ENGR101-09S1 (C) Semester One 2009

Foundations of Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2009
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2009

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.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Engineering Disciplines 10%
Basic Drawing 10%
Major Design project (5 group work items) 25%
Individual Design & Build 20%
Engineering Modelling 10%
Final exam (2.0 hours) 25%

Textbooks / Resources

The 2007 version of the textbook, which has an orange cover, is similar to the 2008 version (purple cover) and can be used but note the following differances:
- topic 3 in 2007 is no longer relevant (removed from the 2008 version)
- a set of unit conversion factors in Topic 5 of the 2008 volume.

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Course Notes

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $669.00

International fee $3,213.00

* 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.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

All ENGR101 Occurrences

  • ENGR101-09S1 (C) Semester One 2009