The role of engineering in society, characteristics of different fields of engineering, required preparation for engineering careers, techniques and approaches used by engineers in their profession. Fundamental concepts in engineering and computer applications. Examples chosen from various areas of engineering to illustrate design modelling and analysis with computer assistance.
Some topics involve laboratory.
Students will be introduced to computer based engineering tools and their application to the solution of engineering problems. Principles of statics, mechanical equilibrium, forces, moments, plane trusses. Experiments in mechanics of deformable bodies. Axiomatic introduction to thermodynamic concepts of energy, entropy, work and heat. Properties of ideal and real substances.