The program's core courses will equip you with the necessary concepts, skills, and tools to perform engineering and design towards more sustainable products, infrastructure, and services. You will understand multiple sustainability concepts and paradigms, appreciate the complexity of sustainability problems, analyze complex problems using systems-based frameworks, evaluate sustainability metrics, and understand professional and leadership roles in addressing sustainability challenges.
Upon completion of the program, you will be equipped to devise solutions using holistic strategies, apply sustainability and systems-thinking, and assess proposed solutions against quantitative sustainability metrics.
The program has a core of eight required sustainability courses (27 credits) that provide a solid foundation in sustainability issues, systems thinking and important analytical skills. This foundation is reinforced through six complementary courses (minimum 18 credits) centered around four specific sustainability domains, or streams:
The four complementary course streams are built from courses from multiple departments and schools of the Faculty of Engineering.
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Complementary Courses (minimum 18 credits)
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听Stream 2: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
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This stream focuses on the generation and distribution of low-/no-carbon energy and its relation to storage and energy-carrier systems. Students will be trained in technology assessment for sustainable energy supply and use, and the nexus between energy systems and water resources. The synthesis of renewable fuels from 63 biomass, waste, and carbon dioxide will be covered. This stream includes the study of various pollution control and mitigation technologies to lessen the impact of power-generation systems and combustion processes on the environment. Given the critical need to urgently determine many effective pathways for reducing energy production and use, and their impacts on greenhouse gas emissions and climate warming, this stream represents a critical area for advanced sustainability education. |
CHEE 511. Catalysis for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to catalytic processes for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Topics: From fossil fuel to renewable fuel. Syngas vs. platform route. Biomass upgrading. Renewable natural gas. CO2 as chemical building block. Theory of photo- and electro-catalysis.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 204 and CHEE 310 or permission of instructor.
- Course open to U3 Chemical Engineering undergraduate students and graduate students in Chemical Engineering.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 677. Water-Energy Sustainability.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Sustainable water resources management: water requirements and frameworks for allocations for agriculture, urbanization, resource extraction, energy production and the environment. Analysis and modelling of the constraints and implications, within and across sectors, of water allocation and energy production choices and
their climate change impacts. Critical assessment of contemporary case studies
related to the water-energy nexus
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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ECSE 562. Low-Carbon Power Generation Engineering.
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Primary energy resources, thermodynamics of power generation, conventional and renewable. Electric power generation principles. Rotating and static power
conversion, frequency and voltage control. Synchronous and induction generators, design and operation, grid integration requirements. Static power converter
interfaces, principles and operation. Wind and solar generation principles, control, wind and solar farms. Energy storage technologies and their role in low-carbon
power systems. Operations and planning of low-carbon power generation systems. Renewable integration studies.
- (3-0-9)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 361 or ECSE 362 or ECSE 461
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 463
- Winter semester course. Will be given in alternate years alternating with ECSE 563.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MECH 534. Air Pollution Engineering.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.).
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
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听Stream 1: Sustainable Processes and Manufacturing
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This stream teaches leading approaches in industrial manufacturing with the aims of reducing energy use, water, materials and resource use, and environmental impacts, while producing improved functional goods. Courses in this stream also relate to assessments of the impact of industrial chemicals and nanomaterials on the environment, and the necessary technologies, policies and institutions for implementing sustainable solutions are also covered. Students will learn about the importance of iterative feedback between the design stage, the manufacturing and production stage, and the use and end of life phase for products towards achieving sustainable industrial products and systems. There is an overarching emphasis on prospective or consequential life-cycle assessments of products and processes towards systems-thinking. |
CHEE 511. Catalysis for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to catalytic processes for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Topics: From fossil fuel to renewable fuel. Syngas vs. platform route. Biomass upgrading. Renewable natural gas. CO2 as chemical building block. Theory of photo- and electro-catalysis.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 204 and CHEE 310 or permission of instructor.
