14 courses in the 1975–76 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
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 if required at the initiative of the students or the class professor, wil] be available.)
Given by the Department of Co-ordination in Fall and Winter terms for students in first year Engineering. Its purpose is to introduce the students to the various features of the Co-operative Programme. Discussion concentrates on such aspects as the role of the Department of Co-ordination, preparation for and participation in the employer interviews, work reports, and the expectations of the work term.
The major conceptual transformations in the evolution of science and technology.
The nature of science: science and technology in Egypt and Babylon. The development of science in Greece. The Alexandrian school and the separation of science and philosophy. The medieval attitude toward science. The Renaissance. Copernicus and Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. Developments during the 18th and 19th centuries. The 20th century revolution in pure science and technology; scientific technology as a determining characteristic of global civilization and some critical questions it poses.
3 hours per week
Broadly, the processes involved in man-man, manmachine and mass communications will be discussed. Models of communication systems. The contributions and points of view of the various disciplines which make up the spectrum of communication studies today. Necessary fundamental concepts from. these disciplines. Applications of the theories in fields relevant to the student.
3 hours per week, lectures and seminars
Course Descriptions 307 General Engineering
A variety of topics selected from modern science are treated in the lectures at a conceptual level and then used as a base for discussion. Certain aspects of historical, philosophical and particularly social significance are included according to the inclinations of the students and discussion leaders.
3 hours per week. Not offered in 1975-76
The course is intended to introduce engineering, mathematics and science undergraduates to some of the sciences of man (anthropology, sociology and psychology). The course will be conducted on the basis for both lecture and tutorial hours. Lectures will be under the supervision of a single person responsible for the conduct of the course. He may invite participation from the interested disciplines as required.
3 hours per week
The course will explore some of the major movements of thought which are still shaping modern affairs and modern consciousness. The topics may vary from term to term but examples would be Marxism, Racism, Freudianism, Existentialism, the meaning of civilization, artistic expression and Christianity. Lectures, readings and Seminars together should offer a stimulating, if glancing, acquaintance with a few of the major strands of the present intellectual environment.
3 hours per week
A course in the fundamentais of graphical projections of all types — orthographic, isometric, oblique and true perspective. Introduction to spatial co-ordinate plotting. Fundamentals of freehand sketching for communication of concept.
3 hours per week
The application of graphics to the solution of vector 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
Use of design morphology in development of measuring techniques for specific problems. 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 specification.
3 hours lecture, term project
Fall term only
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 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
Winter and Spring terms
Introduction to electronic digital computers, hardware and software organization; basic features of FORTRAN IV; examples of efficient numerical algorithms for basic scientific computations.
2 hour lecture, 2 hour tutorial, one term
Winter and Spring terms
Introduction to fundamentals of electromagnetics, circuits, wave motion and propagation. Electromagnetics: Coulomb’s Law, electric field and potential, capacitor; resistivity and Ohm’s Law; Ampere’s Law, magnetic fields and forces, inductor. Circuits: series and parallel circuits, Kirckhoff’s laws; ohmic dissipation of energy, stored energies in capacitors and inductors. Wave motion: graphical representation, rotating vectors, superposition. Wave propagation.
i) sound: velocity, wavelength, energy, frequency and resonance, ii) optics: plane, concave and convex mirrors and lens; reflection and refraction; interference and diffraction, polarization; electricity and light.
3 hours lectures, 2 hours lab, 1 hour tutorial
Winter and Spring terms
Course Descriptions General Engineering
Applied Science
Some of the basic analytical tools common to engineering and applied science will be developed and used to clarify the roles of the different groupings within science and technology. Topics covered will include quantification, probability, precision, methods of representation, graphs, the design process, testing, modelling, historical basis and some future considerations.
3 hours per week. No prerequisites. Fall term. Nonengineering students only.