Program Requirements
***Enrolment in this program is subject to departmental approval, please consult with an Academic Advisor within the appropriate program further to discuss your suitability in this program.***
The Department offers a Major in Mining Engineering Program leading to an accredited B.Eng. degree in Mining Engineering. The program focuses on the science and engineering of sustainable extraction of mineral aresources. It contains two streams: English for non-CEGEP students and Bilingual (six courses in French) for CEGEP students, in collaboration with the mining engineering program at Polytechnique Montreal. The program includes projects that are reinforced by field trips to industrial operations.
B.Eng.; Major in Mining Engineering
Program credit weight: 144-145 credits
Program credit weight for CEGEP students: 115-116 credits
Entry into the Major in Mining Engineering
Students in Mining can be admitted only into the B.Eng.; Co-op in Mining Engineering. There is no direct entry to the Major in Mining Engineering (which does not include the work terms required for the Co-op program).
Students may enter the Major in Mining Engineering if they wish at any point in time during their study.
To transfer into the Major program, students must obtain approval from the department adviser and submit a Request for Course Authorization form to the 海角社区 Engineering Student Centre (Frank Dawson Adams, Room 22).
Required Year 0 (Freshman) Courses
29 credits
Generally, students admitted to Engineering from Quebec CEGEPs are granted transfer credit for these Year 0 (Freshman) courses and enter a 115- to 116-credit program.
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CHEM 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 credits)
Overview
Chemistry : A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Sirjoosingh, Pallavi; Kakkar, Ashok K; McKeague, Maureen; Denisova, Irina (Fall)
Fall
Prerequisites/corequisites: College level mathematics and physics or permission of instructor; CHEM 120 is not a prerequisite
Each lab section is limited enrolment
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CHEM 120 General Chemistry 2 (4 credits)
Overview
Chemistry : A study of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Sirjoosingh, Pallavi; Sewall, Samuel Lewis; Wiseman, Paul; Denisova, Irina (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisites/corequisites: College level mathematics and physics, or permission of instructor: CHEM 110 is not a prerequisite
Each lab section is limited enrolment
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MATH 133 Linear Algebra and Geometry (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Macdonald, Jeremy; Ayala, Miguel; Branchereau, Romain; Giard, Antoine (Fall) Pinet, Th茅o (Winter)
3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
Prerequisite: a course in functions
Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
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MATH 140 Calculus 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Sabok, Marcin; Trudeau, Sidney; Kalmykov, Artem (Fall) Huang, Peiyuan; Trudeau, Sidney (Winter)
3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
Prerequisite: High School Calculus
Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken MATH139 or MATH 150 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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MATH 141 Calculus 2 (4 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Hassan, Hazem; Trudeau, Sidney; Zlotchevski, Andrei (Fall) Trudeau, Sidney; Poulin, Antoine; Syroka, Bartosz (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122,except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
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PHYS 131 Mechanics and Waves (4 credits)
Overview
Physics : The basic laws and principles of Newtonian mechanics; oscillations, waves, and wave optics.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ragan, Kenneth (Fall)
Fall
3 hours lectures; 1 hour tutorial, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions
Corequisite: MATH 139 or higher level calculus course.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 101, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent.
Laboratory sections have limited enrolment
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PHYS 142 Electromagnetism and Optics (4 credits)
Overview
Physics : The basic laws of electricity and magnetism; geometrical optics.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Guo, Hong (Winter)
Winter
3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions
Prerequisite: PHYS 131.
Corequisite: MATH 141 or higher level calculus course.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 102, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00US or equivalent.
Laboratory sections have limited enrolment
AND 3 credits selected from the approved list of courses in Humanities and Social Sciences, Management Studies and Law, listed below under Complementary Studies (Group B).
Note: FACC 100 (Introduction to the Engineering Profession) must be taken during the first year of study.
Required Non-Departmental Courses (37 credits)
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CIVE 205 Statics (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Systems of forces and couples, resultants, equilibrium. Trusses, frames and beams, reactions, shear forces, bending moments. Centroids, centres of gravity, distributed forces, moments of inertia. Friction, limiting equilibrium, screws, belts.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Chouinard, Luc E (Fall) Bezabeh, Matiyas (Winter)
(3-2-4)
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CIVE 207 Solid Mechanics (4 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Shao, Yi (Fall) Malomo, Daniele (Winter)
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COMP 208 Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and
Engineering
(3 credits) *
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : Programming and problem solving in a high level computer language: variables, expressions, types, functions, conditionals, loops, objects and classes. Introduction to algorithms such as searching and sorting. Modular software design, libraries, file input and output, debugging. Emphasis on applications in Physical Sciences and Engineering, such as root finding, numerical integration, diffusion, Monte Carlo methods.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Langer, Michael; Pr茅mont-Schwarz, Isabeau (Fall) Pr茅mont-Schwarz, Isabeau; Zammar, Chad (Winter)
3 hours
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 202, COMP 204, orGEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 208 is intended for students with sufficient math background and in (non-life) science or engineering fields.
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COMP 250 Introduction to Computer Science (3 credits) *
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : Mathematical tools (binary numbers, induction,recurrence relations, asymptotic complexity,establishing correctness of programs). Datastructures (arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists,trees, binary trees, binary search trees, heaps,hash tables). Recursive and non-recursivealgorithms (searching and sorting, tree andgraph traversal). Abstract data types. Objectoriented programming in Java (classes andobjects, interfaces, inheritance). Selected topics.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Alberini, Giulia (Fall) Alberini, Giulia (Winter)
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ECSE 209 Electrotechnology (3 credits)
Overview
Electrical Engineering : DC and AC circuit analysis with application to electrical instrumentation, motors, and other common devices. Equations describing exponential and oscillatory behaviour of basic circuits and automatic control loops, with application in diverse engineering contexts (transportation, processing plants, environmental surveying). Overview of common devices including sensors (pH meters, photoresistor, photodiode, thermocouple, strain gauge, gas detection), actuators, and motors (single- and three-phase). In-class demonstrations involving programmed microcontrollers to activate LEDs and stepper-motor based actuators. Introduction to hierarchical control, linking low-level sensor-driven adjustments to higher-level control.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Joos, Geza (Fall)
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EPSC 221 General Geology (3 credits)
Overview
Earth & Planetary Sciences : An introductory course in physical geology designed for majors in civil and mining engineering. Properties of rocks and minerals, major geological processes, together with natural hazards and their effects on engineered structures are emphasized. The laboratory is an integral part of the course which includes rock and mineral identification, basic techniques of airphoto and geological map interpretation, and structural geology.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Berlo, Kim; Paquette, Jeanne (Fall)
Fall
2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory
Restriction: Open to Engineering students only.
