2 courses in the 1970–71 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
General Engineering
Students will meet with a faculty member designated as their class professor. Performance in problem assignments and conceptual difficulties with other courses will be discussed, along with interrelation of present coursework, later work and engineering practice. I hour per week, both terms. (Consultation periods with teaching assistants regarding specific course problems and if required at the initiative of the student of his class professor, will be available).
Introduction to cosmology; current theories of stellar, galactic and cosmic evolution; development of life; man as a biologicalpsychological creature. 2 hours per week, lectures and tutorial sessions.
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, 1 hour tutorial
A course in the fundamentals of graphical projections of ali types —orthographic, isometric, oblique and true perspective. Introduction to spatial co-ordinate plotting. Fundamentals of free hand sketching for communication of concept. 3 hours per week.
The application of graphics to the solution of ector problems, both coplanar and non-coplanar. Graphic calculus both integration and differentiation, design of all types of nomographs: design of special slide rules: continuation of free hand sketching. 3 hours per week.
First term Measurement Laboratory. Use of design morphology in development of measures techniques for specific problems illustrating other Year 1 courses: 3 hours laboratory, altarate 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. 2 lectures.
61 History and Philosophy of Science
St. Jerome’s Residence
General Engineering 273
The nature of science; science and technology in Egypt and Babylon. The development of science in Greece; the Orphic mysteries and the Ionian philosophers. Plato and Aristotle; Archimedes. The Alexandrian school and the separation of science and philosophy. Technology under the Roman Empire. The mediaeval attitude toward science. The Renaissance. 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 genetics. The 20th century revolution in pure science and technology.
3 lectures, 1 hour tutorial.
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