ENGR101-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022

Foundations of Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2022
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 May 2022

Description

This skills-based course will introduce students to the "engineering process". Through a series of lectures, exercises and projects, the students will gain experience in specific skills and activities that contribute to the engineering process. Examples include problem solving, technical sketching, team work and report writing. Additionally, the importance of sustainability, ethics and biculturalism in an engineering context will be introduced. Students will also gain a better understanding of the different engineering disciplines in regards to a career choice.

Upon enrolling for ENGR101, students will be assigned their workshop session time.  After the end of week 2, students will not be allowed to change their session time unless there is an unavoidable timetable clash.

Workshops provide opportunities for students to learn and extend skills taught in lectures, and to work on the group-based Major Design Project.

Learning Outcomes

1. Be able to describe and apply the ‘engineering process’ to problems/projects

o Technical skills
 Apply techniques to clarify ill-defined problems
 Apply formal problem solving strategies
 Generate a freehand engineering sketch

o Professional skills
 Prepare an engineering report
 Work successfully on a team project
 Identify and apply concepts of sustainability, risk, ethics and biculturalism to engineering solutions.

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

Timetable Note

Lectures
Lectures provide context and a different perspective to the course materials. They provide opportunity to learn in real time. 28 hours

Self-study
It is highly recommended to commit at least one hour per week to review the lecture material. 12 hours

Workshops
Workshops offer the opportunity to apply concepts covered in lectures and to work on assignments 20 hours

Assignments
Assignment 1 (10 hours)
Assignment 2 (17 hours)
Assignment 3 (18 hours)
Assignment 4 (5 hours)

Test & exam revision
Focus on understanding the content and being able to articulate your ideas (test 17 hours, final exam 23 hours).

Course Coordinators

Alex Yip and Matt James Watson

Lecturers

Alfred Herritsch , Kim Rutter and Matt James Watson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 23% TBA - Exam period 13 - 25 June 2022
Major Design Project 17% Various deadlines throughout the project. Refer to LEARN page
Lecture Quizzes 7% Issued at each lecture and due at 8am the following day.
Assignment 1: Technical Report on the Engineering Process 18 Mar 2022 10% Issued on 7 March 2022
Mid-semester Test 31 Mar 2022 23% 1.5 hours
Individual Design and Build 03 May 2022 15% Issued 1 April 2022
Engineering Sketching 27 May 2022 5% Issued 6 May 2022


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 > 40/100.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

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

Notes

Course Website: Access via http://learn.canterbury.ac.nz   Note that you will only gain access to Learn once your enrolment is fully completed.

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,002.00

International fee $5,625.00

* 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

  • ENGR101-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022
  • ENGR101-22S1 (D) Semester One 2022 (Distance)