A nominal fee is charged to cover expenses of materials and supplies for identification kits (pen magnet, streak plate, hand lens and acid bottle) used to identify minerals during laboratory exercises.
Des frais seront prelev茅s pour couvrir l'usage des collections d'enseignement et les accessoires (loupe, aimant, bouteille d'acide chlorhydrique dilu茅, plaque de porcelaine) essentiels 脿 l'identification des min茅raux pendant les travaux pratiques.
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EPSC 225 Properties of Minerals (1 credit)
Overview
Earth & Planetary Sciences : Survey of the physical and chemical properties of the main mineral groups. Discussion of their relationships to the chemical composition and structure of minerals. The practical exercises emphasize the physical and chemical properties that relate to industrial uses and environmental issues, and the identification of hand specimens.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Paquette, Jeanne (Winter)
Winter
1 hour lecture, 1 hour laboratory
Restriction: Open to Engineering students only
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EPSC 210
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FACC 100 Introduction to the Engineering Profession (1 credit) **
Overview
Faculty Course : Introduction to engineering practice; rights and code of conduct for students; professional conduct and ethics; engineer's duty to society and the environment; sustainable development; occupational health and safety; overview of the engineering disciplines taught at 海角社区.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Frost, David (Fall) Chen, Lawrence (Winter)
(1.5-0-1.5)
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FACC 250 Responsibilities of the Professional Engineer
Overview
Faculty Course : A course designed to provide all Engineering students with further training regarding their responsibilities as future Professional Engineers. Particular focus will be placed on three professional characteristics that future engineers must demonstrate: i) professionalism, ii) ethical and equitable behaviour, and iii) consideration of the impact of engineering on society and the environment.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Razavinia, Nasim (Fall) Razavinia, Nasim (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open to undergraduate students registered in the Bioengineering, Bioresource Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Software Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) programs. Not open to U0 (Year 0)students.
(0-0-0.5)
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FACC 300 Engineering Economy (3 credits)
Overview
Faculty Course : Introduction to the basic concepts required for the economic assessment of engineering projects. Topics include: accounting methods, marginal analysis, cash flow and time value of money, taxation and depreciation, discounted cash flow analysis techniques, cost of capital, inflation, sensitivity and risk analysis, analysis of R and D, ongoing as well as new investment opportunities.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Jassim, Raad (Fall) Jassim, Raad (Winter) Jassim, Raad (Summer)
(3-1-5)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 310.
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FACC 400 Engineering Professional Practice (1 credit)
Overview
Faculty Course : Laws, regulations and codes governing engineering professional practice. Responsibility and liability. Environmental legislation. Project and organization management. Relations between engineer and client. Technical practice - analysis, design, execution and operation.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Kirk, Andrew (Fall) Ozcer, Pinar (Winter)
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MATH 262 Intermediate Calculus (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Series and power series, including Taylor's theorem. Brief review of vector geometry. Vector functions and curves. Partial differentiation and differential calculus for vector valued functions. Unconstrained and constrained extremal problems. Multiple integrals including surface area and change of variables.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: B茅langer-Rioux, Rosalie; Khanfir, Robin; Madou, Kodjo (Fall) Roth, Charles (Winter)
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MATH 263 Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : First order ODEs. Second and higher order linear ODEs. Series solutions at ordinary and regular singular points. Laplace transforms. Linear systems of differential equations with a short review of linear algebra.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Lin, Jessica; Martine, Gabriel (Fall) Trudeau, Sidney; B茅langer-Rioux, Rosalie (Winter)
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MATH 264 Advanced Calculus for Engineers (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Review of multiple integrals. Differential and integral calculus of vector fields including the theorems of Gauss, Green, and Stokes. Introduction to partial differential equations, separation of variables, Sturm-Liouville problems, and Fourier series.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Roth, Charles (Fall) Jakobson, Dmitry (Winter)
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MECH 289 Design Graphics (3 credits)
Overview
Mechanical Engineering : The design process, including free-hand sketching; from geometry construction to engineering construction; the technology and standards of engineering graphic communication; designing with CAD software. The role of visualization in the production of engineering designs.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Stagnitta, Vincenzo (Fall) Stagnitta, Vincenzo (Winter)
(3-3-3)
Restrictions: Students must be in Year 1 (U1) or higher. Not open to students in Mechanical Engineering.
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WCOM 206 Communication in Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
WCOM : Written and oral communication in Engineering (in English): strategies for generating, developing, organizing, and presenting ideas in a technical setting; problem-solving; communicating to different audiences; editing and revising; and public speaking. Course work based on academic, technical, and professional writing in engineering.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Baskind, Alana; Sundberg, Ross; Branco Cornish, Patricia; Besanger, Kendra; Sacks, Steven; Longman, Madelaine; Golish, Aaron; Babyn, Andr茅; Pathak, Kumar Sundaram; Hung, Yvonne; Valencourt, Quinn (Fall) Sundberg, Ross; Baskind, Alana; Valencourt, Quinn; Golish, Aaron; Branco Cornish, Patricia; Babyn, Andr茅; Sacks, Steven; Pathak, Kumar Sundaram (Winter) Sundberg, Ross (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CCOM 206. Only open to students in degree programs.
