CIVE 497Special Topics in Civil Engineering
- Units
- 0.50
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Subject
- Civil Engineering
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 4 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
A special course on advanced topics in civil engineering is offered from time to time, when resources are available. For the current offering, inquire at the Department.
Prerequisites
None listed.
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Winter 2027 sections
| Section | Class | Enrolled | Meets |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | 5017 | 0 / 30 | MW 11:30–12:50 |
| LEC 002 | 5021 | 0 / 10 | W 16:00–18:50 |
| LEC 701 | 2026 | 13 / 9999 | Online or by arrangement |
| LEC 702 | 2027 | 6 / 9999 | Online or by arrangement |
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I had 497-03 Timber Design with Cory Zurell in S20 online. As far as I know I think timber is getting its own civil course which is long overdue imo. This course was pretty cool, much like the other design courses you'll learn the basics of timber design per O86 code, some connection design stuff and even some lateral design stuff that you don't get into until 415. Prof. Zurell has a project in this course where you have to design a small structure made of timber and I thought it was pretty cool cus it resembles what you might deal with in a real-life industry situation. That being said his course notes were all over the place and were hard to follow outside of the examples. Timber is…
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
6 posts and comments in 5 threads mention CIVE 497, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2024
Courses related to LiDAR or Photogrammetry? 7 points, 5 comments
“Are there courses related to LiDAR, SLAM, or Photogrammetry? Interested in knowing but what I know so far is prob ECE 495, MTE 544, STAT 443 (Kalman Filtering?), have no clue for Photogrammetry”
u/rrrishabhhh: “Hey I'm a PhD student working with photogrammetry, look into image processing courses, they usually cover SfM/PO photogrammetry in some capacity. Specifically, SYDE 671, CIVE 497 (Smart Structures, https://github.com/chulminy/CIVE497-CIVE700)”
Winter 2022
need help regarding CIVE 497 1 point, 1 comment
u/Evening_Library6268: “Has anyone taken this course CIVE 497 (special topics in civil engineering)? I need urgent help. please help me”
u/Evening_Library6268: “if anyone has course and exam material of CIVE 497 (special topics in civil engineering) then please send it to ["[email protected]](mailto:"[email protected])" it will be really helpful thank you”
Winter 2020
What’s your favourite class that you’ve taken, and why? 29 points, 37 comments
u/Tpoyo: “CIVE 497 Smart Structures (currently a special topics course but I think definitely has a spot as a real course). You get to do some really cool things in the assignments and explore a lot of the image processing and machine learning capabilities of Matlab. …”
Fall 2018
CIVE 497/ME 599 - Low Energy Building System 2 points, 0 comments
u/mushroom4ever: “Has anyone taken this course - Low Building Energy System in either CIVE 497 (special topics in civil engineering) or ME 599 (special topics in mechanical engineering) by David Mather? …”
Fall 2017
Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments
“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”
u/Jackhofmann: “PSYCH 483 PSYCH 484 PSYCH 485 PSYCH 486 PSYCH 490R PSYCH 499A PSYCH 499B PSYCH 499C PSYCH 621 PSYCH 630 PSYCH 677A PSYCH 704A PSYCH 704B PSYCH 707 PSYCH 710 PSYCH 714 PSYCH 717 PSYCH 720A PSYCH 721A …”
u/Jackhofmann: “… CIVE 298 CIVE 306 CIVE 313 CIVE 332 CIVE 343 CIVE 354 CIVE 381 CIVE 382 CIVE 399 CIVE 486 CIVE 497 CIVE 601 CIVE 611 CIVE 653 CIVE 671 CIVE 681 CIVE 704 CIVE 720 CIVE 740 CIVE 750 CIVE 770 CIVE 771 CLAS 100 CLAS 202 CLAS 210 CLAS 220 CLAS 221 CLAS 230 CLAS 252 CLAS 261 CLAS 321 …”
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