Course Calendar

An introduction to nanotechnology engineering and its various applications from electronics to biology. Basic concepts related to nanomaterials and devices, fabrication approaches, and characterization methods. Introduction to engineering iterative design, computer aided design (CAD) and modelling. Application of CAD methods in relevant nanotechnology engineering problems. Engineering report preparation skills. [Offered: F]

Areas of research and professional practice in nanotechnology engineering; exposure to concepts from other engineering plans; support material for the 1A academic term. [Offered: F]

Introduction to types of nanomaterials hazards their identification, toxicity, and characterization; exposure health-risk assessment; cancer and non-cancer risks. Areas of research and professional practice in nanotechnology engineering; exposure to concepts from other engineering plans; support material for the 1B academic term, including aspects of co-operative education and professional or career development.

Areas of research and professional practice in nanotechnology engineering; exposure to concepts from other engineering plans; support material for the 1B academic term, including aspects of co-operative education and professional or career development. [Offered: W]

Nanotechnology in society; health and environmental sustainability; engineering ethics, policies, and regulations; Canadian legal system, tort, and intellectual property; examples of nanotechnology innovation and commercialization. [Offered: F]

Nanomaterial impacts on worker, consumer, and environmental health. Engineered nanomaterials and ultrafines. Chemical risk assessment. Nanomaterial exposure characterization. Introductory nanotoxicology. Environmental chemical impacts, transport, and bio-accumulation. Human risks, and benefits. Introductory epidemiology, including study design, strength of association, bias, confounding and causal inference. [Offered: W]

Introduction to programming and numerical computing using a high-level interpreted programming language. Programming fundamentals, computer architecture, design and use of functions, strings and text input/output, relational operators, conditionals, lists, loops, designing algorithms, numerical computing, plotting, and file input/output.

Matrices, operations on matrices. Determinants. Adjoints and inverses. Solution of linear equations: elimination and iterative methods. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors with engineering applications. Complex numbers. [Offered: F]

Spreadsheets for problem solving, plotting, fitting data. Problem solution plotting, and creating complex programs in an engineering prototypical programming environment. Elementary numerical methods: Taylor-series summations, roots of equations, roots of polynomials, direct and indirect solution methods for systems of linear, and nonlinear algebraic equations, integration. Applications in nanotechnology engineering. [Offered: W]

Chemical reactions. Mass and charge balance. Introduction to the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics. Chemical equilibrium. Applications of chemical equilibrium principles to proton-transfer reactions. Electronic structure of atoms and molecules. Periodicity and chemical bonding. [Offered: F]

Fundamentals of crystalline structure, crystal defects, and noncrystallinity. Structure and properties of metals, ceramics, glasses, amorphous materials, polymers, and composites. Processing and concepts of engineering design of materials. [Offered: W]