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Mechanical Engineering: The practice of Mechanical Engineering: its scope and context. The role of Design. Introduction to the Design process. The role of engineering analysis and socio-economic factors in Design. Introduction to the individual mechanical engineering subjects and their role in Design. Case studies.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-0-3)

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Andrew J Higgins, Dylan Caverly

Mechanical Engineering: Static equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Beams, trusses, frames and machines. Concept of work and energy. Static equilibrium and stability.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (2-1-3)
• Prerequisites: PHYS 101 or PHYS 131 or equivalent.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Amar Sabih
  • Larry Lessard

Mechanical Engineering: Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies. Particle dynamics: force-momentum and work-energy approaches. Kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (4-1-7)
• Prerequisites: MECH 210, MATH 262. Pre-/Co-requisite: MATH 263.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Guillaume Durandau
  • Meyer Nahon

Mechanical Engineering: Thermodynamic systems and properties. First law of thermodynamics: energy, work and heat. State principle, p-v-T surfaces, phase equilibrium, ideal gas model. Second law of thermodynamics, entropy, exergy analysis. Energy analysis applied to steady and transient engineering systems including heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps, air compressors.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Restrictions: Restricted to students in U1 or above.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • David Frost, Dylan Caverly
  • Dylan Caverly

Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to probability: conditional probability, binomial and Poisson distributions, random variables, laws of large numbers. Statistical analysis associated with measurements; regression and correlation. Basic experimental laboratory techniques, including the measurement of strain, pressure, force, position, and temperature.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-2-4)
• Corequisite: MATH 263
• Restriction: Open to U1 students or higher.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jovan Nedic
  • Jovan Nedic

Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to essential modern engineering design graphics skills. Basic knowledge of design graphics projection theory; perspective projections. Introduction to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software and 3D parametric solid modeling techniques. Design for manufacturing and design for assembly methods. Standard geometric dimensioning and tolerancing techniques and their applications in the engineering drawings and engineering design.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (2-3-4)
• Restrictions: Only open to U1 (Year 1) Mechanical Engineering students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Yaoyao F Zhao
  • Qianxi (Emily) He, Yaoyao F Zhao

Mechanical Engineering: Introduction to design. Problem formulation, idea generation, feasibility study, preliminary design, design, analysis, design evaluation, project management, and optimal design.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Alexei V Morozov
  • Mark Driscoll

Mechanical Engineering: Numerical techniques for problems commonly encountered in Mechanical Engineering are presented. Chebyshev interpolation, quadrature, roots of equations in one or more variables, matrices, curve fitting, splines and ordinary differential equations. The emphasis is on the analysis and understanding of the problem rather than the details of the actual numerical program.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: MATH 263, MATH 271, COMP 208.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • James R Forbes
  • Mathias J Legrand

Mechanical Engineering: First principles of analysis; motion; position; displacement; velocity; acceleration; force; inertia and its effects. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of rigid bodies in pure rotation and in pin-connected systems; dynamic balance. Rigid bodies in rolling contact; planetary gear-trains. Bodies in sliding contact; lower and higher sliding pairs.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisite: MECH 220.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Ali Raoofian
  • Ali Raoofian

Mechanical Engineering: Single-degree-of-freedom systems; free vibrations; effect of damping; response to harmonic, periodic and arbitrary excitation. Lagrange's equations of motion. Vibrations of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Continuous systems.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (4-1-7)
• Prerequisites: MECH 220, MATH 271
• Pre-/Co-requisite: CIVE 207.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Luc G Mongeau
  • Luc G Mongeau

Mechanical Engineering: Modern phenomenological theories of the behaviour of engineering materials. Stress and strain concepts and introduction to constitutive theory. Applications of theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity. Introduction to finite element stress analysis method and its application to structural design of a machine element.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisite: CIVE 207

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Pascal Hubert
  • Jianyu Li

Mechanical Engineering: Physical properties of fluids. Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow: stress in a continuum, rates of strain, rotation. Control volume analysis; conservation of mass, linear momentum and energy; Euler and Bernoulli equations; Flow measurement. Dimensional analysis and dynamical similarity. Laminar and turbulent flow in pipes and boundary layers.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisite: MECH 210. Pre/Co-requisites: MECH 220, MECH 240, MATH 271.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Sivakumaran Nadarajah
  • Timothy Lee

Mechanical Engineering: Generalized thermodynamics relations. Real gas effects, gas tables, dense gas equations of state and generalized compressibility, enthalpy, and entropy charts. Vapour and gas power cycles (coal/nuclear power plants). Refrigerators and heat pumps. Psychrometry and air conditioning processes. Thermodynamics of reactive gas mixtures.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites:MATH 264 and MECH 240

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Wagdi George Habashi
  • Dylan Caverly, David Frost

Mechanical Engineering: Basic concepts and overview. Steady and unsteady heat conduction. Fin Theory. Convective heat transfer: governing equations; dimensionless parameters; analogy between momentum and heat transfer. Design correlations for forced, natural, and mixed convection. Heat exchangers. Radiative heat transfer: black- and gray-body radiation; shape factors; enclosure theory. Thermal engineering design project.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: MECH 240 or BREE 301, MECH 331 or BREE 305, MATH 271 or BREE 319

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Laurent B Mydlarski
  • Laurent B Mydlarski

