Mechanical Systems Engineering (Bachelor of Engineering) (Co-op)

Description: This mandatory course prepares students for job searching for their co-op work terms and for post-graduate careers. Students will learn to critically evaluate their skills, attitudes, and expectations and evaluate and interpret available opportunities in the workplace. Self-marketing techniques using resumes, cover letters, cold-calls, and interviewing will be learned and students will learn the expectations, rules, and regulations that apply in the workplace with regards to social, organizational, ethical, and safety issues.
Hours: 16
Credits: 1
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Description: Topics in this course include: principles of chemical kinetics; reaction mechanisms; stoichiometry; solution equilibria as applied to analysis; acids and bases; analytical electrochemistry; chemical separation and chemical thermodynamics; solubility; corrosion; thermochemistry; polarity; flow and diffusion; molecules and chemical bonding; biomechanics; structure; bonding; and physical properties of aliphatic and aromatic compounds; substitution and elimination reactions of alkyl halides; ethers; epoxides; aldehydes; ketones; metals and solid-state materials; and transition elements.
Hours: 39
Credits: 3
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Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to perform a number of chemistry experiments increasing their practical knowledge, investigation skills, chemical processes in industrial settings and safety awareness. Topics covered may include: chemical reactions, acids and bases, Newton's Law of Cooling, reduction and oxidation, polymerization and synthesis of acetylene.
Hours: 13
Credits: 1
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Description: Topics in the course include: Free-hand engineering sketching techniques, projections and multi-view drawings; auxiliary views, scaling and sectioning; dimensioning, limits and fits, GDT; and the use of industry standard 2-Dimensional CAD software to produce engineering drawings.
Hours: 65
Credits: 4
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Description: Topics in this course include: the relationship of science, technology and society, the fundamental principles of teamwork, the skills necessary to be an effective and productive member of a team, exposure to Project Based Learning, exciting learning alternatives this method presents compared to traditional teaching practices.
Hours: 85
Credits: 6
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Description: This theme-based course aims to provide an understanding of the historical, social, economic and political context within which scientific and technological advancement takes place. Innovation is a social product, often an expression of current ideas or a response to a social need. Conversely, technological and scientific innovation can transform the structure of society, its value system, and institutions. Through a series of lectures and student-centered activities, this course will assess the impact, benefits, consequences and implications of the inter-relationship between science, technology and society.
Hours: 39
Credits: 3
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Description: This course will focus on comprehensive theoretical understanding of group process, personal skill development and application through intensive team work. These skills are of critical importance in both professional and social settings. Through guided exploration and application of theoretical paradigms and practical strategies, students will achieve the necessary skills to succeed in and lead effective teams. The course consists in an intensive experiential approach ? learning by doing ? enabling participants to become effective, practiced team members with experience applying skills necessary for leadership, analysis and evaluation, problem solving, and conflict management. Individual and team activities enhance participants’ skills to work with a variety of personalities in diverse situations, and to effectively assume various professional roles within a team.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: Topics in this course include: measurement systems and measuring instruments; limits and fits; theory and use of turning, milling, grinding, drilling, broaching and sawing equipment; feed, speed calculations; cutting tool identification and insert geometry; cutting tool materials; chip formation; dynamic and thermal balances; process sheet development; production of project parts; programming NC machines using G coding; programming NC machines using EdgeCAM; trigomonetric calculations; angular and radial programming; data extraction; and CNC machining of project parts.
Hours: 52
Credits: 4
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Description: Topics in this course include: algebraic, trigonometric functions and their graphs, limits, continuity, derivatives, applications such as tangent lines, extreme values, and linear approximations. Integral calculus, fundamental theorems, integral as area, indefinite and definite integrals, transcendental functions, methods of integration.
Hours: 65
Credits: 4
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Description: The first year project provides opportunities for students to demonstrate their mastery of selected Course Learning Outcomes of first year courses. In MECH1140, working in a team, students will reverse-engineer and manufacture several mechanical and electrical systems of the last year Robotic Arm design. As well, each group must design and implement new mechanical and electrical systems thereby making the final Robotic Arm a unique design.
Hours: 13
Credits: 1
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Description: Topics covered in this course include: physics of electric charge and electric field; electric flux, potential, current, capacitance, resistance; AC/DC circuits; magnetism, electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s law; electromagnetic waves; light reflection, refraction, interference, polarization; and lenses and optics.