- Course open to U3 Chemical Engineering undergraduate students and graduate students in Chemical Engineering.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 512. Advanced Civil Engineering Materials.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Production, structure and properties of engineering materials; ferrous alloys, treatments, welding, special steels, cast iron; ceramic materials; polymers; composite materials; concrete, admixtures, structure, creep, shrinkage; asphalt and asphaltic materials; clay materials and bricks; impact of environment on material response, durability, quality assessment and control, industrial specifications; recent advances.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 202
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CHEE 521. Nanomaterials and the Aquatic Environment.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Environmental impacts and applications of nanomaterials. Topics: physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles in aquatic media, colloid chemistry for understanding nanoparticle aggregation and mobility in the environment, mechanisms of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production by nanomaterials, nanomaterials for environmental remediation and water treatment, methodologies for assessing nanoparticle toxicity, novel research developments.
- 3-0-6
- Offered each year, one year by the Department of Chemical Engineering and one year by the Department of Civil Engineering
- Prerequisite(s): CHEE 315 or CIVE 225 or MIME 356 or equivalent; and CHEE 310 or CIVE 430 or CHEM 233 or equivalent; or permission of instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CIVE 521.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 663. Environmental Fate of Organic Chemicals.
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theoretical and applied environmental organic chemistry concerning organic pollutants in aquatic and soil systems. Topics include: vapour pressure; activity coefficient and aqueous solubility; air-liquid phase partitioning; sorption; bioaccumulation and biomagnification; hydrolysis and nucleophilic substitution reactions; redox reactions; legacy pollutants; pollutants of emerging concern; novel research developments.
- Offered in alternate years.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 677. Water-Energy Sustainability.
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Sustainable water resources management: water requirements and frameworks for allocations for agriculture, urbanization, resource extraction, energy production and the environment. Analysis and modelling of the constraints and implications, within and across sectors, of water allocation and energy production choices and
their climate change impacts. Critical assessment of contemporary case studies
related to the water-energy nexus
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MECH 534. Air Pollution Engineering.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.).
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
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MECH 560. Eco-design and Product Life Cycle Assessment
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of both product and process engineering with an emphasis on life cycle models and sustainability. Practical and theoretical topics, methodologies,
principles, and techniques. Practical methods such as Life Cycle Analysis, eco-design strategies, streamlined Life Cycle Assessment, environmental impact
assessment, and Life Cycle Engineering. Introduction to important product development theories and life cycle assessment theories.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MECH 360
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MIME 511. Advanced Subsurface Ventilation and Air
Conditioning.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of air flow in underground mines. Thermodynamics of mine ventilation. Gases, dust, fire and Radon control. Thermal comfort. Mine heat transfer. Refrigeration systems, Ventilation-on-Demand. Optimization of mine ventilation design.
- (3-0-6).
- Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MIME 588. Reliability Analysis of Mining Systems.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) Terms Offered: Summer 2025 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Statistics and probability theory used in reliability. Reliability analysis, measure and networks. Reliability prediction, modelling and testing. Concepts of preventive and corrective maintenance. Reliability based maintenance. Control and management of reliability systems. Quality and safety associated with maintenance analysis. Inventory control. Reliability based optimization.
- **This course will be held on May 15, 17, 19, 26, June 2, 9 & 16.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 506. Environmental Policy and Planning.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies.
- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
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听Stream 3: Sustainable Urban Development
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The rapidly growing urban populations, particularly in the developing world, and issues stemming from aging infrastructure and urban sprawl has created a critical need for re-thinking our current urban spaces and systems. Currently, 55% of the world鈥檚 population lives in cities but this is expected to increase to 68% by 2050 (UN DESA, 2018). This provides opportunities for developing sustainable urban environments. The students will be taught the theory and applications of sustainable design and development in the urban context. Thus, the stream鈥檚 courses explore the design and re-engineering of urban environments, residential and public places in the global and local context towards urban renewal, growth and densification to achieve reduced natural resource consumption, waste generation, and energy use. Transportations systems are considered as an integral part of the built environment. The stream examines urban development in a holistic and interdisciplinary manner by integrating, socio-cultural and environmental considerations in urban planning and architecture. |
ARCH 515. Sustainable Design.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.
- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or permission of instructor.
