TO: Tim Weber, Faculty Secretary, Dean of Engineering Office FROM: Wayne Loucks, Associate Dean, U/G Studies, Faculty of Engineering SUBJECT: Items for Approval at May 19, 2015 Engineering Faculty Council

The Faculty of Engineering Undergraduate Studies Committee approved the following items on April 24, 2015. I am seeking approval for these items at Engineering Faculty Council on May 19, 2015.

Attachment #1 contains the modified portion of the following calendar descriptions: Options in: Environmental, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Water Resources (Item I), Entrepreneurship (Item II) and Management Sciences (Item III); program descriptions for Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Geological

(Item IV) and Management Engineering (Item IV).

Attachment #2 contains the Catalog Report Mtng #30 (Items IV, V and VI) and #31 (Item II).

NOTE: ITEMS WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE SENATE U/G COUNCIL APPROVAL ARE SHOWN AS SMALL CAPS IN

ITALICS, WITH WAVE UNDERLINE. THESE ITEMS RECEIVE FINAL APPROVAL AT ENGINEERING FACULTY COUNCIL

AND ARE FORWARDED TO SENATE U/G COUNCIL FOR INFORMATION AND IMPLEMENTATION. Appendix #1 contains the revised academic advisement templates for the following options: Environmental (2016), Life Sciences (2015), Physical Sciences (2014, 2015), Entrepreneurship (2014, 2015) and Management Sciences (2016), and for the following program: Management Engineering (2016). Appendix #2 contains a memo describing the background and rationale for the title and description change to GENE 123. Items for Approval: I) Designated Options Background and Motivation Proposed changes to the following options are of a housekeeping nature:

i. Option in Environmental Engineering

List A, remove ERS 371 [Note: inactive effective September 1, 2016]

List D, CIVE 240 has been renumbered to 230 [Note: effective May 1, 2017]

ii. Option in Life Sciences

Theme 1, BIOL 366 renumbered to 266 [Note: effective September 1, 2015]

iii. Option in Physical Sciences

Theme 1 – “Plus one of” list: move NE 241 and SYDE 283 to the “Required courses” list. Add

PHYS 242 to this list (Plus one of).

Electives: remove PHYS 441A [Note: inactive effective January 1, 2015] and PHYS 441B [Note:

inactive effective May 1, 2015]

Electives: PHYS 342 replaces PHYS 441A, and PHYS 442 replaces PHYS 441B

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Theme 2, remove CHEM 305 from elective list [Note: inactive effective September 1, 2014]

iv. Option in Water Resources

Required Courses list, CIVE 280 title change from Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences to Fluid Mechanics [Note: effective May 1, 2017]

II) Option in Entrepreneurship Background and Motivation

The following proposed changes are of a housekeeping nature. Changes include clarifying when the courses are offered, and replacing ‘Enterprise Co-op’ with ‘E Co-op Milestone’ in the venture creation entrepreneurial experience section of the option description.

i. BET 100: Addition of winter and spring terms. This is a result of high demand for this course. ii. BET 410A: Addition of terms offered (F, S). At this time the course does not indicate the term

offered and it is intended to line up with the capstones in 4A. iii. BET 410B: Addition of terms offered (W). At this time the course does not indicate the term

offered and it is intended to line up with the capstones in 4B. iv. Option Venture Creation Track Description: Changing the reference to ‘Enterprise Co-op’ to an

‘E Co-op Milestone’ will simplify tracking students who have taken part in an enterprise co-op work term. At this time there is no differentiation between a regular and enterprise co-op term.

III) Option in Management Sciences Background and Motivation The following changes are proposed:

i. The description of the MSCI Option clarifies the intent and requirements of the option (the current language was causing some confusion).

ii. The course, MSCI 432, Production and Service Operations Management, will no longer be offered in the spring term due to low enrolment and has therefore been removed.

iii. Add HRM 200 to the list of elective courses, as it is currently being approved as a suitable elective with an option substitution form. All Human Resources Management courses are currently on the CSE C List.

IV) Management Engineering Background and Motivation Approval is requested for the following proposed revisions to the Management Engineering program:

i. New program-specific work-term report courses have been created, MSCI 391, 392 and 491 (Work-term Report), to replace the WKRPT 200, 300 and 400 courses. Students will submit a bound report along with an electronic version to Learn. These courses will be evaluated on the basis of written communication skills and technical proficiency in the subject matter as demonstrated by the report. There will be no final exam. Note: although this change is effective September 2016, MSCI 391 will not be offered for the first time until Winter 2019.

ii. Course changes include: remove spring offering of MSCI 432 due to low enrolment (also affects the MSCI Option) and update prerequisites for MSCI 452 due to course inactivation.

iii. Remove CIVE 342, 381, 444 and 572 from List I Technical Electives due to course inactivations, and change CIVE 240 to 230 as this course has been renumbered.

iv. Clarify what free electives are in Note 3 after the academic course listing. v. Remove reference to double counting, as it conflicts with the following other areas in the calendar:

http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/uWaterloo-Double-Counting-of-Courses and http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/page/ENG-BASc-and-BSE-Options-Electives-Engineering1 .

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These changes were approved by the Management Engineering Undergraduate Committee in Fall 2014 and Winter 2015. V) Nanotechnology Engineering Background and Motivation

Due to some items that were tabled at the SUC meeting in December 2014, a change to NE 225 was omitted in error. The intention was to interchange the term of offering for NE 225 from fall to spring and add NE 232 as a prerequisite. The complete rationale is available in the Catalog report (#30).

VI) General Engineering Background and Motivation It is proposed that the title of GENE 123 be revised from “Electrical Engineering” to “Electrical Circuits and Instrumentation”. The content is adjusted to decrease some of the circuit theory components, and to introduce content dealing with transducers and data acquisition. It is believed that this material will better serve students in the various programs for upper year courses, laboratories, and co-op experience. Note: These changes will be effective September 1, 2016. Engineering First Year Council met on March 30, 2015 and approved the revision of GENE 123 title and content (course description) and the departments that use this course in their core (namely Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Mechanical and Mechatronics, and Management) have also confirmed their support for the changes. The complete background and rationale for the above changes is outlined in Appendix 2.

W.M. Loucks Associate Dean of Engineering Undergraduate Studies efc&suc\efc [EFC-May19-2015 submission]

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Attachment 1

Option in Environmental Engineering This Option is for students who wish to pursue their education with an emphasis on environmental concerns, assessment of the environmental impact of new or existing products or processes, methods for solving problems resulting from pollution in the air, in the water, or in the earth, and on the management of energy and resources in order to minimize pollution in the environment. This is a Faculty option, but it will be of special interest to students in Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, and Systems Design Engineering, and includes course material related to all these disciplines. The Environmental Engineering Option is not available to Environmental Engineering students.