Limited enrolment.
Because this course uses a workshop format, attendance at first class is desirable.
* Note: Students choose either COMP 208 or COMP 250.
** Note: FACC 100 (Introduction to the Engineering Profession) must be taken during the first year of study.
Required Mining Engineering Courses (47 credits)
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MIME 200 Introduction to the Minerals Industry (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Economic importance of the minerals industry. Mining: legislation, regulations, criteria for exploiting an ore: mining methods, equipment. Extractive metallurgy: mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy. Environmental protection.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hassani, Ferri; Navarra, Alessandro; Mitri, Hani; Kumral, Mustafa; Waters, Kristian; Sasmito, Agus; Kokkilic, Ozan; Paray, Florence (Fall)
(3-3-3)
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MIME 203 Mine Surveying (2 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Introduction to surveying. Definitions and mathematics. Measurement of levels, angles and distances. Fundamentals of control surveying. Underground mine surveying. GPS and laser applications.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Shnorhokian, Shahe (Summer)
(3-3-0)
Prerequisite: MECH 289
**Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
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MIME 209 Mathematical Applications (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Introduction to stochastic modelling of mining and metallurgical engineering processes. Description and analysis of data distributions observed in mineral engineering applications. Modelling with linear regression analysis. Taylor series application to error and uncertainty propagation. Metallurgical mass balance adjustments.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Amegadzie, Mark (Winter)
(3-2-4)
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MIME 260 Materials Science and Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Structure properties and fabrication of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites; engineering properties: tensile, fracture, creep, oxidation, corrosion, friction, wear; fabrication and joining methods; principles of materials selection.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Lee, Jinhyuk; Paray, Florence (Fall) Yue, Stephen; Paray, Florence (Winter)
(2-2-5)
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MIME 322 Fragmentation and Comminution (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Principles of drilling, penetration rates, and factors affecting the choice of drilling method. Characteristics of explosives, firing systems and blast patterns. Blasting techniques in surface and underground workings. Special blasting techniques at excavation perimeters. Vibration and noise control. Mechanical and continuous approaches to fragmentation, including longwall shearing and fullface boring. Economics of drill/blast practice, interface with transport and crushing systems, drivers for mine-to-mill integration including energy considerations. Modelling of fragment and particle size distributions; comminution as a transfer function. Comminution technology: crushing, grinding, size classification. Integrated analysis of fragmentation and comminution operations.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Navarra, Alessandro (Winter)
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MIME 323 Rock and Soil Mass Characterization (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Characteristics of soil and rock masses and the stability of mine workings. Mechanical properties of rocks and soils related to physical/chemical properties. Characterization of rock mass discontinuities. Laboratory and in-situ techniques to define mechanical properties of soils, rocks and discontinuities. Permeability and groundwater flow principles. In-situ stresses and their measurement. Rock mass quality and classification systems.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Fadaei Kermani, Mehrdad (Winter)
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MIME 325 Mineral Industry Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Geographical distribution of mineral resources. Production, consumption and prices of minerals. Market structure of selected minerals. Economic evaluation aspects: grade-tonnage considerations; capital and operating cost estimation; assessment of market conditions; estimation of revenue; taxation; sensitivity and risk analyses; economic optimization of mine development and extraction.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Winter)
(3-2-4)
Prerequisite: FACC 300.
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MIME 333 Materials Handling (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Physical and mechanical characteristics of materials related to loading, transport and storage. Dynamics of particles, systems and rigid bodies, mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum. Types and selection of excavation and haulage equipment. Layout of haul roads. Rail transport. Conveyor belts and chain conveyors. Mine hoists. Layout of mine shafts.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Sasmito, Agus (Winter)
(3-3-3)
Prerequisite: MIME 200
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MIME 340 Applied Fluid Dynamics (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Flow analysis and manometry. Conservation of mass and momentum. Flow in pipes and ducts, analysis of pipe networks. First and second law of thermodynamics and their applications. Open channel flows. Dimensional analysis and similitude. Flow measurements. Settling and separation of particles. Non-Newtonian flow and slurry transport. Fluidized beds. Filtration of liquid/solid mixtures. Conduction heat transfer. Convection heat transfer. Principle of heat exchanger.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ouzilleau, Philippe (Fall)
(3-3-3)
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MIME 341 Introduction to Mineral Processing (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Theory and practice of unit operations including: size reduction-crushing and grinding; size separation-screening and classification; mineral separation-flotation, magnetic and gravity separation. Equipment and circuit design and selection. Mass balancing. Laboratory procedures: grindability, liberation, magnetic and gravity separation, flotation and solid-liquid separation.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Waters, Kristian; Kokkilic, Ozan (Winter)
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MIME 413 Strategic Mine Planning With Uncertainty (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Strategic decision-making for mine planning given uncertain metal supply from orebodies and commodity demand. Stochastic optimization techniques in mine design and production scheduling. Uncertainty quantification and orebody representation. Stochastic mine optimization in applications from open pit and underground metal mines. Introduction to sustainable development and utilization of mineral resources.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos G; Faria, Matheus (Fall)
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MIME 419 Surface Mining (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Choice of a surface mining method. Analysis of soil and rock mass properties related to surface mining. Calculation and monitoring of stripping ratios, ultimate pit depth, slope stability, rock reinforcement, bench and berm dimensioning and ramp design. Loading and hauling systems. Surface layout and development. Water drainage systems. Production and cost analysis. Computerized design techniques.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Summer)
(3-3-3)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MIME 322, MIME 333 and MIME 325
**Regular schedule May 10, 2021, to June 21, 2021
**Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.
*Although this course follows a Monday/Wednesday class schedule pattern, there will be a lecture on Friday, May 26th.
**This course will be held on July 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 29, 31, August 5, 7, 12, 14, 19 and 21st.
