2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
	2001-2002 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR: COURSES
	Carleton University

Civil and Environmental Engineering Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

As a result of the transition from the old program to the new program there may be some duplication of course descriptions and alterations in the course numbering.

Engineering 82.105*
Introduction to Technology
Technical issues involved in architectural design of buildings from ancient times to the present. Technological innovation and materials related to structural developments, and the organization and design of structures. Basic concepts of equilibrium, and mechanics of materials. Precludes additional credit for Architecture 77.213*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week.

Engineering 82.204*
GIS, Surveying, and Graphics
Engineering geometry and spatial graphics. Structural engineering drawings and computer aided drafting. Fundamentals of surveying, measuring horizontal and vertical distances and angles. Topographic and construction surveys. GPS and electronic surveying. Geographic information systems, data, data structure and processing, spatial referencing, cartographic modeling, application software.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 82.104*
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis and laboratories three hours a week.

Engineering 82.211*
Mechanics II
Plane trusses. Virtual work. Friction. Relative motion of particles.
Kinematics of a rigid body: translation, rotation; general plane motion; absolute and relative motion. Kinetics of a rigid body: equations of motion; work-energy; impulse-momentum; conservation of momentum and energy. Conservative forces and potential energy.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 86.211* and 91.211*.
Prerequisites: Engineering 91.111* and Mathematics 69.104* and 69.114*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours a week.

Engineering 82.220*
Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
Stress and strain. Stress-strain relationship: Hooke's law. Torsion of circular shafts. Bending moment and shear force distribution. Flexural stresses. Deflection. Shear stress in beams. Stresses in thin- walled cylinders. Transformation of 2D stress and strain: Mohr's circle. Buckling of columns.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 86.222*.
Prerequisite: Engineering 91.111*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis and laboratory three hours a week.

Engineering 82.270*
Civil Engineering Materials
Introduction to material science. Structure of atoms. Crystallography. Crystal Imperfections. Characteristics, behaviour and use of Civil Engineering materials: Steel, Concrete, Asphalt, Wood, Polymers, Composites. Specifications. Physical, chemical and mechanical properties. Quality control and material tests. Fatigue. Corrosion. Applications in construction and rehabilitation of structures.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 65.111* or equivalent, Mathematics 69.104*, and Physics 75.104*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis and laboratories three hours a week.