The Option consists of a set of seven courses chosen from four Theme Areas, as described below. Substitution of equivalent courses, if applicable, requires the approval of the Option Co-ordinator.

The courses are:

List A [removed ERS 371 from this list (inactive effective September 1, 2016)]

Environmental Issues and Management: take two from the following. May count towards Complementary Studies Elective (CSE) requirements (check with CSE lists and your program requirements).

Course Title

ENVE 391 Law and Ethics for Environmental Engineers

ERS 215 Environmental and Sustainability Assessment I

ERS 270 Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture

ERS 315 Environmental and Sustainability Assessment II

ERS 370 Corporate Sustainability: Issues and Prospects

ERS 372 First Nations and the Environment

ERS 404 Global Environmental Governance

List B

Environmental Chemistry and Biology: take at least 1

Course Title

BIOL 150 Organismal and Evolutionary Ecology

BIOL 354 Environmental Toxicology 1

BIOL 383 Tropical Ecosystems

EARTH 221 Geochemistry 1

ENVE 275 Environmental Chemistry

ENVE 276 Environmental Biology and Biotechnology

ENVS 200 Field Ecology

HLTH 420 Health, Environment, and Planning

List C

Environmental and Energy Processes: take at least 2

Course Title CHE 571 Industrial Ecology CHE 572 Air Pollution Control CHE 574 Industrial Wastewater Pollution Control

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ENVE 375 Water Quality Engineering (or CIVE 375) ENVE 472 Wastewater Treatment (or CIVE 572) ENVE 577 Engineering for Solid Waste Management ME 452 Energy Transfer in Buildings ME 459 Energy Conversion

List D

Transport, Modelling, and Decision Analysis: take at least 1

Course Title

CIVE 230 Engineering and Sustainable Development

EARTH 456 Numerical Methods in Hydrogeology

EARTH 458 Physical Hydrogeology

ENVE 320 Environmental Resource Management

ENVE 573 Contaminant Transport

ME 571 Air Pollution

MSCI 452 Decision Making Under Uncertainty

SYDE 332 Societal and Environmental Systems

SYDE 533 Conflict Resolution

Plus one additional course from list B, C, or D above, to total seven courses.

Option in Life Sciences The Faculty of Science provides two options for Engineering students, the Option in Life Sciences and the Option in Physical Sciences.

Notes:

1. Each of the two options has a number of themes; the requirements for each theme are listed in the table for the option.

2. Students are encouraged to seek information from the co-ordinator related to combinations of electives and relationships among the courses. Enrolment concerns may need to be discussed with the program advisor.

3. Some students in the option(s) may wish to further specialize within a given theme. 4. Students will need to consider the terms of offering for the courses listed as well as the requisite structure. In

particular some courses require both the lecture and the lab component of a course as a prerequisite. It is also important to note that the choices in the earlier courses in the option may impact the elective choices in the senior courses and that some courses require the permission of the instructor.

5. Listed in the electives of some of the themes are special topic courses; a list of the topics available in a given term is available from the department offering the special topics course.

The aim of the Option in Life Sciences is to provide a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) and Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) student with an understanding of the structure and function of biological systems that is both broader and deeper than can normally be attained within the context of any one engineering academic program. The Option in Life Sciences has four theme areas, namely, Molecular and Cell Biology, Environmental/Ecological Science, Biophysical Science, and Biochemical Science. Each theme has four required foundations (or core) courses, plus three elective courses to be selected from a set of at least seven Faculty of Science courses in the particular theme area. Although this option is available to all students in the Faculty of Engineering, it is expected to be of particular interest to students in the Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Nanotechnology Engineering, and Systems Design Engineering programs.

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Theme 1: Molecular and Cell Biology

Required Courses Electives: choose three BIOL 130 BIOL 266

BIOL 239 BIOL 308

BIOL 240 BIOL 309

CHEM 266 or CHEM 262 or NE 122 BIOL 331

BIOL 342

BIOL 349

BIOL 382/AMATH 382 BIOL 434

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Option in Physical Sciences The Faculty of Science provides access to two options for Engineering students, the Option in Life Sciences and the Option in Physical Sciences.

Notes:

1. Each of the two options has a number of themes; the requirements for each theme are listed in the table for the option.

2. Students are encouraged to seek information from the co-ordinator related to combinations of electives and relationships among the courses. Enrolment concerns may need to be discussed with the program advisor.

3. Some students in the option(s) may wish to further specialize within a given theme. As a result, a number of sub-themes have been identified and this information is available from the option theme co-ordinator.

4. Students will need to consider the terms of offering for the courses listed as well as the requisite structure. In particular some courses require both the lecture and the lab component of a course as a prerequisite. It is also important to note that the choices in the earlier courses in the option may impact the elective choices in the senior courses and that some courses require the permission of the instructor.

5. Listed in the electives of some of the themes are special topic courses; a list of the topics available in a given term is available from the department offering the special topics course.

6. Due to the overlap with the regular program, the Earth and Environmental Sciences theme is not available to Geological Engineering students.

The aim of the Option in Physical Sciences is to provide a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) and Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) student with an understanding of the basic physical sciences that lie behind many engineering applications that is both broader and deeper than can normally be attained within the context of any one engineering academic program. The Option in Physical Sciences has three theme areas, namely, Physics, Chemistry and, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Each theme has four required foundations (or core) courses plus three elective courses to be chosen from a set of at least ten Faculty of Science courses in the theme area. Sub-themes, maybe be followed by making judicious choices of three elective courses. This option is available to all students in the Faculty of Engineering.

Theme 1: Physics [removed PHYS 441A/441B from this list (inactive January 1, 2015/May 1, 2015)]

Required Courses Plus one of: Electives: choose three Subthemes

PHYS 115 or PHYS 121 or ECE 105 or NE 131 PHYS 122 or PHYS 125 or ECE 106 or

ECE 140 or PHYS 242 or PHYS 263 or PHYS 334 or PHYS 358

PHYS 275 PHYS 334 PHYS 335 PHYS 342 PHYS 359 or NE 334 PHYS 364

Electromagnetic Theory PHYS 342 PHYS 364 PHYS 365 Solid State Physics PHYS 334 PHYS 335

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NE 241 or SYDE 283 PHYS 234 or NE 232

PHYS 365 PHYS 375 PHYS 434 PHYS 435 PHYS 442 PHYS 454 PHYS 467 PHYS 475

PHYS 358 PHYS 359 Astrophysics PHYS 263 PHYS 275 PHYS 375 PHYS 475 Quantum Physics PHYS 334 PHYS 364 PHYS 365 PHYS 434

Theme 2: Chemistry [removed CHEM 305 from this list (inactive effective September 1, 2014)]

Required Courses Electives: choose three Subthemes

CHEM 123 or CHE 102 or NE 121 CHEM 209 CHEM 217 CHEM 266

CHEM 220 CHEM 221 CHEM 254 or CHE 230 or ECE 309 or ME 250 or SYDE 381 CHEM 265 CHEM 310 CHEM 313 CHEM 323 CHEM 340 CHEM 350 CHEM 356 or NE 232 or PHYS 234 CHEM 360 CHEM 370 or NE 333 CHEM 410 CHEM 450

Analytical Chemistry CHEM 220 CHEM 221 CHEM 323 Inorganic Chemistry CHEM 212 CHEM 310 CHEM 313 Organic Chemistry CHEM 264 CHEM 265 CHEM 360 Physical Chemistry CHEM 254 CHEM 350 CHEM 356

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Option in Water Resources This Option is for students interested in the development, management, and protection of water resources. Students are prepared for careers with consulting firms or regulatory agencies. They acquire the background to design and evaluate hydraulic structures, pollution control schemes, and water management systems. They are also exposed to the social and environmental aspects of use of water resources. A minimum of seven courses is required; however most students in Civil Engineering will probably wish to take more.

