Course topics.

Try this with Engineering Studies

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Civil structures over time: materials, innovation, social and environmental impact, and recycling
• Truss analysis: reactions, method of joints, method of sections and graphical solutions
• Shear force and bending moment diagrams, neutral axis and bending stress (σ = My/I)
• Stress, strain, the stress/strain diagram, Young’s modulus and factor of safety
• Civil materials: concrete testing, X-ray, crack theory, ceramics, composites and corrosion protection
• Transport history, innovation and the environmental impact of transport energy and materials
• Simple machines, static friction and inclined planes: MA, VR, efficiency and angle of repose
• Work, energy and power in transport systems
• Ferrous metals: heat treatment, microstructures, forming processes, welding and hardness/impact testing
• Non-ferrous metals, glass, polymers and textiles in vehicles; circuits, motors, control and electrical safety
• The aeronautical engineer: scope, ethics, safety, careers, history of flight in Australia and environmental impact
• Flight mechanics: lift, weight, thrust, drag, L/D ratio, angle of attack, stall, Bernoulli and airframe bending
• Propulsion systems and fluid mechanics: piston, turboprop, turbofan, ramjet, scramjet, rockets, Pascal, pitot tube and altimeter
• Aircraft materials: aluminium alloys and age hardening, thermosets, composites, FML, NDT and corrosion
• The telecommunications engineer: scope, ethics and privacy, WHS, history from telegraph to CRT television and mobile networks
• Telecommunications materials: copper alloys, semiconductors, insulating polymers, fibre optics and testing
• Signals and networks: analogue and digital, modulation, radio and TV, fixed and mobile telephony, transmission media and the spectrum
• Satellite systems, GPS and digital logic gates with truth tables
• AS 1100 orthogonal drawing: projection, line types, dimensioning, sectional and assembly views
• Pictorial and isometric sketching, developments and transition pieces, graphical mechanics, CAD and Engineering Reports