is an introduction to ship structural safety and rational design. Topics include local strength analysis, elastic, plastic and ultimate strength of plating, frames and grillages, buckling of columns and plates and fatigue and fracture in ships.

introduces floating structures used in the offshore petroleum industry, along with functional requirements, such as drilling and production, of the platforms. Field development criteria are discussed in the context of platform concept selection and synthesis. Environmental loads are examined, focussing on wave loads and ice loads. Diffraction theory and its application on offshore structures is presented. Offshore safety is discussed in terms of major hazards, risk management, and case studies.

examines propulsion and motion control of ships, submersibles and offshore structures. Building upon the student’s knowledge of mathematics, mechanics and hydrodynamics provides an introduction to control systems and mathematical modeling of marine systems. Course components include: basic control actions and response of control systems; simulation and design of control systems; dynamic positioning; power management; marine automation.

deals with the issues of the impact of technology on society from an economic, environmental and sociological point of view. Public safety as an engineering responsibility will also be covered. Students will be expected to participate in group discussions, write a number of essays and give oral presentations.

examines fundamental concepts associated with thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and heat transfer; first and second laws of thermodynamics; system and control volume analysis; classification of flows; introduction to boundary layers and drag; convection, conduction and radiation heat transfer; thermal insulation and calculation of R-values; and cooling of electrical components.

introduces basic concepts in geology and geophysics of the offshore environment. An outline of petroleum geology is presented, following a path from the origins of hydrocarbons through migration in the Earth’s crust, accumulation in reservoirs and the strategies used to discover and to exploit liquids found in the subsurface. Topics include an introduction to the offshore oil and gas industry in harsh environment, type of platforms and structures, exploration phase of offshore oil development, production drilling and completion processes and equipment, and oil and gas transportation system. There are case studies and a project.

will cover the fundamentals of chemical kinetics and reaction rate expressions as well as the types of reactors, homogeneous and heterogeneous (catalytic) reactors, and the interrelation between transport phenomena and reaction engineering as it applies to process design. It also includes non-ideal flow, non-ideal reactors, catalytic reaction system, and multiphase reactors.

will introduce students to sustainable development and its application to processing operations. Areas such as traditional economic growth, materials cycles, methods for measuring environmental impact, life cycle analysis, waste treatment technologies and recycling technologies will be covered. In addition, the concept of industrial ecology will be included.

will cover design and operation of equilibrium stage separation processes including distillation, extraction, and leaching. It will also cover advanced concept of equipment design such as heterogeneous system, multiphase system, absorption, and adsorption operation and computer assisted design. Course will use HYSIS and other process equipment design tools.

examines structure classification and loads, building code provisions, analysis of statically determinate arches and frames, shear and moment diagrams for frames, influence lines for statically determinate structures, approximate analysis of indeterminate trusses and frames, the force method of analysing indeterminate beams and frames, an introduction to slope deflection method, and moment distribution method.

examines design methods for reinforced concrete two-way slabs, two-way slabs supported on walls and stiff beams, design of two-way slab systems, direct design method and equivalent frame method, design of concrete retaining walls and basement walls, engineered masonry, allowable masonry stresses, mortar stress, analysis and design of flexural members, axial load and bending in unreinforced and reinforced walls, columns and masonry shear walls.

examines flow in pipe systems and networks; uniform and non-uniform flow in open channels; hydraulic machinery and associated conduits; design and analysis of culverts; and pipeline/pump system optimization.

examines soil characteristics; soil mineralogy; soil water interaction; soil contaminant interactions; advection, adsorption and diffusion; non-aqueous phase liquids; geosynthetics; design of landfills; and use of waste materials. Relevant software programs are used.

includes construction equipment selection and utilization; earthmoving including use of explosives; case studies of major civil projects; principles of project planning and control; computer applications to the construction industry.

is a continuation of the topics started in Engineering 5812, including a review of electrostatics and magnetostatics, Maxwell’s equations, Lorentz force, Poynting's theorem, plane waves, and applications including two-wire transmission lines.

examines the fundamentals of rotating machines; design of machine windings; polyphase and single phase induction motor theory and applications; synchronous machine theory; stability and control of synchronous generators; control and protection of rotating machines, an introduction to A.C. motor drives, and machines.

examines control and instrumentation system components; transducers and signal processing circuits, linear variable differential transformers, power oscillators; electromechanical actuators, solenoids, power drives; A/D and D/A conversion, standard PC interfaces; real-time operating systems; design of discrete-time feedback controllers on a PC platform; system integration, control system tweaking and troubleshooting; programming soft-PLC's using IEC61131.

is an overview of power semiconductor switches, an introduction to energy conversion and control techniques and examination of controlled rectifiers; phase-controlled converters; switch-mode dc/dc converters; variable frequency dc/ac inverters; ac/ac converters; design of thyristor commutation circuits, gate and base drive circuits, and snubber circuits; thermal models and heat sink design.

begins with a review of microprocessors and computer organization. Topics include fundamentals of computer design: performance metrics and cost; instruction set architecture; memory hierarchy design: cache, main memory and virtual memory; pipelining: hazards, parallelism; special purpose processors; multiprocessors and thread-level parallelism.

begins with a review of signal representation and analysis and includes distortionless signal transmission, analog modulation (AM, FM and PM), super-heterodyne receiver, sampling theorem, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), pulse code modulation (PCM), delta modulation, baseband digital transmission, digital modulation techniques (ASK, FSK and PSK).

is an introduction to communication networks such as the telephone network and the Internet. Topics include flow control and error control; circuit switching; packet switching; local area networks; internetworking; communication architectures and protocols.

presents fundamental theories and practices for the design of correct and efficient computing systems, including specification of computing systems and their components, correctness with respect to specifications; methods of verification; algorithmic problem solving strategies (such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, etc.); tractability and intractability of computational problems.

examines modes of heat transfer; conduction: steady 1-D conduction, thermal resistance, extended surfaces (fins), lumped capacitance analysis, 1-D transient conduction; convection: Newton’s law of cooling, convection heat transfer coefficient, external boundary layer flows, internal flows, natural convection; radiation: principles, properties, exchange factors, black body radiation, and enclosures, radiation shields.

is a continuation of the ENGI 5927 course in analysis and synthesis of machinery, including advanced analysis of machine elements such as clutches, brakes, couplings, journal bearings and gears. Advanced machine design concepts are examined, such as reliability, optimization and techniques for stimulating innovative design. A synthesis project involving the machine elements studied is usually included.

examines single degree of freedom systems: free vibration, energy methods, response to harmonic excitation, response to arbitrary inputs, two degree of freedom systems: natural frequencies and mode shapes, dynamic vibration absorber.

examines the performance of feedback control systems. The topics covered in the course are: feedback control concept; control system performance; control system stability; nonlinear phenomena. There is a project which makes use of a peripheral interface controller or PIC. There are 3 laboratory exercises. Extensive use is made of MATLAB.

examines differential analysis of fluid motion; conservation of mass: continuity equation; conservation of momentum: Navier-Stokes equations; conservation of energy; inviscid incompressible flows; low Reynolds number flows; boundary layer flows; compressible flows.