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

Area:	Department of First Year Engineering Studies
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	3.0
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Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	An examination of the works and contributions of engineers throughout history, and allied trades like mathematicians and scientists, and how their work has contributed to present day practice. It will look at how engineers have combined knowledge of the day, contemporary engineering practice and engineering 'nous' to meet their engineering challenges. Examples will be taken from ancient Roman and Chinese engineers through to examples of modern practice across a range of engineering disciplines in Europe,North, Central and South America, and Australia. Examples of failures and successes from each discipline. It will analyse the technological, engineering and other reasons; e.g. human, economic, and legal, for the failures and why the successes did not fail. It will then examine how current practice has learnt from and built on these features.
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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

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