Hours: 65
Credits: 4
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Description: This course will provide a starting point to understanding the functions of business and the role of engineers and engineering managers in the business environment. Economic systems and forms of business organization will be evaluated. The major functions of business (e.g. management, human resources, engineering, production, marketing and finance) will be examined in the Canadian environment and compared to the international environment. Special focus will be placed upon manufacturing-based businesses.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: This course is the first of two communications courses designed for students in the applied technical degree programs. It will focus on short forms of technical communication. Course work includes workplace correspondence, technical instructions and descriptions, short report, and basic research. Through application and practice, students will develop analytical skills, critical thinking, and problem solving. Students will also plan and deliver an oral presentation.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
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Description: Topics in this course include: SolidWorks CAD software interface and fundamental commands; 2D and 3D sketching tools; geometrical and dimensional sketch constraints; production of 3D models for parts and assemblies; creation of fully annotated drawings; weldments and sheet metal modeling and drawings.
Hours: 30
Credits: 2
Pre-Requisites: DRWG1010
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Description: All system designers need to understand electrical principles and the control systems that use them. This course covers fundamental electrical principles, electrical and electronic components, as well as electrical and electronic circuits and their application to manufacturing process. Control system devices are then covered, from switches and relays, through analog devices such as amplifiers and signal conditioners, to digital devices for applications such as timing, counting, arithmetic, circuit switching, and data storage.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MATH1560, PHYS1010
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Description: Topics in this course include: the introduction of fluid power; foundations of fluid mechanics; hydraulic fluid power transmission (including hydraulic cylinders and cushioning devices, hydraulic control valves, .hydraulic pumps and motors, hydraulic circuit design and analysis and hydraulic accessories); pneumatic fluid power transmission (including air properties, ideal or perfect gas laws, air preparation and components, pneumatic actuators, pneumatic valves, pneumatic circuits and applications);and theoretical calculations, analysis and labs.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
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Description: The topics covered in this course include: characteristics and properties of engineering materials, destructive and non-destructive testing; atomic bonding, crystalline structures; equilibrium phase diagrams, non-equilibrium behaviour, heat treatment of metals, diffusion, strengthening processes; microstructure and properties of polymers, ceramics and composite materials; electrical, magnetic and optical properties; and the criteria for selection of engineering materials for a variety of applications.
Hours: 75
Credits: 5
Pre-Requisites: CHEM1100
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Description: In MECH1150, students will demonstrate their successful mastery of selected Course Learning Outcomes of the courses in the second term of the first year. The emphasis will be on the analysis of electrical and mechanical systems, material selection in engineering design, project management and documentation.
Hours: 15
Credits: 1
Pre-Requisites: MACH1680, MECH1140
CoRequisites: ELCN1020, IFME1235

Description: Topics in this course include: physics as it applies to mechanical engineering; general topics such as the nature of science, atomic theory, scientific units and accuracy of measurement, kinematics and kinetics, energy and momentum, fluids, harmonic motion, gases and thermodynamics; study of selected advanced topics such as biomechanics, nanotechnology, energy sources, recycling, refining of metals and nuclear physics; two- and three- dimensional force vector analysis; static equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; trusses and frames analysis: method of joint, method of section; centroid, moments of inertia and polar moment of inertia.
Hours: 90
Credits: 6
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Description: This course will provide students with approved engineering-related work experience. The goal of this work term is for students to gain a fundamental appreciation of relevant product and process design principles and techniques, including the understanding of design specifications, functional requirements, decision theory, and cost effectiveness. This course will increase the student’s understanding of real-life employer expectations with regards to attitudinal, practical, and academic skills required to gain employment and enhance self-marketing skills. In addition to these employability skills, the students are able to apply relevant principles of mathematics, physics, and engineering science to the solution of basic design, manufacturing and automation challenges in industrial settings. Generic skills they have studied up to this point include the understanding of teamwork skills and individual accountability, conflict resolution techniques and effective verbal and written communication.
Hours: 420
Credits: 14
Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020
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Description: Topics in this course include: sensor interface circuits; typical sensors and actuators and their electrical-signal characteristics; logic gates and flip flops; analog to digital and digital to analog converters; design of control circuits; control system wiring and safety practices.
