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Technical Complementary Courses

Students in the Revised program (entry into the program - Fall 2025):

  • Mechanical Engineering students must take five Technical Complementary courses (15 credits).Ìý

  • Two of the courses (6 credits) must be chosen from the approved list of Technical Complementary courses within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the 500 level.ÌýÌýPlease refer to the Mechanical Engineering courses below.

  • Three of the courses (9 credits) must be at the 300 level or higher (approved by the Department), in the Faculty of Engineering or an approved course in the Faculty of Science, including the Department of MathematicsÌýand or Elective/Minor courses approved by the Department.ÌýPlease see the REVISED Student handbook for the approved courses.

Students in the Legacy Program (entry into the program prior to Fall 2025):

  • Mechanical Engineering students must takeÌýthreeÌýTechnical Complementary courses (9 credits)

  • Two of the courses (6 credits)Ìýmust be chosen from the approved list of Technical Complementary courses within the Department of Mechanical Engineering.ÌýÌý

  • One of the two departmental (MECH) courses must be a Design-Intensive Technical Complementary course ( 3 credits) from the list below.

1. Design-Intensive Technical Complementary Courses Section

MECH 497. Value Engineering.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Value Engineering is an in-depth analysis of an industrial product or process with a view to improving its design and/or performance to increase its worth. This is a workshop type of course. Projects will be supplied by industrial firms and students will work in teams with industrial personnel.
  • (0-8-1)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 393 and completion of 45 credits

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MECH 498. Interdisciplinary Design Project 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Completion of an individual project on an interdisciplinary theme with emphasis on a balanced combination on analysis and synthesis.
  • (1-2-6)

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MECH 499. Interdisciplinary Design Project 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The individual project initiated in is continued and finalized in this course.
  • (1-2-6)
  • Corequisite: MECH 498.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 513. Control Systems.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

State-space modelling and related linear algebra. Controllability and observability of linear time-invariant systems and corresponding tests, system realizations. Stability: Bounded-Input-Bounded-Output (BIBO), internal, Lyapunov. Linear state feedback control: pole placement and root locus design methods, linear quadratic regulator. State observers: full- and reduced-order designs, separation principle, Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) design. Introduction to optimal control and optimal state estimation.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 413.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 412 or MECH 419.

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Course information not available.

MECH 530. Mechanics of Composite Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Fiber-reinforced composites. Stress, strain, and strength of composite laminates and honeycomb structures. Failure modes and failure criteria. Environmental effects. Manufacturing processes. Design of composite structures. Computer modelling of composites. Computer techniques are utilized throughout the course.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Corequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent/instructor's permission.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 532. Aircraft Performance, Stability and Control.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Aircraft performance criteria such as range, endurance, rate of climb, maximum ceiling for steady and accelerated flight. Landing and take-off distances. Static and dynamic stability in the longitudinal (stick-fixed and stick-free) and coupled lateral and directional modes. Control response for all three modes.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): (MECH 412 or MECH 419), MECH 533
  • Prerequisite (Graduate): MECH 533

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.

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 536. Aerospace Structures.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Aircraft and spacecraft structural components and loads. Bending, shear, torsion and buckling of thin-walled open and closed sections. Structural idealization. Principle of stiffener / web construction. Trusses and isogrid structures. Wing spars and box beams. Fuselage frames and wing ribs. Analysis of riveted, bolted and adhesive joints. Sandwich structures analysis. Thermoelasticity analysis for spacecraft structures.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 432.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


Course information not available.

MECH 543. Design with Composite Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Material systems/selection process. Cost vs. performance. Laminate layup procedures. Theory and application of filament winding of composite cylinders. Regular oven and autoclave oven curing, analysis of resulting material performance. Practical design considerations and tooling. Analysis of environmental considerations. Joining techniques. Analysis of test methods. Theory of repair techniques.
  • (3-3-3)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 530

