307594 (v.2) Engineering; its Evolution, Development, Successes and Failures 100

Area:

Faculty of Engineering

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

3.0

** 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. **

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Other:

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,America, North, Central and South, and Australia. Examples of failures and successes from each discipline. It will analyse the technological, engineering and other (human, economic and legal for example) reasons 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.

** 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. **

Field of Education:

039999 Engineering and Related Technologies not elsewhere classified

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

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
2007	Bentley 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