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MIME 422 Mine Ventilation (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Statutory regulations and engineering design criteria. Occupational health hazards of mine gases, dusts, etc. Ventilation system design. Natural and mechanical ventilation. Measuring and modelling air flow in ventilation networks. Calculation of head losses. Selection of mine ventilation fans. Air heating and cooling. Aspects of economics.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Sasmito, Agus (Summer)
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MIME 425 Applied Stochastic Orebody Modelling (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Representing uncertainty in orebody models and shortcomings of conventional methods including reserve reporting and mine planning. Stochastic spatial sequential simulation methods. Joint simulation of multiple correlated elements. Simulation material types. Introduction to geometallurgical modelling. Additional drilling, reserve classification, grade control and mine planning optimization. Risk quantification in life-of-mine production schedules.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos G; Yao, Lingqing (Fall)
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MIME 426 Mine Design and Prefeasibility Study (6 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : A case study design exercise. Design and selection of the facilities required to start production. Use of design criteria dictated by mining plans, geography, geology and government regulations. Professional appraisal of the technical and economic prefeasibility of developing a mineral deposit. Students prepare a professional-level report and seminar presentation.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Mitri, Hani (Fall)
Complementary Courses
31-32 credits
17 credits from one of Stream A or Stream B
Stream A - CEGEP Students
CEGEP students must take the following courses:
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MPMC 321 M茅canique des roches et contr么le des terrains (3 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : Pressions de terrains au pourtour des excavations: solutions analytiques et num茅riques. Stabilit茅 des excavations souterraines et 脿 ciel ouvert: analyse des instabilit茅s structurales par projection st茅r茅ographique m茅ridienne, analyse des instabilit茅s caus茅es par les exc猫s de contraintes. Sout猫nement. Surveillance. 脡tudes de cas.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Fall)
(3-3-3)
Pr茅requis : MIME 323
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MPMC 326 Recherche op茅rationnelle I (3 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : Logistique mini猫re. Mod猫les de localisation optimale: Steiner, HAP, construction it茅rative. Mod猫les de d茅termination des contours optimaux des exploitations 脿 ciel ouvert: conventionnels, Lerchs et Grossman, Ford et Fulkerson. Programmation dynamique et mod猫les d'optimisation du taux de production et de la teneur de coupure. Mod猫les de planification: cheminement critique et PERT, programmation lin茅aire et non-lin茅aire, th茅orie des graphes. Mod猫les de capacit茅: th茅orie des files d'attente, simulation, silos et stockage. Mod猫les de m茅lange.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Fall)
(3-3-3)
笔谤茅谤别辩耻颈蝉: MATH 262.
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MPMC 328 Environnement et gestion des rejets miniers (3 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : Effets du milieu de travail sur l'homme (hygi猫ne du travail) : l茅gislation; contraintes thermiques, probl猫mes de bruit, de contaminants gazeux et de poussi猫res; techniques de mesures. Effets de l'exploitation d'une mine sur le milieu (environnement et 茅cologie) : l茅gislation; 茅tudes d'impacts; effluents miniers: origine, nature et traitement des effluents; entreposage des r茅sidus; restauration des sites.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Summer)
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MPMC 329 G茅ologie mini猫re (2 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : M茅thodes de cartographie mini猫re, de sondages et d'茅chantillonnage. Notion de teneur de coupure, calcul des r茅serves par les m茅thodes conventionnelles. 脡valuation des r茅serves par les m茅thodes g茅ostatistiques.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Fall)
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MPMC 330 G茅otechnique mini猫re (3 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : Propri茅tes m茅caniques des mat茅riaux meubles. Conception d'empilements et de digues de r茅tention pour les mat茅riaux miniers. Conception de structures enfouies. Probl猫mes particuliers avec les r茅sidus miniers: liqu茅faction, d茅position, etc. 脡coulement gravitaire des mat茅riaux meubles.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Fall)
(3-3-3)
Pr茅requis : MIME 323.
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MPMC 421 Exploitation en souterrain (3 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : 脡tude des caract茅ristiques des principales m茅thodes d'abattage utilis茅es en souterrain. M茅thodes d'analyse simplifi茅e d'un gisement quant 脿 son exploitation en fosse ou en souterrain. Dimensionnement des ouvrages et choix des 茅quipements. Calculs des quantit茅s, des 茅quipements et des co没ts reli茅s aux excavations souterraines. Conception d'un circuit de remblai hydraulique.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Summer)
* Mining courses taken at Polytechnique Montr茅al
Stream B - Non-CEGEP Students
Non-CEGEP students must take the following courses:
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CIVE 208 Civil Engineering System Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Introduction to civil engineering systems; system modelling process; systems approach and optimization techniques; application of linear programming; simplex method; duality theory; sensitivity analysis; transportation problem; assignment problem; network analysis including critical path method; integer linear programming method.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Yu, Jiangbo (Fall)
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MIME 329 Mining Geology (2 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Methods of field mapping (e.g., geology, structure), drilling and sampling; concept of cut-off grade; resource estimation by conventional and geostatistical methods.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Shnorhokian, Shahe (Fall)
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MIME 330 Mining Geotechnics (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Properties of soils; permeability and seepage; effective stress concept; compressibility and settlement; lateral earth pressure; soil compaction; stability and design of embankments and mine tailings dams; problems related to mine tailings: liquefaction and disposal; gravitational flow of soils; buried structures.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Shnorhokian, Shahe; Hassani, Ferri (Fall)
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MIME 421 Rock Mechanics (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Stresses around excavations: analytical and numerical solutions. Stability of underground and surface excavations: structural instability analysis with stereonet, instability due to high stress. Rock supports. Monitoring. Case studies.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Shnorhokian, Shahe; Mitri, Hani (Fall)
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MIME 424 Underground Mining Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Fundamentals of underground mining methods; orebody characteristics and host rock; drilling and blasting procedures; general and specialized equipment; mining method selection criteria; cost estimation; calculation of cut-off grade, ore recovery and dilution; mine developments and underground infrastructure: raises, chutes, loading pockets, dump points, raises, and ore bins; mine safety practice.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Shnorhokian, Shahe (Summer)
Restriction(s): Not open to students from CEGEP entry or who have taken MPMC 421.
