Engineering

Faculty | MSc|MENG|PhD|Shared |Courses

Director - Lambert Otten (204 Thornborough, Ext.2430/3023)
(E-mail: otten@net2.eos.uoguelph.ca)
Associate director - Satish C. Negi (209 Thornborough, Ext. 2231)
(E-mail: negi@net2.eos.uoguelph.ca)
Graduate co-ordinator - Ramesh P. Rudra (218 Thornborough, Ext. 2110) (E-mail: rudra@net2.eos.uoguelph.ca)
Graduate secretary - Judy Campbell (202 Thornborough, Ext. 6187) (E-mail: campbell@net2.eos.uoguelph.ca)

Otman A. Basir BSc Al-Fateh, MS Queen's, PhD Waterloo - Assistant Professor
Ralph B. Brown BSc (Agr), BSc (Eng), MSc, PhD Guelph, PEng - Associate Professor
Valerie J. Davidson BEng McMaster, MSc Guelph, PhD Toronto, PEng - Associate Professor
Grant C. Edwards BASc, MASc Waterloo, PhD Guelph, PEng - Assistant Professor
Gordon L. Hayward BASc, MASc, PhD Waterloo, PEng - Associate Professor
Isobel W. Heathcote BSc Toronto, MSc, PhD Yale - Associate Professor
William James BScEng Natal, Dip. H.E. Delft, PhD Aberdeen, DSc Natal, FCSCE, FASCE, PEng - Professor
Douglas M. Joy BASc Toronto, MASc Ottawa, PhD Waterloo, PEng - Associate Professor
Marc LeMaguer BSc Ecole National Superieure (Paris), MSc Berkeley, PhD Paris - Professor
Gauri S. Mittal BSc Punjab Agricultural, MSc Manitoba, PhD Ohio State, PEng - Professor
Satish C. Negi BE Rajasthan, MSc, PhD McGill, PEng - Associate Professor
Lambert Otten BASc, MASc, PhD Waterloo, PEng - Professor
Ramesh P. Rudra BSc Punjab Agricultural, MS, PhD Pennsylvania State, PEng - Professor
Keith Slater BSc, MSc, PhD Leeds - Professor
William R. Smith BASc, MASc Toronto, MSc, PhD Waterloo, PEng - Professor
Warren Stiver BASc, MASc, PhD Toronto, PEng - Associate Professor
David A. Swayne BSc Waterloo, MA York, PhD Waterloo - Professor
Hugh R. Whiteley BSc Queen's, DIC London, MS Minnesota, PhD Guelph, PEng - Associate Professor
Richard G. Zytner BASc, MASc, PhD Windsor, PEng - Associate Professor

Special Graduate Faculty
Kathleen M.J. Kwan BSc, BLaw Toronto - Judicial Officer, University of Guelph

Associated Graduate Faculty
Hugh D. Ayers BE Saskatchewan, MS Washington State, PEng - Medal of Merit
John P. Bell BSc United States Military Academy, MS Case Western Reserve, PhD McMaster - Adjunct Professor
Walter K. Bilanski BSA Toronto, MSc, PhD Michigan State, FAAAS, FCSAE, FASAE, PEng - University Professor Emeritus
Richard L. Corsi BS Humboldt State, MS, PhD California (Davis), PEng (California) - Adjunct Professor
Peter S. Chisholm BASc, MASc Toronto, PEng - Adjunct Professor
James D. Cross BSc Wales, MSc, PhD Carleton - Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Waterloo
W. Trevor Dickinson BSA, BASC, MSA Toronto, PhD Colorado State, PEng - University Professor Emeritus
Jan C. Jofriet Dipl. Civil Eng. Amsterdam, MASc, PhD Waterloo, FCSAE, FCSCE, PEng - University Professor Emeritus
Hung Lee BSc British Columbia, PhD McGill - Adjunct Professor
Wendy P. Mortimer BSc, MASc, PhD Waterloo - Adjunct Professor
John R. Ogilvie BSc (Agr) McGill, MSA Toronto, PhD Purdue, FCSAE, PEng -University Professor Emeritus
Norbert W. Schmidtke BSc, MSc Alberta, PhD Waterloo, PEng - Adjunct Professor
Edward Wein BASc, MASc, PhD Toronto - Adjunct Professor
Samuel Zelin BASc, MA, PhD Toronto, PEng - Adjunct Professor

