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2023-2024 Undergraduate Calendar [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

Course descriptions

Contact hours are divided into lecture, laboratory, tutorial, and other. Each contact hour may consist of a variety of instructional methods (i.e., in-class or online). Please refer to the registration section on MyOntarioTech for specific course offering information.

Not all courses are offered in any one term or academic year. 

Note: If searching by Code or Number be sure to include the U at the end of the number.
 
 

Education
  

  • EDUC 3209U – Outdoor Education

    In this course, students will have opportunities to develop both the essential foundations and practices for implementing safe and powerful curriculum-based learning in the out-of-doors. Students will be required to complete readings, reflections and research tasks; attend excursions incorporating place-based learning; participate in individual and group learning activities; complete assignments; and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of leadership styles and issues in the context of managing risk. Activities will include digital technology-based learning, oral presentations and experiential field studies.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 4
  

  • EDUC 3210U – Teaching French in Schools

    This course is designed for teacher candidates who are aspiring to teach French as a Second Language at a future point in their careers. The course is designed to approach the learning of a second language through an integrated approach for the key skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and appreciation of French culture. The focus will be on how students acquire second language proficiency in both Core French and French Immersion settings in the Ontario school system. A significant portion of class content will be in French.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 4
    Prerequisite(s): Working facility in the French language. A French language proficiency test may be required.
    Note(s): Restricted to P/J and I/S BEd students.
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDUC 3216U – Teaching English Language Learners

    This course aims to provide teacher candidates with the knowledge, skills and strategies required to improve their teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening with English Language Learners. Socio-linguistic theories and approaches such as task-based learning and communicative language learning will form the foundations for classroom activities. This course will be of interest to teacher candidates wishing to teach domestically or abroad.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 4
  

  • EDUC 3299U – Special Topics in Education

    In this course, students will undertake in-depth explorations of selected topics in Education. Topics will vary from semester to semester based on faculty expertise, student needs and enrolment, relevant educational issues, and availability of visiting scholars.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Other hours: 1.0
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDUC 4700U – Models of Teaching

    This course provides students with an overview of approaches to learning and teaching in various educational contexts. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore key theories and principles in learning. Students will be introduced to behavioural, cognitive and humanistic principles of learning. Students will explore issues such as qualities of good teachers, setting objectives, and teaching strategies all within numerous contexts.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Note(s): This course is available to all undergraduate students with the exception of those enrolled in the P/J or I/S Consecutive BEd program.
  

  • EDUC 4702U – Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Assessment

    This course addresses theory, research and practice related to the evaluation and assessment of achievements related to learning objectives. Approaches to both summative and formative evaluation will be considered and there will be a particular focus on assessment in adult learning contexts. Traditional testing practices will be studied as a basis for an examination of authentic, performance, and portfolio assessment strategies.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Note(s): This course is available to all undergraduate students with the exception of those enrolled in the P/J or I/S Consecutive BEd program.
  

  • EDUC 4704U – Teaching and Learning: Curriculum Design

    This course will build on previous educational courses and introduce students to curriculum design. Students will work on an educational project in designing a curriculum based on a realistic learning situation in their profession.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Note(s): This course is available to all undergraduate students with the exception of those enrolled in the P/J or I/S Consecutive BEd program.
    Experiential learning: Yes

Educational Studies and Digital Technology
  

  • EDST 1000U – Foundations of Learning

    Educators need a strong framework of how students learn to make sound educational decisions about teaching (Ambrose et al, 2010) and when creating learning tools. This course aims to develop a rich understanding of learning for educators, starting with definitions of learning that consider formal, informal and inquiry learning. The course then explores research-based frameworks for understanding the nature of learning and how it happens, including  1) types of learning ,  2) how people learn 3) factors that influence learning including feedback, the learning environments and social interactions   4) learning with technology, and 5) online learning. Students will use these frameworks to analyze real and hypothetical learning situations including their own learning experiences.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 1100U – Problem and Inquiry Based Learning

    This course introduces an approach to teaching that focuses on the value of learning from real and meaningful activities. Students will learn to find and structure activities around the kind of ill-defined problems that face professionals in their work and they will learn to use these activities as the basis for promoting self-directed inquiry.
    Formerly: EDUC 4703U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Recommended: EDST 1000U  
    Note(s): This course is available to all undergraduate students with the exception of those enrolled in the P/J or I/S Consecutive BEd program.
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 1130U – Writing and Digital Literacy

    This course is designed to develop students’ research, writing skills and digital literacy practices to support student success within the Educational Studies program. Students will enhance their inquiry skills and use digital technologies including academic and public resources to critically assess the sources and utility of information. Assignments in this course include formal, academic writing and the mediation and creation of digital artifacts through processes that include revision, peer and self editing.

    Digital literacy is an international umbrella term under which multiple competences are found, including ability to use, understand and create accessible digital media. It includes the essential skills to access and employ digital tools to seek and to provide information, to analyze and synthesize the information, and to use digital literacy to collaborate, to co-create and to propose problem solutions. Students in this course work toward understanding digital media within multiple contexts, identifying its role in shaping beliefs, and determining self-direction and responsibility in a digital society. Digital privacy competencies such as the appreciation of vulnerability online and knowledge of privacy rights are important digital literacy skills in this course that lead students toward safe, informed and responsible use of the internet.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 1230U – Design Thinking and Visual Design for Educational Contexts

    The purpose of this course is to analyze and critique elements of digital media and to apply the basic stages of design thinking and principles of visual design in the development of digital learning materials.  Students will be exposed to design thinking methodology as a practical and creative problem-solving approach. Emphasis will be placed on designing for accessibility and inclusion. Through supportive and constructive feedback cycles, students will have opportunities to present prototypes of their work with peers.  A variety of digital media production software and applications will be used in the creation of digital learning materials and can include, but is not limited to, instructional videos and animations, interactive learning environments, educational podcasts and websites, and educational applications.
    Formerly: AEDT 2130U - Graphic Design, Digital Technologies and Learning
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 1312U – Fundamentals of Professional Writing

    This course introduces the elements of skillful professional writing: clarity, coherence, style, grammar and punctuation. It will cover the fundamental principles of business, scientific, technical, and scholarly writing. A series of writing projects will help students improve their writing skills. 
    Formerly: EDUC 1312U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
  

  • EDST 2110U – Assessment and Evaluation

    This course examines principles and practices of educational assessment, including in the context of digital technologies. Students will critique inequitable assessment practices and identify inclusive assessment practices that support life-long learning. Students will plan, create and analyze assessment tools appropriate for inclusion, specific learning goals and teaching strategies. Topics will include but are not limited to, traditional assessment concepts and procedures (reliability, validity, test design), and a range of contemporary practices (eg. observation, rubrics, non-disposable assessment, portfolio assessment, performance assessment, ungrading). Students will explore the affordances of self-assessment and digital technologies for assessment.
    Formerly: EDST 2110U - Assessment for Learning
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 1000U  
    Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: EDST 1000U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2120U – Culture and Digital Technologies

    The purpose of this course is to characterise the various components of the interactions between culture and digital technologies, including the use of digital technologies in such established cultural industries as film, television and contemporary music but also focusing on the emerging cultures of the Internet such as social networking. Students will investigate media awareness and media criticism as a part of adult education and citizenship and the place of digital technologies in education in fine arts like literature, drama, dance and classical music. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the relevance of these studies for adult education, including public education in cultural venues like museums, libraries and symphonies.
    Formerly: AEDT 2120U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Note(s): AEDT 2120U
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2140U – Creating Digital Tools

    The purpose of this course is to develop multimedia tools to address specific learning goals. Students will develop competency in current authoring tools used in their field. Emphasis will be placed on designing for accessibility and inclusion, including designing for the  increasingly wide variety of delivery devices.

