Engineering Course Outline
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Day |
Activity |
Time |
Topic |
Areas of Discussion |
Preparatory Reading |
Set Work* |
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20/7/20 Monday |
Preliminary group tutorial |
1h |
Course Introduction
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Discuss Engineering, applications, general concepts, goals, and limitations. |
Research on the number of different areas of engineering |
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21/7/20 Tuesday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Mechanics |
Kinematics, Dynamics, and problem solving methodology |
Exercise questions |
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22/7/20 Wednesday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Mechanical vibrations |
The system elements, obtaining differential equations and analyse First order systems |
Exercise questions |
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23/7/20 Thursday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Thermo-fluid mechanics |
What are fluids, SFME in 1-D, Bernoulli, and Basics of Thermodynamics |
Exercise questions |
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24/7/20 Friday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Structures |
Forces and Moments, Equilibrium, Supports and free-body diagrams |
Exercise questions |
Prepare presentation for individual tutorial |
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25/7/20 Saturday |
Individual Tutorials |
45 mins per student |
Students can do a 25 minutes presentation about his understanding about engineering, what they already know in that area and areas they are interested in learning. The following week will try and focus on their feedback |
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26/7/20 Sunday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Electrical |
Mesh and nodal analysis Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, superpositions. AC, Impedance Introduction to logic gates and Boolean algebra. |
Exercise questions |
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27/7/20 Monday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Mathematics |
Vectors Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations linear system response Fourier series
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Exercise questions |
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28/7/20 Tuesday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Engineering applications and Computing |
Introduction to FEM, CFD, Coding and Design principles
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Exercise questions |
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29/7/20 Wednesday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Engineering Design |
Engineering Design principles |
Design Exercise |
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30/7/20 Thursday |
Group tutorial |
1h30 |
Engineering skills |
Non-Technical skills |
Group exercise |
Product Design Presentation |
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31/7/20 Friday |
Individual tutorials |
45 mins per student |
Ask the student to present a solution from a set of given problems in the real world, |
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