Hours: 90
Credits: 6
Pre-Requisites: ELCN1020
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Description: Topics covered in this course include: fundamentals of primary and secondary metal casting, metal forming and shaping such as rolling, forging, extrusion, wire and bar drawing, sheet metal working, powder metallurgy; welding, brazing, soldering and adhesive bonding processes; manufacturing processes of non-metals including casting and forming of polymers, rapid prototyping, ceramics, glasses, and composite materials; surface engineering; processing of electronics: silicon wafers, IC, PCB; assessment and justification of competitive processes for manufacture.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MACH1510 or MACH1680, MATR1010 or MATR1050
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Description: Topics in this course include: conic sections, parameterized curves, and vectors in the plane and in space; vector-valued functions and space curves; integration in vector fields; multivariable functions, partial derivatives, gradient vectors, and multiple integrals. Power series, Taylor and Maclaurin series are also presented. Application of mathematical concepts to various engineering fields is also emphasized.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MATH1560
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Description: The topics in this course include: static equilibrium analysis of structures and structural components; stress-strain concepts and relations; force, elastic stress-strain and deformation analyses of axially loaded components and circular shafts or tubes under torsion: and shear force and bending moment diagrams of beam.
Hours: 30
Credits: 2
Pre-Requisites: PHYS1090
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Description: The topics covered in this course include: fundamentals of dynamics; Kinematics ? rectilinear and angular motion in Cartesian, Normal-Tangential and Polar coordinate systems of particles and rigid bodies; kinetics ? analysis of particles and rigid bodies using equations of motion, work-energy, linear and angular impulse and momentum; and relative motion using translating and rotating axes and instantaneous center of zero velocity.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: MATH1560, PHYS1090
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Description: The second year project is a two semester project, which is an automated work cell that contains a pick and place robot, a parts feeder, and an interface to a forming press. In Year 2 Project A, each group of 2 or 3 students will design and build the robot and feeder with college-supplied parts and materials. Lubrication and beam deflection studies will be fulfilled as well.
Hours: 15
Credits: 1
Pre-Requisites: DRWG1020, MECH1150
CoRequisites: CNTR2200, MECH2130

Description: Management of large scale projects is both a science and art. Engineering projects are typically complex, are comprised of many tasks/components and involve a cross-section of different functional teams. In industry, one of the biggest challenges is to ensure product development or implementation is on time and within the original project parameters. One key success factor for managers is to be able to organize, lead and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. This course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the structure, functions and operations of projects. A significant emphasis will be on problem solving and teamwork skills while also providing practical training on the software tools and project planning processes/techniques. Key topics include goal setting, identifying dependency relationships, outlining resources required, concurrent activity management, decision theory, monitoring and controlling of progress to result in the successful completion of projects. Overall, this course helps prepare students how best to work as a productive member of a team.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: Topics covered in this course include: fundamentals of structured programming: data types, variables, input, output, flow control structures for decision making, loop control structures for repetition, functions and subroutines, arrays and string; best practices of algorithm design; engineering problem-solving using computer programming; and human-machine interface software.
Hours: 75
Credits: 5
Pre-Requisites: MATH1560, PHYS1090, PHYS1010
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Description: Topics in this course include: PLC configurations; proprietary PLC languages and the IEC 61131-3 standard; structured programs, function calls and interrupts; advanced instructions for file manipulation, file arithmetic and logic, shifting register functions, FIFO, LIFO, and sequencers; intelligent I/O modules for analog devices; and PLC systems in local area networks.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: ELCN1020, PROG2350
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Description: Topics in this course include: single and three-phase AC systems; transformers, equivalent circuit, equations, efficiency and voltage regulation; DC motors, equations, efficiency, operational characteristics and speed control; induction motors, equations, equivalent circuit, efficiency and speed control; synchronous motors, equations, phasor diagrams, speed control; power electronics; chopper and phase-controlled DC drives; and V/Hz control of AC motors.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: ELCN1020
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Description: Topics in this course include: classification of mechanisms; mobility (degrees of freedom) of mechanisms; position, velocity and acceleration analyses of mechanisms; graphical synthesis of linkages; static and dynamic force analysis of linkages; static and dynamic balancing of rigid rotors; mass moments and products of inertia and principal axes.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MECH2130
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Description: It is more important than ever before for workers to establish a positive, sustainable ?fit’ with their employers. To accomplish this, essential skills, which are the foundational skills required to successfully participate in the Canadian labour market, will be addressed in ways pertinent to job-related tasks and to life-long learning. This course will, therefore, improve students’ abilities to apply advanced communication, numeracy, critical thinking and problem-solving, information management, interpersonal and personal awareness skills.