    Topics will include, but are not limited to, interactive media and apps, scenarios, short sims, open educational resources (OER) and digital escape rooms.
    Formerly: AEDT 3140U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Recommended: EDST 1000U , EDST 1230U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2150U – Teaching to Facilitate Learning

    This course develops an overview of approaches to teaching and learning in both face-to-face and digital environments. The course introduces research-based instructional strategies that support student learning, including student-centered active learning, inquiry-based approaches and (social) constructivist learning.  The course emphasizes the interconnected nature of planning, instruction, and assessment, where instructors and learning designers first develop a clear vision of learning needs.  Students will also learn to use ongoing formative assessment to guide the selection and implementation of instructional strategies.  The interplay of theory and practice is emphasized, as is the important role of reflective practice.
    Formerly: AEDT 2150U - Digital Technologies and Advanced Teaching Methods
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 1000U  
    Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: EDST 1000U  
    Recommended: EDST 2110U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2160U – Online Learning: Theory and Research

    The purpose of this course is to examine the growing body of theory and research related to online learning. The students will learn to distinguish between a wide variety of theoretical positions such as the connectivist theory, the view of learning developed specifically to describe networked learning, and the Community of Inquiry approach. Topics will include, but are not limited to, meta-analytic studies of online learning as well as earlier meta-analyses of distance learning, with the highest priority to be given to recent research, especially research focused on adult learning.
    Formerly: AEDT 2160U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2170U – Designing Inclusive Learning Environments

    This course will focus on changing the discussion around ability and disability and other binaries toward building early childhood programs that are enabling for children in a mosaic where diversity is the anticipated norm.  Some topics in this course will include: building programs based on developmental characteristics, building enabling environments, and building play and inquiry spaces where every child can participate.
    Formerly: AEDT 2170U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2410U – Foundations of Adult Learning

    This course explores the purposes, meanings and key characteristics of adult education. Students will examine theories of adult education and contexts for adult education through an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens. Students will be encouraged to take a critical, reflective approach to their learning. The course will analyze approaches to teaching and assessment to determine strategies that best meet the needs of adult learners in different contexts. Students will identify an adult learning need and create an effective learning resource in an appropriate context.
    Formerly: EDST 1110U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Second-year standing
    Recommended: EDST 1000U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 2500U – Foundations of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Education

    In this course, students learn how to make decisions and act equitably in their personal and professional lives. Students engage in critical reflection, constructive dialogue and problem-solving within a framework of empowerment. This course provides a forum for students to reflect on how membership in marginalized or equity-seeking groups identified as protected areas by human rights legislation (e.g., race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, ability, language, faith and culture) experience systemic oppression in many forms. Through the use of problem-based learning strategies, students collectively develop perspectives and approaches to working with and across social identities and positionalities. The Foundations in EDI course draws on both theory and lived experience to foster competencies such as critical self-reflection and self-direction.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3110U – Critical Digital Literacies

    Information is growing exponentially, creating challenges for individuals to efficiently find, organize and reflect critically about how information is produced and how it is consumed. Additionally, the ability for anyone to create online resources requires individuals to critically assess the quality of information on a regular basis. An equity, diversity, and inclusion mindset requires individuals to consider whose voices and perspectives are included and whose are missing. This course aims to develop critical digital literacies skills to address these challenges. Students will develop effective strategies and tools for the critical consumption and production of digital texts.
    Formerly: AEDT 3110U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 1130U  and Third-year standing
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3120U – Workplace Learning

    The purpose of this course is to examine the wide range of workplace learning programs and their social and personal impact. Students will explore adult learning as it occurs in formal training, apprenticeships and informal learning. Topics will include, but are not limited to, workplace learning designed to serve the needs of the employer, benefits of workplace learning to workers, governmentally sponsored programs, workplace learning as an agent of social change, and the system demands resulting from the knowledge economy and technological change.
    Formerly: AEDT 3120U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3140U – Digital Communication Technologies

    The purpose of this course is to examine the foundations and evolution of digital communications technologies. Students will explore the shift from analogue to digital technologies, identify the range or digital communications technologies currently in use, and analyze the impact of these technologies on commerce, the professions, education and society in general. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, including issues of equity and the digital divide.
    Formerly: EDST 1160U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3160U – Developing Literacy

    This course is designed to help students synthesize their learning about early childhood program elements into an integrated approach to the development of communication for young learners.  Emerging digital technologies and multiple literacies will be emphasized.
    Formerly: AEDT 3160U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3170U – Developing Numeracy

    This course is designed to help students build learning environments where children can learn numeracy skills using inquiry and play-based methods.  Key concepts to be included will be the design of early numeracy programs that build cognitive and social development for young children.
    Formerly: AEDT 3170U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3440U – Managing and Developing eLearning Projects

    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the applications, approaches, and project lifecycle of an eLearning project. Throughout this course, learners will gain hands-on experience using a mixture of eLearning authoring tools, Learning Management Systems (LMS), project management tools, and resource repositories to create a learning resource for a client. The resource will have a learner-centric focus of either an education or workplace setting, applying user experience practices and meeting industry accessibility standards.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2.0
    Tutorial hours: 1.0
    Prerequisite(s): Must have third- or fourth-year standing.
    Recommended: EDST 1000U , EDST 2140U  and EDST 2150U   
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3460U – Working with Clients and Partners

    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to theories, approaches, and software applications used in project management, client relations and change management. Throughout the semester, students will gain hands-on experiences responding to a Request for Proposal (RFP) and working collaboratively with a client and/or subject matter expert to develop an inclusive learning resource.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Must have third- or fourth-year standing.
    Recommended: EDST 1000U - Foundations of Learning and EDST 2140U - Creating Digital Tools and EDST 2150U - Teaching Strategies
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3500U – Unlearning and The Inclusive Curriculum