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 544. Processing of Composite Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Composite processing science basic principles. Reinforcement properties; permeability, compaction. Resin properties; curing, viscosity, shrinkage. Heat transfer and cure kinetics; cure cycle optimization. Resin flow; infusion, thickness variations, fiber volume fraction distribution. Residual stresses; tool-part interaction, warpage control, spring-back, tool design. Thermoplastic composites; crystallization control, melting and consolidation.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 530 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: This course requires the use of a finite element software, so experience with finite elements is recommended.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 553. Design and Manufacture of Microdevices.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Micromachining techniques (thin-film deposition; lithography; etching; bonding). Microscale mechanical behaviour (deformation and fracture; residual stresses; adhesion; experimental techniques). Materials- and process-selection. Process integration. Design of microdevice components to meet specified performance and reliability targets using realistic manufacturing processes.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 309, MECH 321, (MECH 315 or MECH 419)

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


Course information not available.

MECH 559. Engineering Systems Optimization.

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

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MECH 560. Eco-design and Product Life Cycle Assessment .

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

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MECH 563. Biofluids and Cardiovascular Mechanics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Basic principles of circulation including vascular fluid and solid mechanics, modelling techniques, clinical and experimental methods and the design of cardiovascular devices.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: CHEE 314 or MECH 331 or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 563

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CHEE 563. Biofluids and Cardiovascular Mechanics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Basic principles of circulation including vascular fluid and solid mechanics, modelling techniques, clinical and experimental methods and the design of cardiovascular devices.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: CHEE 314 or MECH 331 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 563.

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MECH 565. Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Equipment.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Pipes and piping systems, pumps, and valves. Fans and building air distribution systems. Basic thermal design methods for fins and heat exchangers. Thermal design of shell-and-tube and compact heat exchangers.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 240, MECH 309 or MATH 317, MECH 331, MECH 341, MECH 346 or permission of the instructor.

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MECH 573. Mechanics of Robotic Systems.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Manipulator performance and design. Pick-and-place and continuous-path operations. Computation of rigid-body angular velocity and acceleration from point-data measurements. Inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with coupled architectures; kinetostatics of multifingered hands and walking machines. Kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators and wheeled mobile robots.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317, and MECH 572 or permission of the instructor.
  • Since the course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, and B- is the minimum passing mark for graduate students, this minimum mark will be relaxed for undergraduates. The regulations applicable to undergraduates will apply accordingly.

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Course information not available.

2. The second departmental (MECH) Technical Complementary course (3 credits) must be at the 300 level or higher.

MECH 447. Combustion.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Equilibrium analysis of reacting systems, Hugoniot analysis, flame propagation mechanisms, introduction to chemical kinetics, models for laminar flame propagation, ignition, quenching, flammability limits, turbulent flames, flame instability mechanisms, detonations, solid and liquid combustion.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 240

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 497. Value Engineering.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Value Engineering is an in-depth analysis of an industrial product or process with a view to improving its design and/or performance to increase its worth. This is a workshop type of course. Projects will be supplied by industrial firms and students will work in teams with industrial personnel.
  • (0-8-1)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 393 and completion of 45 credits

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 498. Interdisciplinary Design Project 1.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Completion of an individual project on an interdisciplinary theme with emphasis on a balanced combination on analysis and synthesis.
  • (1-2-6)

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 499. Interdisciplinary Design Project 2.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The individual project initiated in is continued and finalized in this course.
  • (1-2-6)
  • Corequisite: MECH 498.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 500. Selected Topics in Mechanical Engineering.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A course to allow the introduction of new topics in Mechanical Engineering as needs arise, by regular and visiting staff.
  • (3-0-6)

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MECH 501. Special Topics: Mechanical Engineering.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A course to allow the introduction of new topics in Mechanical Engineering as needs arise, by regular and visiting staff.
  • (3-0-6)

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 502. Topics in Mechanical Engineering.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A course to allow the introduction of new topics in Mechanical Engineering as needs arise, by regular and visiting staff.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 510. Engineering Acoustics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Vibratory and acoustic disturbances propagated in homogeneous media. Modelling of acoustic systems using lumped-parameters. Simple sound wave fields, transverse waves in strings and bars, longitudinal waves in bars, and transverse waves in membranes, beams, and plates. Basic wave propagation phenomena and sound source models.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: MATH 271 and MECH 315
  • Offered only in even years.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 513. Control Systems.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