- (3-0-6)
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. ARCH 564. Design for Development.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Designing for sustainable development to meet broad developmental goals. Innovative design approaches, strategies and projects to address these objectives via economic empowerment, food security, gender equity, health, sanitation,
climate-change preparedness, and shelter-sector engagements.
- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 540. Urban Transportation Planning.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Process and techniques of urban transportation engineering and planning, including demand analysis framework, data collection procedures, travel demand modelling and forecasting, and cost-effectiveness framework for evaluation of project and system alternatives.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 or permission of instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 621. Sustainable Design of Municipal Systems.
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design of water-related municipal services. Estimation of water demand and wastewater production rates, conception of sources water intake, construction and
maintenance of water distribution and wastewater / stormwater collection systems, selection of pumps and pipe materials, conception of pumping stations, planning
of storage, and optimization of network. Emphasis on the theory and applications of life cycle analysis and of public acceptability specific to municipal system design.
- Prerequisite: SEAD 520
- Restriction :Not open to students who are taking or who have taken CIVE 421.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 623. Durability of Construction Materials
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Durability-related deterioration mechanisms relevant to construction materials with an emphasis on promoting sustainability in the construction industry. Portland cement concrete, asphalt cement concrete, masonry, steel, wood, and fibre reinforced composites. Factors affecting durability, service life prediction, diagnosis, remediation, and protective measures. Introduction to relevant standards, specifications, guides, and design codes.
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CIVE 629. Sustainable Design: Water and Wastewater Facilities
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design principles of drinking water and wastewater resource recovery facilities. Characteristics of water and wastewater developed in theory and through laboratory exercises. Conventional unit operations; derivation and application of process models. Emphasis on the theory and applications of life cycle analysis (LCA) specific to the design of water and wastewater treatment facilities.
- Prerequisite: SEAD 520
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CIVE 430.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 652. Bioprocesses for Wastewater Resource Recovery.
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Credits: 4 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Technologies and design approaches for reclaiming water, nutrients, carbon and energy, while achieving protection of human and environmental health in the context of enhancing sustainability. Unit processes for both wastewater and solids-handling trains. Advanced mathematical modeling to describe suspended-growth
and attached-growth multispecies bioreactors for aerobic, anaerobic and
phototrophic processes. Microbial diversity in different reactor conditions, and specific population metabolisms explaining important stoichiometries and kinetics. Advanced molecular microbiology techniques to document microbial diversity and dynamics. Bioreactor designs in the context of stakeholder interactions and energy efficiency.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. SEAD 515. Climate Change Adaptation and Engineering Infrastructure
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Climate resilience and sustainability of engineering systems such as the built environment and engineering infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, possible mitigation and adaptation strategies and associated challenges and opportunities. Review of the basic principles that underpin the science of climate
change; the role of global and regional climate models in predicting the behaviour of the climate system in response to different forcing scenarios, and the use of climate model outputs in support of across scale climate-resilience of various
engineering systems including infrastructure systems.
- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 620. Transport Economics.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Economic and financial aspects of urban transport policies and planning. Introduction to impact assessment techniques for major transport projects and policies; discussion of political debates concerning transport financing.
- Prerequisite: An introductory course in microeconomics or permission of instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 651. Redesigning Suburban Space.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Planning and urban design strategies for transforming suburban and exurban settings in North America to meet contemporary needs. Critical approaches to responsible practice in existing cultural landscapes. Adaptive reuse of public space, intensification, densification, transit-oriented retrofit of urban form, community-based design development.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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Critical urban and regional infrastructures such as buildings, bridges, transportation networks, water supply, waste disposal need to be built and operated to reduce natural resource consumption, waste generation, and energy use, towards achieving urban sustainability. Cities account for a significant amount of energy consumption and greenhouse emissions. UN Habitat reports that cities consume 75% of global primary energy and emit 71-76% of all CO2 emissions. In addition, the common materials used for infrastructure: steel, cement and glass have high energy and greenhouse gas footprints. Thus, this stream represents a critical area for establishing critical sustainability pathways such as through development of new construction materials and systems for resource and energy recovery from waste. Extreme weather events comprising of intense storms, flooding, and extreme hot days can disrupt cities causing catastrophic loss of life and property. Thus, retrofits and development of infrastructure is urgently needed for adapting infrastructure for climate change through future climate scenario-informed design criteria, materials use and operation strategies. The courses in the stream provide an extensive coverage of these topics.