Legend

F - fall term, W - winter term, S - spring term

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Required Courses

There are four required courses:

Course Title CIVE 280 (S) Fluid Mechanics (or equivalent) CIVE 375 (W) Water Quality Engineering CIVE 381 (F,W) Hydraulics CIVE 486 (F,S) Hydrology

Elective Courses

A minimum of three elective courses is required to be taken from the following list, subject to timetable constraints:

Surface Water

Course Title CIVE 583 (W) Design of Urban Water Systems ENVE 573 (W) Contaminant Transport

Treatment

Course Title CHE 361(F,W) Bioprocess Engineering CHE 574 (W) Industrial Wastewater Pollution Control CIVE 572 (S) Wastewater Treatment

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Option in Entrepreneurship Introduction

Overview

The option in entrepreneurship gives University of Waterloo engineering students an opportunity to pursue an innovative curriculum focused on two themes of entrepreneurship; venture creation and corporate entrepreneurship. While it is common to associate entrepreneurship with venture creation, increasingly there is growing demand for students who can act as "entrepreneurs within organizations", sometimes referred to as corporate entrepreneurs, or intrapreneurs. Both forms of entrepreneurship are critical to Canada's competitiveness in global markets and its economic vitality.

The option in entrepreneurship is designed for students with a passion for entrepreneurship, who wish to leverage their technical background with the business skills required to move ideas from concept to commercial success. It is built upon a uniquely Waterloo approach to entrepreneurship education that recognizes the need to couple academic and experiential learning to develop an individual's entrepreneurial capabilities. This is achieved through a combination of co-operative or capstone project educational experiences and academic content tailored to the entrepreneur's stage of development.

Option Objectives

Successful students in the Option in Entrepreneurship will:

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be able to create and grow new entrepreneurial businesses

understand the process of commercializing new technologies

be able to manage the introduction and growth of new business opportunities within existing organizations

Specific Requirements

Two Tracks: Venture Creation or Corporate Entrepreneurship

Students can pursue one of two tracks in the Entrepreneurship Option. Each track consists of required academic courses and an entrepreneurial experience component.

1. Venture Creation Track

Academic Requirements

All of the following courses:

BET 100 (List D complementary studies course) or ECON 220 (List C complementary studies course)

One complementary studies course from List B BET 300, BET 310, BET 400

Plus one technical course in an area related to your entrepreneurial experience, approved by the Option Co-ordinator.

Entrepreneurial Experience

In this track, students demonstrate entrepreneurial experience by earning credit for an Enterprise Co-op (E Co-op) Milestone. The BET 310 course is to be taken concurrently with the E Co-op term.

2. Corporate Entrepreneurship Track

Academic Requirements

All of the following courses:

BET 100 (List D complementary studies course) or ECON 220 (List C complementary studies course)

One complementary studies course from List B BET 320, BET 400, BET 410A (0.25) and BET 410B (0.25)

Plus one technical course in an area related to your entrepreneurial experience, approved by the Option Co-ordinator.

Entrepreneurial Experience

In this track, students demonstrate entrepreneurial experience through their capstone design project. Students must take the BET 410A and BET 410B courses concurrently with their capstone project courses.

Capstone project courses include: CHE 482/CHE 483 or CIVE 400/CIVE 401 or ECE 498A/ECE 498B or ENVE 400/ENVE 401 or GENE 403/GENE 404 or GEOE 400/GEOE 401 or MSCI 401/MSCI 402 or ME 481/ME 482 or MTE 481/MTE 482 or NE 408/NE 409 or SE 490/SE 491 or SYDE 461/SYDE 462.

Option in Management Sciences

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The Option in Management Sciences (MSCI Option) prepares students for decision making roles in business and technology management. The Option complements an engineer's technical training with a well-rounded education in management sciences, including studies of economics, organizational behaviour and design, decision analysis and operations research, production and service operations, information systems design, innovation, and technology strategy. Courses develop a conceptual understanding of management and organizational processes, practical skills to analyze and solve decision problems and implement business solutions, and an awareness of the impact of technology and innovation on organizations and society.

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Code Description

F Fall term

W Winter term

S Spring term

A,B,C,D These courses count toward Complementary Studies requirements: A- Impact, B- Engineering Economics, C- Humanities and Social Sciences, D- Other.

† These courses may count towards technical elective (or technical breadth elective) requirements. Engineering students should consult the undergraduate advisor in their home department for specific rules that apply to their program.

The MSCI option consists of six courses, including three required courses and or their equivalents and three elective courses or equivalents. In order to gain a management science perspective during their option, students are required to have at least three of the six courses taught by the Department of Management Sciences. The three required MSCI option courses and equivalents are:

Course Title and Notes MSCI 211C Organizational Behaviour (F, S) - may be replaced by PSYCH 338 or MSCI 311C Organizational Design and Technology (F, W) MSCI 261B Engineering Economics: Financial Management for Engineers (F, W, S) - may be replaced by CIVE

292/CIVE 392, ECE 390, ENVE 292 or SYDE 262 MSCI 331† Introduction to Optimization (F, W, S) - may be replaced by CIVE 332, CO 250, ENVE 320 or SYDE 411

plus three of the following elective courses or equivalents:

