General Engineering (GENE)

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11 Engineering Synthesis Principles of problem statement, analysis, and concept creation in the

design process. Discussion of planning, the flow of information, physical, economic and financial feasibility, and concept selection as related to project design. Discussion of social and economic conditions affecting value and utility, and their relationship with the design process in the solution of engineering problems. The application of simulation, modelling and optimization to the above: three term projects.

2 hour lectures, | hour tutorial

12 Introduction to Engineering Introduction to basic methods of analysis through mathematical models Systems for components and processes. Systematic formulation of terminal

13 Management Science 1

representations and of system equations or linear systems, utilizing terminal and system graph concepts in conjunction with matrix notation. Solutions through Laplace transforms and by computer methods. Examples are drawn from the various engineering disciplines.

3 hrs lectures, | hr problems

Applications of economic performance indices in choosing between engineering alternatives and choosing optimum operating levels. Topics: the planning process; generation and classification of cash flows; accounting concepts; methods for tangible evaluation of alternatives; capital resources and allocation principles; determination of minimum costs and maximum profit; elements of economic measurement, analysis, and forecasting; competition.

3 hours per week.

14 Management Science 2 Application of the systems approach in operational activities. Develop-

ment of an input - output model for production activities. Application of statistical methods to engineering and management problems. Probability distributions, sampling methods, queuing, decision theory. Discussion of models for decision making, planning, behavioural evaluations and systems control. Correlation of marketing, finance and production relationships in management.

2 hours, one term.

21 Graphics A course in the fundamentals of graphical projections of all type-or-

thographic, isometric, oblique and true perspective. Introduction to spatial co-ordinate plotting. Fundamentals of free hand sketching for communication of concept.

3 hours per week

22 Graphics 2 The application of graphics to the solution of Vector problems, both co-

planar and non-coplanar. Graphic calculus both integration and differentiation, design of all types of nomographs: design of special slide tules: continuation of free hand sketching.

3 hours per week

23 Measurement First term Measurement Laboratory. Use of design morphology in de-

velopment of measurement techniques for specific problems illustrating other Year 1 courses: 3 hours laboratory. alternate weeks.

(Second Term) Nature of measurement, scales and measurement units. Complementary variables and postulates of measurement. Concepts of accuracy, precision, systematic and random errors. Probability, normal distribution function, elementary sampling. Propagation of errors in calculations, formation of measurement specifications.

24 Tutorial

31 Tbermodyasmics

32 Fluid Mechanics

41 Mechanics of Deformable Solids 1

42 Dynamics

53 Structure and Properties of Matter 1

54 Structure and Properties of Matter 2

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Students will meet in very small groups with a faculty member designated as their tutor. Performance in problem assignments and conceptual difficulties with other courses will be discussed, along with interrelation of present coursework, later work and engineering practice. The student will be responsible to his tutor for undertaking of certain assignments.

| hour per week. both terms. (Consultation periods with teaching assistants regarding specific course problems as and i/required at the initiative of the student or his tutor, will be available).

The scope and limitations of thermodynamics. Macroscopic approach to energy, work and the First Law. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics and the microscopic description of energy, work and the First Law. The fundamental energy equation. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, principle of increase of entropy, limiting cycle efficiencies, criteria for equilibrium. Thermodynamic potentials. Irreversibility, friction, and availability. Phase equilibrium, phase change, mixtures. The steady flow energy equation and applications. The evaluation of state functions.

3 hours lectures.

Physical properties of fluids and fundamental concepts of fluid flow. Dimensional analysis and similitude, a survey of the principal problems of fluid mechanics on the basis of dimensional analysis. Conservation laws for mass, momentum, energy and entropy, applications to a variety of engineering problems such as flow in pipes, turbomachines, etc.

3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory.

An analytical treatment of statics and resistance of materials. Equilibrium of particles, rigid bodies and deformable bodies. Vector fields. Bay systems. Introduction to stress and strain. Stress-strain relationships. Elastic and inelastic behaviour of prismatic members subjected to axial. shearing, torsional and flexural deformations.

2 lectures, 2 hours tutorials.

An introduction to the kinematics of particle and rigid body motion. Impulse-momentum equations. Work-energy methods and Euler’s equations. Simple gyroscopes. Vibrations.

2 lectures, I hour tutorial.

Gases; condensed states of matter; origin of interatomic forces; structure of crystals and non-crystalline solids; free electron theory of metals; semiconductors; physical electronics; optical processes; magnetic properties; nuclear processes.

2 hours lectures. 3 hours laboratory. Alternate weeks.

Properties associated with primary forces, waves and vibrations, theory of systematic reactions; properties associated with defect structures, plasticity, viscosity, hardness, creep, brittle fracture, ductile fracture fatigue; stability under service environment.

2 hrs lectures 3 hrs laboratory alternate weeks

61 History and Philosophy The nature of science; science and technology in Egypt and Babylon. of Science The development of science in Greece; the Orphic mysteries and the

lonian philosophers. Plato and Aristotle; Archimedes. The Alexandrian school and the separation of science and philosophy. Technology under

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sance. Copernicus and Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. The physical and biological sciences during the 18th century. Developments during the 19th Century in physics, chemistry, technology, geology. evolution, and the

rise of modern gentics. The 20th century revolution in pure science and technology.

3 lectures, 1 hr tutorial

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