Hours: 30
Credits: 2
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Description: The topics covered in this course include: the effects of errors and approximations on numerical results, applied knowledge of solving equations numerically and techniques of curve fitting, data modeling, numerical differentiation and numerical integration. The topics covered in linear algebra include: methods of solving a set of linear equations, matrix algebra, and matrix determinant, eigenvalue and eigenvectors.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MATH1560, PROG2350
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Description: The topics covered in this course include: beams in elastic bending; buckling of columns; thin-walled pressure vessel; combined stresses: stress and strain transformations, principal stresses and principal strains; failure criteria: maximum normal stress, maximum shear stress and maximum distortion energy theories; and virtual work analysis of pinned jointed truss.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: MATR1020
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Description: Topics in this course include: fluid statics; conservation principles of mass, momentum and energy; dimensional analysis in fluid mechanics; and internal and external flows.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: MATH1570, PHYS1090 or PHYS1150 or SCIE1220, IFME1230 or IFME1235
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Description: This is a continuation of Year 2 Project A. Each student group will design an operator panel, mount the electrical components, and wire the cell, including a modular PLC system, sensors, actuators, and etc. Then, each group will program the PLC for automatic and stepping operations, and program the PC for HMI communications to the PLC. The pick-n-place robot mechanism will be analyzed. The entire project will be documented in the end, and a project report will be prepared by each individual student.
Hours: 15
Credits: 1
Pre-Requisites: MECH2160
CoRequisites: CNTR2210, DSGN3100

Description: This course will provide students with approved engineering-related work experience. This course will increase the student’s understanding of real-life employer expectations with regards to attitudinal, practical, and academic skills required to gain employment and enhance self-marketing skills. In addition to these employability skills, the students are able to apply design assessment and refinement techniques including concurrent engineering to optimize product and process development flows. They have an appreciation of the best business practices. They have the ability to think critically and creatively and appreciate the dynamic economic forces shaping the modern world.
Hours: 420
Credits: 14
Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020
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Description: This course will increase the student’s understanding of real-life employer expectations with regards to attitudinal, practical, and academic skills required to gain employment and enhance self-marketing skills. In addition to these employability skills, the students are able to creatively solve more demanding engineering problems encountered in product design, process design, and process control using sophisticated analytical engineering tools. They have an appreciation for business organizations and their operations, and project management techniques and they know how to make effective presentations using a multimedia approach. They have the ability to think critically and creatively to solve engineering problems respecting diversity in a global, societal, economical, and environmental context.
Hours: 420
Credits: 14
Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020
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Description: This is the second technical communications course designed for students in the applied technical degree programs. It will focus on reports, web pages, and other visual documents, and will build on skills developed in the first course. Students will design and produce digital presentations, analyze complex technical documents for style, content, and visual effectiveness. They will also create user manuals, publishable articles, and analytical reports. Further topics may include: lab reports, project reports, perception and attention, and collaboration.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: COMM1160 or COMM1165 or COMM1350
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Description: Topics in this course include: fatigue analysis of mechanical components using the stress life method; design and analysis methods for gears and gear drives including spur gear geometry, and chain and belt drives; design and analysis of shafts and shaft components; selection of rolling contact bearings under radial loads.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: DRWG1020, MATR2050
CoRequisites: MECH3250

Description: Topics in this course include: industrial engineering problem solving charting techniques; industrial safety issues within the enterprise; machine safety; standard time calculations; operator allowances; advanced project planning techniques; work sampling; wage payment plans and labour relations; effects of statistical fluctuation and dependant events on production; line balancing; and standard time development.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: Topics covered in this course include: methods of solving first-order differential equations, existence and uniqueness theorems, second-order linear equations, higher-order linear equations, systems of equations, non-linear equations, Fourier series and partial differential equations. The relationship between differential equations and linear algebra is emphasized.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MATH1570, MATH3205
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Description: Four to five students will design or receive from a third party customer, a product for automated manufacturing and / or assembly. The entire automated system for building the product will also be designed. The larger groups will require formal delineation of duties and responsibilities. Assembly and detail drawings will be a main form of manufacturing communication and will be of industrial quality containing all required information. Process design will include mechanical drawings, material flow plans and project management tools. Certain mechanical analysis studies will be required for design validation.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MECH2170
CoRequisites: DSGN3040

Description: The topics covered in this course include: robotic manufacturing systems, components and structure of robots, common kinematic arrangements, rigid motions and homogeneous transformation, forward kinematics using Denavit-Hartenberg representation, inverse kinematics, velocity kinematics using the concept of Jacobian, dynamics using Euler-Lagrange equations and Newton-Euler Formulation. The topics of independent joint control, multivariable control, force control and variable structure and adaptive control are emphasized in robot control.
