Refresh your skills with this course in computer programming. This course will examine the essentials for working with different computer languages while at UNB. Review the fundamentals of creating programs. The emphasis is on the underlying structure and assumptions of computer programming to give you tools to apply computer programming to various engineering technical concentrations. Covers use of functions, decisions, loops, arrays and other data types focusing on scientific and engineering problem analysis, algorithm design, and procedural program structure. By the end of the class, you will have a working knowledge of how to assess an engineering problem, plan out a solution using computer programming, and implement and debug the solution.

Be ready to roll into graduate work with this math refresher. This course will review the essentials so that you are able to move quickly and achieve success in the MEngLDI program. This is not a course for learning engineering math. This course is meant as a review. It is intensive and focused. Go over engineering math to get back up to speed with your new classmates. Feel confident as you prepare for the program start.

Gain the capacity for better leadership decision making by visualizing, linking, and presenting information in meaningful ways. Better use of data enables leaders to visualize patterns in the past, present, and future while also telling the story behind the information. Use data to make more informed decisions and manage risk. Predict trends. Know better the needs of clients and customers to innovate effectively. Learn how to collect, curate, manipulate, encode, and store data sets so they can be analyzed and mined to solve present and future challenges of climate change, advances in manufacturing, population health and well-being.

Everyone designs. Investigate the process including creative thinking, clarifying problems within physical and human contexts, connecting empathetically with users, solution-driven ideation, specification and development, implementation, testing and evaluation. Examine and critically evaluate case studies in varied sectors to see how design approaches can differ and how they remain the same. Describe your own design approach. Construct a plan for the design studio project.

Put your new skills to work. Devise an innovative solution as a team participant, with a real problem and a real client. Negotiate, scope, manage and deliver on all aspects of a significant design project. Develop your project in the context of other peer teams to review output and process for their projects. Ensure that your work is both client specific and aware of the larger context of global issues. Utilize a design innovation process to map out your teamwork. Final project includes a design strategy and plan for deliverables, actions taken, evaluation and testing, and iterative process for your system, product, or process.

The continuation and culmination of the team project from studio 1. Students present final projects in an engineering design symposium.

The world is in a race to decarbonize economies and energy systems due to the climate crisis. Investigate how this will determine the future of energy production, and how to supply energy to developed and developing economies. Analyze the climate data and vulnerabilities going forward. Explore the social, political, and economic context of energy production, distribution, and storage including decentralized, and regionalized systems. Investigate issues of energy security in the transition and the options for accelerating a transition to avoid catastrophic outcomes. Outline the opportunities and build your technical stream on a solid understanding of modern, decarbonized energy systems.

The 4th industrial revolution is reshaping how things are made. Identify how converging technologies challenge existing manufacturing processes and open opportunities for better design, use of materials, new materials, and more sustainable and human-centred approaches. Place the future of making things within the social, economic and political contexts challenged by the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and an aging demographic. Explore the drive towards customizable production, the use of digital software and twins, 3D printing, automation and robotics, and the use of Al to move manufacturing to a new level.

The world is in the midst of a great energy shift as we seek to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Investigate planetary thermodynamics as a basis for creating climate resilient energy systems. Explore renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, small­scale hydro, tidal, geothermal, and bio/electro-chemical, as well as their role in the overall energy system. Examine the benefits and liabilities of various renewable technologies including the emissions involved in their manufacture and end-of-life waste management. Analyze energy system reliability, storage, and efficiency. Apply thermodynamic principles and fundamentals of energy conversion to create realistic and operational energy systems. Distinguish the role of renewables in a larger energy system within a context of historical and contemporary policy making.

Explore the sustainable world of nuclear power including conventional, Small Modular Reactor (SMR), General IV and fusion technologies. Focus primarily on SMR’s and their integration with Gen IV power systems including Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR), Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR), Molten Salt Reactor (SFR), and Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR). Examine sustainability and economic goals that reduce GHG emissions, provide stability, and responsibly manage waste, while providing safe, cost effective, and secure energy generation. Distinguish how advanced nuclear can work with renewable energy generation to create resilient energy networks.

Environmental regulations seek to constrain and reduce human-made pollution while increasing safety and security for workers and consumers. Explore the history of regulations and their relationship to social, environmental, and political concerns. Examine risks and vulnerabilities in the context of the law and liabilities. Investigate the details of regulations in different energy industries from oil & gas to nuclear, and various renewables. Understand the context of regulations and their application.

Cover the design, structure, and principles of operating various switch-mode and resonant power electronic converters (PECs), along with their control techniques. Investigate increased industry demand for several types and topologies of PEC's and their controllers. Assess the wide range of applications for PECs including power systems and renewable power systems. Design and model different controllers in different reference frames. Use the lab component along with design cases, projects and term papers to dig deeper. Write technical papers and research with literature reviews.

Look at several types of renewable energy conversion and utilization systems, the conversion systems required to utilize the separate loads from solar, wind, ocean currents, tidal waves, geothermal, biomass forms of generation. Cover current and industrial renewable energy system sizing, system design, modeling, and control. Examine Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS), and ways to model and control wind energy. Investigate PV systems, hybrid systems, grid connected and stand-alone systems. This includes energy storage for intermittent power generation. Examine tidal power systems along with wave energy converters, ocean current systems and hybrid energy system sizing. Explore more in the lab along with design cases, projects and term papers.

Investigate the modelling, simulation, and analysis of the optimum cost solution for economic operation of power systems on an hour-by-hour basis. Explore theoretical elements with detailed analysis. Use commercial simulation packages such as ETAP for large scale optimal power flow solutions. Dig deep into different forms of generation and transmission, constraints and options, integration of intermittent sources, market structures and calculations and more to calculate how to optimize energy with increased future demand.