Course Title and Notes MSCI 211C Organizational Behaviour (F, S) - may be replaced by PSYCH 338 MSCI 262D Managerial and Cost Accounting (F) MSCI 263C Managerial Economics (S) - may be replaced by ECON 201 MSCI 311C Organizational Design and Technology (F, W) MSCI 332† Deterministic Optimization Models and Methods (F) MSCI 343† Human-Computer Interaction (F) - may be replaced by CS 449 or SYDE 348 MSCI 411C Leadership and Influence (S) MSCI 421D Strategic Management of Technology (S) MSCI 422A Economic Impact of Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (F) MSCI 423† Managing New Product and Process Innovation (W) MSCI 431† Stochastic Models and Methods (W) - may be replaced by CS 457 or SYDE 531 MSCI 432† Production and Service Operations Management (F, W) [removed S offering] MSCI 435† Advanced Optimization Techniques (W) MSCI 436† Decision Support Systems (W) MSCI 442A Impact of Information Systems on Organizations and Society (W) MSCI 444† Information Systems Analysis and Design (W) - may be replaced by CS 430, CS 432 or CS 490 MSCI 446† Data Warehousing and Mining (F) MSCI 452† Decision Making Under Uncertainty (S) MSCI 454D Technical Entrepreneurship (W) - may be replaced by BET 300D MSCI 531† Stochastic Processes and Decision Making (S) MSCI 541† Information Retrieval Systems (W)

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MSCI 551† Quality Management and Control (S) MSCI 555† Scheduling: Theory and Practice (W) MSCI 597 Complementary Studies Topics in Management Sciences MSCI 598† Special Topics in Management Engineering MSCI 599† Special Topics in Management Engineering Design CIVE 596 Construction Engineering (W) ECON 371 Business Finance 1 (F, W, S) HRM 200C Basic Human Resources Management (F, W, S) SYDE 533 Conflict Resolution (F)

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Chemical Engineering

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Term Course Title and Notes

1A Fall4,8 CHE 100 Chemical Engineering Concepts 1 (3 LEC,2 TUT*,6 LAB**)

CHE 102 Chemistry for Engineers (3 LEC,2 TUT)

MATH 115 Linear Algebra for Engineering (3 LEC,2 TUT)

MATH 116 Calculus 1 for Engineering (3 LEC,2 TUT)

PHYS 115 Mechanics (3 LEC,2 TUT)

1B Winter8 and Spring4 CHE 101 Chemical Engineering Concepts 2 (3 LEC,2 TUT***,2 LAB)

CHE 121 Engineering Computation (3 LEC,2 TUT)

CHE 161 Engineering Biology (3 LEC,1 TUT)

GENE 123 Electrical Engineering Circuits and Instrumentation (3 LEC,1 TUT,3 LAB‡)

MATH 118 Calculus 2 for Engineering (3 LEC,2 TUT)

CSE Approved Complementary Studies Elective (3 LEC+)

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Civil Engineering

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Term 1A (Fall)

CHE 102 Chemistry for Engineers CIVE 100 Civil Engineering Concepts CIVE 104 Mechanics 1 CIVE 115 Linear Algebra MATH 116 Calculus 1 for Engineering CSE 1 Approved Complementary Studies Elective

Term 1B (Winter)

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CIVE 105 Mechanics 2 CIVE 121 Computational Methods CIVE 153 Earth Engineering CIVE 199 Seminar GENE 123 Electrical Engineering Circuits and Instrumentation MATH 118 Calculus 2 for Engineering ●

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Environmental Engineering

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Term 1A (Fall)

CHE 102 Chemistry for Engineers ENVE 100 Environmental and Geological Engineering Concepts CIVE 104 Mechanics 1 CIVE 115 Linear Algebra MATH 116 Calculus 1 for Engineering CSE 1 Approved Complementary Studies Elective

Term 1B (Spring)

CIVE 105 Mechanics 2 CIVE 121 Computational Methods ENVE 153 Earth Engineering GENE 123 Electrical Engineering Circuits and Instrumentation MATH 118 Calculus 2 for Engineering ●

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Geological Engineering

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Term 1A (Fall)

CHE 102 Chemistry for Engineers ENVE 100 Environmental and Geological Engineering Concepts CIVE 104 Mechanics 1 CIVE 115 Linear Algebra MATH 116 Calculus 1 for Engineering CSE 1 Approved Complementary Studies Elective

Term 1B (Spring)

CIVE 105 Mechanics 2 CIVE 121 Computational Methods

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GENE 123 Electrical Engineering Circuits and Instrumentation GEOE 153 Earth Engineering MATH 118 Calculus 2 for Engineering ●

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Management Engineering Program The Management Engineering program consists of 33 core and nine elective courses for a total of 42 courses. The term by term academic component of the program is as follows: Key: Cls=number of class hours per week, Tut=number of tutorial hours per week, Lab=number of lab hours per week

Term Course and Title Cls Tut Lab

1A Fall CHE 102 Chemistry for Engineers 3 2 0

MSCI 100 Management Engineering Concepts 3 2 3

MATH 115 Linear Algebra for Engineering 3 2 0

MATH 116 Calculus 1 for Engineering 3 2 0

PHYS 115 Mechanics 3 2 0

1B Winter

MSCI 100B Seminar 1 0 0

GENE 123 Electrical Engineering Circuits and Instrumentation 3 1 1.5

MSCI 121 Introduction to Computer Programming 3 2 0

MSCI 131 Work Design and Facilities Planning 3 1 1.5

MSCI 261 Engineering Economics: Financial Management for Engineers 3 1 0

MATH 118 Calculus 2 for Engineering 3 2 0

PHYS 125 Physics for Engineers 3 2 0

2A Fall MSCI 200A Seminar 1 0 0

MSCI 240 Algorithms and Data Structures 3 1 1.5

MSCI 262 Managerial and Cost Accounting 3 1 0

MSCI 271 Advanced Calculus and Numerical Methods 3 2 0

ME 235 Materials Science and Engineering 3 1 3

ME 250 Thermodynamics 1 3 1 0

2B Spring

MSCI 200B Seminar 1 0 0

MSCI 211 Organizational Behaviour 3 1 0

MSCI 252 Probability and Statistics for Engineers 3 1 0

MSCI 263 Managerial Economics 3 1 0

MSCI 331 Introduction to Optimization 3 1 0

MSCI 346 Database Systems 3 1 1.5

ME 219 Mechanics of Deformable Solids 1 3 1 0

3A Winter

MSCI 300A Seminar 1 0 0

MSCI 311 Organizational Design and Technology 3 1 0

MSCI 334 Operations Planning and Inventory Control 3 1 1.5

MSCI 431 Stochastic Models and Methods 3 1 0

MSCI 444 Information Systems Analysis and Design 3 1 0

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Elective

MSCI 391 Work-term Report

3B Fall MSCI 300B Seminar 1 0 0

MSCI 332 Deterministic Optimization Models and Methods 3 1 0

MSCI 333 Simulation Analysis and Design 3 1 1.5

MSCI 342 Principles of Software Engineering 3 1 1.5

Elective

Elective

MSCI 392 Work-term Report

4A Spring

MSCI 400A Seminar 1 0 0

MSCI 401 Management Engineering Design Project 1 3 0 0

MSCI 434 Supply Chain Management 3 1 1.5

MSCI 445 Telecommunication Systems: from protocols to applications 3 1 1.5

Elective

Elective

MSCI 491 Work-term Report

4B Winter

MSCI 400B Seminar 1 0 0

MSCI 402 Management Engineering Design Project 2 3 0 0

Elective

Elective

Elective

Elective

Elective Courses List I: Technical Elective Courses with large Engineering Science or Design Content

