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ME 82Mechanical Engineering Projects

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
1968–69

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1963–64 to 1968–69; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Engineering assignments requiring the student to demonstrate initiative and assume responsibility. Student activity is guided and coordinated by faculty supervisor. In selecting and assigning projects, particular account is taken of the student’s field of specialization. Projects, in general, involve technical disciplines beyond the strictly mechanical engineering field. 9 hours laboratory. Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate and Research Programmes To be admitted to graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, an applicant must have an excellent academic record from a recognized university, and must possess maturity and self-motivation. Furthermore, since close technical contact with a faculty member is an essential part of graduate education in engineering, no applicant can be admitted unless a faculty supervisor who specializes in the applicant’s desired area of research offers him a place in his research group. It is therefore important that the applicant indicate clearly in his application the area of research in which he wishes to be engaged. Active fields of research in which students may at present be accepted are listed and described in the calendar, and the departmental brochure. [t must be kept in mind, however, that the list is only intended as a guide since new topics are added frequently as the sphere of interest of the department expands. A. Master’s Degree. The core of the Master’s degree is a thesis whose content shall indicate a high level of scholarly research by the student into a topic related to his faculty supervisor’s area of research. Pursuit of the thesis will involve the student in an experimental or theoretical research programme or possibly a combination of both. Wherever possible the faculty member will attempt to arrange financial assistance for the student from his research grants, with such awards being made by the beginning of April. It is therefore essential that applications be complete by March | at the latest. Candidates registered for an M.A.Sc. degree will be requested to give advance notice of their intention to submit a thesis, approximately three months before the estimated date of submission. At this time an assessor will be appointed to aid the candidate’s supervisor in evaluating the thesis. In most cases the assessor would be a member of the mechanical engineering department, except where some interdisciplinary research is involved. The requirements for the award of a Master’s degree are: a) that the candidate obtains a pass in all prescribed subjects, comprising at least four one-semester courses of which two or more must be graduate courses, with an average of 66% or better; b) that his thesis be accepted. In certain special cases the thesis requirement may be satisfied by four additional one-semester courses and a research project of limited scope, but which contains a formal report. B. The Doctor of Philosophy Degree. This degree is awarded after the candidate has satisfied his supervising committee that his thesis is a substantial original contribution to knowledge and has also demonstrated a high degree of competence in areas of knowledge related to his specialization. The candidate will, to this latter end, take lectures and sit for examinations in a number of courses offered at the graduate level, according to a programme of studies approved by his supervising committee. Approximately at the end of his first year of residence as a Ph.D. candidate a comprehensive oral examination is administered by his supervising committee. The mechanics of thesis topics selection is very much as described above. Students continuing for a Ph.D., after obtaining the M.A.Sc. at Waterloo, may often continue to work in the same area of specialization. In order to be admitted to graduate study as a Ph.D. candidate an applicant must have demonstrated his ability to do original research in the course of his Master’s degree work. For this reason, should a graduate with a Master’s degree, obtained without producing a research thesis desire to enter our Ph.D. programme, he would have to satisfy the Department that he is able to carry out independent research. The supervising committee consists of the supervisor and four other members appointed on the advice of the supervisor. One of these is appointed from outside the university, another one from outside the department (often from Mathematics or Physics.) Comprehensive Examination The comprehensive examination should be conducted about one year, but in any case not later than 18 months, after the student has been admitted to the Ph.D. programme. In preparation for this examination the candidate will submit a written research proposal of between 2000 and 4000 words describing his problem and outlining his proposed method of attack. This proposal must be circulated to the members of the supervising committee not less than two weeks before the examination. The supervising committee, on the advice of the candidate’s supervisor, should examine: (a) The adequacy of the course of study being undertaken, (b} The performance of the student during his first year both in the coursework and in his research studies, (c) The proposal for a research programme as presented by the student and (d) His competence in being able to complete the work to the satisfaction of the committee. The main decision to be reached is whether the candidate should proceed with the work, but advice about taking additional graduate courses or about changing the emphasis in his research work may also be given. Experiment on impact and vibrations in Engineering Mechanics laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering Language Requirements. The candidate must have an adequate knowledge of at least one foreign language as specified by the department. This requirement may be fulfilled either by direct language examination or by the completion of an approved language course with a final grade considered to be satisfactory. When the native tongue of a student is not English, its knowledge is not normally acceptable as satisfying the foreign language requirements, except when the native tongue is French, German or Russian. Examination of the thesis: Regulations governing the submission and examination of the Ph.D. thesis are found in the section on “Graduate Studies” in the first part of the Calendar. Graduate Course Descriptions All courses listed consist of three lectures per week for one term, unless otherwise specified. Courses numbered in the 600’s are given regularly. Courses numbered in the 700’s are given only by special arrangement.

As printed in the 1968–69 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.

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    How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

    1968–69 1 calendar

    Engineering assignments requiring the student to demonstrate initiative and assume responsibility. Student activity is guided and coordinated by faculty supervisor. In selecting and assigning projects, particular account is taken of the student’s field of specialization. Projects, in general, involve technical disciplines beyond the strictly mechanical engineering field.