Engineering 82.322*
Advanced Mechanics
Shear flow. Definition of shear centre, Saint Venant and warping torsional constants. Behaviour, governing differential equations and solutions for torsion, beam-columns, lateral torsional buckling of doubly symmetric beams, axially loaded doubly symmetric, singly symmetric and asymmetric columns. Failure criterion, fatigue and fracture.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 82.444* and 86.322*.
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.220*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.323*
Introduction to Structural Analysis
Concepts and assumptions for structural analysis: framed structures; joints; supports; compatibility and equilibrium; stability and determinacy; generalized forces and displacements. Principle of Virtual Work: unknown force calculations; influence lines. Complementary Virtual Work: displacement calculations; indeterminate analysis. Introduction to the Stiffness Method of Analysis.
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.220*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.324*
Introduction to Structural Design
Building systems and bridge types. Limit States Design. The design process. Material standards. National Building Code of Canada. The determination of dead, live, snow, rain, wind, earthquake and crane loads. Preliminary analyses. The determination of maximum load effects.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory and problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.325*
Design of Structural Steel Components
Introduction to CAN/CSA - S16.1, design and behaviour concepts; shear lag, block shear, local plate buckling, lateral torsional buckling, instantaneous centre, inelastic strength and stability. Design of tension members, axially loaded columns, beams, beam-columns, simple bolted and welded connections. (Also listed as Architecture 77.316*.)
Prerequisites: Engineering 82.220* and 82.324*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.326*
Design of Reinforced Concrete Components
Introduction to CAN/CSA - A23.3; design and behaviour concepts; shear, bond, Whitney stress block, under and over reinforced behaviour, strain compatibility and ultimate strength, construction detailing. Flexural design of singly reinforced, doubly reinforced and T-beams. Shear design for beams. Design of slabs, columns, and footings.
Prerequisites: Engineering 82.220* and 82.324*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.328*
Geotechnical Mechanics
Soil composition and soil classification. Soil properties, compaction, seepage and permeability. Concepts of pore water pressure, capillary pressure and hydraulic head. Principle of effective stress, stress-deformation and strength characteristics of soils, consolidation, stress distribution with soils, and settlement. Laboratory testing. (Also listed as Geography 45.417* and Geology 67.417*.)
Prerequisites: Geology 67.244* or equivalent and Third-year registration, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.334*
Transportation Engineering and Planning
Transportation and the socio-economic environment; modal and intermodal systems and components; vehicle motion, human factors, system and facility design; traffic flow; capacity analysis; planning methodology; environmental impacts; evaluation methods. (Also listed as Geography 45.434*.)
Prerequisite: Third-year registration, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.420*
Matrix Analysis of Framed Structures
Review of basic structural concepts. Betti's law and applications. Matrix flexibility method; flexibility influence coefficients. Development of stiffness influence coefficients. Stiffness method of analysis: beams; plane trusses and frames; space trusses and frames. Introduction to the finite element method. (Also listed as Architecture 77.314*.)
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.323*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.421*
Finite Element Methods in Structural Analysis
Review of matrix stiffness analysis of frames. Introduction to theory of elasticity. Simple finite elements. Virtual Work formulation of equilibrium of structure and element. Lagrange interpolation and basis for displacement shape functions. Considerations in finite element modelling. Plate bending theory and analysis. Also offered, at the graduate level with additional or different requirements, as Engineering 82.513 for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.420*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.422*
Wood Engineering
Structural design in timber. Properties, anatomy of wood, wood products, factors affecting strength and behaviour, strength evaluation and testing. Design of columns, beams and beam-columns. Design of trusses, frames, glulam structures, plywood components, formwork, foundations, connections and connectors. Inspection, maintenance and repair. (Also listed as Architecture 77.422*.)
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.428*
Geotechnical Engineering
Strength of soils; shear strength, bearing capacity, consolidation. Stress distribution in soils. Earth pressures; at rest, active and passive. Design of flexible and rigid retaining structures. Stability of excavations, slopes and embankments. Settlement of foundations. Bearing capacity of footings.
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.328*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.429*
Highway Engineering
Highway planning; highway location and geometric design; traffic engineering; highway capacity; soil classifications; subgrade and base materials; highway drainage; frost action; structural design of rigid and flexible pavements; highway economics and finance; maintenance and rehabilitation.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.431*
Foundation Engineering
A critical study of the theories in soil mechanics and their application to the solution of geotechnical engineering problems. Field investigations, laboratory and field testing, special footings, mat foundations, caissons, pile foundations and excavations. Discussion of new methods and current research.
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.428*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.432*
Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Design
Reinforced concrete shear and torsion design by the General Method. Two-way slab design by Direct Design and Equivalent Frame Method. Behaviour and design of slender reinforced concrete columns. Prestressed concrete concepts; flexural analysis and design; shear design; anchorage zone design; deflection and prestress loss determination.
Prerequisite: Engineering 82.326*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.433*
Urban Planning
A systematic approach to urban planning; urban sprawl; data collection; forecasting; standards; space requirements; land use; zoning; transportation; land development; site selection; land capability; layout; evaluation; housing; urban renewal and new towns. (Also listed as Geography 45.433*.)
Prerequisite: Third-year registration, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.437*
Municipal Hydraulics
Fluid flow fundamentals. Hydraulics of pipe systems. Open channel flow. Prediction of sanitary and storm sewage, flow rates. Design of water distribution systems, culverts, sanitary and storm sewers. Pumps and measuring devices. Hydraulic and flow control structures.
Prerequisite: Engineering 86.230*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.438*
Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures
Behaviour and design of open web steel joists, steel and composite decks, composite beams and columns, stud girders, and plate girders. Design of moment connections, base plates and anchor bolts, and bracing connections. Stability of rigid and braced frames. Design for lateral load effects.
Prerequisites: Engineering 82.325* and Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.440*
Construction/Project Management
Systems approach to project planning and control. Analysis of alternative network planning methods: CPM, precedence and PERT; planning procedure; computer techniques and estimating; physical, economic and financial feasibility; implementation feedback and control; case studies. (Also listed as Business 42.438*.)
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.443*
Masonry Design
Introduction to structural design in masonry. Properties of masonry materials and assemblages. Behaviour and design of beams, walls and columns. Selected topics including veneer wall systems, differential movement, workmanship, specifications, inspection, maintenance and repair. Lowrise and highrise building design. Also offered, at the graduate level with additional or different requirements, as Engineering 82.520, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.447*
Municipal Engineering
Introduction to fundamentals of municipal engineering. City management; permits and approvals; water supply, treatment and distribution; sewage collection, treatment and disposal; solid waste management; snow disposal; protective services.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 82.337*.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.450*
Computer Methods in Civil Engineering
Application of object oriented programming to solve Civil Engineering problems in surveying; transportation, hydrotechnical, geotechnical, environmental and structural engineering. Computing techniques include data structures, data storage and data base management, development of hypertext documents, and the development of graphical user interfaces.
Prerequisites: Engineering 91.266* and Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 82.460*
Advanced Building Systems
Architecture as a multi-disciplinary endeavour with emphasis on the architect's role and responsibility. Relationship of design intentions to support, enclosure, services, interior finishes with emphasis on contemporary concerns and means in architecture. Basic concepts of structural analysis and design.
Precludes additional credit for Architecture 77.213*.
Prerequisites: Architecture 77.101* and Engineering 82.105*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory one hour a week.