Department Course Title

Management Sciences MSCI 343 Human-Computer Interaction

MSCI 433 Applications of Management Engineering

MSCI 435 Advanced Optimization Techniques

MSCI 436 Decision Support Systems

MSCI 446 Data Warehousing and Mining

MSCI 452 Decision Making Under Uncertainty

MSCI 531 Stochastic Processes and Decision Making

MSCI 541 Information Retrieval Systems

MSCI 551 Quality Management and Control

MSCI 555 Scheduling: Theory and Practice

MSCI 599 Special Topics in Management Engineering Design

Chemical Engineering CHE 211 Fluid Mechanics

CHE 572 Air Pollution Control

CHE 574 Industrial Wastewater Pollution Control

Civil Engineering

CIVE 230 Engineering and Sustainable Development

CIVE 343 Traffic Engineering

CIVE 375 Water Quality Engineering

CIVE 440 Transit Planning and Operations

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 361 Power Systems and Components

ECE 467 Power System Operation and Markets

Mechanical Engineering

ME 212 Dynamics

ME 220 Mechanics of Deformable Solids 2

ME 262 Introduction to Microprocessors and Digital Logic

ME 269 Electromechanical Devices and Power Processing

ME 340 Manufacturing Processes

ME 351 Fluid Mechanics 1

ME 353 Heat Transfer 1

ME 354 Thermodynamics 2

ME 362 Fluid Mechanics 2

ME 435 Industrial Metallurgy

ME 456 Heat Transfer 2

ME 459 Energy Conversion

ME 533 Non-metallic and Composite Materials

ME 559 Finite Element Methods

ME 566 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineering Design

Mechatronics Engineering

MTE 241 Introduction to Computer Structures and Real-Time Systems

Statistics STAT 435 Statistical Methods for Process Improvements

STAT 443 Forecasting

Systems Design Engineering

SYDE 522 Machine Intelligence

SYDE 531 Design Optimization Under Probabilistic Uncertainty

SYDE 542 Interface Design

List II: Other Elective Courses

Course Title

MSCI 411 Leadership and Influence

MSCI 421 Strategic Management of Technology

MSCI 422 Economic Impact of Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (CSE List A, Impact)

MSCI 423 Managing New Product and Process Innovation

MSCI 442 Impact of Information Systems on Organizations and Society (CSE List A, Impact)

MSCI 454 Technical Entrepreneurship

MSCI 597 Complementary Studies Topics in Management Sciences

MSCI 598 Special Topics in Management Engineering

Note : 1. Some of the List I courses have prerequisites that are not met by core courses in Management Engineering; see their course

descriptions in this calendar before planning elective choices. 2. Course schedules may vary from term to term; check course schedules before planning elective choices. 3. Students are encouraged to take List II electives as free electives to extend their knowledge of Management Engineering.

However, free electives may be used to deepen a concentration in any area of Engineering or to pursue an interest outside of Engineering. Free electives may be selected from any department at the University.

Rules Restricting Choice of the Nine Elective Courses RULE 1. At least six of the nine electives must be from List I. Students can count other Engineering courses toward List I, subject to Associate Chair approval. RULE 2. At least one of the nine electives must be from List A of the Complementary Studies Requirements for Engineering Students,

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i.e., a course on the impact of technology on society. Complementary Studies Component All engineering students are required to take Complementary Studies courses, as described in this Engineering section under Complementary Studies Requirements for Engineering Students. Most of these requirements are satisfied in the core program, namely, MSCI 211, 261, 262, 263, 311, together with satisfactory evaluations on three work-term reports. The requirement for studies on the impact of technology on society is met by RULE 2, above. Options and Minors Several Faculty Designated Options are available to Engineering students. These are listed and described elsewhere in this section of the calendar. If a student satisfies the option requirements (usually seven or eight courses), the appropriate designation will be shown on the student's transcript. The course requirements for some options can be partially met by taking Management Engineering electives, but students may have to take extra courses to complete the requirements. The Management Sciences Option will not be awarded to any Management Engineering student. Minors are sequences of courses, which are arranged in conjunction with another department and lead to an appropriately designated degree. Approval from both Management Sciences and the other department is required. Usually a student must take extra courses to complete a minor. See the discussion in this section of the calendar under the heading Options, Specializations and Electives for Engineering Students. Term by Term Structure of the Program The Management Engineering program follows the eight stream schedule, i.e., beginning with terms 1A and 1B in the fall and winter terms, followed by alternating work and academic terms. In accordance with Faculty rules, in order to complete their degree, students must have at least five work terms, and they must submit three work-term reports, in academic terms following three work terms. In addition, Faculty rules require that all engineering students must successfully complete the Professional Development (PD) requirements, during their work terms.

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NEW COURSES (for approval)

Management Sciences

Effective 01-SEP-2016MSCI 391 ( 0.13 ) PRJ Work-term Report

A work-term report presents in detail a technical project, activity, or analysisengaged by the student normally during the preceding work term, related to ManagementEngineering. The report is evaluated on the basis of written communication skills andtechnical proficiency in the subject matter as demonstrated by the report. Reportsare due on the 10th day of lectures for the academic term in which the report isrequired. Any resubmissions granted are due by the "Lectures End" date. [Offered: W,first offered Winter 2019]

Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 3A Management Engineering. Antireq: WKRPT 200, 201Rationale : Management Engineering wishes to have specific MSCI work-report courses

which are included in the term average.

Effective 01-SEP-2016MSCI 392 ( 0.13 ) PRJ Work-term Report

A work-term report presents in detail a technical project, activity, or analysisengaged by the student normally during the preceding work term, related to ManagementEngineering. The report is evaluated on the basis of written communication skills andtechnical proficiency in the subject matter as demonstrated by the report. Reportsare due on the 10th day of lectures for the academic term in which the report isrequired. Any resubmissions granted are due by the "Lectures End" date. [Offered: F,first offered Fall 2019]

Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 3B Management Engineering. Antireq: WKRPT 300, 301Rationale : Management Engineering wishes to have specific MSCI work-report courses

which are included in the term average.

Effective 01-SEP-2016MSCI 491 ( 0.13 ) PRJ Work-term Report

A work-term report presents in detail a technical project, activity, or analysisengaged by the student normally during the preceding work term, related to ManagementEngineering. The report is evaluated on the basis of written communication skills andtechnical proficiency in the subject matter as demonstrated by the report. Reportsare due on the 10th day of lectures for the academic term in which the report isrequired. Any resubmissions granted are due by the "Lectures End" date. [Offered: S,first offered Spring 2020]

Requisites : Prereq: Level at least 4A Management Engineering. Antireq: WKRPT 400, 401Rationale : Management Engineering wishes to have specific MSCI work-report courses

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which are included in the term average.