Mechanical Engineering: Theory and practice of modern manufacturing processes: machining, forming, and casting. Producing parts using computer assisted tools from CAD to CNC machining followed by measurement of part quality. Hands-on machining of parts.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-3-3)
• Prerequisites: MECH 289 or MECH 290. Pre-/corequisite: CIVE 207.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Changhong Cao
  • Changhong Cao, Qianxi (Emily) He

Mechanical Engineering: Experiments will be performed in four areas: MECH 240 Thermodynamics, MECH 315 Vibrations, MECH 331 Fluid Mechanics 1, and MECH 346 Heat Transfer. Students should sign up to do experiments in one or more areas the term following the completion of one or more of the above courses. Students will not formally register for this course until the term in which they will complete all of the experiments.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (0-3-3)
• Prerequisite: MECH 261 or MECH 262 or BREE 216

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Amar Sabih
  • Amar Sabih

Mechanical Engineering: Discrete and integrated components, both analogue and digital. Characteristics of passive elements. Semiconductors, amplifiers, filters, oscillators, modulators, power supplies and nonlinear devices. Introduction to digital electronics. Transducer/signal conditioner interfacing considerations.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: MECH 261 or MECH 262, MATH 263.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Audrey Sedal
  • Guillaume Durandau

Mechanical Engineering: The design of machine elements for strength requirements in consideration of various methods of manufacture. Synthesis of mechanical systems to fulfill performance requirements, following the engineering design process. Static and fatigue failure prevention. Students form groups to work on a design project.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: (MECH 289 or MECH 290) and CIVE 207. Pre-/co-requisites: MECH 360 and MECH 292 and MECH 314 and MIME 260.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Larry Lessard
  • Damiano Pasini

Mechanical Engineering: This course, together with MECH 404, involves a research project containing both engineering theory and design components, and requiring a theoretical and/or experimental investigation. Students are supervised by the course instructor and mentored by one or more staff members. The work culminates with the submission of a thesis.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (0-6-12)
• Prerequisite: A minimum of 60 program credits.
• Students must register for both MECH 403D1 and MECH 403D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both MECH 403D1 and MECH 403D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Evgeny Timofeev

Mechanical Engineering: See MECH 403D1 for course description.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• Prerequisite: MECH 403D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both MECH 403D1 and MECH 403D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Evgeny Timofeev

Mechanical Engineering: This course is part of the same thesis project as course MECH 403.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (0-6-3)
• Corequisite: MECH 403

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Evgeny Timofeev
  • Evgeny Timofeev

Mechanical Engineering: Modelling of physical linear time-invariant systems using transfer functions. Transient and steady-state response specifications. State space representation of systems. Frequency-response characterization. Stability. Feedback control systems. PID controller design. Root locus and frequency response design methods. Lead, lag and PID compensators.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisites: MECH 309, MECH 315. Pre-/Co-requisite: MECH 331

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Audrey Sedal
  • Meyer Nahon

Mechanical Engineering: Lagrange's equations of motion. Hamilton's principle. Variational methods. Discrete linear systems: analytical and numerical methods. Distributed parameter systems: exact solutions and discretization techniques. Electrical-mechanical-acoustical analogies. Stability of systems. Nonlinear dynamics: phase-plane, perturbation and other methods of solution.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (4-1-7)
• Prerequisites: MECH 220, CIVE 207, MATH 264, MATH 271.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Inna Sharf

Mechanical Engineering: Review of thermodynamics of gases, one dimensional isentropic flow and choking. Nozzles and wind tunnels. Normal shock waves. Flow in constant area ducts with friction and heat exchange. Compressible irrotational flow. Oblique shock waves and Prandtl-Meyer expansion. Supersonic aerofoil and wing theory.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Prerequisites: MECH 331 and MECH 240.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Evgeny Timofeev
  • Andrew J Higgins

Mechanical Engineering: Team project work typically involving the design, fabrication, verification, and application of a mechanical device/system, or experimental facility. The project work is complemented with lectures in the Fall term on topics related to design and management of design projects. Emphasis is on the completion of a project of professional quality.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (1-3-5)
• Prerequisites: (CCOM 206 or WCOM 206) and MECH 393.
• Students must register for both MECH 463D1 and MECH 463D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both MECH 463D1 and MECH 463D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Mark Driscoll, Amar Sabih, Michael Kokkolaras

Mechanical Engineering: See MECH 463D1 for course description.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• Prerequisites: MECH 463D1, (CCOM 206 or WCOM 206) and MECH 393.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both MECH 463D1 and MECH 463D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Michael Kokkolaras, Amar Sabih, Mark Driscoll, Qianxi (Emily) He

Mechanical Engineering: An advanced design project course with emphasis on analytical solutions, performance prediction and validation, and planning for production. Students are supervised by the course instructor and mentored by one or more staff members.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (0-6-3)
• Prerequisite: MECH 292
• Restriction: Mechanical Engineering Honours students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Amar Sabih
  • Amar Sabih

Mechanical Engineering: Value Engineering is an in-depth analysis of an industrial product or process with a view to improving its design and/or performance to increase its worth. This is a workshop type of course. Projects will be supplied by industrial firms and students will work in teams with industrial personnel.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (0-8-1)
• Prerequisites: MECH 393 and completion of 45 credits

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Mechanical Engineering: Completion of an individual project on an interdisciplinary theme with emphasis on a balanced combination on analysis and synthesis.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (1-2-6)

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Timothy Lee

Mechanical Engineering: The individual project initiated in MECH 498 is continued and finalized in this course.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (1-2-6)
• Corequisite: MECH 498.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Timothy Lee, Dylan Caverly