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ARCH 515. Sustainable Design.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.
- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or permission of instructor.
- (3-0-6)
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. ARCH 517. Sustainable Residential Development.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design strategies of sustainable residential environments at the community and the unit levels. Historic references, siting principles, high density, healthy developments, green homes, urban renewal, circulation and parking, open spaces and implementation approaches.
- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or equivalent
- (3-0-6)
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. ARCH 564. Design for Development.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Architecture (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Designing for sustainable development to meet broad developmental goals. Innovative design approaches, strategies and projects to address these objectives via economic empowerment, food security, gender equity, health, sanitation,
climate-change preparedness, and shelter-sector engagements.
- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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MECH 534. Air Pollution Engineering.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.).
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331, MECH 341.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 504. Planning for Active Transportation.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The importance of transit, walking, and cycling as modes of transportation in sustainable urban environments. Planning, design, and operation of mass transit systems, bikeways, and footpaths.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 620. Transport Economics.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Economic and financial aspects of urban transport policies and planning. Introduction to impact assessment techniques for major transport projects and policies; discussion of political debates concerning transport financing.
- Prerequisite: An introductory course in microeconomics or permission of instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 651. Redesigning Suburban Space.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Planning and urban design strategies for transforming suburban and exurban settings in North America to meet contemporary needs. Critical approaches to responsible practice in existing cultural landscapes. Adaptive reuse of public space, intensification, densification, transit-oriented retrofit of urban form, community-based design development.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.
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BIEN 520. High Throughput Bioanalytical Devices.
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Credits: 3 Offered by: Bioengineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to the field of high throughput screening (HTS) analytical techniques and devices used for genomics, proteomics and other "omics" approaches, as well as for diagnostics, or for more special cases, e.g., screening for biomaterials. Introduction into the motivation of HTS and its fundamental physico-chemical challenges; techniques used to design, fabricate and operate HTS devices, such as microarrays and new generation DNA screening based on nanotechnology. Specific applications: DNA, protein and diagnostic and cell and tissue arrays.
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- (3-0-6)
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. BREE 518. Ecological Engineering.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci) Terms Offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Concepts and practice of ecological engineering: the planned creation or management of a community of organisms, their nonliving surroundings, and technological components to provide services. Survey of applications such as constructed wetlands, aquatic production systems, green infrastructure for urban storm water management, environmental restoration. Taught cooperatively with a parallel course at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Online collaboration with an interdisciplinary, international team is an important component of the course.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 518.
- One 3-hour lecture per week.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. BREE 520. Food, Fibre and Fuel Elements.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci) Terms Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Analysis and design incorporating the four elements required by organisms and biomass for food, fibre and fuel production (air, earth, energy, and water). Special emphasis will be placed on the demands and requirements of engineering systems to control these elements and allow optimal growth in semi-controlled and completely controlled environments.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CHEE 541. Electrochemical Engineering.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Electrochemical systems: electrodes, reactors. Electrochemical stoichiometry, thermodynamics and kinetics. Mass and charge transport. Current and potential distribution in an electrochemical reactor. Electrocatalysis. Fuel cells technology. Batteries. Industrial electrochemical processes. Electrochemical sensors. Biomedical electrochemistry. Passivity, corrosion and corrosion prevention. Electrocrystalization. Experimental Methods.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: CHEE 310 or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 489.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CHEE 543. Plasma Engineering.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Description of the plasma state and parameters, plasma generation methods, and of the related process control and instrumentation. Electrical breakdown in gases and a series of discharge models are covered. Plasma processing applications such as PVD, PECVD, plasma polymerisation and etching, environmental applications, nanoparticle synthesis, spraying and sterilization are treated.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: CHEE 220 and CHEE 314 or equivalent.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. CIVE 550. Water Resources Management.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
State-of-the-art water resources management techniques; case studies of their application to Canadian situations; identification of major issues and problem areas; interprovincial and international river basins; implications of development alternatives; institutional arrangements for planning and development of water resources; and, legal and economic aspects.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): CIVE 323 or equivalent
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. ECSE 507. Optimization and Optimal Control.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
General introduction to optimization methods including steepest descent, conjugate gradient, Newton algorithms. Generalized matrix inverses and the least squared error problem. Introduction to constrained optimality; convexity and duality; interior point methods. Introduction to dynamic optimization; existence theory, relaxed controls, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Sufficiency of the Maximum Principle.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite(s): ECSE 343 or ECSE 543 or ECSE501 or COMP 540 or MATH 247 or permission of the instructor.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MECH 535. Turbomachinery and Propulsion.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to propulsion: turboprops, turbofans and turbojets. Review of thermodynamic cycles. Euler turbine equation. Velocity triangles. Axial-flow compressors and pumps. Centrifugal compressors and pumps. Axial-flow turbines. Loss mechanisms. Dimensional analysis of turbomachines. Performance maps. 3-D effects. Introduction to numerical methods in turbomachines. Prediction of performance of gas turbines.
