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.

Calculus for Engineers

This unit builds on students’ knowledge of functions and calculus, further extending to a range of techniques used in solving problems arising in engineering and related fields. Students will extend their differentiation techniques to optimisation problems and the approximation of functions. This unit will cover a range of integration techniques to optimisation problems and the approximation of functions. Students will apply integration techniques to find volume, length and surface area and will be introduces to the concept of complex numbers, together with their applications and use in solutions to polynomial equations. This unit is designed for those students who have passed WACE Mathematics Methods or equivalent.

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

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 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.

Linear Algebra & Statistics for Engineers

This unit will consider the problems arising from engineering-related fields. Students will learn the necessary skills to model and solve such problems through the introduction of mathematical techniques of linear algebra, data analysis and statistical inference. This unit will cover vectors, lines and planes and their extension into n-dimension space. The unit also covers matrices and their use for solving systems of linear equations through a study of a number of different types and solution methods. Students will be introduced to the world of statistics by looking at the concepts of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.