University of Calgary : Energy Engineering ENER

Energy Engineering ENER

ENER 200 240 260 300 330 340 350 360 400 425 460 480 560 570

For more information about these courses, see the Schulich School of Engineering.

Junior Courses

Energy Engineering 200

Engineering Design and Innovation

An interdisciplinary course involving the application of engineering principles to the design and analysis of energy engineering systems through a sequence of team-based projects; introduction to process plant equipment; commercial software for steady-state simulation; engineering drawings; process selection and synthesis; plantwide process control; safety and hazard assessments.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-3)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.
Antirequisite(s): Credit for Energy Engineering 200 and Engineering 200 will not be allowed.

Energy Engineering 240

Introductory Dynamics for Energy Engineering

Calculus with applications to dynamics. Kinematics of particles undergoing rectilinear and curvilinear motion. Analysis of the kinetics of particles by direct use of Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy methods, and impulse and momentum methods.
Course Hours: 3 units; (4-3)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 260

Statics for Energy Engineering

Force vectors; equilibrium of a particle in two and three dimensions; force system resultants; equilibrium of a rigid body in two and three dimensions; internal forces in trusses; frames, machines and beams; bending moment and shear force diagrams; friction; centre of gravity; centroids of areas; composite bodies.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1.5T)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Senior Courses

Energy Engineering 300

Engineering Design and Energy Policy

Introduction to the mechanical, petroleum, and energy engineering profession, fundamentals of energy engineering design, testing, and product development; problem solving skills development; oil and gas standards, intellectual property protection, project management; regulatory issues; public policy. Case studies and projects may be drawn from a range of energy engineering areas.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-3)
Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 200 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 330

Design of Energy Systems and Computing

Modelling and design of energy systems such as photovoltaic system, power system and thermal system. Use of computing tools to explore system dynamics, conduct simulation and test design concepts.
Course Hours: 2 units; (2-2)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 340

Dynamics for Energy Engineering I

Systems of particles. Kinematics of rigid bodies. Rotation and translation. Torque and angular momentum. Moment of inertia. Two-dimensional dynamics of rigid bodies. Applications of mathematics to dynamics including first-order ordinary differential equations, integrating factor, separable and exact equations, second-order ordinary differential equations, characteristic equation and variation of parameters method, and series solutions of ordinary differential equations.
Course Hours: 3 units; (4-2)
Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 240 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 350

Computing Tools for Energy Engineers

The application of computer tools to solve practical Energy Engineering problems; fundamentals of engineering computing including algorithm development, selection of appropriate tools, documentation of solutions, and verification and interpretation of results; applications using engineering analysis and spreadsheet tools; numerical methods; fundamentals of engineering graphics and computer aided design including technical drawing conventions used in the energy industry, dimensioning and tolerances; applications using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-3)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 360

Mechanics of Materials for Energy Engineering

Internal forces in trusses, beams, shafts, frames and machines. Axial-force, shear-force, bending-moment and internal-torque diagrams. The concept of stress. Normal and shear components in a co-ordinate system. The concept of strain and its components. Stress-strain relations. Elasticity. Hooke’s law and its generalization. Stress and deformation of uniaxially loaded members. Stress and deformation in the torsion of shafts of a circular cross section. Stress and deformation in transversely loaded beams of a symmetric cross section. General analysis of plane stress. Principal stresses. Mohr’s circle. Stress in structures subjected to combine loading.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2T-2)
Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 260 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 400

Engineering Design and Economics

Design of chemical and oil & gas processing units and plants; cost estimates and chemical process economics; identifying market needs and commercialization considerations; Safety and environmental considerations in process design; critical thinking and problem solving skills development; case studies and projects may be drawn from a range of energy engineering areas.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-3)
Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 200 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 425

Electricity, Magnetism and Electrical Circuits

Electric charges and electric current; Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, application to simple circuits; Definitions of electric and magnetic fields. Introduction to circuit theory: DC circuits, amplifiers, operational amplifiers, single and three phase AC circuits. Introduction to basic electronic devices.
Course Hours: 3 units; (4-2)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 209 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 460

Dynamics for Energy Engineering II

Planar kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies; work, energy, impulse and momentum of rigid bodies; kinematics, statics, and dynamics of planar mechanisms; design of cams, gears, and gear trains.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T)
Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 240 and 260 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 480

Energy Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Basic principles of mechanics of fluids; properties of fluids; fluids at rest; pressure measuring devices; dimensional analysis; the laws of conservation of mass and momentum; Bernoulli's equation for incompressible flow and the energy equation; flow measurements; differential analysis of fluid flows; the Navier-Stokes equations; elementary pipe flow problems including losses, pumps, etc.; forces on immersed bodies; applications to a variety of problems in energy engineering.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-3/2)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 201 or 212; and Energy Engineering 340 or Mathematics 331; and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 560

Energy Engineering Thermodynamics

Review of the principles of the first and second law of thermodynamics; application to the properties of fluids and solutions; vapour liquid and chemical equilibria; applications such as engine gas cycles including simple gas turbines; gas turbines with reheat, intercooling and heat exchange, heat-pump and refrigeration cycles.
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-2)
Prerequisite(s): Engineering 311 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

Energy Engineering 570

Automation and Controls

Linear systems and their characteristics; the Laplace transform, block diagram manipulation, frequency response, application to first and second order physical systems; analysis and design of sensors and actuators; industrial automation systems, programmable logic controllers (PLC), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS).
Course Hours: 3 units; (3-1T-3/2)
Prerequisite(s): Energy Engineering 340 or Mathematics 331; and Energy Engineering 425 and admission to the BSc Energy Engineering program.

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