Engineering 82.495*
Professional Practice
Presentations by faculty and external lecturers on the Professional Engineers Act, professional ethics and responsibilities practice within the discipline and its relationship with other disciplines and to society, health and safety, environmental stewardship, principles and practice of sustainable development. Communication skills are emphasized.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 86.495*, 94.395* and 97.395*
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration.
Lectures three hours a week.

Engineering 82.497
Engineering Project
A major project in engineering analysis, design, development or research carried out by individual students or small teams. The objective is to provide an opportunity to develop initiative, self-reliance, creative ability and engineering judgement. A project proposal, an interim report, an oral presentation, and a comprehensive final report are required.

Engineering 82.498*
Design Project
Teams of students develop professional level experience through a design project that incorporates fundamentals acquired in previous mathematics, science, engineering, and complementary studies courses. A final report and oral presentations are required.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration
Lectures one hour a week, problem analysis seven hours a week.

Engineering 81.201*
Process Analysis for Environmental Engineering
Material and energy balances for reacting and non-reacting systems. Applications in mining, metallurgy, pulp and paper, power generation, energy utilization. Emissions to the environment per unit product or service generated. Introduction to life cycle analysis, comparative products and processes.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 65.111* or equivalent, and Engineering 86.240*, or approval of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, problem analysis three hours a week.

Engineering 81.202*
Microbiology
The biology of the Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses and Protozoans, from the fundamentals of cell chemistry, molecular biology, structure and function, to their involvement in ecological and industrial processes and human disease. (Also listed as Biology 61.233*.)
Precludes additional credit for Biology 61.331*
Prerequisite: Biology 61.103* or Chemistry 65.111* or equivalent.
Lectures three hours a week.