    The purpose of this course is to promote critical reflection by analyzing the histories, institutions, policies and cultures that have shaped the development of pedagogies, discourses and practices within educational contexts. This course reflects current research and policy that informs the development of an inclusive curriculum for a more pluralistic society. Through a systems view of education, students will reflect on real-world experiences, examine formal curriculum, institutional policies and organizational norms to identify attitudinal, historic and systemic barriers that are embedded, produced and reproduced within educational systems, policies, and practices. With a focus on group work, collaboration and authentic assessment, students will apply principles of inclusive education such as anti-oppression education and culturally responsive pedagogy to critically evaluate opportunities and challenges in society and educational systems in order to become allies and agents of change.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 2500U 
    Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: EDST 2500U 
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3610U – Child Development and Health

    This course on child development and health will be viewed through the lens of self-regulation. We will learn about important theorists and theoretical frameworks that have guided most research on child development. We will critically examine child development from conception to age 8 and its role in early childhood education. We will explore the genetic basis of child development and how genetic disorders and environmental factors affect the usual pattern of child development. We will look specifically at child development across the domains i.e., physical/biological, cognitive, and social and emotional (SEL). Students will be asked to reflect on their own childhood experiences and how those experiences have influenced their ideas about child development and health in relation to teaching and learning.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2.0
    Tutorial hours: 1.0
    Prerequisite(s): Third-year standing
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 3999U – Special Topics in Educational Studies

    In this course, students will undertake in-depth explorations of selected topics in Education. Topics will vary from semester to semester based on faculty expertise, student needs and enrolment, relevant educational issues and availability of visiting scholars.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Third year standing
    Recommended: EDST 1000U 
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4120U – Serious Gaming and Simulations

    The purpose of this course is to examine the history and current status of educational games and their use in learning. Students will analyze a variety of different game types including classroom games, computer games and simulations, and online games and identify the principles of game design and animation. Topics will include, but are not limited to, research dealing with the effects of the use of games and simulations in the context of learning for all ages.
    Formerly: AEDT 4120U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 1100U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4140U – Instructional Design

    This course examines instructional design models and processes balancing research and practice. After completing a learning/learner needs analysis, students will choose an appropriate model to develop inclusive learning resources for the needs they have identified. Throughout the course, learners will work through various elements of an instructional design project including developing a project plan and developing a series of learning experiences.
    Formerly: AEDT 4140U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 1000U , EDST 2110U , EDST 2140U , EDST 2150U  and Third-year standing
    Prerequisite(s) with concurrency: EDST 1000U , EDST 2110U , EDST 2140U , EDST 2150U  and Third-year standing
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4150U – Holistic Learning in Early Childhood Education

    This course focuses on holistic education and well-being for young children and their families. Students will explore culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy in early childhood environments. Theoretical foundations of holistic education and the domains of child development will be introduced. We will compare holistic models of education including Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, Montessori, High Scope, Kindergarten, and Head Start in early childhood. The role of technology in holistic models of education will be addressed. Students will create an evidence-based product for families that will be integrated into a holistic program model that they have designed.
    Formerly: AEDT 4150U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 3610U and Third-year standing
    Credit restriction(s): AEDT 4150U
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4300U – Engaged Educator Project I

    The Engaged Educator Project (EEP) is offered as an alternative to a thesis and serves as a major component of the graduation requirements of the BA in ESDT program. The EEP is a two-course, experience-oriented educational project that provides opportunities for students to conduct a digital learning consulting project under the direction of their course instructor. In EEP I, students will begin to engage with the various stakeholders of an organization, network, or community of practice on an issue or opportunity that is meaningful to the group, leading toward meaningful social or structural change for the group. Enrolment is limited; students must find their own placement and write a proposal to be considered for entry into the course.
    Formerly: AEDT 4300U
    Credit hours: 3
    Other hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): Students must have 4th-year standing in the BA ESDT program.
    Credit restriction(s): EDST 4900U  and EDST 4901U  
    Cross-listed: EDST 4900U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4301U – Engaged Educator Project II

    Engaged Educator Project II is an extension to EEP I. It allows students who have successfully completed EEP I to develop, extend and complete their digital learning consulting project under the direction of their course instructor. In EEP II, students will continue to engage with the various stakeholders of an organization, network or community of practice on the issue or opportunity identified in EEP I that is meaningful to the group, leading toward meaningful social or structural change for the group. Enrolment is limited; students must find their own placement and write a proposal to be considered for entry into the course.
    Formerly: AEDT 4301U
    Credit hours: 3
    Other hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 4300U  and students must have 4th-year standing in the BA ESDT program.
    Credit restriction(s): EDST 4900U  and EDST 4901U  
    Cross-listed: EDST 4901U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4470U – Trends and Issues in Educational Technology

    The purpose of this course is to critically examine current and emergent trends and issues occurring in the field of educational technology and study their applications to education. Students will first examine theories for evaluating emergent technologies. Students will then research topics that include but are not limited to the current and emergent educational technologies, accessibility, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity (EDI), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and social media. Throughout this course, students will work in groups and facilitate a discussion on their chosen topic, and will create an educational resource.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2.0
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Must have third- or fourth-year standing.
    Recommended: EDST 1000U , EDST 2140U  and EDST 2150U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4500U – Enabling Learning through Technology

    This course forms part of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) specialization in the BA in ESDT program. Students in this course critically evaluate opportunities and challenges in promoting equitable technology-enabled education. With the advancement of educational technologies, new affordances have emerged to enable learning to be more adaptive, personalized and embedded in everyday devices. These affordances need to be matched with pedagogical approaches that support equitable opportunities for the successful realization of educationally meaningful learning outcomes including motivation, engagement and achievement for every learner. Students will examine current research and policy for the use of technology to support inclusive education including Universal Design for Learning (UDL), accessibility and differentiation. With a focus on group work, learners will analyze how these EDI concepts and their related policies promote meta-learning competencies such as collaboration and metacognition for all students.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 2500U 
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4530U – Social Justice Issues in Education

    Students in this course will examine the role of education and educational technologies in meeting social justice and equity rights for all persons. Students will explore education as a transformative and reformative force for social justice, as well as a mechanism of oppression and privilege within educational contexts. Students will analyze educational and technological policies, praxis, and historical documents including The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Topics will include, but are not limited to fairness in all aspects of schooling, and the impact of policy and practice in helping learners reach full personhood. Utilizing a social justice framework, students will apply problem-based learning, critical pedagogy, discourse and reflective practice to identify, research and analyze forward-thinking programs and policies that contribute to the creation of more just and equitable educational systems.
    Formerly: AEDT 4130U
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 2500U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4610U – Coding and Maker Pedagogies for Young Children

    This course explores the learning possibilities of coding and maker pedagogies for young children, innovative pedagogies that connect art, language, play, and design. Students will learn child-friendly apps to develop skills in coding to support participation in our increasingly digital world. Course participants will explore maker pedagogies, including maker spaces available in communities and how to create maker spaces with loose parts. Students will investigate how to develop creative and critical thinking within inclusive inquiry-based learning environments and to incorporate coding and maker pedagogies to be equity-supportive in the Canadian Context.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2.0
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Must have third- or fourth-year standing.
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4900U – Research Literacy for Education

