment. Laboratory exercises will complement theoretical aspects.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
One of the following courses:
Chemical Engineering : Air pollution effects, control laws and regulations, measurements; emission estimates, meteorology for air pollution control engineers, dispersion models, nature of particulate pollutants, control of primary particulates, control of volatile organic compounds, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides; air pollutants and global climate.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Mechanical Engineering : Pollutants from power production and their effects on the environment. Mechanisms of pollutant formation in combustion. Photochemical pollutants and smog, atmospheric dispersion. Pollutant generation from internal combustion engines and stationary power plants. Methods of pollution control (exhaust gas treatment, absorption, filtration, scrubbers, etc.).
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Frost, David (Fall)
One of the following courses:
Bioresource Engineering : Management of water quality for sustainability. Cause of soil degradation, surface and groundwater contamination by agricultural chemicals and toxic pollutants. Screening and mechanistic models. Human health and safety concerns. Water table management. Soil and water conservation techniques will be examined with an emphasis on methods of prediction and best management practices.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Qi, Zhiming; Madramootoo, Chandra A; Biswas, Asim (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken BREE 625 (formerly ABEN 625).
Civil Engineering : Field investigations; geotechnical and geophysical techniques; hydrogeological conditions; risk assessment; contaminant transport; remedial action plan; containment systems (gas, surface water, and ground water); on-site and off-site treatment techniques (solidification, stabilization, landfilling, and soil washing); In-situ treatment techniques (physical, biological, and chemical).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
One of the following courses:
Geography : Most problems in environmental science deal with weak relationships and poorly defined systems. Model development and simulation will be used in this course to help improve understanding of environmental systems. Simulation of environmental systems is examined, focusing on problem definition, model development and model validation.
Terms: Fall 2014
Instructors: Roulet, Nigel Thomas (Fall)
Fall
1.15 hours lecture, 0.58 hours seminar, 0.69 hours project, 0.58 hours laboratory
Restriction: open only to U2 or U3 students who have completed six or more credits from courses at the 300 level of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geography, Natural Resource Sciences, or a Æ»¹ûÒùÔº School of Environment domain, or permission of the instructor
Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140, MATH 141, and MATH 203, or equivalent
Enrolment limited to 20 students by availability of workstations
Geography : This course deals with the role of geographic information, paradigms and modes of analysis - including but not restricted to GIS - in environmental impact assessment and decision making. The focus will be on community-based decision making, particularly where conservation issues are involved. Cross-cultural situations, developing areas and the role of non-government organizations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative.
Urban Planning : Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing urban and other environmental problems at various scales; characteristics of environmental problems and implications; political-institutional context and policy instruments; risk perception and implications; cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, multiple-objectives approaches, life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; case studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.
(3-0-6)
Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
or an approved 500-, 600-, or 700-level alternative.
(minimum 11 credits)
Another project course and/or Engineering or non-Engineering 500-, 600-, or 700-level course subject to approval of the Department.
The relevant Project course in Mining and Materials Engineering is the following:
Mining & Materials Engineering : Continuation of Mining Engineering Project.
Terms: Fall 2014, Winter 2015
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2014-2015 academic year.