Dive into the modelling, simulation, and analysis of the stability of power systems. Create models for all power system components with reference to the IEEE and IEC standards for modelling, and typical parameter selection. Do detailed analyses of theoretical elements. Use commercial simulation packages such as ETAP for large scale power stability modeling.

Gain an in-depth understanding of advanced digital technologies used in the built environment. Investigate key concepts, tools and techniques used in the field of construction and design, including Building Information Modeling (BIM), virtual reality, augmented reality, big data analytics, and simulation. Take an overview of the basics of digital technologies in the built environment, including the importance of data management, data modeling, and analysis. Think critically about the role of technology in the built environment and its potential impact on society. Apply the concepts and techniques learned in the course to real-world design and construction projects.

Explore the principles of design for equitable and sustainable communities. Strategize how to empower communities by promoting inclusive, universal, and accessible design. Use multi-disciplinary projects to develop scalable solutions for building sustainable and equitable communities.

Explore in-depth emerging construction materials that are revolutionizing the construction industry. Investigate the fundamental principles and properties of advanced construction materials and their applications in various construction projects. Learn about the latest materials, such as sensors and actuators, and their potential impact on the construction industry. Discuss the role of advanced construction materials in decarbonizing the construction industry and achieving a circular economy. Research the challenges and opportunities of using advanced construction materials in the industry, including their cost, availability, and sustainability, e.g., the impact of those materials on the environment and society and to develop strategies to mitigate potential risks.

Get an overview of the energy implications associated with the design, construction, and operation of buildings. Understand how to implement energy considerations into projects from the initial planning/design stage through to construction and operation. Explore the integration of energy efficiency into the planning process, selection of energy efficient building materials, low energy construction techniques, sustainable building technologies, green buildings, net-zero buildings, decarbonization, and passive solar designs. Examine the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building framework and certification process for the development of healthy, efficient, and cost-saving green buildings. Use case studies to illustrate the impacts of energy efficient choices in building design and construction.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of material manufacturing technologies such as forging, rolling, extrusion, deep drawing, wire drawing, welding, and additive manufacturing. Explore the latest advancements and emerging trends in the field of manufacturing, with a focus on practical applications.

Start exploring additive manufacturing technologies. Discuss seven different additive manufacturing technologies to process various materials including metals and alloys, polymers and plastics, ceramics and concrete, and composite materials. Consider eight steps to design, process, and post process a part using an additive manufacturing technique. Practice design for additive manufacturing with a new object or reverse engineer an existing part.

Gain a holistic comprehension of the fundamental principles, properties, characterization techniques, and a wide range of applications for advanced materials in different industries. Explore various groups of advanced materials, including composites, polymers, ceramics, metals, and nanomaterials, and their manufacturing methods. Consider sustainability and environmental impact in materials selection and manufacturing processes while building skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork.

Automation can reduce errors, employ safer material handling, and manage waste better. Explore how industry can make use of various new technologies from robots to computer software applications that control machinery and processes. See how skilled use and application of various tools of automation can improve quality and flexibility in the manufacturing process. Examine the benefits and the downsides that require mitigation for this 4th industrial revolution including the Industrial Internet of Things (lloT). Research how to best apply the multiple technologies available to pinpoint manufacturing solutions with fixed, programmable, flexible and integrated automation.

Leadership is about mobilizing others toward a shared goal. Understand the foundations of leadership theory and practice. Explore various leadership theories and models and their applications across different contexts. Analyze leadership stories and engage in actions that help develop the skills required to lead and facilitate innovation and change within organizations. Explore effective leadership within a context of physical, social, and economic global change. Understand how to lead by example and action especially on workplace safety and risk management issues. Create a personal leadership development growth plan.

Innovation takes place within diverse systems. Gain new perspectives for problem solving moving beyond singular events to understand patterns and the systems that support them. Examine how systems impact the possibilities for change and innovation. Learn how to map and influence systems in terms of their purpose, members or parts, and feedback. Understand organizational level systems, and how external systems may constrain them. Access system tools to enhance decision making, problem solving, and design innovation both to lead organizational change and maintain stability as needed.

Engineers lead others within and beyond organizations. Gather all the skills developed for leadership and management and consider how to apply them to the larger world. Examine the problems facing communities in many contexts due to climate change, shifts in manufacturing, and aging and expanding populations. Explore how to organize and lead teams within organizations and in informal settings to problem solve and achieve needed outcomes. Take engineering and innovation to new levels and places to become a positive force for the future.

A corporate culture of creativity supports innovation. Identify and remove barriers to creativity and innovation within an organization. Encourage teams that are effective, inspired, agile, able to learn, and develop creatively. Create an organizational culture that allows for and nurtures new ideas and their application. Know what cultivates innovative thinking and what sabotages it. Release your own creative thinking to be an innovative leader.

Innovation and change can feel like a crisis in an organization. Increase your interpersonal and organizational skills to influence and lead. Improve personal leadership and communication styles to connect better with co-workers, supervisors, clients, and other organization leaders. Practice how to communicate and lead during a period of crisis or change within an organization and externally in a wider context. Gain confidence and skills to enable innovation within an organization through effective communication strategies including business development plans and other written reports and documents.

Innovation is disruptive. Investigate examples of innovation management and explore the theories that drive a particular process. Critically evaluate management approaches. Examine the difficulties and successes in managing innovation including people management, organizational culture and change, problem definition, strategy, market dynamics, customer development, financing, ethics and legal issues, implementation and evaluation. Create your own innovation management strategies.