Course Descriptions

This course includes two concurrent modules. Module 1 introduces students to the profession of engineering and life as an engineering student. The course will allow students to learn, apply and reflect upon strategies for success in engineering in areas including: well-being, group dynamics, conflict resolution, time management, goal setting, planning, studying, problem solving and academic honesty. Module 2 introduces students to important aspects of the culture and worldviews of Indigenous Peoples and contextualizes the engineering profession within those worldviews. The course will introduce students to the engineer's legal and moral duty to consult with affected communities and examples of historical and contemporary influences of Indigenous worldviews on technology and engineering design. There is also discussion about the importance of inclusion of, and respect for, all people.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): BIOL 102.1; GEOL 102.1; PHYS 152.1; and CHEM 142.1.

This course introduces the history and scope of the engineering profession, including the concepts of professionalism and ethics. Students will discover the academic and career options available to them and will set out their career goals and a plan to reach them. Students will also complete health and safety training relevant to engineering practice.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s): GE 102.2.

This course will provide students with an opportunity to have a meaningful experience in engineering programs offered at the University of Saskatchewan. Students will attend lectures, seminars, and/or laboratory experiences for a total of 6 hours per day for each of the five days. Students will work individually and/or in groups to perform course activities.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2.

This course considers particle dynamics and begins with particle kinematics under arbitrary acceleration. Particle kinetics is then addressed including force-acceleration, work-energy, and impulse-momentum principles. A series of practical laboratories are designed to help the student apply the principles of dynamics to practical problems.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2 and MATH 133.4.
Note: There will be costs in addition to tuition fees. Students with credit for GE 125 will not receive credit for this course.

This course is an introduction to statics for particles and rigid bodies in two and three dimensions. Applications involving the analyses of simple trusses, frames, and machines are introduced. Dry friction is also introduced. A series of practical laboratories are designed to help the student apply the principles of statics to practical problems.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s): GE 122.2
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): MATH 134.3.
Note: There will be costs in addition to tuition fees. Students with credit for GE 124 will not receive credit for this course.

This course introduces students to written Technical Communication and to Drawing & Sketching. The Technical Communication I module focuses on developing students' communication awareness in the areas of referencing, coherency, and editing. The Drawing & Sketching module focuses on 2D and 3D isometric and orthographic drawings, as well as dimensioning and scaling.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2
Note: Students with credit for GE 121 will not receive credit for this course.

This course introduces students to oral technical communication (including teaching), CAD, poster presentations, and technical research. The Technical Communication II module focuses on developing oral communication skills and self/peer teaching abilities. The CAD module introduces students to AutoCAD and basic CAD skills. The Technical Communication III module focuses on report editing and technical poster presentation, while the Research module introduces students to literature reviews, and basic data analyses of data sets from real research labs.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) GE 132.1

This course introduces students to Engineering Design. The Design I course focuses on the early stages of design characterized by problem identification, acceptance, definition, and characterization. This will include the determination of design functions, criteria/objectives and constraints/requirements. Students will engage in a group project to identify and characterize an engineering design problem of their own choosing.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2 and GE 132.1
Note: Costs in addition to tuition will apply. Students with credit for GE 121 or GE 142 will not receive credit for this course.

This course introduces students to Engineering Design. The Design I course focuses on the early stages of design characterized by problem identification, acceptance, definition, and characterization. This will include the determination of design functions, criteria/objectives and constraints/requirements. Students will engage in a group project to identify and characterize an engineering design problem of their own choosing.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2 and GE 132.1
Note: There will be costs in addition to tuition fees. Students with credit for GE 121 or GE 140 will not receive credit for this course.

This course introduces students to Engineering Design, building on the Design I course. Design II focuses on the later stages of conceptual design characterized by ideation, concept evaluation, and concept selection. In groups, students will undertake one of a set of design problems from a variety of engineering disciplines, including multidisciplinary problems. Ultimately, students will implement a proof of concept of their solution, and they will present their progress in a Design Recommendation Report.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s): GE 140.1 and Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 103.1 and GE 133.2.
Note: There will be costs in addition to tuition fees.

Students will be introduced to the basic properties of direct-current electrical circuits: voltage, current, resistance, and power. Students will learn to analyze series and parallel resistive direct-current circuits by applying: Kirchhoff's laws, Ohm’s laws, mesh and node analysis, superposition, and Thevenin’s and Norton’s Theorems.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2 and MATH 133.4 and GE 172.1
Note: There will be costs in addition to tuition fees. Students with credit for EE 204 will not receive credit for this course.

This course focuses on the analysis of basic alternating-current (AC) electrical circuits and the calculation of the flow of real, reactive and apparent power. There is also exploration of other electrical engineering topics, including electrical safety, power distribution systems, batteries and energy storage, electric motors and generators, and renewable power generation systems.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) GE 152.1
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): MATH 134.3 and PHYS 156.3
Note There will be costs in addition to tuition fees. Students with credit for EE 204 will not receive credit for this course.

This course presents the concepts of process engineering and applies them to a wide array of systems. Basic process engineering tools are developed in the first half of the course that are then used to solve complex process systems in the second half. The course is designed to appeal to many sectors of the engineering profession. Examples are taken from many process systems including, but not limited to: manufacturing; geological systems; health care; food production; environmental systems; financial systems; biological systems; water treatment; and unit operations.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Engineering.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): MATH 134.3 and CHEM 146.3
Note: There will be costs in addition to tuition fees.