    This course introduces foundational concepts and practices in educational research. Students will gain skills in understanding educational research and its significance and develop practical experience in a variety of research methods and techniques. Various education-related research methods (e.g., action research, qualitative research, and quantitative research) will be examined before students develop a research proposal for a research project in EDST 4901U or for an action research project for their practice.
    Formerly: EDST 4200U - Thesis I
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year standing in Educational Studies
  

  • EDST 4901U – Research Project

    Students will be scaffolded in an academic, practitioner or design research project. Students will collect primary or secondary data, perform appropriate analysis for their data and research question(s), making sound arguments from the analysis. Students will attend a weekly tutorial where they will review aspects of the research process and submit written and oral accounts of their research progress to obtain peer and instructor feedback.
    Formerly: EDST 4201U – Thesis II
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 4900U  
  

  • EDST 4980U – Work Integrated Learning I

    EDST 4980U (Work Integrated Learning I) is an experiential learning course that provides students with opportunities to develop connections between research and practice while acquiring workplace skills and knowledge. Experiential learning includes planning, engaging in the work experience, reflecting on the experience and synthesizing the learning. Students in work experience engage in inquiry, solving problems and constructing meaning. The course consists of up to 100 hours of fieldwork/work experience, in-class seminars, ongoing assignments and a culminating task (e.g., paper or poster). Students are encouraged to show initiative in locating work experience placements. Students are matched with community organizations based on goals, interests and learning outcomes identified in the pre-placement planning and selection process. In consultation with a designated fieldwork supervisor, students design, manage and receive feedback on a series of self-directed workplace goals and objectives. The associated seminars (planning, reflection and synthesis) are online; the work experience location is related to the matched organization. As part of the pre-work experience process, students may be required to acquire a Vulnerable Sector Screening.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Other hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): 4th-year standing and minimum Cumulative GPA of 3.0
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4981U – Work Integrated Learning II

    EDST 4981U (Work Integrated Learning II) is an experiential learning course that provides students with opportunities to develop connections between research and practice while acquiring workplace skills and knowledge. Experiential learning includes planning, engaging in the work experience, reflecting on the experience and synthesizing the learning. Students in work experience engage in inquiry, solving problems and constructing meaning. The course consists of up to 100 hours of fieldwork/work experience, in-class seminars, ongoing assignments and a culminating task (e.g., paper or poster). Students are encouraged to show initiative in locating work experience placements. Students are matched with community organizations based on goals, interests and learning outcomes identified in the pre-placement planning and selection process. In consultation with a designated fieldwork supervisor, students design, manage and receive feedback on a series of self-directed workplace goals and objectives. The associated seminars (planning, reflection and synthesis) are online; the work experience location is related to the matched organization. As part of the pre-work experience process, students may be required to acquire a Vulnerable Sector Screening.  This course is a continuation of EDST 4980U  for students with a continuing placement.
    Credit hours: 3
    Other hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): EDST 4980U

    4th-year standing and minimum Cumulative GPA of 3.0
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • EDST 4999U – Directed Studies in Educational Studies

    Faculty permission may be given for supervised research projects, individual study or directed readings in a specialized area not covered in the regular course offerings. Students wishing to pursue a course of directed studies must, with a qualified faculty member who is willing to supervise such a course, formulate a proposal accurately describing the course title, learning goals, content, reading list, course activities and schedule; the intended method and extent of supervision; and the method by which work will be evaluated. This course may be only taken once.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 2
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): Fourth year standing in Educational Studies and EDST 1000U , EDST 1230U , EDST 2100U, EDST 2110U , EDST 2140U , EDST 2150U , EDST 2500U  and EDST 4110U
    Experiential learning: Yes

Electrical Engineering
  

  • ELEE 2110U – Discrete Mathematics for Engineers

    Sets and set operations, propositional logic, predicate logic, rules of inference; methods of proof and reasoning, modular arithmetic, counting, pigeonhole principle, induction, deduction, relations, functions, graphs, graph algorithms, shortest path, trees, combinatorics; applications to cryptosystems, hashing functions, coding.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 1850U  and MATH 1020U  
    Credit restriction(s): MATH 2080U  
  

  • ELEE 2200U – Electrical Engineering Fundamentals

    Coulomb’s, Ohm’s and Kirchoff’s laws; electrostatics and electromagnetics; resistance, capacitance, inductance and impedance and reactance; series and parallel circuits, independent and dependent voltage and current sources; energy, power; superposition, Thevenin, and Norton Theorems; maximum power transfer; node-voltage and mesh-current analysis of DC and AC circuits; initial, steady state and transient conditions; complex power and phasor domain analysis; poly-phase circuits and transformers.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 1020U  and MATH 1850U  and PHY 1020U  
  

  • ELEE 2210U – Circuit Analysis

    Impulse and step responses and their relationship. Convolution Integral and its application to circuit analysis. Mutual inductance and transformers. Applications of Laplace transform to analyze electric circuits. Natural frequencies of a network. Transfer function and frequency response of circuits. Poles and zeros of transfer function and their meaning in electric circuits. Two-port networks, impedance and admittance matrices, hybrid and transmission matrices, parallel and series connection of two-port networks.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2200U  and MATH 2860U  
  

  • ELEE 2250U – Introductory Electronics

    Conduction in semiconductors; single-time constant networks; operational amplifiers; diodes; non-linear circuit applications, such as rectifiers and digital logic circuits; bipolar junction transistors (BJT); DC biasing methods for BJT amplifiers; different AC configurations of single-stage transistor amplifiers; small and large signal models and amplifier frequency response; two-stage amplifiers; field-effect transistors; digital logic, integrated and memory circuits.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2200U  
  

  • ELEE 2450U – Digital Systems

    Boolean algebra and truth tables; combinational logics: AND, OR, NOT, XOR gates; sequential circuits: flip-flops, counters, memory circuits; logic circuit analysis, synthesis, and optimization; A/D and D/A interfaces; ROM and RAM; Programmable Logic Arrays (PLA), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC).
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2110U  
  

  • ELEE 2520U – Fundamentals of Electromagnetics

    Vector analysis, including orthogonal co-ordinate systems, and the calculus of field quantities; length, surface and volume; line, surface, and volume integrals; del operator and gradient of a scalar; divergence theorem; Stoke’s theorem; Laplacian, classification of vector fields; electrostatic fields including the concepts of electric potential, capacitance, and current and current density; magnetostatic fields including inductance.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2200U  and MATH 2860U  
  

  • ELEE 2530U – Complex Analysis for Engineers

    Basic complex analysis; complex number and topology of complex plane, continuity and differentiability of complex functions, power series and convergence tests, elementary complex functions, contour integration, Cauchy theorem and Cauchy integral formula, Taylor and Laurent series, residue theorem; applications selected from evaluation of real integrals, planar flows and potential theory, Laplace transform and inversion of residues, transform solution of ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients, complex Fourier Series, complex Fourier Transform and its relationships with Laplace Transform, convolution property of Fourier Transform. Application to engineering systems.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 2860U  
  

