Sign up for Carleton Get started in Carleton to receive tailored information on our programs, student services and community. Get Details. Take a virtual campus tour Explore Carleton's beautiful riverside campus inside our virtual tour. Got it. In the area of telecommunications, graduates will be able to manage the development and deployment of telecommunication software products such as telephone switches and networks, routers, computer telephony and other types of computer communication products.

The background in software verification enables the software engineer to ensure that the software provides the performance and reliability that we demand of these systems.

In the private sector, a software product developer helps a company manage its product lines, converting business plans into technical reality. Software engineers are also at the forefront of developments in the tools and methodologies that will enable us to push the edge further in how computing can change our lives. The Software Engineering program is distinct from the other engineering programs in the Electrical and Computer Systems Department which share a standard core program in first year.

The course progression of the Software Engineering program reflects a focus on software development and support of the co-op option described below that most students of this program will take. In first year, the objective is to establish the necessary engineering foundations in mathematics while gaining early exposure to a breadth of software topics, particularly in object-oriented software. In second year, the software education broadens to encompass concurrent programming as well as larger-scale software systems, while developing necessary engineering background in electrical circuits and mechanics.

Engineering documentation. History of the profession. Engineering practice: system life cycle, practice within the discipline, designing with others. Health and safety. Engineering Ethics, Equity and Diversity. Introduction to engineering law : Business, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property. Scalars and vectors. Concurrent forces: resultant and components. Statics of particles. Moments and couples. Force system resultants. Frames and machines. Internal forces. Kinematics and kinetics of particles.

Conservation theorems: work-energy; impulse-momentum. Centroids and centres of gravity. Lectures three hours a week, tutorials and problem analysis three hours a week. Defining and modeling problems, designing algorithmic solutions, using procedural programming, selection and iteration constructs, functions, arrays, converting algorithms to a program, testing and debugging. Program style, documentation, reliability. Applications to engineering problems; may include numerical methods, sorting and searching.

Basic exploratory data analysis. Central limit theorem. Hypothesis testing: t-test, chi-square test, type-I and type-II errors, multiple-comparison problem. Statistical bias. Design of experiments: randomization, blocking and replication, randomized blocking designs, factorial design. Statistical software packages. Sources of error and error propagation, solution of systems of linear equations, curve fitting, polynomial interpolation and splines, numerical differentiation and integration, root finding, solution of differential equations.

Software tools. Lectures three hours a week, laboratory one hour a week. Engineering students must submit samples of their writing and communications including, for example, laboratory reports and professional memos. Communication skills are emphasized. Applications in mining, metallurgy, pulp and paper, power generation, energy utilization. Emissions to the environment per unit product or service generated. Introduction to life cycle analysis, comparative products and processes.

Lectures two hours a week, problem analysis three hours a week. Also listed as BIOL Topics include water characteristics and contaminants, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane processes, disinfection and disinfection by-products, and management of water treatment residuals. Laboratory procedures: settling operations, filtration, aeration, and adsorption. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Additional recommended background: ENVE Components of the hydrologic cycle. Quantitative analysis of stream flow. Probability concepts in water resources. Reservoir design and operation. Hydraulic properties and availability of groundwater. Storm water management. Prerequisite s : third-year status in Engineering. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week. Derivation and application of transport equations in air, surface and groundwater pollution; analytical and numerical solutions.

Equilibrium partitioning of contaminants among air, water, sediment, and biota. Landfill operation, maintenance and monitoring. Case studies of landfill design and performance. Geotechnical design of environmental control and containment systems. Ambient air quality objectives and monitoring. Pollutant formation mechanisms in combustion. Major pollutant categories and control methods. Indoor air quality. Laboratory procedures: emissions from boilers and IC engines, particulate size distribution and control, IAQ parameters.

Topics include wastewater characteristics, flow rates, primary treatment, chemical unit processes, biological treatment processes, advanced wastewater treatment, disinfection, biosolids treatment and disposal. Laboratory procedures: activated sludge, anaerobic growth, chemical precipitation, disinfection. Site investigation: geology, hydrology and chemistry. Contaminant transport.

Unsaturated and multiphase flow. Numerical modeling. Site remediation and remediation technologies. Waste composition and potential impacts, collection and transport, recycling and reuse, biological and thermal treatments, isolation.

