Coursework
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 University of Guelph

 ENGG 6660 // Renewable Energy
(Grade: 88%) // Material: Systems Modelling of Energy, Solar Resources, Solar Thermal Collectors, Solar Photovoltaic Systems, Wind Energy, Wind Turbines (Blade Element Methods), Wind Farms, Hydropower (Basic Turbine Analysis), Wave Energy, Energy Efficiency
ENGG 6790 // Pollution Prevention & Sustainable Engineering
(Grade: 91%) // Material: History of pollution prevention, cleaner production and sustainable design; Sustainability in the context of science (thermodynamics, exergy, quantum mechanics, complexity theory, complex dynamic systems, chaos and uncertainty, systems thinking, Ecological engineering, Industrial ecology, Resilience, fitness and adaptation); Tools for conducting pollution prevention (Material and energy flow analysis, Benchmarking, Developing process maps, Identifying and ranking options, cost-benefit analysis, pinch analysis), Strategies for implementation (environmental management system, participatory design, total design, tools for workers' engagement and participation)
ENGG 6630 // Environmental Contaminants: Fate Mechanisms
(Grade: 92%) // Material: Transport by random motion (diffusion and dispersion: Fick's law, complex diffusion equation solution), Interphase mass transfer and partitioning, Mass balance models (CSTR, modelling environmental systems as a series, plug flow reactors), Water chemistry (pH, Alkalinity, Carbonate buffer system, Oxidation/Reduction, Ocean Chemistry), Groundwater (Flow, Transport, Analytical solutions), Surface water (lakes, ponds, reservoirs, oceans, streams, rivers), Atmosphere (air pollution meteorology (Stability, Complex Terrain, Mathematical modelling of air emissions)
ENGG 4260 // Water & Wastewater Treat Design
(Grade: 90%) // Material: Fundamentals of Wastewater Treatment and Reuse; Wastewater Microbiology; Suspended Growth Biological Treatment Processes; Attached Growth Biological Treatment; Tertiary Treatment and Water Reuse; Sludge Processing, Utilization and Disposal
ENGG 3590 // Water Quality
(Grade: 83%) // Material: Water & Civilization; Water Characterization; Analysis & Sampling Methods; Water Quality Modelling; Water Treatment
ENGG 2550 // Water Management
(Grade: 95%) // Material: Fundamental water management concepts and themes; Lakes; Introduction to Watershed Management; Groundwater and Surface Water (A Single Resource); Watershed Management Tools; Rivers; Wetlands; Integrated Management and Climate Change Adaptation

IDEV 6100 // International Development Studies Seminar
Material: Development evaluation; Debating the role of aid; Beyond the MDGs; International development studies (theory, methodology, epistemology; Humanitarian crises; Global land grabbing; Feeding an urban world; International migration; Energy, climate, and development
ECON 6350 // Economic Development
(Grade: 83%) // Material: What is Development?; Facts about World Inequality; Measurement of World Poverty; Augmented Solow Growth Model: Theory and Empirics; Endogenous Grown Theory: The Big Push; O-Ring Theory of Economic Development; Regional Economic Development; Regional Economic Development: Some Data; State Capacity and Economic Reforms; Taxes in Developing Countries; Social Capital and the Informal Sector; Electoral Volatility in Latin America; Political Party Formation; Conditionality in Aid Giving; Donor Aid Allocations; Aid Effectiveness; Forms of Aid; Aid Delegation; Optimal Poverty Reduction with Aid
POLS 6750 // Development in Practice
(Grade: 91%) // Material: Governing for Development: Initial Thoughts and Critical Reflections; Governance and Governmentality; Improving Aid Effectiveness and Roles of Donors; Actor Oriented Approach, Social Interface and Development; Capacity Development and System Thinking in Agriculture and Rural Development; Local-Global Nexus: Governance for Sustainable Food and Agriculture; Participatory and Community-based Development Practices; Enabling Development through Media; Decentralization, Privatization and Public Sector Reforms; Social Capital and Collective Action; Monitoring and Evaluation: A Learning Based Approach of Development
SOC 6270 // Diversity & Social Equality
(Grade: 92%) // Material: approaches for the study of intergroup relations, struggles over influence and power; complex intersection and overlap among forms of identity and group mobilization based on ethnic, linguistic, regional, class, gender, racial and other forms of social division; Indigenous issues and policies related to multiculturalism, equity and local or regional autonomy

ECON 2650 // Introduction to Economic Development
(Audited) // Material: Income across Countries and world Poverty; Economic Theories of Development (Convergence and Non-Convergence); Inequality; Governments in Developing Countries and Corruption; Informal Sector and Micro Finance; Education; Natural Resources; Foreign Aid and International Organizations
POLS 2080 // Development & Underdevelopment
(Audited) // Material: Introducing International Development; Theories of Development; Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Post-Colonial Development; The Developing World in the Global Political Economy; Poverty and Poverty Reduction; Debt and Development; Nationalism and the State; Bilateral Development Aid; International Financial Institutions; The UN and Multilateral Aid; Gender and Development; Civil Society, NGOs, and Social Movements in the Developing World; Corporate Social Responsibility and Development; Free Trade and Fair Trade; Urban Development; Rural Development; Migration


