Solid Mechanics

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

ENCI230, ENCI234

Assessment

The test will cover the first two modules (Stress and strain and Pure bending), with the remaining material covered in the final exam. Please note that:

You cannot pass this course unless you achieve a mark of at least 40% in each of the test and the final exam. A student who narrowly fails to achieve 40% in either the test or exam, but who performs very well in the other, may be eligible for a pass in the course.

Each tutorial will have problems that need to be submitted at the end of the session. However, these are not assessed. Solutions to the problems will be uploaded on LEARN.

The sessions give the instructors the opportunity to assess individual student weaknesses in the material covered in the lectures.

Your presence and participation at these tutorials is compulsory: absence or an inadequate attempt at solving the tutorial problems will result in the deduction of 2% from your overall course mark.
Assignments should be done in pairs, and are due at 9.00 am on the dates shown in the table. The assignment questions will be handed out one week prior to their due date. See Assessment table for the dates on which the assignments are due. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Lab Reports are due by 5 pm, two weeks after the laboratory class. They should be prepared according to the guidance given in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering’s Communications Portfolio Guide.

The report must be 8-10 pages long (including one for a title page and one for an executive summary). Other components are Introduction, Method, Results and Analysis, Discussion, Conclusions and References. Include sufficient information to make the report as comprehensive as possible. Additional calculations and data can be included in an appendix.

You have to self-select your lab group through the My timetable system. However, this selection needs to be completed by 5.00 pm on Wednesday 5th April 2017. A list will be compiled of the members in each group, uploaded to LEARN and submitted to our Lab technician (Alan Poynter), who will be taking attendance at each lab session.

Lab group selections made after 5.00 pm on Wednesday 5th April 2017 will not appear on the published list, and affected students will be turned away from the lab. If for any reason you are experiencing difficulty choosing your preferred group please see the course coordinator early to help resolve this before 5th April 2017.

Assignments and Lab Reports should be dropped into the homework boxes on Level 2 (Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building) next to room E15. A completed coversheet must be attached to the front of each assignment. Coversheets can be found on LEARN (under assignment tab). As Lab Reports have title pages, they must not have coversheets.

All assignments and the calculations for the laboratory report must be completed on engineering calculation paper. These can be purchased from the ENSOC shop or obtained free from companies advertising at the Engineering Expo. These should be prepared according to the guidance given in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering’s Expectations for Calculation-based Assessments document. Assignments which do not have a completed coversheet, are not written on engineering calculation paper, and/or do not follow the expectations for calculation-based assessments will not be accepted.

Students in this course can apply for special consideration for impaired performance provided they have sat the test, the final exam or both. Approved requests for Special Consideration will be considered following the department policy.

Indicative Fees

* 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.