The following new courses have been approved for the 2009-2010 academic year:

ChemE

400-level
Petroleum Processing
This covers the processing of crude oil into various products and will be taught by Hap Lafferty, PEng, who has more than 30 years experience in the design and operation of oil refineries.

500-level
Risk-Based Process Safety
This course will cover the material from the Centre for Chemical Process Safety on hazard quantification and quantitative risk-based decision making. The course will be taught by Dr. Ertugrul Alp, PEng, who has more than 25 years experience in this field.

CIV

In the Mineral Engineering Program of Civil Engineering, two technical electives that were previously removed will be reinstated. These include: Rock Mechanics (CIV521) and Ventilation and Occupational Health (MIN470).

200-level
CIV201
Introduction to Civil Engineering
This new core field course will be offered during the first week of September.

ECE

400-level elective
Introduction to Micro- and Nano-Fabrication Technologies
An introduction to the fundamentals of micro- and nano-fabrication processes with emphasis on cleanroom practices. This new course will be run in the laboratory facilities within Engineering’s Emerging Communications Technology Institute (ECTI).

EngSci

400-level
ESC4YY
Technology & Society Student Directed Seminar
Students have the opportunity to propose a topic for exploration in the realm of technology and society studies to run as a student-led seminar course. Accepted course topics in any given year will be based on student interest, but may include such topics as engineering and international development, engineering education and outreach, the politicization of science, gender and technology, and cross-profession collaboration. The student course leader(s) are expected to work with the course coordinator to create a full course plan, including learning objectives, course topics and methods of assessment. All participants are expected to contribute to the learning experience, through presentations, suggestions of readings and subtopics.

400-level
ESC490
Engineering Science Independent Study
Independent study courses are student-initiated projects, open to Engineering Science students, which allow students to work one-on-one with a division faculty member. The student and supervising faculty member will develop a learning plan for the semester within the first week of term. (Limited Enrollment).

New courses in the EngSci ECE Option:

300-level
ECE349
Introduction to Energy Systems

300-level
ECE353
Systems Software

300-level
ECE358HIS
Foundations of Computing

300-level
ECE362HIS
Digital Signal Processing

MIE

400-level
MIE407
Reactor Physics and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

400-level
MIE408
Nuclear Power Reactor Design

400-level
MIE464
Smart Materials and Structures

Faculty-wide

500-level
APS510
Technologies and Organizations in Global Energy Systems
This course presents and discusses a broad range of global energy systems (including electricity generation, electricity end use, transportation and infrastructure) that are emerging based on two key trends: (a) the increasing ability to deploy technologies and engineering systems globally, and (b) innovative organizations, many driven by entrepreneurship (for profit and social) and entrepreneurial finance techniques.

MEng ELITE
ELITE website

APS 1088H
Entrepreneurship and Business for Engineers (ChemE)

APS 1201H
Topics in Engineering and Public Policy (CIV)

JEI 1902
Technology, Society, and the Environment II (CIV)

CIV 1099
Innovative Technologies and Organizations in Global Energy Systems

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