Engineering

Stage 2 Units – 25 Credit Points Each

Academic Communication

This unit is specifically designed to develop key communication skills. The aims of this unit are to develop students’ understanding of, and skills in: critical reading, including note-taking, summarising and evaluating arguments; team-building and team-work skills; academic writing skills including paraphrasing, quoting and referencing; report writing; delivering oral presentations; academic writing style.

Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes

Design horizons. Effective teams. Requirements specifications; identifying features. Systems design; creative thinking methods for innovative solutions. Conceptual design. Design specifications; setting priorities. Ethics and design. Operational design; reliability, sustainability, ergonomics. maintainability. Economics of design. Social and professional responsibilities. The concept of concurrent engineering. The future; computer-aided design. Report writing within engineering academic and professional contexts. Developing reflective learning and oral communication skills.

Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication

Structure of the engineering industry. How engineering works. Working as an engineer. Engineer’s responsibilities and duties. The engineer and the environment. Working in a team. Academic writing and ethical scholarship. Report writing within engineering academic and professional contexts. Developing reflective learning and oral communication skills.Compliance with procedures.

Engineering Materials

Structure of atoms, quantum numbers Interatomic bonding Atomic coordination, Interatomic distances, Atomic and ionic radii, Coordination number Crystal structure, Non-crystolline structures. Gases. Liquids, Glosses Imperfections and atom movement. Solid solutions in metals andionic, compounds, Point defects. Line defects. Boundaries. Atomic diffusion Electronic structures. conductivity, insulators. semiconductors. electronic resistivity vs temperature. Electronic energies. Energy bands Magnetic behaviour. Ferromagnetism. Superconductivity Introduction to Organic Chemistry, Alkanes, Alkenes and alkynes, Benzene and aromaticity, Functional groups and reactivity, Electrochemistry, Electron transfer
reactions. Electrochemical cells. Reduction potentials. Corrosion processes and theory, Corrosion testing. data interpretation, mechanical testing Elastic and Plastic Deformation, Slip Systems and Dislocation Theory, Fatigue and Fracture, Tensile, Hardness, and Impact Tests, Corrosion Prevention and Control Metals and Alloys, Microstructures, Equilibrium diagram construction. Phose Equilibria, Microstructure and Heat Treatment. Metallography and Heat Treatment. Polymers. Ceramics and Glasses. Materials Selection, Case Studies, Composite Materials, Semiconductor.

Engineering Mathematics 1

Arithmetic and Algebra. Equations of lines. Functions and their graphs. Inverse functions. Limits of functions. Trigonometric ratios and applications. Sine and cosine rules. Radian measure. Circular functions. Symmetry and periodicity of functions. Trigonometric identities and applications. Polar coordinates. The derivative. Tangent and normal lines. Differentiation rules. Derivatives of trigonometric functions. Chain rule. Implicit differentiation. Differentials, linear and quadratic approximations. Taylor and Maclaurin Series. Curve sketching techniques. Optimisation. Roots of equations: bisection method, Newton’s method. Definite and Indefinite integrals. Integration by substitution. Logarithmic and exponential functions with applications. L’Hopital’s Rule. Areas in the plane. Improperintegrals. Complex numbers: Cartesian and polar forms, modulus. argument and principal value. Regions of the complex plane. Exponential form. De Moivre’s Theorem, root extraction and roots polynominals. Matrix algebra, identity andinverse. Elementary Row Operations. Row echelon matrix. Solution of systems of equations via Gaussian Elimination. Rank of a matrix. Homogeneouslinear Systems.
Determinants. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.

Engineering Mathematics 2

Geometric vectors; Vector operations; Scalar products; Orthogonal vectors and projections; Cross product; Equations of lines; Distance between a point and aline and between lines; Equations of planes; Distance from a point to a plane; Euclidean Vector Spaces; Subspaces; Basis and Dimension; Inverse trigonometric functions, Hyperbolic functions and their inverses. Standard integral formulae. Integration by parts. Partial fractions. Applications of integration: volumes of revolution, lengths of curves. surfaces of revolution. moments and centres of mass. work done b!:J a force. mean and RMS values. Parametrised
curves. Numerical integration: Trapezoidal Rule. Simpson’s Rule. Functions of two and three variables; Vector Valued Functions; Partial derivatives; Total differential and approximations; Differential Equations; Direction fields; Linear and separable 1st order Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs); Applications; Numerical solutions of 1st order ODEs: Euler, Improved Euler and Runge-Kutto Methods; Homogeneous 2nd order linear ODEs with constant coefficients; Method of undeterm1ned coefficient s; Method of variation of parameters; Applications.

Engineering Mechanics

Newton’s Laws; Forces as vectors. equilibrium of concurrent and non- concurrent forces; Couples and distributed forces. Equilibrium of statistically equivalent systems; Free bodies and free- body diagrams; Analysis of simple frameworks, trusses; Internal actions within a beam using free-body diagrams; Variations in resisting forces along a beam; Relationship between load and response; Axial stress and strain, elasticity; Axial deformation; Shear stress and strain, shear modulus; Deformations in shear; Thermal effects and resulting stress and strain; Principles of compatibility; Concept of stiffness and properties of area and material that influence response; Superposition; Kinematic equations; Linear motion; Projectile motion. Curvilinear and relative motion; Plane kinetics, Newton’s second law in n-t coordinates; Linear momentum; Elastic and inelastic collisions. Work, forces and power; Potential and kinetic energy; Elastic energy; Energy conservation; Plane kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies; Rotation about a fixed axis. Hydrostatic pressure; Static fluid forces on simple structures; Analysis of fluid; Momentum flux of all fluid flows. Bernoulli’s equation.

Engineering Programming

The need for and importance of writing computer programs, sequencing the solution of a problem of sub-activities/instructions. Designing an algorithm. Practical programming in ‘C’ (the vocabulary, the grammar and the structure)- input-output. storage and assignment, single-path programs, logic statements. loops and arrays. Scientific and engineering libraries of routines, compilation and de-bugging; validation.

Electrical Systems

Fundamentals of DC Circuits; Fundamentals of AC Circuits; Electro-mechanics and Energy Conversion; Electronics; Instrumentations and Control.