State-space modelling and related linear algebra. Controllability and observability of linear time-invariant systems and corresponding tests, system realizations. Stability: Bounded-Input-Bounded-Output (BIBO), internal, Lyapunov. Linear state feedback control: pole placement and root locus design methods, linear quadratic regulator. State observers: full- and reduced-order designs, separation principle, Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) design. Introduction to optimal control and optimal state estimation.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 413.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 412 or MECH 419.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 515. Unsteady Gasdynamics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Fundamentals of unsteady gasdynamics. Shock and detonation waves in gases and condensed material. Condensed explosives: hydrodynamic theory, equations of state, initiation. Shock interactions. Blast wave theory, similarity methods, blast scaling.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 341, MECH 430.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 615

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MECH 516. Computational Gasdynamics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Fundamentals of computational fluid dynamics. Numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws: first- and higher-order upwind schemes; monotonicity and Godunov theorem; total-variation-diminishing schemes; Riemann solvers; treatment of source terms; multi-dimensional methods. Introduction to grid generation and adaptation. Methodology for the comparison of numerical and experimental results.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite(s): MECH 430 or permission of instructor

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Course information not available.

MECH 524. Computer Integrated Manufacturing.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of the present impact of computers and automation on manufacturing. Computer-aided systems. Information modelling. Information system structures. Study of several types of production systems. Integration issues: inter-and intra-enterprise. Laboratory experience with manufacturing software systems.
  • (3-0-6)
  • 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.


Course information not available.

MECH 528. Product Design.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A study of the design issues present in product life cycle demands. Computer-aided systems. Rapid prototyping. Design for manufacturability. Integration of mechanics, electronics and software in products. Effect on design of product cost, maintainability, recycling, marketability.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of the instructor
  • **This course will be held on July 14-26, 31, August 1, 2 and there will be an exam due on August 16, 2020.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the first lecture day and withdrawal is the second lecture day.

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Course information not available.

MECH 530. Mechanics of Composite Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Fiber-reinforced composites. Stress, strain, and strength of composite laminates and honeycomb structures. Failure modes and failure criteria. Environmental effects. Manufacturing processes. Design of composite structures. Computer modelling of composites. Computer techniques are utilized throughout the course.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Corequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent/instructor's permission.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 531. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Kinematics and dynamics of a UAV. Aerodynamic forces and moments on a fixed-wing UAV. Application of linear systems analysis for fixed-wing UAVs. Flight control and autopilots for UAVs. Navigation sensors and state estimation based on Kalman filtering. Guidance strategies and the basics of path planning.
  • Prerequisite (Graduate): MECH 533
  • 3-0-6
  • Prerequisite: MECH 412 or MECH 419 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 532. Aircraft Performance, Stability and Control.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Aircraft performance criteria such as range, endurance, rate of climb, maximum ceiling for steady and accelerated flight. Landing and take-off distances. Static and dynamic stability in the longitudinal (stick-fixed and stick-free) and coupled lateral and directional modes. Control response for all three modes.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): (MECH 412 or MECH 419), MECH 533
  • Prerequisite (Graduate): MECH 533

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 533. Subsonic Aerodynamics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Kinematics: equations of motion; vorticity and circulation, conformal mapping and flow round simple bodies. Two-dimensional flow round aerofoils. Three-dimensional flows; high and low aspect-ratio wings; airscrews. Wind tunnel interference. Similarity rules for subsonic irrotational flows.
  • (3-1-5)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 331

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.

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.


MECH 535. Turbomachinery and Propulsion.

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 536. Aerospace Structures.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Aircraft and spacecraft structural components and loads. Bending, shear, torsion and buckling of thin-walled open and closed sections. Structural idealization. Principle of stiffener / web construction. Trusses and isogrid structures. Wing spars and box beams. Fuselage frames and wing ribs. Analysis of riveted, bolted and adhesive joints. Sandwich structures analysis. Thermoelasticity analysis for spacecraft structures.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 321 or equivalent
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 432.

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Course information not available.

Course information not available.