Engineering 81.301*
Environmental Engineering Unit Operations
Dimensional analysis and dimensionless numbers; Agitation and mixing of fluids; Flow past particles, drag coefficients, settling classification; Filtration and other mechanical separations; Heat transfer, individual and overall coefficients; Mass transfer, individual and overall coefficients; Absorption and leaching; Membrane separations. Laboratory procedures: Settling operations, filtration, aeration.
Prerequisite: Engineering 86.230*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 81.302*
Environmental Engineering Systems Modelling
Engineered systems for pollution abatement; Chemical reaction engineering; reaction kinetics and rate data analysis; design and modelling of reactors; single and multiple reactions; ideal and nonideal reactors; single and multi-parameter models; biochemical reaction engineering; process control. Laboratory procedures: reactor systems performance: Batch, CSTR and PFR.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 65.111* or equivalent, Mathematics 69.204*, Engineering 81.201*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 81.303*
Water Resources Engineering
A quantitative analysis of natural water systems and the development of these systems as a resource. Components of the hydrologic cycle. Quantitative analysis of stream flow. Probability concepts in water resources. Reservoir design and operation. Availability of groundwater. Storm water management.Prerequisites: Engineering 82.328* and 86.230*, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week.

Engineering 81.304*
Contaminant and Pollutant Transport in the Environment
Physical phenomenon governing the transport of contaminants in the environment: diffusion, advection, dispersion, sorption, interphase transfer. Derivation and application of transport equations in air, surface and groundwater pollution; analytical and numerical solutions. Equilibrium partitioning of contaminants among air, water, sediment, and biota.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 65.280*, Engineering 81.302*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week.

Engineering 81.402*
Environmental Geotechnical Engineering
Landfill design; hydrogeologic principles, water budget, landfill liners, geosynthetics, landfill covers, quality control/quality assurance, clay leachate interaction, composite liner design and leak detection. Landfill operation, maintenance and monitoring. Case studies of landfill design and performance. Geotechnical design of environmental control and containment systems.
Prerequisites: Engineering 81.304*, 82.328*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week.

Engineering 81.403*
Air Pollution and Emissions Control
Sources and classification of air pollutants. Ambient air quality objectives and monitoring. Stoichiometric, thermodynamic, kinetic considerations in combustion. Particulates. Control and measurement of emissions from mobile and stationary sources. Indoor air quality. Laboratory procedures: emissions from boilers and IC engines, particulate size distribution and control.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 65.280*, Engineering 86.230*, 86.240*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 81.405*
Environmental Engineering Unit Processes
Chemical treatment methods, biological waste water treatment, and sludge management. Removal of trace organics/hazardous substances. Nutrient removal. Laboratory procedures: Activated sludge, anaerobic growth, chemical precipitation, chlorination.
Prerequisites: Engineering 81.202*, 81.301*, 81.302*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 81.406*
Hydrogeology and Groundwater Flow
Theory of flow through porous media; soil characterization, soil properties, anisotropy, heterogeneity. Contaminant transport. Unsaturated and multiphase flow. Flow in fractured media. Numerical modelling; finite differences, finite elements, boundary conditions. Site remediation and remediation technologies. Case studies and parameter sensitivity.
Prerequisites: Engineering 81.304* and 82.328*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 81.411*
Waste Management
A systematic analysis of issues dealing with solid and hazardous waste management. Waste definitions and description, collection and transportation, prevention and diversion, treatment technologies, landfilling, thermal processes.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 81.401* and 81.407*.
Prerequisites: Engineering 81.301*, 81.302* and 81.304*.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week.

Engineering 81.414*
Environmental Planning and Impact Assessment
Environmental planning and management of residuals. Environmental standards and marketable rights. Risk Assessment, policy development and decision-making. Fault-tree analysis. Canada and U.S environmental regulations. Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment, survey of techniques for impact assessment and EIA review process. Case studies of selected engineering projects.
Precludes additional credit for Engineering 81.404* and 81.408*.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration in the Environmental Engineering program.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.

Engineering 81.497
Engineering Project
A major project in engineering analysis, design, development or research carried out by individual students or small teams. The objective is to provide an opportunity to develop initiative, self-reliance, creative ability and engineering judgement. A project proposal, an interim report, an oral presentation, and a comprehensive final report are required.

Engineering 81.498*
Design Project
Teams of students develop professional level experience through a design project that incorporates fundamentals acquired in previous mathematics, science, engineering, and complementary studies courses. A final report and oral presentations are required.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year registration
Lectures one hour a week, problem analysis seven hours a week.

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