  • ELEE 2790U – Electric Circuits

    Basic concepts of electricity, magnetism and electric circuits; DC and AC driven circuits; series and parallel circuits; Ohm Law, Kirchhoff Laws, Thevenin Theorem, Norton Theorem, operation of electrical equipment such as instruments, motors, generators; response to step functions; response to sinusoids, steady state AC, resonance, parallel resonance, AC power, power factor, power factor correction; introduction to magnetic circuits: coils, solenoids, transformers; single and three phase circuits, basic operation of electrical measuring equipment; basics of electronics: diodes, transistors, operational amplifiers.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 1020U  and MATH 1850U  and PHY 1020U  
  

  • ELEE 3070U – Probability and Random Signals

    Basic concepts of probability theory: the axioms of probability, conditional probability, Bayes’ theorem, mutually exclusive and independent events. Single random variable: discrete and continuous random variables, probability mass and density functions; mean, median, mode, variance, and functions of a random variable; Markov and Chebyshev inequalities; reliability of series and parallel components, mean time to failure and failure rate functions. Multiple random variables; joint cumulative distribution and probability density functions, independence, covariance correlation, and linear transformations; joints Gaussian random variables; sum of random variables, law of large numbers and central limit theorem. Statistics: sampling estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Random processes; wide-sense staionarity autocorrelation function and power spectral density. Gaussian processes, White noise and noise equivalent bandwidth.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3110U  
  

  • ELEE 3100U – Introduction to Control Systems

    Mathematical models of systems: differential equations and linear approximations of physical systems; open- and closed-loop control systems: parameter variations, steady-state error, sensitivity analysis; performance of feedback control systems: time-domain performance specifications, transient response, and steady state error; stability analysis: Nyquist and Routh-Hurwitz criterion; frequency response methods; stability in the frequency domain; time domain analysis of control systems.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3110U  
  

  • ELEE 3110U – Signals and Systems

    Continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems; basic system properties, linear time invariant (LTI) systems; impulse response and transfer function; autocorrelation and power spectrum; convolution; Fourier series, Laplace and Fourier transforms, frequency-domain representation and analysis in LTI systems; poles and zeros, stability of analog filters.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2210U  and ELEE 2530U  and ENGR 2100U  
  

  • ELEE 3130U – Communication Systems

    Classifications of signals, Fourier transform; and properties, basic operation on signals; classifications of systems, filter types and design requirements distortionless transmission, bandwidth, and low-pass/band-pass signals. Modulation requirements and design trade-offs; amplitude modulation (AM, DSBSC, SSB, VSB); frequency modulation; FDM, AM and FM radio broadcasting. Digital communications design objectives and constraints; filtering, sampling, quantization, line coding; TDM, PCM, DPCM, DM pulse shaping; Nyquist-I criterion, intersymbol interference; adaptive equalization and LMS algorithm; coherent and con-coherent; digital modulation techniques: BASK, BFSK, BPSK, OPSK. Source coding fundamentals; entropy and Huffman and Lempel-Ziv lossless data compression; channel coding fundamentals; interleaving, error detection schemes and ARQ techniques, FEC and Hamming codes.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3110U  
  

  • ELEE 3140U – Computer Architecture

    Computer systems generation: main-frame, mid-range, microcomputers; peripherals and interfaces; bus design; input/output systems and technologies; central processing units: arithmetic logic and control units; semiconductor memory (RAM and ROM), magnetic disks and tapes, optical disks; assembly and high-level programming language; integer and floating point arithmetic, pipelining and parallelism; CISC vs. RISC.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2450U  
  

  • ELEE 3180U – Design Principles and Project Management in Electrical Engineering

    This course covers design process and methodology including design specifications, parameters, variables, optimization, implementation, interface, troubleshooting, trade-offs, complexity, performance, and documentation in various areas of Electrical Engineering, including transmission systems, electronic circuitry, communications networks, control systems, power systems, and software systems; the course also focuses on project management fundamentals, including project stakeholders, scope, cost, scheduling, risk, resource, integration, and quality management.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 1.5
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2250U  and ELEE 2450U  and ELEE 2520U  and SOFE 2710U  
  

  • ELEE 3230U – Electronic Circuit Design

    Non-ideal op-amp characteristics; op-amp applications; transistor as a switch; transistor differential and multistage amplifiers, integrated circuit biasing techniques; power amplifiers, classes of power amplifiers, power BJTs and MOSFET power transistors; feedback amplifier analysis; integrated circuit biasing techniques; introduction to stability and compensation techniques for amplifiers using negative feedback, CMOS logic design.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2250U   
  

  • ELEE 3240U – Applications for Electromagnetics

    Time-varying electromagnetic fields; Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic waves; waves in an unbounded medium; reflection, transmission, and refraction of waves at planar interfaces; parallel-plate and dielectric slab waveguides; cylindrical waveguides and cavity resonators, transmission lines; steady-state sinusoidal behaviour and standing waves, transient performance and impedance matching; field-matter interactions and elementary antennas.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2520U  and ELEE 2530U  
  

  • ELEE 3250U – Electric Machines

    Introduction to three-phase circuits; magnetic circuits; electrical transformers; force and torque generation; asynchronous machines, induction machines, DC machines; steady state and torque-speed characteristics of electric machines and their applications.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 2100U  
    Corequisite(s): ELEE 3240U  
  

  • ELEE 3260U – Power Systems

    First, various means of electric power generation-through hydroelectric, thermoelectric, geothermal, wind, solar, and nuclear sources are highlighted, and the choice of a given source-dictated by economic and environmental factors, application requirements and cost drivers is discussed. Then the course focuses on electric power systems; mainly electric power generation transmission, distribution; planning and operating inter-connected power systems; operating strategies and economic dispatch; transmission power line parameters, transformer models, symmetrical components, power system modelling, power flow on transmission lines; power system fault analysis.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3250U  or MECE 3410U  
    Credit restriction(s): ELEE 4110U 
  

  • ELEE 3330U – Circuit Design

    The focus of this course is on electric and electronic circuit design. Frequency response, transfer function, feedback, oscillation and stability; lowpass, high-pass, and band-pass filters, quality factor and Bode plots; passive and active filters; circuit analysis and network synthesis; power electronic circuits: amplifiers and switches.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2790U  
  

  • ELEE 3450U – Microprocessors and Computer Architecture

    Introduction to Computer Architecture: CPU, ALU, I/O devices, Busses and Memory – RAM and ROM; RISC vs. CISC architecture; Assembly language programming using a microprocessor and the Hardware/Software Development Tool; Register block and associated registers; Microcontroller systems: Interrupt, timer, memory, clock and reset generation, Analog to Digital conversion (A/D) and Serial Communication Interface Systems.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 lab (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 2450U   
  