(3-3-3)
**Monday May 18 is a statutory holiday; therefore the instructor will make up for the class on Friday May 22nd.
**Wednesday June 24th is a statutory holiday; therefore the instructor will make up for the class on Friday June 26th.
**Wednesday July 1st is a statutory holiday therefore the instructor would like to make up for the class on Friday July 3rd.
**Regular schedule of MW is May 20th, May 25th, May 27th, June 1st, June 3rd, June 8th, June 10th, June 15th, June 17th, June 22 & June 29, 2020.
**This course will be held on May 22, 24, 27, 29, June 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 21, 26, 28 & July 3rd.
**Although this course follows a MW class schedule, there will be a class on Friday, July 11th.
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MIME 428 Environmental Mining Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Effect of mining on the environment: ecology, legislation, effluents and wastes, environmental impact. Acid mine drainage: prediction, treatment, prevention, control. Mineral processing agents. Solid wastes. Mine site closure, reclamation and monitoring. Economic aspects. Environmental practices.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Navarra, Alessandro (Summer)
Technical Complementaries (8-9 credits)
List A
3-9 credits must be chosen from the following:
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MIME 320 Extraction of Energy Resources (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : The extraction of energy resources, i.e. coal, gas, oil and tar sands. After a brief geological review, different extraction techniques for these substances will be discussed. Emphasis on problems such as northern mining and offshore oil extraction with reference to Canadian operations. Transportation and marketing.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hassani, Ferri (Fall)
(3-0-6)
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MIME 442 Analysis, Modelling and Optimization in Mineral Processing (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Tools and methods of process analysis, modelling and optimization using flotation and comminution examples: sampling theory and statistics, data reconciliation, statistical experimental design. Kinetic models of flotation and comminution; simulation software. Residence time distributions: tanks-in-series and axial dispersion models. Combined flotation/comminution models. Introduction to geostatistics and data mining.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(3-1.5-4.5)
Prerequisite: MIME 341
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MIME 484 Mining Project (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : A mining research project to be completed during one semester. The project must be approved by an academic advisor. A comprehensive report and a seminar presentation are required for the project.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Shnorhokian, Shahe (Fall) Shnorhokian, Shahe (Winter) Shnorhokian, Shahe (Summer)
(0-0-9)
Prerequisite(s): 85 credits completed (non-CEGEP students) or 60 credits completed (students from a CEGEP background).
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MIME 511 Advanced Subsurface Ventilation and Air
Conditioning (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Fundamentals of air flow in underground mines. Thermodynamics of mine ventilation. Gases, dust, fire and Radon control. Thermal comfort. Mine heat transfer. Refrigeration systems, Ventilation-on-Demand. Optimization of mine ventilation design.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Sasmito, Agus (Winter)
(3-0-6).
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
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MIME 514 Sustainability Analysis of Mining Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Concepts of sustainability analysis applied to mining projects. Case studies topics selected from: Stakeholder Engagement and Participation; Biodiversity and Conservation Management; Mine Water Management; Tailings and Waste Rock Management. Relationship between risk management and life-cycle assessment. Mass balancing and logistical modeling applied within the mining value chain, with an emphasis on sustainability. Quantification of systemic balances between environmental, economic and social indicators, using geostatistical simulations, discrete event simulation, and multi-objective optimization techniques.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Navarra, Alessandro (Winter)
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MIME 520 Stability of Rock Slopes (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Properties of structural discontinuities. Influence of geological structures on slope stability. Kinematic analysis. Limit equilibrium methods. Empirical methods. Numerical modelling. Slope stabilization and monitoring. Case studies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Mitri, Hani (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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MIME 527 Selected Topics in Mineral Resource Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : A comprehensive study of selected topics in the mineral resource sector.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos G (Fall)
(1-0-8)
Prerequisite: 65 credits (if admitted as U1) or 85 credits (if admitted as U0)
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MIME 529 Automation of Mining Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Foundational approach to mining automation, including aspects of artificial intelligence, robotic motion and digital communications technology, with connections to mining case studies. Mining system modelling applied to rock cutting, materials transport, and bunkerage, pitch, yaw and roll steering of mining machines. Control and robotics: digitization, discrete systems, sensors, actuators and real time algorithms. Data communication in mines. Simulation exercises.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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MIME 544 Analysis: Mineral Processing Systems 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : The course covers three main topics: principles of separation, including data presentation, properties of recovery/ yield plots, technical and economic efficiency and identification of limits to separation; column flotation, hydrodynamics of collection and froth zones, mixing, scale-up and design, measurements and control; surface and electrochemistry, including absorption, surface charge, coagulation, electron transfer reactions, electrochemistry in plant practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(2-3-4)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MIME 341
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MIME 545 Analysis: Mineral Processing Systems 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Gold recovery (as a Professional Development Seminar): methods of recovery (gravity, flotation, cyanidation), refractory gold (roasting, pressure oxidation, bacterial leaching), dissolved gold recovery (Merrill-Crowe) and activated carbon methods. Sampling: definition of errors, sample extraction, size, and processing. Mass balancing: basic considerations, definition of networks, software. Blending: auto-correlation functions, transfer functions, blending systems. Effect of feed variability.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(4-2-3)
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MIME 341
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MIME 588 Reliability Analysis of Mining Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Statistics and probability theory used in reliability. Reliability analysis, measure and networks. Reliability prediction, modelling and testing. Concepts of preventive and corrective maintenance. Reliability based maintenance. Control and management of reliability systems. Quality and safety associated with maintenance analysis. Inventory control. Reliability based optimization.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Summer)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
**Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.
List B
0-6 credits can be chosen from the following or from other technical courses in Engineering, Management or Science with department approval.