This course introduces students to computation and programming using Matlab. Students will learn the Matlab interface and how to conduct I/O, plot data in 2 dimensions and solve simple linear systems using matrix data types. Students will learn how to develop algorithms and apply basic programming skills to create programs that solve simple computational problems. This includes good structuring, documenting and formatting of programs. Students will also be introduced to advanced features available in Matlab.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GE 102.2 and MATH 133.4

Introduces the student to the concepts of descriptive statistics, probability, continuous and discrete probability distributions, hypothesis testing, and empirical models and regression. Examples are from various fields of engineering.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): MATH 124.3 (taken) or MATH 133.4.
Note:Students with credit for PLSC 314 or PLSC 214 or STAT 245 or CHE 311 will not receive credit for this course.

Building upon the concepts introduced in the courses in statics and dynamics and the properties of engineering materials, this course extends equilibrium analysis to deformable bodies. Emphasis is placed on understanding and applying the three fundamental concepts of solid mechanics - equilibrium, constitutive relationships, and geometry of deformation (compatibility). The fundamentals are introduced and reinforced in the context of specific behaviors, including axial tension and compression, pure bending, bending in combination with shear, and torsion of circular shafts. Transformation of stress in two dimensions is introduced.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): GE 123.3 or GE 124.3.
Note: Students with credit for CE 213 may not receive credit for this course.

Offered occasionally to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

An introduction to engineering economics and decision analysis. Topics include: fundamental economic concepts, cost concepts, time value of money operations, comparison of alternatives, depreciation and income tax, economic analysis of projects in the public and private sectors; break-even analysis, sensitivity and risk analysis, decision models.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): EN Two Year Common Core.

This course integrates entrepreneurship with engineering design, in equal measure. Students will be tasked with identifying an entrepreneurial opportunity in the technology environment, pursuing it in terms of defining the opportunity (needs analyses, problem definition, market analysis), and developing a value-added solution to the problem.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 30 credit units at the university level
Note: Students with credit for GE 430 and GE 831 will not receive credit for this course.

Designed to create an awareness of the diverse and often-contradictory impacts of science and technology on society. The consequences of current technological changes and those of the recent past are explored from a professional ethics point of view to illustrate the complexities of technological-societal interrelationships.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 45 credit units from EN Senior Courses.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): EN Three Year Common Core.

This is a course on the management of technology innovation. It explores the processes by which technology is developed, and how those processes can be managed to garner successful business outcomes. The course covers theories of tech innovation and of how to manage such processes, as well as case studies of successes and failures. Students will learn how to develop their own plan for managing technology that they develop and innovate.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Students with credit for GE 850 will not receive credit for this course.

This course includes a survey of key aspects of Canadian intellectual property law and intellectual property-related international undertakings. It is meant for non-law students. Included will be discussions on substantive intellectual property regimes such as copyright, industrial design, integrated circuit topographies, trademarks, patents, and, perhaps, plant breeder’s rights (depending upon class composition). Also considered will be laws of confidential information and trade secrecy, means of transferring intellectual properties and other transactions, remedies for circumstances of infringement, and pertinent University of Saskatchewan policies.

Weekly hours: 1 Lecture hours

This is a seminar course featuring guest speakers. The guest speakers will present on tech innovation, most often in a Saskatchewan context, but not exclusively. The goal of the course is to inspire would-be tech innovators and to provide them with wisdom and knowledge to help them in their journey.

Weekly hours: 1 Lecture hours
Note: This course may be taken for credit more than once, provided the topics are different.

This course is a 4th year engineering design capstone experience. What makes it distinct from other disciplinary 495 capstone courses is that the students in GE 495.6 identify and develop their own design problems. They can also form multidisciplinary teams in order to tackle their design problems. Students will identify and characterize a design problem, show that it is valid, and then proceed to design a solution to the design problem using engineering design methods. This course is for those that seek a more entrepreneurial design experience.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Permission of the Home Department is required.
Note: Students must obtain permission from both the course instructor and their home department prior to registering in this course. For engineering students, this course should only be taken in the final year of their program. Students with credit for the Special Topics offering of GE 498, entitled “Social Entrepreneurship/Innovation Design” will not receive credit for this course.

This course is a 4th year engineering design elective experience. What makes it distinct from other disciplinary design elective courses is that the students in GE 496.3 identify and develop their own design problems, or they help multidisciplinary design groups that are doing so. Students will identify and characterize a design problem, show that it is valid, and then proceed to design a solution to the design problem using engineering design methods or they will assist a design team of students from one or more other disciplines. This course is for those that seek a more entrepreneurial design experience as a design or technical elective.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Permission of the Home Department is required.
Note: Students must obtain permission from both the course instructor and their home department prior to registering in this course. For engineering students, this course should only be taken in the final year of their program.

Offered occasionally to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours

Offered occasionally to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

This course provides students with hands-on, project-based experience in building Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship. Teams will prepare high-level conceptual product/service designs, robust business models, and pitch decks ready for fundraising and recruitment. The course can also prepare students for incubator applications such as SIGMA Skill Accelerator, Co.Launch, Cultivator, and Y Combinator.

Note: This course is hybrid with GE 431. This course cannot be taken for credit after previously taking GE 431.

This course will focus on the practices and processes driving the leading edges of innovation practice. It explores the processes for developing technological innovation, as well as the strategies for successful business outcomes.

Note: This course is a hybrid course with GE 450, and this course cannot be taken for credit after previously taking GE 450.

Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.

As required, graduate students in the Graham School of Professional Development will present at the SoPD Graduate Student Research Symposium once per academic year. This seminar course gives graduate students the opportunity to present their work.

Students writing a Ph.D. thesis must register for this course.