  • ELEE 3490U – Microprocessor Systems Design

    Basic structure of a computer; assembly-language and high level language programming; machine language and step-by-step instruction execution and debugging; digital I/O; analog to digital conversion; interrupt handling and flow from reset, operating systems; hardware implementation of an addressing map; bus interface and memory timing; state-of-the art microprocessors: features and characteristics.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3140U  
  

  • ELEE 4115U – Fundamentals of Smart Grid

    This course starts by introducing the basic components making the smart grid and the drivers/benefits of implementing it. The course will focus on the role/impacts of the various smart grid components on the electric energy systems, including renewable, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, demand side management, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. Topics such as smart metering, smart energy pricing and policies, grid optimization, distribution system automation and management, transmission system operation, power electronics and energy storage in smart grid and power quality will be introduced. The related standards to inter-operability and design will also be covered in this course.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3260U  
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 4115U
  

  • ELEE 4120U – Introduction to Power Electronics

    This course covers fundamentals of power conversion techniques: Review of semi-conductor switches, review of basic electrical and magnetic circuits, single-phase and three- phase rectifier and inverter circuits, switch- mode converters and power supplies, control of switch-mode DC power supplies, snubber circuit design, computer simulation of power electronic converters and systems.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3100U  and ELEE 3230U  and ELEE 3250U  
  

  • ELEE 4125U – Smart Grid Networking and Security

    Wired and wireless communications in smart grids; communications protocols and standards in smart grid, current and emerging communication technologies; quality and reliability of service in networking for smart grid; security threats and impacts on end-users and utility companies; types of attacks and possible defences; smart grid security, standardization, authentication, and management; user privacy issues.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 4115U  
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 4125U
  

  • ELEE 4130U – Digital Communications

    Digital Communications covers optimum receiver principles: AWGN, geometric representation of signals, maximum likelihood criterion and optimum decision regions, correlation receivers and matched filters, probability of error and union bound; digital bandpass modulation (FSK, PSK, QAM), baseband systems; performance comparisons: bit error rate, bandwidth, power, complexity; adaptive equalization techniques and algorithms; carrier and symbol synchronization; fundamental limits in information theory: entropy and the source coding theorem; channel capacity and the channel coding theorem; information capacity theorem and design trade-offs.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3070U  and ELEE 3130U  
  

  • ELEE 4140U – Power System Protection Relaying

    Need for protection systems, types of relays, operating principles and relay construction, overcurrent protection, distance protection, pilot relaying schemes, ac machines and Bus protection, micro-processor based relays, Overvoltage protection.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3100U  and ELEE 3230U  and ELEE 3250U  and ELEE 3260U  (formerly ELEE 4110U )

     
  

  • ELEE 4150U – Advanced Control Systems

    Modelling of systems: from State Space (SS) to Transfer Function (TF). Introduction to SISO and MIMO systems. Coordinate transformation of SS models. Linearization of nonlinear systems.  Introduction to Lyapunov stability theorems. Explicit solutions to the DE for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems (and properties of these solutions) Notions of controllability and observability. Kalman decomposition. Controller Synthesis: feedforward control, pole assignment, optimal control (LQR). Observer design.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3100U  
  

  • ELEE 4180U – Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

    Contemporary topics at the advanced undergraduate level. Faculty presents advanced elective topics not included in the established curriculum.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor
  

  • ELEE 4190U – Multimedia Systems

    Theory, features, design, performance, complexity analysis and application of multimedia engineering technologies; digital signal compression: audio, image, video, characterization, compression requirements; source entropy and hybrid coding, transform and wavelet based coding; motion estimation; object-based processing, and multimedia indexing and retrieval.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3110U  
  

  • ELEE 4230U – Intermediate Electronics

    High frequency model of semiconductor devices; Pole-zero analysis of single stage amplifier configurations; Frequency compensation and stability in amplifiers; Different types of device Noise and Noise sources in circuits; Sinusoidal Oscillators and Astable Multivibrators; Fully differential OPAmps; Translinear Principle and circuits; Integrated Circuits fabrication processes.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3230U  and ELEE 3100U  
  

  • ELEE 4310U – Electronics

    The focus of this course is the analysis and design of electronic circuits, semiconductors, fundamental characteristics, modes of operation, and types of diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors; nonlinear circuit applications: small signals and rectifiers; transistor biasing and amplifiers; integrated circuits: fabrication and characteristics.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3330U  and MECE 3390U  
  

  • ELEE 4350U – Microprocessors

    Number systems, architecture, instructions, and subroutines; algorithms; memory; PIA; interrupts and timers; transistors; binary interfaces; conversion of A/D and D/A; stepper motors; dc motors; z-transform; breadboard integration; steady state analysis and component ratings; control loop design and control loop modelling.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): MECE 3350U  and MECE 3390U  
  

  • ELEE 4420U – Digital Signal Processing

    Review of discrete-time signals and systems; Fourier Series representation of discrete-time signals and its properties and applications in discrete-time LTI systems; discrete-time Fourier transform and its properties and applications in LTI Systems; sampling of continuous-time signals; time- and frequency-domain analysis of discrete-time systems; Z transform and its properties and applications in LTI Systems; design and realization of digital filters: Finite-Impulse Response (FIR) and Infinite- Impulse Response (IIR), discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), applications in communications, multimedia and engineering.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3110U  
  

  • ELEE 4500U – Wireless Communications

    Digital wireless phones, cordless phones and wireless data; the first and second generation wireless mobile cellular network standards; characteristics of wireless propagation channels, including slow and fast fading, Doppler shift, multipath delay spread; bandpass transmission over wireless channels; digital modulation over wireless channels; wireless channel impairment mitigation techniques; fundamental of cellular communication concept, including cellular traffic and layout, frequency reuse, co-channel and adjacent channel interferences, call-processing, hand-off process; Multiple access techniques, including Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)/ Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3070U  and ELEE 3130U  
  

  • ELEE 4750U – Microwave and RF Circuits

    Signal integrity in high-speed digital circuits; wave equation, ideal transmission circuits; transient on transmission lines; planar transmission lines and introduction to MMICs; microwave network analysis; design with scattering parameters; planar power dividers; directional couplers; microwave filters; RF receiver chains; noise; solid-state microwave amplifiers; noise, diode mixers; RF receiver chains, oscillators.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3230U  and ELEE 3240U  
  

  • ELEE 4930U – Optical Communications

    Optical technology and applications; basic characteristics of optical fibres and associated system components; design considerations for optical fibre links and multistage service requirements; engineering applications of optical devices.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): ELEE 3240U  

