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Undergraduate courses
CIVL 451 - Lake, Reservoir and Coastal Engineering
The fundamental hydraulic processes regulating lake hydrodynamics, reservoir operation and coastal engineering are discussed. Topics include wave theory, wave measurement, wave record analysis, wave transformation, seiches, tides, storm surges, turbulent mixing and transport of pollutants. Student projects are assigned on computational reservoir modeling, analysis of field data and reservoir operation as well as the design of breakwaters and ocean structures and the use of hydraulic and numerical coastal models. Prerequisites: CIVL 350 or permission of the instructor.
CIVL 350 - Hydraulics II
Topics in open channel flow including friction, specific energy, free-surface profiles, culverts and hydraulic-jump energy dissipaters. Lake dynamics and environmental hydraulics will be introduced. The basic underlying concepts of water resources and hydrology will be discussed. (0/5/0/10/33)
CIVL 260 - Civil Engineering Design I
The objectives of this introductory course are: to introduce students to engineering design and the challenges and excitement of the civil engineering profession; to develop written and oral communications skills; to develop an appreciation and ability for teamwork, creativity and time/project management; to develop skills in idea generation, creative problem solving, and research; and to develop skills in using computer applications in engineering design and analysis. The course exposes students to civil engineering design through case studies and group projects. Students are expected to learn about the design process through practice and, where possible, through implementation. Design projects are team-based and as such students need to learn how to work effectively with their peers. Sketching and AutoCAD are also be introduced and used. The design principles and concepts introduced will be used in follow-on courses throughout students' degrees. (0/0/12/12/24)
Graduate courses
CIVL 852 - Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Topics to include: conservation equations for turbulent flows; wall-bounded shear flows; spectral dynamics; measurement and modelling of mixing and dissipation in stratified flows; stability of stratified flows; linear, nonlinear and dispersive waves; internal wave breaking; convection. Theory will be discussed with reference to field observation, computational and laboratory modelling of lake and ocean flows. Three term-hours, winter.
CIVL 855 (Subtopic) - Hydrodynamics of Lakes, Reservoris and Coastal Oceans
This introductory level graduate course covers the fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics processes occurring in lakes, reservoirs and coastal oceans. Topics include: wave theory, wave measurement, wave record analysis, wave transformation, seiches, Rossby, Kelvin and Poincare waves, Ekman dynamics, tides, storm surges, nonlinear internal waves, turbulent dissipation and mixing.