Note: Not all courses are given annually; see the "Courses" section of this eCalendar to know if a course is offered.
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CIVE 416 Geotechnical Engineering (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Earth pressure theory, retaining walls, sheet pile walls, braced excavations. Slope stability analysis. 2D flow through isotropic and anisotropic soils. Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundations, stress distribution. Deep foundations, single pile, pile groups. Geotechnical investigation and reports.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Meguid, Mohamed (Winter)
(3-3-3)
Prerequisite: CIVE 311
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CIVE 421 Municipal Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Design of water-related municipal services; sources of water and intake design; estimation of water demand and wastewater production rates; design, construction and maintenance of water distribution, wastewater and stormwater collection systems; pumps and pumping stations; pipe materials, network analysis and optimization; storage; treatment objectives for water and wastewater.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Ozcer, Pinar (Fall)
(3-3-3)
Prerequisite: CIVE 327
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CIVE 573 Hydraulic Structures (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Hydraulic aspects of the theory and design of hydraulic structures. Storage dams, spillways, outlet works, diversion works, drop structures, stone structures, conveyance and control structures, flow measurement and culverts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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CIVE 584 Mechanics of Groundwater Flow (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Origins and types of groundwater; Darcy's law; hydraulic anisotropy; conservation laws; fundamental equations of porous media flow; Laplace's and Poisson's equations: analytical solution of potential flow problems; determination of hydraulic conductivity; flow in unconfined and confined acquifers; seepage modelling; unsaturated flow; transient flows in porous media; introduction to computational methods.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(3-1.5-4.5)
Prerequisite: CIVE 311 or Permission of Instructor.
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COMP 417 Introduction Robotics and Intelligent Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Computer Science (Sci) : This course considers issues relevant to the design of robotic and of intelligent systems. How can robots move and interact. Robotic hardware systems. Kinematics and inverse kinematics. Sensors, sensor data interpretation and sensor fusion. Path planning. Configuration spaces. Position estimation. Intelligent systems. Spatial mapping. Multi-agent systems. Applications.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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EPSC 303 Structural Geology (3 credits)
Overview
Earth & Planetary Sciences : Primary igneous and sedimentary structures, attitudes of planes and lines, stress and strain, fracturing of rocks, faulting, homogeneous strain, description and classification of folds, foliation and lineation, orthographic and stereographic projections.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Boianju, Inga (Winter)
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EPSC 320 Elementary Earth Physics (3 credits)
Overview
Earth & Planetary Sciences : Physical properties of Earth and the processes associated with its existence as inferred from astronomy, geodesy, seismology, geology, terrestrial magnetism and thermal evolution.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Chien, Justin Shih-Han (Fall)
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EPSC 325 Environmental Geochemistry (3 credits)
Overview
Earth & Planetary Sciences : The basic concepts and calculations needed to quantitatively understand the geochemical processes occurring between minerals and waters in Earth鈥檚 near-surface environment. The important concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics will be exemplified using examples that concentrate on reactions between minerals and water and their impact on the environment.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Baker, Don (Winter)
Prerequisites: CHEM 110 or some familiarity with the basic principles of the periodic table (high school/cegep general chemistry is acceptable), or permission of the instructor
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EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits)
Overview
Earth & Planetary Sciences : Introduction to groundwater flow through porous media. Notions of fluid potential and hydraulic head. Darcy flux and Darcy's Law. Physical properties of porous media and their measurement. Equation of groundwater flow. Flow systems. Hydraulics of pumping and recharging wells. Notions of hydrology. Groundwater quality and contamination. Physical processes of contaminant transport.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: McKenzie, Jeffrey (Winter)
Winter
3 hours lectures
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor
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FINE 482 International Finance 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Finance : The international financial environment as it affects the multinational manager. Balance of payments concepts, adjustment process of the external imbalances and the international monetary system. In depth study of the institutional and theoretical aspects of foreign exchange markets; international capital markets, including Eurobonds and eurocredit markets.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Carrieri, Francesca (Fall) Madan, Sujata (Winter)
Prerequisite: MGCR 341
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MIME 290 Industrial Work Period 1 (2 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : A four-month work period in the mineral industry, to expose the student to an industrial environment. Candidates will receive basic industrial training. A complete report must be submitted at the end of the term.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Navarra, Alessandro (Fall) Navarra, Alessandro (Winter) Navarra, Alessandro (Summer)
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MIME 556 Sustainable Materials Processing (3 credits)
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Sustainability, population and environment impact, environmental impact indicators, materials flows, enthalpy flows, the carbon cycle, materials intensity, energy intensity, global warming potential, acidification potential, FACTOR-Two, -Four and -Ten, life-cycle-inventory/assessment, end-of-pipe strategies, supply-chain and flow-sheet redesign, recycling, waste treatment and materials case studies.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(3-1-5)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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MPMC 320 CAO et informatique pour les mines (3 credits) *
Overview
海角社区/Poly Mining Coop : Pr茅sentation de techniques informatis茅es et de logiciels permettant d'appliquer l'informatique dans le cadre des diverses op茅rations reli茅es 脿 l'exploitation des mines. Utilisation de logiciels de support: chiffrier 茅lectronique, traitement de texte, 茅diteur graphique, utilitaires de DOS. Utilisation de graphisme, de traceurs 脿 plumes, de tablettes num茅risantes, d'interfaces pour capteurs analogique/num茅rique et num茅rique/analogique. Notions de g茅om茅trie descriptive appliqu茅es 脿 des probl猫mes miniers.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Kumral, Mustafa (Fall)
(2-3-4)
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SEAD 515 Climate Change Adaptation and Engineering Infrastructure
(3 credits)
Overview
SEAD : Climate resilience and sustainability of engineering systems such as the built environment and engineering infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, possible mitigation and adaptation strategies and associated challenges and opportunities. Review of the basic principles that underpin the science of climate change; the role of global and regional climate models in predicting the behaviour of the climate system in response to different forcing scenarios, and the use of climate model outputs in support of across scale climate-resilience of various engineering systems including infrastructure systems.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Sushama, Laxmi (Fall)
(3-0-6)
Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
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SEAD 520 Life Cycle-Based Environmental
Footprinting
(3 credits)
Overview
SEAD : Introduction to Life Cycle-Based Environmental Footprinting and the application of basic methods for life-cycle environmental inventory and impacts modeling. LCA theory and quantitative analysis, approaches for assessing and reducing the environmental impacts of product, process, and technology systems. System boundary and functional unit design approaches, process-based and input-output-based methods for modeling mass and energy flows in life-cycle systems. How LCA can facilitate sustainable technology innovation and deployment, behavioural and societal changes, and policies, standards and regulations.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Jordaan, Sarah (Fall)
(3-0-6)
Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
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SEAD 550 Decision-Making for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (3 credits)
Overview
SEAD : Role and importance of engineering decisions of environmental, social, and economic problems and the application of decision-making approaches and tools to engineering sustainability. Multi-criteria decision-making, uncertainty analysis, game theory, sustainability metrics, life cycle analysis evaluation and impact assessment methodologies, design problem formulation, stage-dependent strategies, case studies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Sushama, Laxmi (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.