Energy Engineering
  

  • ENEE 2160U – Energy and Environmental Impacts

    Environmental impacts of energy systems, such as power generation, industrial processes and transportation. Air, soil and water pollution. Pollutants from power production and engines and their effects on the environment, generation mechanisms of chemical pollutants, photochemical pollutants and smog, fluid mechanics of jets, plumes, thermals and turbulent diffusion in the atmosphere. Design for environment methods, including pollution prevention techniques, life cycle assessment, pollution abatement devices and control methods, including exhaust gas treatment, absorption, filtration, scrubbers. Industrial ecology. Environmental legislations. Design of sustainable energy systems. Case Studies.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): PHY 1020U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • ENEE 2210U – Introduction to Alternative Fuels

    This course examines the categories of fuels in terms of conventional (traditional), primarily fossil fuels-based fuels, and alternative fuels, including those with reduced environmental impacts (including lower carbon footprint), such as hydrogen and ammonia. Three types of fuels, such as solid (covering natural ones, including wood, coal, etc. and manufactured ones, including charcoal, coke, briquettes, etc.), liquid (gasoline, diesel, kerosene, methanol, ethanol, etc.) and gaseous (natural gas, liquefied natural gas, compressed natural gas, producer gas, refinery gas, furnace gas, syngas, biogas, dimethyl ether (DME), hydrogen, acetylene, etc.) are discussed, along with the specific production methods/processes. Biofuels are studied in solid, liquid and gaseous forms by considering 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations of them. E-fuels are also examined, due to their climate neutrality, since they are produced using clean (renewable) electricity, water and CO2 from air. In conjunction with this, power to gas options are discussed. Furthermore, the course covers alternative fuel production, storage, distribution and use, along with fuel combustion and conversion methods and technologies. Their applications in various sectors, including transportation, residential and industrial, are discussed. Impacts of fuel production are considered. Implications for technologies are also considered, including efficiencies, materials, operating characteristics, centralized vs distributed infrastructure, fleet vs private vehicles. Moreover, transition approaches and requirements for the shift to ‘net zero’ and/or sustainable fuels and propulsion in various transportation sectors, including aviation, are introduced. Finally, the role of fuels and energy in sustainable development is discussed.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1800U  and ENGR 1025U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • ENEE 3030U – Computer-Aided Design

    Geometric/solid modelling, computer graphics and feature modelling. Introduction to design refinement with finite element analysis tools. State-of-the-art software packages will be introduced and case studies with applications in different engineering fields will be employed.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Laboratory hours: 2
    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 1025U  
    Corequisite(s): ESNS 3380U  
  

  • ENEE 3265U – Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

    Hydrogen production, storage, distribution and utilization methods. Hydrogen energy systems and applications. Principles and current state of fuel cell technologies; fuel cell thermodynamics; transport processes; electrochemistry; reliability and efficiency; fuel cell systems and areas of applications; design of various fuel cell types, including Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells, Alkaline Fuel Cells, Proton Exchange Membrane, Molten Carbonate
    Fuel Cells, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Direct Methanol Fuel Cells.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Prerequisite(s): MECE 2320U   or NUCL 2010U  
  

  • ENEE 4161U – Solar Energy

    Solar radiation measurements and predictions. Radiative heat transfer aspects. Classification of solar energy options. Solar thermal applications, including heating, cooling, air conditioning, electricity and fresh water production. Solar collectors and absorbing materials and their spectral characteristics. Concentrated solar panels. Solar electrical applications. Basics, materials and operational details on photovoltaics/solar cells. Solar energy conversion systems for various applications. Energy storage systems, including latent (phase change materials, molten salts) and sensible (hot water, compressed air, rock bed, etc.) options. Integrated solar energy systems for more useful outputs. Solar fuels. Thermodynamic analysis and performance assessments through energy and exergy approaches.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Prerequisite(s): MECE 3260U   and (MECE 3930U   or NUCL 3930U  )
    Cross-listed: MECE 4151U  
  

  • ENEE 4163U – Wind and Hydro Energy

    Turbomachinery fundamentals and analysis, including: angular momentum, pumps, fans, blowers, hydraulic turbines, propellers, and wind turbines. Wind characteristics, location, and wind farm design considerations. Aerodynamics of wind turbines and blade shape. Analysis of horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines. Wind turbine materials, components, and design. Design of dams and reservoirs, and use of rivers and tidal flows. Storage systems including pumped storage. Electrical aspects of wind and hydro energy generation systems. Integration, applications, and environmental impact of wind and hydro energy systems. Implementation of course principles in a design and construction project.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): MECE 3410U   and MECE 3260U   and (MECE 2860U   or NUCL 2860U  )
    Cross-listed: MECE 4153U  
  

  • ENEE 4260U – Integrated Energy Systems

    This course provides students with basic, conceptual and applied engineering design methods and practices of energy system integration and multigeneration. These are applied to various fossil fuels-, nuclear- and renewable-based conventional and new systems for productions of multi commodities, such as power, hot water heating, cooling, hydrogen, fresh water, etc. Energy storage options are studied and integrated with
    energy generation systems. Various case studies of integrated energy systems are developed for sustainability community applications. Assessment studies for performance, environmental impact and sustainability are undertaken for comparative assessment. Scaling-up issues are also discussed. Sectoral implementation and
    planning studies for such systems are evaluated. Potential improvements and optimizations are studied through various methodologies, design and simulations tools.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): MECE 3260U  
  

  • ENEE 4460U – Sustainable Community Energy Systems

    This course provides students with advanced design analysis for energy applications in communities. Three scales of analysis are studied: buildings, the neighborhood, and city. Students will learn how communities can be designed to use less energy and materials in construction. Aspects include passive solar and building position, embodied emissions, geothermal and heat pump heating and cooling. At the neighborhood level, district energy, geothermal fields, transportation systems, ‘behind the meter’ renewables will be included in community design. At the city level, integrated energy systems, and how to prioritize infrastructure for sustainability will be assessed in a typical Canadian city and an international example. Community aspects will include waste management and waste-to-energy facilities. Students will develop an appreciation for how for how the energy ‘pieces fit together’ and how optimizing energy applications, including storage, leads to greater overall sustainably. Students will apply sustainable engineering methods to infrastructure and communities.
    Credit hours: 3.0
    Lecture hours: 3.0
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): MECE 3260U  
    Experiential learning: Yes
  

  • ENGR 4961U – Capstone Systems Design for Energy Engineering II

    This course constitutes the first part of a two-term capstone systems design engineering endeavor. These two capstone systems design courses (ENGR 4960U and ENGR 4961U) represent a critical mandatory component for fulfilling the requirements for accrediting engineering degree programs set by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). They provide a culminating major teamwork capstone design engineering experience that integrates various aspects of students’ knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom as well as on co-op or internship work terms. These courses challenge senior-level students to engage in applying their engineering knowledge to produce useful engineering artifacts. This design-built project-based course normally includes studying open-ended engineering design topics of interest to the students. A wide range of engineering design-related product, process, technology, service or system development topics may be covered in this course. The course covers design considerations for systems that predominantly incorporate many aspects of engineering.