Hours: 75
Credits: 5
Pre-Requisites: MATH3205
CoRequisites: MATH3005

Description: Topics in this course include: fundamentals of feedback control using linear transfer function models; mathematical modeling and block diagrams; stability; system analysis using root locus and frequency diagrams; compensator design using root locus and frequency diagrams.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MATH3005
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Description: Topics in this course include: power screws analysis; preloaded fasteners in tension under static and cyclic loading; fillet welds analysis; design of helical compression ? extension, torsion and Belleville springs under static and dynamic loading; surface failure concepts and design parameters for surface fatigue.
Hours: 30
Credits: 2
Pre-Requisites: DSGN3040
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Description: The efficient manufacture and assembly of components to form entire products is more important now than ever before, particularly in large volume production. Small errors can accumulate and generate major losses for a manufacturer. Selection of the assembly operation: manual, robotic or automated is determined by a number of factors, but most significant is how effectively each component is designed for ease of assembly. This course covers identification of different manufacturing processes and their comparative capabilities of dimensional and geometric tolerances as well as surface finish. Students will learn to select the proper assembly method, as well as how to evaluate and optimize a product design using Boothroyd-Dewhurst methods.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: DSGN3040, MANU2020
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Description: Today’s technology employees need financial management skills to make decisions and manage projects within an organization. This introductory course for non-accounting students covers aspects of both financial accounting and management accounting. Students will be able to apply concepts of financial accounting to both personal and business situations, including the preparation and use of basic financial statements. Management accounting topics will allow the students to understand cost behaviour and its use in decision-making, evaluate capital investments, and prepare operating budgets.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: Topics in this course include: the fundamental elements of classical macroscopic thermodynamics and heat transfer; basic concepts; properties of pure substances; laws of thermodynamics; flow and non-flow thermodynamic processes; mixtures of gases; power cycles; refrigeration cycles; thermodynamics of Gas Flow; combustion processes; heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: CHEM1100, MATH1570
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Description: Continuing from MECH3250 course, student groups will work on the final stages for the project build. Manufacturing of all designed mechanical components within college facilities and / or by third party suppliers. Design of all system controls at workstation / sub-assembly level and integration with the mechanical assembly of the entire system. Proof that the original conceptual design will actually work is achieved by the final demonstration. Interaction between independent groups working on subsections of a single system provides valuable insight into how industrial projects are completed. A comprehensive project documentation final report is also required at the end of the course.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MECH3250
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Description: This course will provide students with approved engineering-related work experience. This course will increase the student’s understanding of real-life employer expectations with regards to attitudinal, practical, and academic skills required to gain employment and enhance self-marketing skills. In addition to these employability skills, the students are able to creatively solve more demanding engineering problems encountered in product design, process design, and process control using sophisticated analytical engineering tools significantly improving industrial designs and process. They have an appreciation for business organizations and their operations, project management techniques, financial management, and they know how to make effective presentations using a multimedia approach. They have also a keen respect for diversity in a global, societal, economical, and environmental context. These skill areas will be improved during the work term while the student responsibly performs the duties as defined in the job description, in accordance with course and program outcomes.
