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Course Requirements for Graduate Diplomas

Graduate Diploma in Design:

Mandatory courses:

Course Instructors
ME 680 Advanced Design Engineering S. Lambert
O. Nespoli
ME 681 Advanced Design Engineering- Design Project 1* O. Nespoli
ME 682 Advanced Design Engineering- Design Project 2* O. Nespoli
*Mandatory Courses must be taken in sequence  

Specific Courses (1 from the following list):

Courses Instructors
ME 538 Welding Design, Fabrication & Quality Control

N. Tam
N. Zhou
ME 555 Computer-Aided Design S. Bedi
B. Khamesee
ME 559 Finite Elements Methods K. Inal
N. Chandrashekar
ME 561 Fluid Power Control A. Khajepour
E. Toyserkani
ME 566 Computational Fluid Dynamics For Engineering Design C. Devaud
F.S. Lien
Four more graduate level, engineering courses,
with a maximum of two 500 level courses, subject
to the approval of the department.		  

Communications Course:

Choose one of the following communication courses:

EMLS 601R Professional Spoken English
EMLS 602R Scholarly Writing in English

Course availability per term can be found by clicking on the following links:
600 & 700 level
500 level

Graduate Diploma in Fire Safety:

Mandatory courses:

Course Instructors
ME 671 Fundamental Fire Dynamics E. J. Weckman
ME 672 Advanced Fire Dynamics E. J. Weckman
ME 673 Fire Modeling E. J. Weckman

Specific courses (5 from the following list):

Course Instructors
CIVE 601 Risk Analysis M. Pandey
ME 720 Special Topics in Solid Mechanics:  Fire Resistance V. Kodur
ME 765 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics:  Advanced
Concepts in Design for Fire Safety 1 & 2		 E. J. Weckman
V. Kodur

ME 765 Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics: Smoke
Movement*

 E. J. Weckman
D. Torvi
ME 770 Special Topics in Numerical Methods, Fluid Flow
and Heat Transfer:  Fire Testing		 E. J. Weckman
D. Torvi
ME 770 Special Topics in Numerical Methods, Fluid Flow
and Heat Transfer:  Fire Risk Analysis		 E. J. Weckman
J. Watts
*As enrolment merits  

Communications Course:

Choose one of the following communication courses:

EMLS 601R Professional Spoken English
EMLS 602R Scholarly Writing in English

Course availability per term can be found by clicking on the following links:
600 & 700 level
500 level

Graduate Diploma in Green Energy:

Mandatory course:

Course Instructors
ME 659 Energy and Environment R. Fraser
X. Li

Specific courses (3 from the following list):

Course Instructors
ME 738 Special Topics in Materials:  Hydrogen Storage
Materials		 R. Varin
ME 751 Fuel Cell Technology X. Li
ME 753 Solar Energy M. Collins
J. Wright
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering:  Low Energy
Building Systems (1)		 D. Mather
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering:  Building Energy Performance (2) D. Mather
ME 760 Special Topics in Thermal Engineering:  Biofuels &
Bioenergy		 Z. Tan
ME 765 Special Topics in Numerical Methods, Fluid Mechanics:
Wind Energy		 D. Johnson
Four more graduate level, engineering courses,
with a maximum of two 500 level courses, subject
to the approval of the department.		  

Communications Course:

Choose one of the following communication courses:

EMLS 601R Professional Spoken English
EMLS 602R Scholarly Writing in English

Course availability per term can be found by clicking on the following links:
600 & 700 level
500 level