    These may consist of real-world design projects proposed and sponsored by industrial partners, or design projects on topics proposed by faculty advisors, or topics proposed by a group of enrolled students. In this context, in this course the engineering design process will be reviewed along with its application to the design of the said systems. Students will work in small groups of students on a capstone design engineering project of major breadth that will require them to integrate the knowledge that they have gained throughout their program of study and apply it to the design and development of a complete device or system.
    Credit hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 4960U  

Energy Systems and Nuclear Science
  

  • ESNS 1200U – Engineering Graphics and Design

    Engineering drawing techniques, dimensions and geometric tolerances, standard viewpoints and section planes, orthographic projections, use of 3-D solid modelling and CAD software (and possibly other design and graphics software); a case-based introduction to engineering design; use of graphics and illustrations in engineering design; design projects by individuals and groups; basics of project management, such as organizing, planning, scheduling and controlling; application of such computer tools as spreadsheets, project management software, computer-aided drafting and design tools.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 1.5
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 1025U  and ENGR 3200U
  

  • ESNS 2140U – Problem Solving, Modelling and Simulation

    Students will explore processes and skills needed to define, evaluate and develop a range of solutions to design problems while working alone or as members of a group. Topics include: methods for estimating and verifying the results and levels of accuracy of alternate designs; mathematical modelling of simple processes and equipment; computer programs for solving systems of equations; use of simulation in the design and visualization of continuous and discrete process.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1.5 (biweekly)
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 1020U  and (CSCI 1040U  or ENGR 1200U ) and (ENSY 2210U  or PHY 1010U ).
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 2140U 
  

  • ESNS 2200U – Technical System Visualization

    Technical drawing techniques, dimensions and geometric tolerances, standard viewpoints and section planes, orthographic projections, use of 3-D solid modelling and CAD software (and possibly other design and graphics software); a case-based introduction to technical design; use of graphics and illustrations in design; design projects by individuals and groups; basics of project management, such as organizing, planning, scheduling and controlling; application of such computer tools as spreadsheets, project management software, computer-aided drafting and design tools.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 1.5
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 1025U  and (ESNS 3200U  or ESNS 1200U )
  

  • ESNS 3200U – Technical Graphics and Design

    Technical drawing techniques, dimensions and geometric tolerances, standard viewpoints and section planes, orthographic projections, use of 3-D solid modelling and CAD software (and possibly other design and graphics software); a case-based introduction to technical design; use of graphics and illustrations in design; design projects by individuals and groups; basics of project management, such as organizing, planning, scheduling and controlling; application of such computer tools as spreadsheets, project management software, computer-aided drafting and design tools.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 1.5
    Tutorial hours: 1.5
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 1025U , ESNS 1200U  
  

  • ESNS 3380U – Strength of Materials

    Principles of statics as applied to deformable solid bodies; stress and strain; Hooke’s law, elastic behaviour of simple members under axial force, tension, compression, shear, torsion; bending and deflection of beams; design of beams, trusses, frames and shafts; column loads and buckling; impact loading; stability of structures.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): PHY 1010U   and MANE 2220U 
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 3380U 
  

  • ESNS 3385U – Strength of Materials for Energy Systems

    Principles of statics as applied to deformable solid bodies; stress and strain; Hooke’s law, elastic behaviour of simple members under axial force, tension, compression, shear, torsion; bending and deflection of beams; design of beams, trusses, frames and shafts; column loads and buckling; impact loading; stability of structures.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 2 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): PHY 1010U  and CHEM 1110U  
    Credit restriction(s): ESNS 3380U  and ENGR 3380U 
  

  • ESNS 3740U – Scientific Instrumentation

    This course is designed to instruct students how to set, use and analyze the appropriate sensor technology (transducers) for measurements related to energy technology. In the course, the student will learn how to perform experimental data analysis, how various components of sensing devices inter-relate (for example, relationships between amplifiers, transformers, filters, etc.), the operating principles of transducers for physical measurements, including, but not limited to: ionizing radiation, displacement and area, pressure, flow, temperature, force, torque, strain, motion, vibration and air pollution. The student will learn both analog and digital techniques for data analysis, including multiplexing, data conversion and error detection and correction. The laboratory exercises will give the student hands-on experience designing measurement systems. Proper data reporting techniques will also be emphasized.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): ENSY 2210U  and STAT 2800U  
    Credit restriction(s): NUCL 3740U  
  

  • ESNS 3750U – Integrated Engineering Laboratory

    A project-based approach to hands-on experiences that cover multidisciplinary topics in energy systems. Course material integrates knowledge in chemistry, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, materials and structural analysis. Topics include: Advanced design, drawings, systems interfaces, numerical coding, Fortran coding, integral control, overpressure protection, pressure waves, water hammer, plant ageing phenomena, component performance. Practical applications will be obtained through both experimental and numerical/simulation laboratories.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 1
    Laboratory hours: 3
    Prerequisite(s): (ESNS 2140U  or ENGR 2140U ) and (ESNS 3380U  or ENGR 3380U or ESNS 3385U ) and (ESNS 2200U  or NUCL 2860U )
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 3750U 
  

  • ESNS 4660U – Risk Analysis Methods

    Students will apply probability theory to discrete and continuous events. Topics include: random variables; decision theory, including Bayes’ Theorem, the likelihood principle, prior posterior and predictive distributions and survival models. Students will also study chemical, physical, biological hazards; recognition, evaluation, prevention and control of hazards; industrial hygiene and occupational health; analysis, assessment, characterization and communication of risks.
    Credit hours: 3
    Lecture hours: 3
    Tutorial hours: 1
    Prerequisite(s): STAT 2800U  
    Credit restriction(s): ENGR 4660U 

Engineering
  

  • ENGR 0998U – Engineering Internship Program

    An optional internship work term for students in engineering and applied science programs aimed at providing significant professional experience and exposure to an engineering workplace. The work term is between 12 and 16 months duration, normally commencing in May and concluding by August of the following year. Registration in this course is conditional on the student obtaining and accepting an acceptable internship placement offer from an approved employer partner. Interns are visited/contacted as required by the course co-ordinator to assess their progress. Internship students are required to submit a report, following established criteria, within one month of completing the internship placement. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis and the grade appears in the student’s academic transcript. Both grades have no numerical value and are not included in a student’s grade point average.
    Prerequisite(s): Completion of three years of the academic program with a cumulative GPA of at least 2.3 and permission of the faculty.
  

  • ENGR 0999U – Engineering Co-op Program

    An optional co-op work term for students in engineering and applied science programs aimed at providing significant professional experience and exposure to an engineering workplace. The duration of the work term is between two and four months, normally during the summer. Registration in this course is conditional on the student obtaining and accepting an acceptable co-op placement offer from an approved employer partner. Co-op students are required to submit a report, following established criteria, within one month of completing the co-op placement. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis and the grade appears in the student’s academic transcript. Both grades have no numerical value and are not included in a student’s grade point average. A student can take this course more than once.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the faculty
 

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