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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

307594 (v.3) Engineering; its Evolution, Development, Successes and Failures 100

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of First Year Engineering Studies
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): Admission into 154810 (v.5) Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Construction Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 171410 (v.6) Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 312635 (v.1) Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 302529 (v.4) Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 143110 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering (Software Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 312158 (v.1) Bachelor of Engineering (Petroleum Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 308709 (v.1) Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 308710 (v.1) Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic and Communication Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 308711 (v.2) Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Power Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 311721 (v.2) Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Commerce or any previous version
OR
Admission into 304168 (v.2) Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Extractive Metallurgy) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 131510 (v.4) Bachelor of Science (Physics), Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic and Communication Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 307020 (v.2) Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Construction Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Mining) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 303763 (v.6) Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 131410 (v.4) Bachelor of Science (Physics), Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Power Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 132210 (v.3) Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic and Communication Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 131310 (v.3) Bachelor of Science (Physics), Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) or any previous version
OR
Admission into 307808 (v.2) Bachelor of Engineering or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction; Civil; Mechanical; Marine; Electrical; Chemical; Software.
Field of Education: 039999 Engineering and Related Technologies not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External