- Platform
- FutureLearn
- Provider
- University of New South Wales
- Effort
- 4 hours/week
- Length
- 4 weeks
- Language
- English
- Credentials
- Paid Certificate Available
- Course Link
Overview
When you design anything, how do you know that the design will work?
Engineering mechanics is the science-based analysis that engineers use to predict how their designs will perform. It is vital to ensure engineers can meet their responsibilities for performance and safety.
In this course and its companion course Through Engineers’ Eyes: Expanding the Vision, you will learn analytical skills, use them to understand experiments and apply them in design. Through experiments, analysis videos, paper and pencil tutorials and adaptive tutorials, you will experience living in the engineer’s world.
This course is for anyone interested in engineering mechanics. Learners will need to have basic mathematical skills and access to a scientific calculator.
What topics will you cover?
Gangadhara Prusty
When you design anything, how do you know that the design will work?
Engineering mechanics is the science-based analysis that engineers use to predict how their designs will perform. It is vital to ensure engineers can meet their responsibilities for performance and safety.
In this course and its companion course Through Engineers’ Eyes: Expanding the Vision, you will learn analytical skills, use them to understand experiments and apply them in design. Through experiments, analysis videos, paper and pencil tutorials and adaptive tutorials, you will experience living in the engineer’s world.
This course is for anyone interested in engineering mechanics. Learners will need to have basic mathematical skills and access to a scientific calculator.
What topics will you cover?
- Week 1: The nature of loads, springs and other elastic behaviour, static and dynamic loads
- Week 2: Force as a vector, Free Body Diagrams, Equilibrium of forces that act at a point
- Week 3: Twisting effect of a force, Couples, Torque
- Week 4: Equilibrium of two-dimensional rigid bodies and systems of rigid bodies
Gangadhara Prusty