Integrated waste management planning. Case studies of selected engineering projects. Environmental planning, management of residuals and environmental standards. Risk assessment, policy development and decision-making.

Fault-tree analysis. Prerequisite s : fourth-year status in B. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one and a half hours per week. Types and sources of indoor air pollution and discomfort; measurement techniques. Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting practices and issues. Modelling of and design for indoor environmental quality.

Prerequisite s : fourth year status in B. Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering or B. Environmental Engineering or fourth year standing in B.

Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ENVE , for which additional credit is precluded. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis and laboratory three hours alternate weeks. The materials provide foundational knowledge to understand building services: mechanical, electrical, plumbing systems with associated controls. Lecture three hours per week, problem analysis three hours every other week. Greenhouse gases, global warming, paleoclimatology, and Earth system responses.

Climate change impacts on structural, water, transportation, and energy systems. Climate vulnerability assessment, examples of design adaptation. Prerequisite s : permission of the Department and completion of, or concurrent registration in, ENVE Topics covered include: design factors, fatigue, and discrete machine elements. Problem analysis emphasizes the application to practical mechanical engineering problems. Basic viscous flow theory including: blood flow in the heart and large arteries, air flow in extra-thoracic nose-mouth throat airways and lungs.

Lectures three hours per week, laboratories or tutorials three hours per week. Casting: solidification and heat flow theory, defect formation, casting design. Metal forming: elementary plasticity theory, plastic failure criteria, force and work calculations.

Bulk and sheet forming. Joining: heat flow and defect formation, residual stresses. Machining theory and methods. Hardening: diffusion, wear resistance. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis and laboratories three hours a week on alternate weeks.

Material response and degradation. Properties of biologic materials; bone, cartilage, soft tissue. Materials selection for biocompatibility. Lectures three hours per week, laboratories and problem analysis three hours per week.

These elements are utilized in group design projects. Topics to be covered include: performance characteristics, handling behaviour and ride quality of road vehicles. Topics include: mechanics of vehicle-terrain interaction - terramechanics, performance characteristics of off-road vehicles, steering of tracked vehicles, air cushion systems and their performance, applications of air cushion technology to transportation.

Design methodologies. Examination of specific medical devices: surgical equipment, orthopedic devices, rehabilitation engineering, life support, artificial organs.

Case studies. Lectures three hours per week, laboratories or tutorial three hours per week. Corrosion mechanisms. Thermodynamics of corrosion. Electro-chemical kinetics of corrosion. Corrosion: types, prevention, control, testing, monitoring and inspection techniques.

Corrosion in specific metals eg. Fe, Ni, Ti and Al. Corrosion issues in specific industries: power generation and chemical processing industries. Fatigue design methods, fatigue crack initiation and growth Paris law and strain-life methods. Fatigue testing, scatter, mean stress effects and notches. Welded and built up structures, real load histories and corrosion fatigue. Damage tolerant design and fracture control plans.

Vibration measurement and isolation. Numerical methods for multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Modal analysis techniques. Dynamic vibration absorbers. Shaft whirling. Vibration of continuous systems: bars, plates, beams and shafts. Energy methods. Holzer method. Reactor theory, kinetics, control. Reactor types, reactor poisoning, xenon oscillations. Reactor materials, corrosion, fuel and fuel cycle. Nuclear medicine. Radiation protection, reactor safety fundamentals.

Balance of Plant Systems. Lecture three hours per week. Measurements of motion, strain and neural signals. The hand and manipulation; locomotion and the leg. Similarity: performance parameters; characteristics; cavitation. Velocity triangles. Euler equation: impulse and reaction. Radial pumps and compressors: analysis, design and operation. Axial pumps and compressors: cascade and blade-element methods; staging; off-design performance; stall and surge.

Axial turbines. Current design practice. Precludes additional credit for AERO Geothermal, solar powerplants. Energy storage. Environmental aspects of power generation. Industrial use and auto-generation of energy. Energy intensity and efficiency of industrial processes and products. Comparative analysis of raw material, energy, or product transport.

