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Unit of Study ENGN1002 - Engineering Modelling and Experimentation I (2021)

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  • Enrolment information

    There will be a 3 day compulsory residential for Online and On Campus students that will be held on the Lismore campus. Please refer to http://scu.edu.au/timetables for further information on timetables. It is assumed that students are familiar with basic concepts of mechanics, waves and optics, electricity and magnetism.

Unit description

Introduces fundamental skills for laboratory experimentation and modelling in engineering, including measurement methods, analysis of data and uncertainty, and basics of logic and programming. Students will perform laboratory experiments and simulations related to simple engineering phenomena and present the results of their experiments in written form.  

Unit content

The scientific method

Measurement methods and sensors

Concepts of accuracy, precision and error

Analysis and representation of data

Programming and logic

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore
Study Period6
Study Period6
Online
Study Period6
N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate an understanding of the scientific method and the concepts of accuracy, precision and error in relation to engineering experimentation

apply appropriate methods to make experimental measurements of simple engineering phenomena

apply basic skills in logic and programming to analyse, investigate and/or simulate simple engineering phenomena

analyse and interpret experimental data to draw appropriate conclusions

communicate details of engineering experiments in a suitable written form.

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