MECH 539. Computational Aerodynamics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Fundamental equations. Basic flow singularities. Boundary element methods. Source, doublet and vortex panel methods for 2D and 3D incompressible and compressible flows. Method of characteristics. Euler equations for inviscid rotational flows. Finite-difference and finite-volume methods. Explicit and implicit time-integration methods. Quasi 1D solutions. Nozzle and confined aerofoil applications.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317, MECH 533.

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Course information not available.

MECH 542. Spacecraft Dynamics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Review of central force motion; Hohmann and other coplanar transfers, rotation of the orbital plane, patched conic method. Orbital perturbations due to the earth's oblateness, solar-lunar attraction, solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag. Attitude dynamics of a rigid spacecraft; attitude stabilization and control; attitude manoeuvers; large space structures.
  • Course description change awaiting University approval
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 220. Corequisite: MECH 412 or MECH 419

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 543. Design with Composite Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Material systems/selection process. Cost vs. performance. Laminate layup procedures. Theory and application of filament winding of composite cylinders. Regular oven and autoclave oven curing, analysis of resulting material performance. Practical design considerations and tooling. Analysis of environmental considerations. Joining techniques. Analysis of test methods. Theory of repair techniques.
  • (3-3-3)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 530

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


MECH 544. Processing of Composite Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Composite processing science basic principles. Reinforcement properties; permeability, compaction. Resin properties; curing, viscosity, shrinkage. Heat transfer and cure kinetics; cure cycle optimization. Resin flow; infusion, thickness variations, fiber volume fraction distribution. Residual stresses; tool-part interaction, warpage control, spring-back, tool design. Thermoplastic composites; crystallization control, melting and consolidation.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 530 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: This course requires the use of a finite element software, so experience with finite elements is recommended.

Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.


Course information not available.

MECH 546. Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Discrete systems; variational formulation and approximation for continuous systems; direct and variational methods of element formulation in 1- 2- and 3 dimensions; formulation of isoparametric finite elements; plate and shell elements; finite element method for static analysis, vibration analysis and structural dynamics; introduction to nonlinear problems.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 315 or MECH 419, and MECH 321, or instructor's permission.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 645.

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MECH 547. Mechanics of Biological Materials.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Mechanics of proteins (collagen, keratin), polysaccharides (cellulose, chitin), cells, skin, bone, teeth, seashells, insect and arthropod cuticles. Emphasis on microstructure-property-function relationships and on multiscale approach. State-of-the-art experimental and modelling techniques. Self-healing and adaptive biological materials.
  • (3-1-5)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 210, MIME 260 or MIME 261, or permission of instructor

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MECH 548. Cellular Materials in Natural and Engineering Structures.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Overview of hierarchical solids exhibiting cellular structure. Cell size, shape and topology of bending and stretching dominated materials, including periodic microtruss lattice, plant cellular tissue and trabecular bone. Theories for modelling the mechanics and the physical properties; design and optimization of multifunctional cellular solids for ultralight aerospace and biomedical applications.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 210, MIME 260 or MIME 261, or permission of instructor

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MECH 550. Vibrations of Continuous Systems.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to continuous systems. Discretization methods. Vibrations of Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams. Boundary conditions, intermediate supports and penalty method. Strain-displacement relationships for plates/shells. Vibrations of plates and shells. Sloshing and added mass. Effect of geometric imperfections and thermal loads. Introduction to nonlinear dynamics and stability. Introduction to experimental techniques.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 315 or MECH 419
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 643

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MECH 551. Nonlinear Dynamics of Shell Structures.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to nonlinear dynamics and stability; softening and hardening systems; bifurcations; Lyapunov exponents; nonlinear strain-displacement relationships; Lagrangian description; plates and shells; nonlinear vibrations of plates and shells; reduced-order models; stability of shells with cardiovascular application; supersonic flutter of circular cylindrical shells (rockets).
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 315 or MECH 419

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MECH 553. Design and Manufacture of Microdevices.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Introduction to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Micromachining techniques (thin-film deposition; lithography; etching; bonding). Microscale mechanical behaviour (deformation and fracture; residual stresses; adhesion; experimental techniques). Materials- and process-selection. Process integration. Design of microdevice components to meet specified performance and reliability targets using realistic manufacturing processes.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: MECH 309, MECH 321, (MECH 315 or MECH 419)

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MECH 559. Engineering Systems Optimization.