Life-cycle analysis. Lectures three hours a week and problem analysis three hours per week. Steady and transient conduction: solution and numerical and electrical analog techniques. Convective heat transfer: free and forced convection for laminar and turbulent flows; heat exchangers.

Heat transfer between black and grey surfaces, radiation shields, gas radiation, radiation interchange. Problem analysis and laboratories three hours a week. Methods of altering and controlling environment. Air distribution. Refrigeration methods, equipment and controls.

Integrated year-round air-conditioning and heating systems; heat pumps. Cooling load and air-conditioning calculations. Thermal radiation control. Component matching.

System analysis and design. Chemical kinetics and mass transfer. Efficient combustion, fuel cells and batteries. Efficient operation and design of engines, power generators, boilers, furnaces, incinerators, and co-generation systems. Emerging energy systems. Geometric structure and dynamics of linear systems. Controllability and observability. Pole placement design of controllers and observers.

Design of regulator and servo systems. Transmission zeros. Eigenstructure assignment. Relationship to frequency or classical control techniques. Precludes additional credit for SYSC Robotic actuators and sensors.

Kinematics of manipulators, inverse kinematics, differential relationships and the Jacobian. Manipulator dynamics. Trajectory generation and path planning. Robot control and performance evaluation. Force control and compliance. Applications in manufacturing and other industries.

Direct equilibrium, variational and Galerkin formulations. Computer programs and practical applications. Higher order elements. Current issues such as CAD data exchange standards, rapid prototyping, concurrent engineering, and design for X DFX are also discussed. Analog systems. Signal conditioning. Op-Amps, instrumentation amplifiers, charge amplifiers, filters. Digital techniques. Data acquisition using microcomputers. Hardware and software considerations.

Mechanical and electrical systems modeling, simulation and implementation. Basic automation and computer requirements. Design tools and examples of mechatronic applications.

Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies: plane motion of rigid bodies; forces and accelerations; energy and momentum methods. Kinematics, dynamics of fluid motion: concepts of streamline, control volume, steady and one-dimensional flows; continuity, Euler, Bernoulli, steady flow energy, momentum, moment of momentum equations; applications.

Fluid statics; pressure distribution in fluid at rest; hydrostatic forces on plane and curved surfaces; buoyancy. First law for closed and steady-flow open systems.

Thermodynamic properties of pure substances; changes of phase; equation of state. Second law: entropy. Simple power and refrigeration cycles. Introduction to heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation.

Mechanism force analysis. Static and dynamic balancing. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of cams. Free and forced vibration of single-degree-of-freedom systems. Introduction to multibody dynamics. Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis and laboratories two hours a week. Dimensional analysis and similitude. Compressible flow: isentropic flow relations, flow in ducts and nozzles, effects of friction and heat transfer, normal and oblique shocks, two-dimensional isentropic expansion.

Viscous flow theory: hydrodynamic lubrication and introduction to boundary layers. Heat pump and refrigeration cycles: vapour compression cycles, absorption refrigeration and gas refrigeration.

Mixtures of perfect gases and vapours: psychometry and combustion. Principles of turbomachinery. Analysis and design of classical control systems. Stability and the Routh-Hurwitz criteria. Time and frequency domain performance criteria, robustness and sensitivity. Root locus, Bode and Nyquist design techniques.

Control system components and industrial process automation. Prerequisite s : permission of the Department. At the discretion of the Faculty, a course may be offered that deals with selected advanced topics of interest to Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering students.

Prerequisite s : permission of department. Opportunity to develop initiative, engineering judgement, self-reliance, and creativity in a team environment. Results submitted in a comprehensive report as well as through formal oral presentations. Certain projects may have additional prerequisites.

Results presented in the form of a written report. Carried out under the close supervision of a faculty member. Energy-economy system. Global energy trends, the next years. Energy reserves and resources.

Primary and secondary clean energy. Energy use, efficiency and renewables. Sustainable energy choices and policies. Prerequisite s : registration in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering. Lectures one hour per week. Renewables: photovoltaic, solar-thermal, hydropower, geothermal, tidal.

Fossil fuels and nuclear. Terrestial, thermodynamic and electrical limitations. Electricity Distribution: topology, reliability, load characteristics, voltage regulation, power loss, capacitors, economics of optimum choice, system protection.

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