307594 (v.1) Engineering; its Evolution, Development, Successes and Failures 100

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Area:	Department of First Year Engineering Studies
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Other:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
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 and built on these features.