The graduate degree programs in engineering include research and course work options, as well as full- and part-time studies. A thesis-based MSc degree program is available in three research fields: biological engineering, environmental engineering, and water resources engineering. An MEng degree is offered in water resources engineering and environmental engineering.    The research-based MSc and PhD programs provide the opportunity to obtain advanced training in the engineering sciences and in research methodology through a variety of applied and basic research topics and courses. They provide for specialization in the fields of biological engineering, environmental engineering, and water resources engineering. Biological engineering research concentrates on food engineering and waste management; it covers physical processing of food, restructuring of foods and wastes, physical properties of biological materials, and fuel production from crops and wastes. Environmental engineering research examines methods to understand and enhance processes central to environmental protection. It includes the assessment of the fates of substances in the environment, development of new process technology and remediation of contaminated material and sites. Water resources engineering research concentrates on watershed engineering, hydrology, erosion, drainage & irrigation flood control, water-resource systems management, Soil and water conservation, storm water and water-quality management.
   The objective of the MEng degree in water resources engineering and environmental engineering is to provide students (mostly practising engineers) the opportunity to extend their understanding of engineering principles involved in these disciplines beyond the coverage possible in an undergraduate program and to enlarge their grasp of the application of these principles to the solution of complex, practical problems. Areas of emphasis currently covered in water resources engineering are hydrologic modelling and model applications of water supply assessment, pollutant transport and management, watershed management, agricultural water management including irrigation, drainage, erosion and sediment transport and design of naturalized channels. The areas of emphasis currently covered in environmental engineering are water treatment, site remediation, management of agriculture and municipal solid and liquid wastes and risk assessment.

Admission Requirements
MSc by Thesis
   In addition to the general admission standards of the university, the school has adopted additional admissions criteria for MSc studies. Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

    At least a second class honours standing in the work of the last four full-time

semesters or the last two complete undergraduate years.

• Science degree or equivalent

    Applicant must be a graduate from an honours program with at least a 75% average in the

past four full-time semesters or the last two complete undergraduate

years.

    Applicant must have demonstrated an acceptable analytical ability by having taken a

sufficient number of courses in mathematics, chemistry and physics.

    Applicant must be prepared to make-up undergraduate engineering courses without

receiving graduate credit in topics related to the research project.

   Applicant must be a graduate from an honours program with at least a 70% average in the past four full semesters or the last two complete undergraduate years.
   Applicant must have demonstrated an acceptable analytical ability by having taken a sufficient number of courses in mathematics, and the physical sciences.
   For the environmental engineering degree the applicant must have a minimum of three of the following courses or equivalent:

Introduction to Environmental Engineering

Engineering Unit Operations

Water Quality

Air Quality

Solid Waste Management

Water and Wastewater Treatment

Ecology

   For the water resources engineering the applicant must have four of the following courses or equivalent:
Fluid Mechanics

Water Management

Hydrology

Water Quality

Urban Water Systems

Watershed Structures

Soil and Water Conservation

   Applicant qualifications may be assessed via an entrance interview/oral examination conducted by the chair and one member of the school of engineering graduate studies committee. Students deficient in certain areas will be required to take make-up undergraduate courses. The student will be admitted on probation until the requirements have been completed. These courses will not count toward the student's graduate credit requirements.
   
Degree Requirements
MSc by Thesis
   The prescribed program of study must consist of no fewer than 2.0 credits, of which at least 1.5 credits must be at the graduate level, including the Engineering Seminar course and at least two other engineering courses. Under special circumstances the school may reduce the 1.5 credit course requirement; however, the two graduate- engineering-course requirement will not be changed. In all cases the remaining courses must be acceptable for graduate credit; that is, they must be either graduate courses or senior undergraduate courses. Depending on the student's background, the advisory committee may specify more than four courses, including undergraduate make-up courses. If make-up courses are deemed necessary, they will be considered additional courses.

