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Distance - Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment 98-Civ-B5 ...ewater Treatment Physical, chemical, and microbiological characteristics of water and wastewater. Regulation of water quality for supply and discharge, elements of receiving water characterization and specification of effluent limits. Elements of water and wastewater treatment including, coagulation, flocculation, filtration, settling, softening, disinfection, fluoridation, taste and odour  more...

Distance - Transportation Planning and Engineering 98-Civ-A6 98-Civ-A6 Transportation Planning and Engineering Socio-economic impacts on transportation, demand modelling. Characteristics of transportation systems; rail, road, air, water, and pipelines. Transportation systems in Canada. Characteristics of traffic flow, queuing theory, capacity analysis, space-time diagrams. Urban traffic management, traffic signals, pedestrians, accidents. Intelligent  more...

Distance - Environmental Engineering 98-Civ-A3 ...and energy-use, as causes of environmental pollution. The characteristics of particles, chemistry of solutions and gases, material balances, reaction kinetics, microbiology and ecology, as related to the environment. The application of environmental principles (technical and non-technical) to: water resource management, water and wastewater treatment, air pollution control, solid waste  more...

Distance - Aero and Space Flight 07-Mec-B7 ...characteristics relating to flight; measurement of air speed. Prediction of 2-D lift and drag using momentum and pressure methods; boundary layers and friction drags; dimensional analysis and wind tunnel measurements pertaining to lift and drag; induced drag and total airplane drag. Propulsion systems: turbo-fan and propeller/ engine combinations; propulsion efficiency; thrust/ power  more...

Distance - Energy Conversion and Power Generation 07-Mec-B3 ... Energy Conversion and Power Generation Fuel sources and characteristics: hydrocarbon fuels, nuclear fission, fusion fuels and fuel cells. Fuel reserves. Applications of steam and gas cycles for large-scale commercial power generation; theory and practice of fossil boilers, nuclear reactors, steam and gas turbines, hydroturbines, and fuel cells. Methods of improving conversion efficiency of  more...

Distance - Environmental Control in Buildings 07-Mec-B2 07-Mec-B2 Environmental Control in Buildings Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning: Psychrometrics, heating load, cooling load, comfort, ventilation, and room air distribution. Humidifying and dehumidifying, duct and fan design, piping and pump design. Heating, ventilating and cooling systems, and components. Refrigeration. Noise control: Sound wave characteristics, measurement instruments.  more...

Distance - Biomechanics 04-Bio-A4 07-Mec-B13 ...echanics (04-Bio-A4) The musculoskeletal system; general characteristics and classification of tissues and joints. Elastic and viscoelastic mechanical characterization of biological tissues including bone, cartilage, ligament and tendon. Principles of viscoelastic and the rate sensitivity of biological materials. The stress-strain-time or constitutive equations for soft connective tissue  more...

Distance - Fluid Machinery 07-Mec-A6 ...chinery Dimensional analysis and similitude. Performance characteristics. Specific speed and machine selection, idealized velocity diagram. System characteristics and operating point and matching a pump to a piping system. System regulation, momentum and energy transfer, thermodynamic analysis, and efficiency definitions. Two-dimensional cascade analysis and performance. Application to pumps,  more...

Distance - Electro-Optical Engineering 07-Elec-B10 07-Elec-B10 Electro-Optical Engineering Optical transmission: waveguide modes, fibre optic propagation characteristics. Optoelectronics: lasers, sources and detectors, couplers, modulators, guided wave devices. Applications.  more...

Distance - Water and Wastewater Engineering 04-Env-A4 ...Characteristics of water: physical, chemical and biological parameters, standard methods of water analyses, biodegradable waste and agricultural runoff in streams, population forecasting, prediction of water demand and wastewater generation, water and wastewater quality, water and wastewater treatment plants and systems: physical, chemical and biological systems, primary, secondary and tertiary  more...

Distance - Mechanics of Fluids 04-BS-7 ...characteristics, dimensions and units, flow properties, and fluid properties; the fundamentals of fluid statics, engineering applications of fluid statics; the one-dimensional equations of continuity, momentum, and energy; laminar and turbulent flow, flow separation, drag and lift on immersed objects; wall friction and minor losses in closed conduit flow; flow of incompressible and compressible  more...

Distance - Electric Circuits and Power 04-BS-4 04-BS-4 Electric Circuits and Power Basic laws, current, voltage, power; DC circuits, network theorems, network analysis; simple transients, AC circuits. Impedance concept, resonance; use and application of phasors and complex algebra in steady-state response; simple magnetic circuits; basic concepts and performance characteristics of transformers; an introduction to diodes and transistors;  more...

Distance - Biology 04-BS-13 04-BS-13 Biology Cellular reproduction, growth, and differentiation; metabolism and bioenergetics of living cells; cell structure and function related to the material properties of plant and animal tissues; introductory microbiology a characteristics and classification of microorganisms; interactions of microorganisms with man in the natural world; kinetics and mathematical models of microbial  more...

Distance - Properties of Materials 04-BS-11 04-BS-11 Properties of Materials Properties of materials for mechanical, thermal and electrical applications. Atomic bonding, solid solutions, crystallisation. Equilibrium phase diagrams, applications to steel and aluminium alloys, heat treatments. Structure and special properties of polymers and ceramic materials. General characteristics of metallic composites, polymeric composites and concrete.  more...