Hours: 420
Credits: 14
Pre-Requisites: CDEV1020
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Description: Engineering Economics is a requirement of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. Marketing and price determination. Project cash flows. Assessment of alternative investments/equipment/projects and determination of output decisions. Depreciation of equipment. Factors affecting decisions: Taxation, Inflation. Assessment and management of uncertainties and risk.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: In this course students will study the role of law in society, the Canadian legal system, law of torts, contract law, protection of intellectual property, forms of business organizations such as sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations, foundations of ethical reasoning, engineering Codes of Ethics, professional engineering Acts, ethical dilemmas encountered in the engineering profession, ethical issues related to the protection of the environment, risks associated with engineering activities, protection of public interests, regulation of the engineering profession in Canada, and disciplinary powers delegated by the governments to engineering associations.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: Topics in this course include: CIM architectures, components, computing in advanced manufacturing, manufacturing planning and control, flexible manufacturing, quality control, development of an integrated environment using specialized software package, group technology and flexible manufacturing, manufacturing planning and control, quality control, lean production and agile manufacturing.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: DSGN3030 or DSGN3035
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Description: Modern manufacturing is an exciting combination of new manufacturing techniques and machines, computers, microelectronics and sophisticated organizational methods applied to manufacturing practices and processes. The students will quickly discover that advanced manufacturing technologies help manufacturers meet the productivity, quality and cost reduction demands of competitive global markets. The course topics covered in this first module will include the principles of agile manufacturing, application of artificial intelligence and expert systems, and concurrent engineering.
Hours: 30
Credits: 2
Pre-Requisites: MANU3000
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Description: Topics in this course include: data summary and graphical display; data analysis methods; random variables and probability distributions; statistical inference: point estimation, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing; empirical model building; and design of engineering experiments.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: MATH1570
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Description: This is a two part engineering capstone design project. Both parts of the course must be completed within the same calendar year. This project will involve application of: Project Initiation and Management. Design Process. Concurrent engineering product design. Design for manufacture and assembly. Design to satisfy engineering, business and manufacturing criteria. Reports and Presentations: Project initiation, Design Proposal, Design Progress, Final Design.
Hours: 75
Credits: 5
Pre-Requisites: DSGN3040, MECH3260
CoRequisites: MANU4010

Description: Engineers have responsibilities for human health, for protection of the environment, and for the ethical issues associated with the risks of engineering activities in society. Engineers must also design the human-machine interfaces that allow optimum control of automated manufacturing systems. This course provides an understanding of human physiology and psychology as it relates to machine control and manufacturing processes, and provides an understanding of engineering codes and regulations that cover safety and environmental impact. Analytical methods will include cost/benefit analysis that include non-monetary issues, and risk management techniques.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
Pre-Requisites: MANU3000
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Description: This is the second part of a two-part engineering design project. Both parts of the course must be completed within the same calendar year. This part of the project will involve the application of: criteria for selection of manufacturing and assembly processes and equipment, planning and simulating a manufacturing facility, business planning and budgeting, writing formal reports containing their work and presenting the results in front of peers, faculty and industry representatives.
Hours: 75
Credits: 5
Pre-Requisites: MECH4260
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Description: Using a variety of resources, this course examines a number of specific topics from the disciplines of Management (including Supervision), Human Resources (including Career Management) and Small Business (including a business plan). Designed to meet the needs of technical professionals throughout the early part of their careers, this course focuses on the critical elements of these subject areas.

Most technical professionals will, at a very early stage in their careers, acquire various management duties and be responsible for the supervision of others. This course provides students with a basic functional understanding of management. Graduating students need to learn how to obtain suitable professional employment and how to successfully move up in their organization. In addition, both from a personal perspective and the perspective of a manager, technical professionals need to be aware of the workings of, and supports offered by, the corporate Human Resource Department. Finally students will focus on the skills of the entrepreneur, the workings of small business and the preparation of a small business plan.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: This course focuses on the use of cases, as well as lectures, to provide a variety of viewpoints relating to the study of Strategic Management. Designed to meet the future needs of technical professionals as they move into the management portion of their careers, students will learn how they will be contributing to the overall direction of their organization. Students will experience all phases of the strategic process including strategic analysis, strategic formulation and strategic implementation. Both external and internal contextual issues are discussed, allowing the student to develop an appreciation of the wide range of techniques and approaches.
Hours: 45
Credits: 3
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Description: The topics covered in this course include: methods and the management principles used in Quality Assurance; Total Quality (TQ) continuous improvement; industry standards and procedures. Fundamental elements of modern methods for statistical quality control used by industry: concepts, principles, procedures, statistical tools, and computations used to analyze and maintain statistical control of manufacturing and production processes and systems; standard statistical methods; and the use of Excel to perform quality control related statistical calculations.
Hours: 60
Credits: 4
Pre-Requisites: MATH4005
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