MEng Degree
The prescribed studies program consists of at least 5.0 credits acceptable for graduate credit. This includes 2.5 credits from the program core (see section 5.4 of the School of Engineering Graduate Handbook), and 2.5 additional credits chosen from approved courses (section 5.5 of the School of Engineering Graduate Handbook). No more than 1.0 of these credits will be for undergraduate engineering courses, as approved by the graduate co-ordinator, and no more than 1.5 credits will be from courses offered outside the School of Engineering. For the final project in either water resources engineering or environmental engineering, the student will make arrangements with one of the graduate faculty to act as adviser for the project.

Admission Requirements The minimum academic requirement for admission to the PhD program is normally a recognized master's degree in engineering with at least a high second-class standing. A strong recommendation from the MSc adviser is necessary.
   Direct admission to the PhD program is only rarely granted. Applicants requesting direct admission must hold a bachelor's degree with exceptionally high academic standing and have related research experience. Such applicants should discuss this option with the graduate co-ordinator at an early opportunity.

Degree Requirements    The prescribed program of study must consist of no fewer than 2.0 credits in addition to those taken as part of the MSc degree. At least 1.5 of the credits must be at the graduate level, including the Engineering Seminar course and at least two graduate engineering courses. Under special circumstances the school may reduce the requirement for 1.5 credits in graduate courses; however the two graduate-engineering-course requirement will not be changed. In all cases the remaining courses must be acceptable for graduate credit; that is, they must be either graduate courses or senior undergraduate courses. Depending on the student's background, the advisory committee may specify more than four courses, including undergraduate make-up courses. If make-up courses are deemed necessary, they will be considered additional courses.
   Students who have completed their MSc degree in the School of Engineering are not required to enrol in the graduate Engineering Seminar course, and their credit requirements are reduced.

   The School of Engineering participates in the master of science in aquaculture program. Those faculty members whose research and teaching expertise includes aspects of aquaculture may serve as advisers for MSc (Aquaculture) students. Please consult the Aquaculture listing for a detailed description of the MSc (Aquaculture) interdepartmental program.


   The School of Engineering participates in the MSc program in food safety and quality assurance. Those faculty members whose research and teaching expertise includes aspects of food safety and quality assurance may serve as advisers for MSc students. Please consult the Food Safety and Quality Assurance listing for a detailed description of the MSc collaborative program.

General

0506000 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer (0.5)

Basic physical principles of transport phenomena. Heat and mass transfer methods for physical systems. Time and volume averaging. Dimensional analysis.

0506020 Advanced Fluid Mechanics (0.5)

Laminar and turbulent flow. Turbulence and turbulence modelling. Boundary-layer flow. Compressible flow. Potential flow.

0506030 Finite Difference Methods (0.5)

Numerical solution of partial differential equations of flow through porous media; flow of heat and vibrations; characterization of solution techniques and analysis of stability; convergence and compatibility criteria for various finite difference schemes.

0506050 Finite Element Methods (0.5)

Boundary-value problems. Methods of approximation. Time dependent problems. Isoparametric elements. Numerical integration. Computer implementation. Mesh generation and layouts. Two-dimensional finite elements.

0506060 Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation (0.5)

A study of theoretical and experimental methods for characterizing the dynamic behaviour of engineering systems. Distributed and lumped parameter model development. Digital simulation of systems for design and control.

0506080 Engineering Seminar (0.0)

The course objective is to train the student in preparing, delivering and evaluating technical presentations. Each student is required to: (a) attend and write critiques on a minimum of six technical seminars in the School of Engineering; and (b) conduct a seminar, presenting technical material to an audience consisting of faculty and graduate students in the school. This presentation will then be reviewed by the student and the instructor.