- (3-0-6)
- Corequisites: MECH 430
- Prerequisite: MECH 331.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MECH 559. Engineering Systems Optimization.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to systems-oriented engineering design optimization. Emphasis on i) understanding and representing engineering systems and their structure, ii) obtaining, developing, and managing adequate computational (physics- and data-based) models for their analysis, iii) constructing appropriate design models for their synthesis, and iv) applying suitable algorithms for their numerical optimization while accounting for systems integration issues. Advanced topics such as coordination of distributed problems and non-deterministic design optimization methods.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: MATH 264 and MECH 309
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. MIME 556. Sustainable Materials Processing.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Sustainability, population and environment impact, environmental impact indicators, materials flows, enthalpy flows, the carbon cycle, materials intensity, energy intensity, global warming potential, acidification potential, FACTOR-Two, -Four and -Ten, life-cycle-inventory/assessment, end-of-pipe strategies, supply-chain and flow-sheet redesign, recycling, waste treatment and materials case studies.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 551. Urban Design and Planning.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of city-building in Canada relative to municipal, regional, and provincial actions used to guide urban growth and development. Contemporary urban design in major metropolitan centres as shaped by legal, political, and cultural realities. Current preoccupations in city-building: reurbanisation and adaptive reuse of infrastructure, collaborative multi-stakeholder projects, strategic initiatives, changing relationships between professional experts and grassroots actors. Introduction to specific aspects of practice: public participation and community engagement; land development and real estate; project feasibility and
implementation; policy monitoring and evaluation; emergent city-building
regimes.
- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Not to be taken by undergraduates before U3. Not open to M.Arch. students.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. SEAD 600. Sustainability Research 1.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research work on topic(s) chosen by consultation between the student and professor.
- Restrictions: Must have completed a minimum of 9 credits from the list of core courses in the M.Eng. in Sustainability in Engineering and Design; Non-Thesis program.
- 1. Students must find a supervisor before registering for this course. Supervisors outside the Faculty of Engineering are subject to approval by the program director.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. SEAD 602. Sustainability Research 2
.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Graduate Studies) Terms Offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Continuation of the independent research work.
- Restrictions: Must have completed a minimum of 9 credits from the list of core courses in the M.Eng. in Sustainability in Engineering and Design; Non-Thesis program.
- 1. Students must find a supervisor before registering for this course. Supervisors outside the Faculty of Engineering are subject to approval by the program director.
- Prerequisites: SEAD 600
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. URBP 619. Land Use and Transport Planning.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Urban Planning (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis of transport and land use interactions in urban areas. Study of the impacts of transport systems on travel behaviour, residential and work location decisions, and urban form; discussion of implications for planning practice.
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The target time to complete the program is 16 months (or three academic semesters in the sequence of fall, winter and fall semesters) for all students. There will be no summer lecture courses offered, but students may undertake their research project courses (SEAD 600 and 602).
