ENGR101-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Foundations of Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2014

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.

Learning Outcomes

  • An understanding of the nature of engineering and its place in society.
  • Design methods, illustrated by case studies; experience of the design process through individual and group design projects.
  • Basic engineering drawing and sketching skills.
  • Numeracy skills, including units and dimensions, estimation, graphing and error handling;
  • Spread-sheeting, technical communication and report writing;
  • Problem solving methods;
  • Introductory project management;

Course Coordinator

Peter Gostomski

Lecturers

Alan Wood and Kim Rutter

Tutor

Richard Jordan

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Engineering Sketching 5%
Final Examination (2 hours) 43%
Major Design Project (4 Group Work Items) 20%
Technical Report on Life Cycle 10 Mar 2014 8%
Energy Conversions and Estimation 11 Apr 2014 8%
Individual Design and Build 06 May 2014 16%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Jordan, Pat; Foundations of Excel : for engineers and scientists ; Pearson, 2012 (Students are expected to have their own copy of this for tutorials. Available from the University Bookshop).

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).

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

Assignment Value

1. Technical Report on  life cycle assessment 8%

2. Major Design Project (4 group work items)various (detailed below)
   2.1 Problem definition and constraints 2.5%
   2.2 Brainstorming and solution selection 2.5%
   2.3 Final report 12.5%
   2.4 Oral presentation 2.5%
  Total Major Design Report 20.0%

3. Energy Conversions and Estimation 8%

4. Individual Design and Build 16%

5. Engineering Sketching 5%

Final Examination (2 hours) 43%

Total Course Assessment       100%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $841.00

International fee $4,638.00

* 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 .

All ENGR101 Occurrences

  • ENGR101-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014