0506090 Special Topics in Engineering (0.5)

A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas which are applicable to several of the engineering disciplines in the School of Engineering.

0506550 Intelligent Real-time Systems (0.5)

    Soft real-time systems, hard real-time systems, embedded systems, time handling and synchronization, deadlines, preemption, interruption, rts languages, rts operating systems, system life-cycle, petri nets, task scheduling and allocation, fault-tolerance, resource management, rts search techniques, dealing with uncertainty.

0506560 Advanced Digital Signal Processing (0.5)

    Discrete-time signals and systems, z transform, frequency analysis of signals and systems, fourier transform, fast fourier transform, design of digital filters, signal reconstruction, power spectrum estimation.

Biological Engineering

0506110 Food and Bio-Process Engineering (0.5)

Kinetics of biological reactions, reactor dynamics and design. Food rheology and texture; water activity and the role of water in food processing; unit operations design-thermal processing; and drying, freezing and separation processes.

0506120 Fermentation Engineering (0.5)

Modelling and design of fermenter systems. Topics include microbial growth kinetics, reactor design, heat and mass transfer. Instrumentation and unit operations for feed preparation and product recovery. Prerequisite: undergraduate course in each of microbiology, heat and mass transfer, and biochemistry or bioprocess engineering.

0506130 Physical Properties of Biomaterials (0.5)

Rheology and rheological properties. Contact stresses between bodies in compression. Mechanical damage. Aerodynamic and hydro-dynamic characteristics. Friction.

0506150 Bio-Instrumentation (0.5)

Instrumentation systems. Transducers. Amplifier circuits. Recording methods. Spectroscopy & colorimetry. Radiation, humidity, pH and noise measurements. Chromatography.

0506160 Advanced Food Engineering (0.5)

Application of heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, food properties, and food-processing constraints in the design and selection of food process equipment. Development of process specifications for the control of the flow of heat and moisture and the associated microbial, nutritional and organoleptic change in foods. Food system dynamics and process development. Prerequisite: 0506110, Food and Bio-Process Engineering, or equivalent.

0506170 Special Topics in Food Engineering (0.5)

A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas of food engineering.

0506190 Special Topics in Biological Engineering (0.5)

A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas of biological engineering.

0506290 Special Topics in Agricultural Engineering (0.5)

A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas of agricultural engineering.

Environmental Engineering

0506610 Urban Stormwater Management (0.5)

Continuous stormwater management models and model structure. Catchment descretization and process disaggregation. Pollutant build-up, washoff and transport. Flow and pollutant routing in complex, looped, partially surcharged pipe/channel networks including pond storage, storage tanks, diversion structures, transverse and side weirs, pump stations, orifices, radical and leaf gates and transient receiving water conditions (including tides). Pollutant removal in sewer networks, storage facilities and treatment plants.

0506620 Water Pollution Control Planning (0.5)

Methods of developing area-wide pollution control plans and sustainable use plans in Ontario and elsewhere. Quantitative and non-quantitative information is examined in the context of planning, using continuous models such as HSP-F. Field trips.

0506630 Environmental Contaminants: Fate Mechanisms (0.5)

Analysis of fate mechanisms associated with environmental contaminants. Focus on substances which are generally considered to be hazardous to humans, or other animal life at low concentrations. Study of physicochemical properties and fate estimation on control and remediation strategies. Quantitative analysis of contaminant partitioning and mass flows, including cross-media transport and simultaneous action of contaminant fate mechanisms.

0506640 Environmental Contaminants: Control Mechanisms (0.5)

Analysis of conventional and innovative technologies for toxic contaminants; technologies for contaminated municipal and industrial wastewaters, including physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes for trace toxic contaminants in water and wastewater; control technologies for contaminated gas streams, including activated carbon absorption, biofiltration, bioscrubbing, wet scrubbing, thermal-oxidation methods, and process modifications to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants; remediation techniques for contaminated soil, including external and in-situ physical, chemical and biological treatment methods; cross-media contaminant control issues; toxicity testing and evaluation; relevant regulatory programs.