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

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MECH 560. Eco-design and Product Life Cycle Assessment .

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

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MECH 561. Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Systems.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The musculoskeletal system; general characteristics and classification of tissues and joints. Biomechanics and clinical problems in orthopaedics. Modelling and force analysis of musculoskeletal systems. Passive and active kinematics. Load-deformation properties of passive connective tissue, passive and stimulated muscle response. Experimental approaches, case studies.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 321 and (MECH 315 or MECH 419)

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MECH 562. Advanced Fluid Mechanics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Conservation laws, control volume analysis, Navier stokes equations, dimensional analysis and limiting forms of N-S equation, laminar viscous flows, boundary layer theory, inviscid potential flows, lift and drag, introduction to turbulence.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MATH 271 or permission of instructor.

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MECH 563. Biofluids and Cardiovascular Mechanics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Basic principles of circulation including vascular fluid and solid mechanics, modelling techniques, clinical and experimental methods and the design of cardiovascular devices.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites: CHEE 314 or MECH 331 or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEE 563

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MECH 565. Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Equipment.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Pipes and piping systems, pumps, and valves. Fans and building air distribution systems. Basic thermal design methods for fins and heat exchangers. Thermal design of shell-and-tube and compact heat exchangers.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MECH 240, MECH 309 or MATH 317, MECH 331, MECH 341, MECH 346 or permission of the instructor.

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MECH 566. Fluid-Structure Interactions.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Pipes and cylindrical shells containing flow: fundamentals and applications in ocean mining, Coriolis mass-flow meters, heat exchangers, nuclear reactors and aircraft engines; chaos. Cylinders in axial flow and in cross-flow; vortex-shedding and galloping. Cylinder arrays in cross-flow; fluidelastic instabilities. Ovalling of chimneys.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 315 or MECH 419 or equivalent.

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MECH 572. Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Historical development and applications of robotic manipulators. Homogeneous transformations and geometry. Forward and inverse kinematics, manipulator Jacobian. Newton-Euler and Lagrangian formulations of inverse and forward dynamics. Trajectory planning for pick-and-place operations. Linear independent joint control and nonlinear model-based control schemes.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisites (Undergraduate): MATH 271 and MECH 412 / MECH 419 or permission of instructor
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MECH 573

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MECH 573. Mechanics of Robotic Systems.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Manipulator performance and design. Pick-and-place and continuous-path operations. Computation of rigid-body angular velocity and acceleration from point-data measurements. Inverse kinematics of serial manipulators with coupled architectures; kinetostatics of multifingered hands and walking machines. Kinematics and dynamics of parallel manipulators and wheeled mobile robots.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: MECH 309 or MATH 317, and MECH 572 or permission of the instructor.
  • Since the course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, and B- is the minimum passing mark for graduate students, this minimum mark will be relaxed for undergraduates. The regulations applicable to undergraduates will apply accordingly.

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MECH 578. Advanced Thermodynamics.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Review of classical mechanics; Boltzmann statistics, thermodynamics of ideal gases; Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, Gibbsian ensembles; elementary kinetic theory of transport processes, Boltzmann equation, Boltzmann H-theorem and entropy, KBG approximation, discussion on the solution of Boltzmann equation; Maxwell transport equations, derivation of Navier Stokes equations.
  • (3-0-6)

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MECH 579. Multidisciplinary Design Optimization.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Mechanical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

A comprehensive introduction to important algorithms in sensitivity analysis and multidisciplinary design optimization of large systems. Topics include: unconstrained and constrained optimization, sensitivity analysis, gradient-free optimization, multi-objective optimization, and various multidisciplinary algorithms and approaches for design optimization.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite(s): MECH 309

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3. The third Technical Complementary course (3 credits) must be at the 300 level or higher (approved by the Department), in the Faculty of Engineering or an approved course in the Faculty of Science, including the Department of Mathematics. Please see the MECH ENG Student handbook for the approved courses.

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