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NE 110Introduction to Nanomaterials Health Risks

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Nanotechnology Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Nanomaterial impacts on worker, consumer, and environmental health. Engineered nanomaterials and ultrafines. Chemical risk assessment. Nanomaterial exposure characterization. Introductory nanotoxicology. Environmental chemical impacts, transport, and bio-accumulation. Introduction to UN Sustainable Development Goals. Human nanomaterial health risks and benefits. Introductory epidemiology, including study design, strength of association, bias, confounding, and causal inference.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00149740 / 120MWF 11:30–12:20
MWF 11:30–12:20
Jan 13 16:30–17:20
Feb 3 16:30–17:20
Mar 17 16:30–17:20
LEC 70120042 / 9999Online or by arrangement
TST 10151270 / 120Feb 24 12:30–14:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

42% liked it59% easy45% useful

From 31 ratings and 13 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • boring

    Mar 2026 · didn’t like it · 2 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • This not NE 109 repeat not NE 109. The midterms were a disaster if you did not know what to study for. Projects were time-consuming and were marked with very tight margins. Made 1b a lot harder with 6 total courses and coop. They should've combined it NE 109, moved it to the upper years or gotten rid of it, as I don't really see what upper-year courses NE 110 leads into.

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  • I feel this course was all over the place, the content was difficult to understand it wasn't easy to know what would be tested. I think maybe this course needs to be taught later in the progression as many things are introduced and expected to be know that are beyond the scope of our understanding.

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  • Most people took this as a bird course and especially for someone who isn't interested in pursuing the contents of this course further, I was disappointed at how challenging and unmerciful the course was. Prof is so particular with tests and class avg for first one was 55 ish. She doesn't curve and for one of our assignments, she made the whole class mark each group out of 4 and everyone's mark dropped due to a bunch of first years marking after being in a lecture room for 3 hours and not listening to any of the presentation. Additionally, she makes everyone do 2 peer reviews for each assignment which takes so long and is unnecessary as we don't even get to fix our report after peer…

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  • This course provided a really good insight to the impact of nano on health and how studies are designed to test toxicological effects. The assignments allowed you to analyze real-world problems and apply an engineering approach in your 1B term. The expectations were very clear if you stayed engaged with the course.

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention NE 110, June 2023 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

Systems VS Chem VS Biomed VS nano technology engineerings 1 point, 6 comments

“Hi! I am looking into transferring into either of those 4 and I am trying to decide which is better and which I have a realistic chance of getting into. …”

u/ButterKnife2k5: “I'm nano 2028 and I can say comfortably I've made the right choice for a major. I'd say nano is niche but you can apply it in many industries especially the medical (covid vaccine as example). …”

u/ButterKnife2k5: “Right now I am doing theory courses like materials (NE125), health risks (NE110), and Circuits (NE140) and your sciences. So far it is very general just because we need to learn the basics but we have done some nano-specific things. …”

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Spring 2023

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