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I'm not sure if this course is offered every year. The 'D' designation after the course title seems to indicate that it's a 'special topic' that may shift around year-to-year. We didn't have 'HVAC' or 'Fuel Cell' courses offered in our year, so I imagine this course was offered on a basis of instructor availability. This course was a teleconference course taught by two profs at UBC, and invigilated by a UVic prof who sat in the conference room to act as a liaison. It was an interesting experience. The reason that UBC taught this course is that engineering students at UBC have little interest in Pulp and Paper Technologies, as they seem to have more urbane interests. But UBC has a very large pulp and paper research facility. So they have the instructors who are very knowledgeable in the field, but no students. So they teleconference to students/schools who want to learn about the field. I took this course more out of personal interest. I've had a few generations of family involved in the wood-work/logging/tugboat industry. I also worked on tugs for a while myself, transporting log-booms and chip-barges into mills all over the coast. While I may not ever use these learned skills, I am still glad that I took a course that is core to West Coast industry. It's not an easy course. There's lots of terminology. Lots of technical knowledge. Lots of formulae. This ain't no walk in the park. We had about 5 assignments - not for marks. I have solutions for all of them - they served as good preparation for the two midterms. I have both midterms plus the solution sets. I also have a copy of the 2005 final. The final was pretty brutal, and if it wasn't for my TI-89, I'd have been screwed. E-mail me, and I'll send you what I have. |
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