* Mining course taken at the Polytechnique Montreal
Complementary Studies (6 credits)
Group A - Impact of Technology on Society
3 credits from the following:
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kraichati, Cyntia (Winter)
Winter
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BTEC 502 Biotechnology Ethics and Society (3 credits)
Overview
Biotechnology : Examination of particular social and ethical challenges posed by modern biotechnology such as benefit sharing, informed consent in the research setting, access to medical care worldwide, environmental safety and biodiversity and the ethical challenges posed by patenting life.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction: U3 and over.
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ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Horner, Herv茅 Robert (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425
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ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : The course focuses on the economic implications of, and problems posed by, predictions of global warming due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Attention is given to economic policies such as carbon taxes and tradeable emission permits and to the problems of displacing fossil fuels with new energy technologies.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Cairns, Robert D (Winter)
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ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : This course deals with how scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional and behavioural factors mediate society-environment interactions. Issues discussed include population and resources; consumption, impacts and institutions; integrating environmental values in societal decision-making; and the challenges associated with, and strategies for, promoting sustainability. Case studies in various sectors and contexts are used.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Badami, Madhav Govind; Cardille, Jeffrey; Garver, Geoffrey (Fall)
Fall
Section 001: Downtown Campus
Section 051: Macdonald Campus
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GEOG 200 Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Introduction to geography as the study of nature and human beings in a spatial context. An integrated approach to environmental systems and the human organization of them from the viewpoint of spatial relationships and processes. Special attention to environmental problems as a constraint upon Third World development.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Fall
3 hours
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GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Chmura, Gail L; MacDonald, Graham; Knox, Sara (Fall)
Fall
3 hours
Restriction: Because of quantitative science content of course, not recommended for B.A. and B.Ed. students in their U0 year.
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GEOG 205 Global Change: Past, Present and Future (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : An examination of global change, from the Quaternary Period to the present day involving changes in the physical geography of specific areas. Issues such as climatic change and land degradation will be discussed, with speculations on future environments.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Chmura, Gail L (Winter)
Winter
3 hours
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GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Harris, Sarah (Fall)
3 hours
Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in Geography or MSE or BIOL 308 or permission of instructor.
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MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits) *
Overview
Management Policy : This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Melville, Donald (Fall) Robitaille, Jad (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits)
Overview
Philosophy : An investigation of ethical issues as they arise in the practice of medicine (informed consent, e.g.) or in the application of medical technology (in vitro fertilization, euthanasia, e.g.)
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Hirose, Iwao (Fall)
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RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Chandler, Katie; Newing, Gregory (Winter)
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SOCI 235 Technology and Society (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : An examination of the extent to which technological developments impose constraints on ways of arranging social relationships in bureaucratic organizations and in the wider society: the compatibility of current social structures with the effective utilization of technology.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Wang, Skyler (Winter)
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SOCI 312 Sociology of Work and Industry (3 credits)
Overview
Sociology (Arts) : The development of the world of work from the rise of industrial capitalism to the postindustrial age. Responses of workers and managers to changing organizational, technological and economic realities. Interrelations between changing demands in the workplace and the functioning of the labour market. Canadian materials in comparative perspective.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Eidlin, Barry (Winter)
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URBP 201 Planning the 21st Century City (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : The study of how urban planners respond to the challenges posed by contemporary cities world-wide. Urban problems related to the environment, shelter, transport, human health, livelihoods and governance are addressed; innovative plans to improve cities and city life are analyzed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
(3-1-5)
* Note: Management courses have limited enrolment and registration dates. See Important Dates at .