COURSE CHANGES (for approval)

Dean of Engineering

Current Catalog InformationGENE 123 ( 0.50 ) LAB, LEC, TUT Electrical Engineering

Analysis of linear circuits: Voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, inductance,voltage source, current source, dependent sources, Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Law, nodalanalysis, mesh analysis, Thevinin/Norton equivalents, operational amplifier circuits,time response, sinusoidal steady-state response. Introduction to diodes withapplications. [Note: Normally labs are held alternate weeks. Offered: W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: Level at least 1B Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Geological,

Management or Mechanical EngineeringEffective 01-SEP-2016Title Change: Electrical Circuits and InstrumentationDescription Change: Charge, current and voltage. Voltage and current sources, resistors,

capacitors and inductors. Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Laws, nodal analysis,Thevenin and Norton models, instrumentation amplifier circuits, timeresponse, impedance. Function and characteristics of basic electricaltransducers. Resolution, precision and accuracy. Basics of dataacquisition. [Note: Normally labs are held alternate weeks. Offered: W,S]

Rationale : The title and course description are revised to recognize that followinggraduation many students are actively involved in the use and specificationof instrumentation for various applications. This revised course includesportions of the previous description (introduction to circuits) and adds asubstantial section on instrumentation and data acquisition.

Current Catalog InformationNE 225 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TUT Structure and Properties of Nanomaterials

Chemical descriptions of synthesis of nanoscale materials; electronic structures fromatoms to the solid state; review of basic quantum chemistry, orbitals; bandstructures, density of states; crystalline and non-crystalline solids; surfacemodification reactions: catalytic, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties ofnanomaterials. [Offered: F]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: NE 122, 125; 2A Nanotechnology Engineering students only

Effective 02-SEP-2015Description Change: Chemical descriptions of synthesis of nanoscale materials; electronic

structures from atoms to the solid state; review of basic quantumchemistry, orbitals; band structures, density of states; crystalline andnon-crystalline solids; surface modification reactions: catalytic,

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electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of nanomaterials. [Offered: SRequisite Change : Prereq: NE 122, 125, 232; Level at least 2B Nanotechnology Engineering

students onlyRationale : This course is moved from the 2A fall term to the 2B spring term, and NE

232 is added as a prerequisite. [Note: These changes were approved at FUGSon October 24, 2014, but were missed in report #22 for December 2, 2014 SUC(there were two rows pending approval in the course catalog, and both rowswere purged when the first change was approved). The following is therationale given for these changes: This change will provide students with amore complete grounding in quantum mechanics than what is available in NE122. This will allow students to gain a greater appreciation of many of theprinciples of inorganic chemistry utilized in determining structures andproperties of nanomaterials.

Management Sciences

Current Catalog InformationMSCI 432 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TUT Production and Service Operations Management

Introduction to management, planning, and control decisions in manufacturing andservice settings using quantitative approaches. Topic areas include production,inventory, distribution, quality control, facilities layout, and process design.Students are exposed to a number of examples and case studies, and work on a projectthat involves analysis and discussion of improved designs. [Offered: F, W,S]No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Prereq: (One of CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 316, ENVE 224, MSCI 252, ME 202, MTE

201, NE 115, STAT 206, 211, 231, 241, SYDE 212). Antireq: MSCI 334Effective 01-SEP-2016Description Change: Introduction to management, planning, and control decisions in

manufacturing and service settings using quantitative approaches. Topicareas include production, inventory, distribution, quality control,facilities layout, and process design. Students are exposed to a number ofexamples and case studies, and work on a project that involves analysis anddiscussion of improved designs. [Offered: F, W]

Rationale : This course will no longer be offered in the spring term due to lowenrolment so the spring term offering is removed.

Current Catalog InformationMSCI 452 ( 0.50 ) LEC, TUT Decision Making Under Uncertainty

This course deals with normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decisionmaking under uncertainty. It begins with analytical models such as decision trees,Bayes Theorem and Bayesian revision, value of information, basic utility theory andmulti-attribute decision making. The course continues with an examination of howthese theories can fail to predict actual decision making behavior. This courseapplies the concepts of decision-making to managerial and consumer behavior as wellas behavior in negotiations. [Offered: S]No Special Consent Required

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Requisites : Prereq: One of CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 316, ENVE 224, MSCI 252, ME 202, MTE201, NE 115, STAT 206, 211, 231, 241, SYDE 213

Effective 01-SEP-2016Requisite Change : Prereq: One of CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 316, ENVE 224, MSCI 252, ME 202, MTE

201, NE 115, STAT 206, 211, 231, 241, SYDE 212Rationale : The prerequisites are updated removing SYDE 213 (last offered winter 2009),

and adding SYDE 212 as a suitable prerequisite.

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COURSE CHANGES (for approval)

Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology Ctr

Current Catalog InformationBET 100 ( 0.50 ) LEC Essentials of Entrepreneurial Behaviour

This course is applicable to students with differing academic backgrounds,entrepreneurship interests (venture, employee entrepreneurship or social enterprise)and level of program. The core conceptual framework for this course is anentrepreneurship model that allows students to understand and practise the continuumof steps that are associated with the disciplined execution of commercial, green,charitable and employee entrepreneurship. The sequence of online modules address thegrowing importance of entrepreneurship to the Ontario and Canadian context, howsuccessful entrepreneurs search for "big ideas", the process of research, observationand inquiry required at various stages of entrepreneurship development (valueproposition, customer identification, channel selection, and resource needs), and theimportance of building a business case around promising ideas. [Note: This course isoffered online. Offered: F]No Special Consent Required

Effective 01-JAN-2016Description Change: This course is applicable to students with differing academic backgrounds,

entrepreneurship interests (venture, employee entrepreneurship or socialenterprise) and level of program. The core conceptual framework for thiscourse is an entrepreneurship model that allows students to understand andpractise the continuum of steps that are associated with the disciplinedexecution of commercial, green, charitable and employee entrepreneurship.The sequence of online modules address the growing importance ofentrepreneurship to the Ontario and Canadian context, how successfulentrepreneurs search for "big ideas", the process of research, observationand inquiry required at various stages of entrepreneurship development(value proposition, customer identification, channel selection, andresource needs), and the importance of building a business case aroundpromising ideas. [Note: This course is offered online. Offered: F,W,S]

Rationale : Due to the high demand for this course, two more terms (winter and spring)have been added.

