4th Year Options – ’07-08 School Year

Mechanical Program
• Pre-registration for next year
• Mechanical Program Options

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 Pre-registration
• Pre-registration – it is important that you pre-register,
as this “guarantees” you a spot in a 4th year course.
• Scheduling uses pre-registration numbers to allocate
lecture halls for our courses.
• If you want to switch 4th courses, you can do so in
August, but we are limited to room sizes.
• More Info: my.ryerson.ca for deadlines, etc.

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 4th Year Mechanical Program
• 4 Different Streams
– Manufacturing
– Mechatronics
– Solids
– Thermo/Fluids

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 Manufacturing
• If you want to work in Manufacturing as a plant engineer,
project engineer, line engineer, etc.
• Manufacturing has lost >100,000 jobs in the last 3 years
in Ontario.
• However, equipment sales is up, exports are up, and
automotive spiked 7.7% up 4th quarter - 2006.
• High Cdn$$ has meant manufacturing companies are
buying new machine tools, automation, etc., ie. need for
engineers.
• This has lead to an increase of about 6% in labour
productivity in the manufacturing sector.
• Job market is very strong right now for engineers.
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Manufacturing

Source:
Canadian
Manufacturers
and Exporters
submission to
the House of
Commons
Standing
Committee on
Industry,
Science and
Technology,
meeting of 16
May 2006.

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 Mechatronics
• Controlling mechanical devices with
electrical controls.
• Areas of automation and “robotics”
• Only for students who like EES512/612.
• Fall course - Microprocessors programming
• Job market good, companies like Magna,
Linamar, etc. for design & manufacturing of
servo controlled devices.
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 Solids Stream
• More machine design.
• If you want to design car/truck parts (part
supplier companies)
• If you want to start your own company.
• If you’re a “gear head”
• You typically end up working in 1st/2nd tier
manufacturing company.

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 Thermo/Fluids
• HVAC – heating and air conditioning area
– Jobs in consulting firms, manufacturers
• Power Generation
– Ontario Hydro (OPG, etc)
– New “green” technologies
• Jobs
– growing sector as new power generation
plants are on the books.
– Building boom requires HVAC engineers
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See www.ryerson.ca/~mecheng “Mechanical 4th year options”

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 Fall 2007

Fall 2007 – 6 courses total Required by all:

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 Fall 2007

Manufacturing Stream
Required: MEC734 Design for Manuf.
Select 2 of: MEC713/IND713 Project Management
MEC813/IND810 Flexible Manufacturing
MEC725 Select Topics
MTL700 Material Selection
Mechatronics Stream
Required: MEC723 Mech. System Design
MEC733 Microprocessors
Select 1 of: MEC725 Select Topics
MEC713/IND713 Project Management
MEC813/IND810 Flexible Manufacturing

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 Fall 2007

Solids Stream
Required: MEC723 Mech. System Design
Select 2 of: MEC713/IND713 Project Management
MEC725 Select Topics
MTL700 Material Selection
Thermo Fluids Stream
Required: MEC722 Thermal Systems Design
Select 2 of: MEC713/IND713 Project Management
MEC725 Select Topics
MEC740 Enviro. Control in Buildings

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 Fall 2007 – MEC725
• MEC725 Select Topics
– This is a 1 term course for students who are
thinking of graduate studies.
– Students must find a mechanical prof. willing to
take them on for the term.
– Student & Prof. must sign off on approval form
by the end of the 1st week of class in Sept.
2007.
– See mecheng website for form:
• www.ryerson.ca/~mecheng “MEC725 select topics”
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See www.ryerson.ca/~mecheng “MEC725 select topics”
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 Winter 2008

Winter 2008 – 6 courses total - Required by all:

Manufacturing Stream
Select 3 of: MEC819/IND809 – Risk Assessment
MEC809 – Integrated Manufacturing
MEC816 – Fabrication & Tooling
ELE869 – Robotics*
*NOTE – Electrical may not run all ELE courses

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 Winter 2008

Mechatronics Stream
Required: MEC830 Mechatronics Design
Select 2 of: ELE809 – Digital Control*
ELE829 – Systems*
ELE888 – Intelligent Systems*
ELE869 – Robotics*
MEC819/IND809 – Risk Assessment
MEC809 – Integrated Manufacturing
MEC816 – Fabrication & Tooling
*NOTE – Electrical may not run all ELE courses

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 Winter 2008

Solids Stream
Select 3 of: MEC819/IND809 – Risk Assessment
MEC809 – Integrated Manufacturing
MEC811 – Machine Design II
MEC816 – Fabrication & Tooling
Thermo Fluids Stream
Select 3 of: MEC819/IND809 – Risk Assessment
MEC810 – Thermo Power Generation
MEC850 – Enviro. Impact of Thermo

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 Winter 2008 – MEC825
• This is a required core course.
• Project based design course.
• Students will work in groups.
• A variety of topics will be available in the
late Fall (both Ryerson and Industry based
projects).

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