Group B - Humanities and Social Sciences, Management Studies and Law
3 credits at the 200-level or higher from the following departments:
Anthropology (ANTH)
Economics (any 200- or 300-level course excluding ECON 227 and ECON 337)
History (HIST)
Philosophy (excluding PHIL 210 and PHIL 310)
Political Science (POLI)
Psychology (excluding PSYC 204 and PSYC 305, but including PSYC 100)
Religious Studies (RELG) (excluding courses that principally impart language skills, such as Sanskrit, Tibetan, Tamil, New Testament Greek, and Biblical Hebrew) ***
School of Social Work (SWRK)
Sociology (excluding SOCI 350)
OR
3 credits from the following:
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ARCH 528 History of Housing (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Indigenous housing both transient and permanent, from the standpoint of individual structure and pattern of settlements. The principal historic examples of houses including housing in the age of industrial revolution and contemporary housing.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Adams, Annmarie (Fall)
(2-0-7)
Prerequisite: ARCH 251 or permission of instructor
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BUSA 465 Technological Entrepreneurship (3 credits) *
Overview
Business Admin : Concentrating on entrepreneurship and enterprise development, particular attention is given to the start-up, purchasing and management of small to medium-sized industrial firms. The focal point is in understanding the dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs, resolving them, developing a business plan and the maximum utilization of the financial, marketing and human resources that make for a successful operation.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: An, Kwangjun (Fall) An, Kwangjun (Winter)
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CLAS 203 Greek Mythology (3 credits)
Overview
Classics : A survey of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kozak, Lynn (Winter)
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ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Introduction to cultural perspectives on the environment: the influence of culture and cognition on perceptions of the natural world; conflicts in orders of knowledge (models, taxonomies, paradigms, theories, cosmologies), ethics (moral values, frameworks, dilemmas), and law (formal and customary, rights and obligations) regarding political dimensions of critical environments, resource use, and technologies.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Kosoy, Nicolas; Freeman, Julia (Fall) Hirose, Iwao; Janzwood, Amy (Winter)
Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
Section 001: Downtown Campus
Section 051: Macdonald Campus
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ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Students work in interdisciplinary seminar groups on challenging philosophical, ethical, scientific and practical issues. They will explore cutting-edge ideas and grapple with the reconciliation of environmental imperatives and social, political and economic pragmatics. Activities include meeting practitioners, attending guest lectures, following directed readings, and organizing, leading and participating in seminars.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Kosoy, Nicolas; Freeman, Julia (Fall) Sieber, Renee; Horner, Herv茅 Robert; Janzwood, Amy (Winter)
Fall - Macdonald Campus; Winter - Downtown
Section 001: Downtown Campus
Section 051: Macdonald Campus
Prerequisite: ENVR 203
Restriction: Open only to U3 students, or permission of instructor
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FACC 220 Law for Architects and Engineers (3 credits)
Overview
Faculty Course : Aspects of the law which affect architects and engineers. Definition and branches of law; Federal and Provincial jurisdiction, civil and criminal law and civil and common law; relevance of statutes; partnerships and companies; agreements; types of property, rights of ownership; successions and wills; expropriation; responsibility for negligence; servitudes/easements, privileges/liens, hypothecs/ mortgages; statutes of limitations; strict liability of architect, engineer and builder; patents, trade marks, industrial design and copyright; bankruptcy; labour law; general and expert evidence; court procedure and arbitration.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Crowe, Joshua (Fall)
(3-0-6)
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FACC 500 Technology Business Plan Design (3 credits)
Overview
Faculty Course : This course combines several management functional areas such as marketing, financial, operations and strategy with the skills of creativity, engineering innovation, leadership and communications. Students learn how to design an effective and winning business plan around a technology or engineering project in small, medium or large enterprises.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Wong, Derrick (Fall)
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FACC 501 Technology Business Plan Project (3 credits)
Overview
Faculty Course : Students work in teams to develop a comprehensive business plan project based on a technological or engineering innovation while utilizing site visits.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Wong, Derrick (Winter)
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HISP 225 Hispanic Civilization 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Jouve-Martin, Jose (Fall)
Fall
Taught in English
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HISP 226 Hispanic Civilization 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Hispanic Studies (Arts) : A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Jouve-Martin, Jose (Winter)
Winter
Taught in English
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INDR 294 Introduction to Labour-Management Relations (3 credits) *
Overview
Industrial Relations : An introduction to labour-management relations, the structure, function and government of labour unions, labour legislation, the collective bargaining process, and the public interest in industrial relations.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Westgate, Chantal (Fall)
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INTG 215 Entrepreneurship Essentials for Non-Management Students (3 credits) **
Overview
INTG : Fundamental concepts, theories, and practices of entrepreneurship. Focus on identifying opportunities, developing business ideas, and understanding key components of starting and managing a business.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Aronovitch, Aviva (Fall) Aronovitch, Aviva (Winter)
Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 non-Management students. Not open to students in the Desautels Faculty of Management.
Limited enrolment; priority registration for students in Minors in Entrepreneurship. Note: this course is not part of the Desautels Minor in Management for Non-Management students.
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MATH 338 History and Philosophy of Mathematics (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Fortier, J茅r么me (Fall)
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MGCR 222 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour (3 credits) *
Overview
Management Core : Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Gordon, Sarah; Ody, Amandine; Blanchette, Simon (Fall) Mackey, Jeraul; Dakhlallah, Diana; Galperin, Roman; Findlay, Sylvia Miriyam (Winter)
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MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing (3 credits) *
Overview
Management Core : Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Etemad, Hamid; Aronovitch, Aviva; Cyrius, Fabienne; Blanchette, Simon (Fall) Dor茅, Bruce; Zhao, Clarice (Winter)
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ORGB 321 Leadership (3 credits) *
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Leadership theories provide students with opportunities to assess and work on improving their leadership skills. Topics include: the ability to know oneself as a leader, to formulate a vision, to have the courage to lead, to lead creatively, and to lead effectively with others.
Terms: Fall 2024, Summer 2025
Instructors: Westgate, Chantal (Fall) Westgate, Chantal (Summer)
Prerequisite: MGCR 222 or permission of Instructor and approval of the BCom Program Office.
Restrictions: Restricted to U2 and U3 students.
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ORGB 423 Human Resources Management (3 credits) *
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Issues involved in personnel administration. Topics include: human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance appraisal, organization development and change, issues in compensation and benefits, and labour-management relations.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Gauvin, Tatiana (Fall)
Prerequisite: MGCR 222 or permission of the instructor and approval of the B.Com. Office.
Requirement for the Institute of Internal Auditors
* Note: Management courses have limited enrolment and registration dates. See Important Dates at .
** INTG 215 is not open to students who have taken INTG 201 and INTG 202.
*** If you are uncertain whether or not a course principally imparts language skills, please see an adviser in the 海角社区 Engineering Student Centre (Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 22) or email an adviser.
Note regarding language courses: Language courses are not accepted to satisfy the Complementary Studies Group B requirement, effective for students who entered the program as of Fall 2017.