Queen's University

 ELEC 431 // Power Electronics
Material: Introduction to Power Electronics; Power Semiconductor Switches; Uncontrolled Rectifiers (AC to DC); Controlled Rectifiers (AC to DC); Buck Converters, Boost Converters, Buck-Boost Converters (DC to DC); DC to AC Inverters; Resonant DC to DC Converters
ELEC 490 // Electrical Engineering Design Project
(Grade: A+) // Material: Group Capstone Design Project. My group developed a wearable prototype for quadriplegics that detects facial gestures (i.e. eye blinks) to control a navigation screen keyboard, and vocalize text using a speech synthesizer. My focus was on hardware design and writing Arduino code for detecting the eye blinks.
ELEC 471 // Computer Networks
Material: Uses of computer networks, computer hardware, computer software, reference models and examples; Physical layer (Data communications and wireless communications); Data link layer (Design issues and protocols); Medium access sublwayer (Channel allocation problem, multiple access, wireless LANs, broadband wireless, Bluetooth, RFID, data link switching); Network layer (Design issues, routing algorithms, congestion control, quality of service, internetworking, the network layer in the internet)
ELEC 421 // Signal Processing: Digital Filters & Systems
Material: Sampling theorem. Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion. Ideal Interpolation; Quantization and coding. Aliasing, images, and quantization distortions; z-transform, LTI systems, and frequency response. Rational systems. Poles and zeroes. Inverse,minimum phase, and all pass systems; FIR and IIR filter structures. Direct, cascade, and parallel form realization. Program structure. Real-time computation. Complexity. Delay; Numeric representations. Coefficient quantization. Filter structure and sensitivity; Properties and types of linear phase FIR filters. Design of FIR filters using frequency sampling; Window-based FIR filter design. Equipripple design. Design using Matlab; Properties of causal IIR filters. Design from continuous-time filters; Comparison of FIR and IIR filter designs and implementations. Filter application examples; Frequency-domain sampling. Discrete Fourier transform. DFT properties; Circular convolution. DFT applications: spectral analysis, filtering; Fast Fourier transform. Radix-2 algorithms. Complexity
ELEC 486 // Fiber Optic Communication
Material: current status of fiber-optic communication systems, introduction to fiber attenuation and dispersion; double heterostructures, bandgap energy, crystal lattices, population inversion; L-I characteristic; DFB lasers, optical spectrum, index-coupled and gain coupled lasers, modulation dynamics; rate equations, small-signal frequency response; large signal modulation, linewidth and chirp; optical modulators; LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder optical modulators; electroabsorption modulators and InP Mach-Zehnder optical modulators; symmetric dielectric slab waveguide, TE and TM modes, characteristic equation, propagation constant, dispersion; single-mode fiber (non-dispersion shifted), HE and EH modes, characteristic equation; attenuation and dispersion (material and waveguide); frequency response of single-mode fiber; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; photodetectors; absorption properties of semiconductor materials; p-i-n photodiodes; quantum efficiency, impulse response, shot noise; APDs; average gain, excessive noise factor, gain-bandwidth product, frequency response; optical preamplifier receivers; digital receiver performance and system performance
ELEC 408 // Topics in Biomedical Engineering
Material: Bioinstrumentation and Biosensors (Bioelectricity, Electrodes and electrode theory, The electrocardiogram [ECG], Instrumentation, Patient safety, Noise sources in biopotential recording); Bioinformatics (Introduction to microarray technology, DNA and protein structure, Methods for pattern discovery and clustering, Principle component analysis, singular value decomposition, Class prediction, Nearest neighbours, naïve Bayes, artificial neural networks, Diagnosis, predicting treatment response, Statistical methods for evaluating performance); Medical Imaging (2D intensity image formation and digital image representation, M Image enhancement, Frequency domain, Fluroscopic images, Ultrasound and CT imaging, 3D image processing, MRIs)

ENPH 336 // Solid State Devices
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ELEC 390 // Electrical & Computer Engineering Design
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ELEC 344 // Sensors and Actuators
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ELEC 326 // Probability & Random Processes
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ELEC 324 // Signals & Systems II
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ELEC 381 // Applications of Electromagnetics
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ELEC 371 // Microprocessor Systems
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ELEC 353 // Electronics II
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ELEC 333 // Electric Machines
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ELEC 323 // Signals & Systems I
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APSC 221 // Economic And Business Practice for Engineers
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CMPE 212 // Computing Science for Engineers
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MTHE 228 // Complex Analysis
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ELEC 299 // Autonomous Robot Design Project
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ELEC 252 // Electronics I
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ELEC 280 // Fundamentals of Electromagnetics
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ELEC 278 // Fundamentals of Information Structures and Software Engineering
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ELEC 274 // Computer Architecture
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MTHE 237 // Differential Equations and Computer Methods
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ELEC 293 // Electrical & Computer Engineering
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ELEC 271 // Digital Systems
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ELEC 221 // Electric Circuits
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APSC 293 // Engineering Communications
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APSC 200 // Engineering Design & Practice
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APSC 174 // Introduction To Linear Algebra
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APSC 172 // Calculus II
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APSC 142 // Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers
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APSC 132 // Chemistry and the Environment
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APSC 112 // Electricity and Magnetism
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APSC 100 // Engineering Practice
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APSC 171 // Calculus I
(Grade: 84%) // Material: ...
APSC 161 // Engineering Graphics
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APSC 151 // Earth Systems and Engineering
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APSC 111 // Mechanics
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MECH 455 // Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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MTHE 474 // Information Theory
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MTHE 217 // Algebraic Structures
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DEVS 100 // Canada and the “Third World”
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ENGL 100 // Introduction to Literary Study
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