Current Catalog InformationBET 410A ( 0.25 ) LEC Capstone Entrepreneurship Planning and Execution Part 1

Goal setting and project planning; Team building; Understanding your competitivelandscape; Understanding your customers; Patents and patent searches takenconcurrently with capstone projects. (Note: This is a requirement for the CorporateEntrepreneurship theme, supporting the efforts of capstone project teams to develop a

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commercialization strategy. This will consist of workshops, seminars and onlinecontent.)No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Coreq: CHE 482 or CIVE 400 or ECE 498A or ENVE 400/430 or GENE 403 or GEOE

400 or MSCI 401 or ME 481 or MTE 481 or NE 408 or SE 490 or SYDE 461Effective 01-JAN-2016Description Change: Goal setting and project planning; Team building; Understanding your

competitive landscape; Understanding your customers; Patents and patentsearches taken concurrently with capstone projects. (Note: This is arequirement for the Corporate Entrepreneurship theme, supporting theefforts of capstone project teams to develop a commercialization strategy.This will consist of workshops, seminars and online content.. Offered: F,S)

Rationale : Addition of terms of offering to line up with the capstone projects in 4A.

Current Catalog InformationBET 410B ( 0.25 ) LEC Capstone Entrepreneurship Planning and Execution Part 2

Commercialization options and developing a business model; Legal issues; Creating abusiness case for the capstone project; presentation skills and "pitching";post-mortem and root cause analysis taken concurrently with capstone projects.Includes the post-mortem/root cause analysis report to be submitted at the end of theterm (Note: This is a requirement for the Corporate Entrepreneurship theme,supporting the efforts of capstone project teams to develop a commercializationstrategy. This will consist of workshops, seminars and online content.)No Special Consent RequiredRequisites : Coreq: CHE 483 or CIVE 401 or ECE 498B or ENVE 401/431 or GENE 404 or GEOE

401 or MSCI 402 or ME 482 or MTE 482 or NE 409 or SE 491 or SYDE 462Effective 01-JAN-2016Description Change: Commercialization options and developing a business model; Legal issues;

Creating a business case for the capstone project; presentation skills and"pitching"; post-mortem and root cause analysis taken concurrently withcapstone projects. Includes the post-mortem/root cause analysis report tobe submitted at the end of the term (Note: This is a requirement for theCorporate Entrepreneurship theme, supporting the efforts of capstoneproject teams to develop a commercialization strategy. This will consist ofworkshops, seminars and online content. Offered: W)

Rationale : Addition of a term of offering to line up with the capstone projects in 4B.

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Career: Undergraduate Program: UEN05:

Engineering

Co-op

RG: 5865 Crse Share Set 5, 15

Plan: MGTE: Management

Engineering Plan Type: HC RG: Crse Share Set

Academic Plan Overall Requirements: Requirement Description Notes RQ CL

60% Min Major Cumulative Average All Courses Listed Below 6744 6422

21.25

21.64

Min Total Credits All Courses Listed Below, plus any additional UW

courses needed to meet this requirement

6745 5106

Academic Plan Course Requirements: Quantity Course List Description Course List RQ CL Dble Cnt

16.75

Core Courses CHE 102

GENE 121/MSCI 121, 123

MATH 115, 116, 118

ME 219, 235, 250

MSCI 100, 131, 211, 240, 252, 261, 262, 263, 271,

311, 331, 332, 333, 334, 342, 346, 401, 402, 431,

434, 444, 445

PHYS 115, 125

6715 4696

6412

6378

6414

6413

6415

N

4.50 Min 4.5 units of elective courses, with

these restrictions

- Min 3.0 units from Tech. Elective

List I

-Min 0.5 units from UEN05 CSE

Course List A

-Min 1.00 units from Elective List II or

any other course at UW – 2 free

elective choices

Tech. Elective List I: CHE 211, 572, 574, CIVE

230 240, 342, 343, 375, 381, 440, 444, 572, ECE

361, 467, MSCI 343, 433, 435, 436, 446, 452, 531,

541, 551, 555, 599, ME 212, 220, 262, 269, 340,

351, 353, 354, 362, 435, 456, 459, 533, 559, 566,

MTE 241, STAT 435, 443, SYDE 522, 531, 542,

GENE 21*

Elective List II: MSCI 411, 421, 422, 423, 442,

454, 597, 598

6743

6748

8258

6420

1978

6421

5106

0.39 Work-term Reports MSCI 391, 392, 491 or WKRPT 200, 300, 400 or

WKRPT 201, 301, 401

Note: CSEs in the core: MSCI 261 (List B); MSCI 211, 263, 311 (List C); MSCI 262 (List D); student to choose List A

Completed by: Linda Beaulieu Date: March 11, 2015

Validated by: W.M. Loucks Date:

Validated by: Qi-Ming He Date: e-copied March 11, 2015

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Appendix 2

Memorandum

To: Bill Anderson, Chair, First Year Council, Faculty of Engineering

From: David Nairn, Associate Professor, ECE Department

DATE: March 27, 2015

RE: GENE 123 Revisions

_____________________________________________________________________

GENE 123 is a 1B core course taught to all students in the Chemical, Civil, Environmental,

Geological, Management and Mechanical Engineering streams. After extended discussions, we

are proposing a revised course, more aligned with the needs of the students and the programs

being served by the course. The following are summarized below: revised calendar description,

rationale for the changes, who will implement the changes, a detailed course description, current

departmental support for the changes and additional resource requirements. It is our intention to

have these changes in place for the 2015/2016 academic year.

1) Revised calendar description

The revised calendar description includes a name change from Electrical Engineering to

Electrical Circuits and Instrumentation.

Current Calendar Description

GENE 123 LAB, LEC, TUT 0.50 Course ID: 005780

Electrical Engineering

Analysis of linear circuits: Voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, inductance, voltage source,

current source, dependent sources, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Law, nodal analysis, mesh analysis,

Thevenin/Norton equivalents, operational amplifier circuits, time response, sinusoidal steady-

state response. Introduction to diodes with applications.

[Note: Normally labs are held alternate weeks. Offered: W,S]

Prereq: Level at least 1B Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Geological, Management or

Mechanical Engineering

Proposed Calendar Description

GENE 123 LAB, LEC, TUT 0.50 Course ID: xxxxxx

Electrical Circuits and Instrumentation

Charge, current and voltage. Voltage and current sources, resistors, capacitors and inductors.

Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, nodal analysis, Thevenin and Norton models, instrumentation

amplifier circuits, time response, impedance. Function and characteristics of basic electrical

transducers. Resolution, precision and accuracy. Basics of data acquisition.

[Note: Normally labs are held alternate weeks. Offered: W,S]

Prereq: Level at least 1B Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Geological, Management or

Mechanical Engineering

2) Rationale for the changes

GENE 123 is a 1B core course taught to all students in the Chemical, Civil,

Environmental, Geological, Management and Mechanical Engineering streams. It

provides students with an introduction to the basic principles of electric circuits.