    9 hours laboratory.

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Graduate and Research Programmes

    To be admitted to graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, an applicant must have an excellent academic record from a recognized university, and must possess maturity and self-motivation. Furthermore, since close technical contact with a faculty member is an essential part of graduate education in engineering, no applicant can be admitted unless a faculty supervisor who specializes in the applicant’s desired area of research offers him a place in his research group. It is therefore important that the applicant indicate clearly in his application the area of research in which he wishes to be engaged. Active fields of research in which students may at present be accepted are listed and described in the calendar, and the departmental brochure. [t must be kept in mind, however, that the list is only intended as a guide since new topics are added frequently as the sphere of interest of the department expands.

    A. Master’s Degree.

    The core of the Master’s degree is a thesis whose content shall indicate a high level of scholarly research by the student into a topic related to his faculty supervisor’s area of research. Pursuit of the thesis will involve the student in an experimental or theoretical research programme or possibly a combination of both. Wherever possible the faculty member will attempt to arrange financial assistance for the student from his research grants, with such awards being made by the beginning of April. It is therefore essential that applications be complete by March | at the latest.

    Candidates registered for an M.A.Sc. degree will be requested to give advance notice of their intention to submit a thesis, approximately three months before the estimated date of submission. At this time an assessor will be appointed to aid the candidate’s supervisor in evaluating the thesis. In most cases the assessor would be a member of the mechanical engineering department, except where some interdisciplinary research is involved.

    The requirements for the award of a Master’s degree are: a) that the candidate obtains a pass in all prescribed subjects, comprising at least four one-semester courses of which two or more must be graduate courses, with an average of 66% or better; b) that his thesis be accepted. In certain special cases the thesis requirement may be satisfied by four additional one-semester courses and a research project of limited scope, but which contains a formal report.

    B. The Doctor of Philosophy Degree.

    This degree is awarded after the candidate has satisfied his supervising committee that his thesis is a substantial original contribution to knowledge and has also demonstrated a high degree of competence in areas of knowledge related to his specialization. The candidate will, to this latter end, take lectures and sit for examinations in a number of courses offered at the graduate level, according to a programme of studies approved by his supervising committee. Approximately at the end of his first year of residence as a Ph.D. candidate a comprehensive oral examination is administered by his supervising committee.

    The mechanics of thesis topics selection is very much as described above. Students continuing for a Ph.D., after obtaining the M.A.Sc. at Waterloo, may often continue to work in the same area of specialization.

    In order to be admitted to graduate study as a Ph.D. candidate an applicant must have demonstrated his ability to do original research in the course of his Master’s degree work. For this reason, should a graduate with a Master’s degree, obtained

    without producing a research thesis desire to enter our Ph.D. programme, he would have to satisfy the Department that he is able to carry out independent research.

    The supervising committee consists of the supervisor and four other members appointed on the advice of the supervisor. One of these is appointed from outside the university, another one from outside the department (often from Mathematics or Physics.)

    Comprehensive Examination

    The comprehensive examination should be conducted about one year, but in any case not later than 18 months, after the student has been admitted to the Ph.D. programme. In preparation for this examination the candidate will submit a written research proposal of between 2000 and 4000 words describing his problem and outlining his proposed method of attack. This proposal must be circulated to the members of the supervising committee not less than two weeks before the examination. The supervising committee, on the advice of the candidate’s supervisor, should examine: (a) The adequacy of the course of study being undertaken, (b} The performance of the student during his first year both in the coursework and in his research studies, (c) The proposal for a research programme as presented by the student and (d) His competence in being able to complete the work to the satisfaction of the committee. The main decision to be reached is whether the candidate should proceed with the work, but advice about taking additional graduate courses or about changing the emphasis in his research work may also be given.

    Experiment on impact and vibrations in Engineering Mechanics laboratory

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Language Requirements.

    The candidate must have an adequate knowledge of at least one foreign language as specified by the department. This requirement may be fulfilled either by direct language examination or by the completion of an approved language course with a final grade considered to be satisfactory. When the native tongue of a student is not English, its knowledge is not normally acceptable as satisfying the foreign language requirements, except when the native tongue is French, German or Russian.

    Examination of the thesis: Regulations governing the submission and examination of the Ph.D. thesis are found in the section on “Graduate Studies” in the first part of the Calendar.

    Graduate Course Descriptions

    All courses listed consist of three lectures per week for one term, unless otherwise specified. Courses numbered in the 600’s are given regularly. Courses numbered in the 700’s are given only by special arrangement.

    1963–64 to 1967–68 4 calendars

    Engineering assignments requiring the student to demonstrate initiative and assume responsibility. Student activity is guided and co-ordinated by faculty supervisors. In selecting and assigning projects, particular account is taken of the student’s field of specialization. Projects, in general, involve technical disciplines beyond the strictly mechanical engineering field.

    9 hours laboratory, one term.