ENGR101-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Foundations of Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

This skills-based course will introduce students to engineering concepts and design by designing and building creative solutions to problems. The central idea of engineering design as a fit-for-purpose solution will be introduced. The course will develop information literacy and communication skills for future engineering studies.

Excel workbooks for self-paced learning

EXCEL A (XLXS 92KB)
EXCEL B (XLXS 92KB)

Learning Outcomes

  • 1. Be able to describe and apply the ‘engineering process’ to problems/projects
         
  • Technical skills
              -Apply techniques to clarify ill-defined problems
              -Apply formal problem solving strategies
              -Generate a freehand engineering sketch
         
  • Professional skills
              -Prepare an engineering report
              -Work successfully on a team project
              -Identify and apply concepts of sustainability, risk and ethics to engineering solutions.

    2. Be able to describe key activities of the different engineering disciplines taught at Canterbury

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Peter Gostomski

Lecturers

Kim Rutter and Shayne Gooch

Tutor

Alfred Herritsch

ENGR100 - Academic Writing Assessment (AWA):

The College of Engineering requires that ALL STUDENTS  (including New Zealand-born students) who wish to enter the First Professional Year of Engineering must pass ENGR100, the Academic Writing Assessment (AWA).  ENGR100 is managed within ENGR101.
A 30-minute written test will be sat in the Week 2 design studio.  Each design studio will be given a different topic.  Students will be required to write about 300 words on that subject.  This test will be assessed to determine which students need help with their writing.  Students who do not meet the minimum requirement will be given a feedback form to indicate their area(s) of weakness.
Students who narrowly miss the minimum requirement on the AWA will be offered the opportunity to gain a pass without requiring re-assessment, by attending up to two compulsory writing workshops. Students offered this opportunity, who do not attend the required workshops, will have to re-sit the AWA and achieve a passing mark.
Students who significantly fall short of the minimum requirement for the AWA will be required to attend a writing skills workshop for up to two days.  A further assessment of writing ability will then be carried out later in the semester. A passing mark must be achieved to pass ENGR100. This writing skills assessment is independent of ENGR101 assessment and will not affect the grades awarded for ENGR101 in any way.
Contacts:
Students should contact the Senior Tutor for all matters pertaining to design studios, assignment submission and assessment issues, including late or missed work.

Senior Tutor
Dr Alfred Herritsch
Rm 540, Civil/Mechanical building
Ph 364 2987 ext 3571, engr101@canterbury.ac.nz

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 25%
Major Design Project 20% 4 'group work' items
Asssignent 30 Mar 2015 10% Technical report on the Engineering Process applied to the manufacture of a refrigerator.
Mid-semester test 02 Apr 2015 25%
Individual Design and Build 29 Apr 2015 15%
Engineering Sketching 05 Jun 2015 5%


Students are welcome to contact the Course Coordinator to discuss issues pertaining to workload or course content. For matters to do with specific lectures, please contact the lecturer concerned.

Course Coordinator and Lecturer
•Associate Professor Peter Gostomski
Chemical & Process Engineering,
Rm E530, Civil/Mechanical building
Ph 364 2141,
engr101@canterbury.ac.nz

Assistant Course Coordinator
•Dr Alex Yip
Chemical & Process Engineering,
Rm 429b, Civil/Mechanical building
Ph 364 2534,
engr101@canterbury.ac.nz

Other Lecturers
•Dr Kim Rutter
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rm 441, Von Haast
engr101@canterbury.ac.nz

•Dr Shayne Gooch
Mechanical Engineering
Rm E504, Civil/Mechanical building
engr101@canterbury.ac.nz

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Morison, Ken R. , University of Canterbury; Foundations of engineering ; McGraw Hill Custom Pub, 2012 (The 2012 version of the textbook has some chapters in common with previous years but several parts are different. Available on campus at the University Bookshop).

Recommended Reading

Jordan, Pat; Foundations of Excel : for engineers and scientists ; Pearson, 2012.

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

Assessment
                                                               
1. Excel workbooks (self-paced)  0%

2. Technical Report on the Engineering Process
applied to the manufacture of a refrigerator  10%

3. Major Design Project (4 ‘group work’ items)

a. Problem definition and constraints  2%
b. Brainstorming and solution selection  2%
c. Peer Assessment #1  1%
d. Final report  10%
e. Oral presentation  3%
f. Peer Assessment #2  2%
Total: Major Design Project  20%
                       
4. Mid-semester test (1.5 hr)  25%

5. Individual Design and Build  15%

6. Engineering Sketching 12 May  5%

7. Final Examination (1.5 hr)  25%

Total Course Assessment  100%

The Academic Writing Assessment (AWA) which is the pass/fail component of ENGR 100 will be delivered in Week 2 (Design Studio A).

Any or all assessments may be scaled after you receive your raw mark.

Passing Grade: To achieve a pass in this course you must obtain:
•an overall mark of 50% or above
AND
•a final exam mark > 35/100.

Assignment Submissions:
All assignments must be stapled securely at the top left-hand corner and MUST have a completed cover sheet attached. Submissions without a completed cover sheet attached will not be marked. Assignments must be handed in to the boxes provided on level 0 of the Erskine Building outside Computer lab 038 by 5.00 pm on the due date.  Please ensure that you hand in your assignment to the box corresponding to YOUR design studio stream. Assignments due in a given design studio session must be handed in to the Design Studio tutor at the beginning of the session.

Late or Missed Coursework:
ALL late work must be handed in directly to the Senior Tutor, Dr Alfred Herritsch, E540, Civil/Mechanical building as soon as possible and will be penalised 25% per day or part thereof (weekends will be counted as one day for this purpose).  Late work will only escape penalty by provision of a relevant medical certificate or other sufficient documentation to the Senior Tutor, preferably before the due date but no later than 7 days after the due date.

Missed work will receive no marks unless a relevant medical certificate or other sufficient documentation is provided to the Senior Tutor.  Missed work for which a medical certificate or other sufficient documentation is provided will be awarded marks based upon the average marks of the class for the particular item of assessment and the relative performance of the student concerned in other items of assessment.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $874.00

International fee $4,725.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

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