Recognizing that during their co-op placements and following graduation many students

are actively involved in the use and specification of instrumentation for various

applications, there was broad support from the First Year office and the Departments

whose students take this course to add a substantial section on instrumentation and data

acquisition.

This proposal recommends content revisions and a change of title from “Electrical

Engineering” to “Electrical Circuits and Instrumentation.” A reduced set of the circuit

basics that once filled the entire course will now be taught in the first two-thirds of the

course, while the last third will focus on transducers and data acquisition systems.

Computer-delivered tutorials (CDTs) will play an increased and broader role in the

course, and shift the circuits analysis portion of the course from manual analysis

exclusively to manual analysis of a few representative circuits followed by computer-

based analyses of additional and more complex circuits and to solution of simple design

problems.

As in the past, the course will cover the basic science concepts of charge, current and

voltage; voltage and current sources, resistors, capacitors and inductors; Ohm's Law and

Kirchhoff's Laws. It will also continue to cover nodal analysis along with Thevenin and

Norton models, the step response of first order circuits and an introduction to the

sinusoidal steady-state response. The introduction of the present course will be shortened,

diodes, superposition and mesh analysis will no longer be covered, the treatment of

capacitors and inductors will be condensed and instrumentation amplifiers rather than

operational amplifiers will be discussed. The last third of the updated course will focus

on the function and characteristics of basic electrical transducers – such as those for

temperature, displacement and force – and on integrating them into simple data

acquisition systems.

3) Who will implement the changes?

The required changes to transition from the current GENE 123 to the proposed GENE

123 will require the development of new lectures, CDTs and laboratory exercises. The

instructors from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department will be responsible

for developing the lectures, similar to any other course. The CDTs and Laboratory

exercises will be developed under the guidance of the course instructors. David Lau and

Fiona Yiu along with other Tutors will do most of the development work for the CDTs

and laboratory exercises, as part of their assigned duties.

4) Detailed course description

The course time requirements will remain unchanged with 36 lecture hours, 12 one-hour

tutorials (weekly), 1 computer-delivered tutorial (CDT) and laboratory introduction

session, 5 CDTs and 5 Laboratories. In the table below, week 7 is assumed to be midterm-

week, there is no CDT or lab that week. The lectures will be made up with extra lectures in

the previous weeks.

Week Lecture Topics Text CDT/Lab

1 Instrumentation in engineering

Engineering data collection

Resolution, precision and accuracy

Hambley

9.1

Handouts

Introduction

2 Current, voltage, power, energy

KCL, KVL

1.2-1.5 CDT 1

3 Circuit elements, Introduction to circuits,

Resistances in series & parallel

Equivalent resistance analysis

Voltage and current dividers

1.6-1.7

2.1-2.3

Lab 1

4 Nodal analysis

Introduction to simulation software

2.4

CDT 2

5

Thevenin & Norton models 2.6 Lab 2

6

Instrumentation amplifiers, 14.8 CDT 3

7 Capacitors & inductors, First-order RC & RL

circuits & time constants

3.1-5

4.1-3

8 Sinusoids and impedances

5.1-5.3 Lab 3

9 Voltaic transducers

Thermocouples, time constant

Resolution, precision, accuracy

(Discipline-specific transducers taught in labs

during weeks 10-12)

Handouts CDT 4

10 Resistive transducers

Strain gauges, Wheatstone bridge

Temperature-compensated gauges

Displacement (potentiometers)

Handouts Lab 4

11 AC transducers

LVDT Displacement transducers

Handouts CDT 5

12 Signal conditioning, data acquisition

Sampling, multiplexing and aliasing

Project: Design a simple instrumentation

system

Handouts Lab 5

Details on the CDTs, Labs along and course objectives are provided on the following

page.

Computer delivered tutorials

The CDTs are intended to be hands-on learning with active support from knowledgeable teaching

assistants. The CDTs will be of two types; the first type is problem based. The second type is

simulation based. In the problem-based CDTs, the students will be assigned challenging circuit

analysis problems to solve. All student will solve a similar problem. Each student or pair of

students will have unique numerical values for the problem. During the CDT, the students work

in pairs and are encouraged to discuss the problem with their peers and the teaching assistants. In

the simulation-based CDTs, the students will work on assigned problems, first using hand

calculations, which they may be assigned before the tutorial. They will then verify their answers

using circuit simulation tools. Following this they will be assigned a more complex problem to

solve and explore using the circuit simulator.

Laboratory exercises

The laboratory exercises are intended to be hands-on activities where the students learn to use

sensors and instruments for the measurement of physical properties of interest to engineers and to

reinforce the course’s theoretical material. Due to the diverse nature of the measurements of

interest to the various engineering disciplines, some of the labs will be tailored to the needs of the

individual disciplines. Currently, the laboratory exercises are intended to cover the following

topics;

1) Basic electrical instruments for electrical properties, including voltage, current and resistance.

2) Resistors and strain gauges.

3) Thermocouples and temperature sensors.

4) Linear variable displacement transducers (LVDTs) and displacement measurement.

5) Data acquisition and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs).

At the time of this writing, preliminary laboratory exercises have been explored and verified for

each topic.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course students should be able to:

• Explain the role of instrumentation in engineering

• Use the KCL, KVL, Ohm’s Law, and nodal analysis to analyze DC circuits

• Analyze basic first-order RC and LC circuits

• Be familiar with the basics of a circuit simulation software package and know how to use the

package to solve problems

• Explain the concept of impedance and its relationship to resistance

• Do basic instrumentation amplifier calculations

• Know the principles of operation and characteristics of basic instrumentation systems

relevant to their discipline

• Distinguish between resolution, accuracy and precision

• Specify the components needed for a simple instrumentation system

5) Support for the changes

This course is overseen by the First Year office and delivered by the Electrical and

Computer Engineering department to most of the other Engineering Department’s first

year students. At this point;

The Electrical and Computer Engineering department has reviewed the course

content and is satisfied with the content.

The Departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Management Sciences, and Mechanical and Mechatronics have confirmed their

support for the revised course.

6) Changes in resource requirements

The resource requirements for the course can be separated into the steady-state needs and

the needs of the transition period. When operating in steady-state the resource

requirements are expected be the same as those of the current GENE 123 course because

the number of lecture hours, tutorials and laboratories remains unchanged. During the

transition, new course content for the lectures, CDTs and laboratories will need to be

developed. The laboratories will require new experimental equipment for each station.

Currently the cost per station is estimated at $500. To accommodate the expected class

sizes, assuming laboratory groups of two students each, 80 laboratory stations will be

required at a total cost of $40,000. This transitional funding is expected to come from the

four departments (The Departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental

Engineering, Management Sciences, and Mechanical and Mechatronics). At this point

some departments have confirmed funding will be available. The other departments have

indicated that they support the new course and are aware of the need for transitional

funding. The new lecture and CDT content will be developed as part of the instructors’

assigned duties.