0506650 Advanced Air Quality Modelling (0.5)

Analysis of analytical and computational models used to predict the fate of airborne contaminants; role of air quality models for the solution of engineering-related problems; analysis of important boundary layer meteorology phenomena that influence the fate of air pollutants; conservation equations and mathematical solution techniques; model input requirements such as emissions inventories; Gaussian models; higher-order closure models; Eulerian photochemical grid models.

0506670 Hazardous Waste Management (0.5)

This course will define the different types of hazardous wastes that currently exist and outline the pertinent legislation governing these wastes. Information will be presented on different ways to handle, treat and dispose the hazardous waste, including separation, segregation, minimization, recycling and chemical, physical, biological, and thermal treatment. Also to be discussed is the selection, design and operation of hazardous landfill sites, encompassing the handling and treatment of leachate.

0506680 Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment (0.5)

    This design course will discuss advanced technologies not traditionally covered during an undergraduate curriculum. An important consideration will be the reuse of water.

0506690 Non-Point Source Pollution and Its Control (0.5)

Introduction to issues of non-point source pollution. Modelling of non-point source pollution approaches for vadose zone, surface and subsurface drained water. Scale issues in non- point source modelling. Management issues in non-point source pollution modelling. Application of non-point source pollution models to a variety of situations. Application of non- point source modelling and selection of management approaches for various types of receiving water.

0506790 Special Topics in Environmental Engineering (0.5)

A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas of environmental engineering.

0506950 Final Project in Environmental Engineering (1.0)

A project course in which a problem of advanced design or analysis in the area of environmental engineering is established, an investigation is performed and a final design or solution is presented.

Water Resources Engineering

0506740 Ground Water Modelling(0.5)

    Introduction to current groundwater issues, definition of terms, review of fundamental equations describing fluid and contaminant transport in saturated groundwater zones. Mathematical techniques (analytical, fe and fd) for the solution of the fundamental equations. Application of numerical groundwater models to a variety of situations. Case studies. Review of groundwater models used in industry.

0506800 Deterministic Hydrological Modelling (0.5)

Deterministic hydrological models. Function of watershed models for hydraulic design, environmental assessment, operation of water control structures, flood warning. Calculation algorithms.

0506810 Stochastic Hydrological Modelling (0.5)

Distribution function selection for historic hydrologic data representation. Monte Carlo simulation techniques. ARMA modelling of hydrologic processes. Regional analysis. Risk analysis.

0506820 Measurement of Water Quantity and Quality (0.5)

This course covers techniques used to measure rates of movement and amounts of water occurring as precipitation, soil water, ground water and streamflow. Available measurements of water quality are surveyed. Calculation procedures involved in the use of indirect indicators of water quantity and quality individually and in combination are described.

0506830 Design of Pressurized Flow Systems (0.5)

Boundary resistance. Steady State and transient flow in gravity and pumped systems. Pressure control systems.

0506840 Open Channel Hydraulics (0.5)

Basic concepts, energy principle; momentum principle; flow resistance; non-uniform flow; channel controls and transitions; unsteady flow; flood routing.
0506850 Design of Water Management Systems (0.5)
Analytical decision making. Optimization methods. Planning under uncertainty. Deterministic river basin modelling. Irrigation planning and operation. Water quality management modelling.

0506880 Soil Erosion and Fluvial Sedimentation (0.5)

Students will be able to (i) describe processes related to soil erosion by water, (ii) describe processes related to fluvial sedimentation, (iii) evaluate and prescribe structural and non- structural control methods, and (iv) run at least one soil erosion/fluvial sedimentation computer model if the course is satisfactorily completed.

0506900 Final Project in Watershed Engineering (1.0)

A project course in which an advanced design problem in the area of watershed engineering is established, a feasibility investigation performed and a final design
presented.

0506910 Special Topics in Water Resources Engineering (0.5)

A course of directed study involving selected readings and analyses in developing knowledge areas of water resources engineering.