ENGN 1002

Students are introduced to the history of engineering up to the modern-day professional societies. The fundamental theory for engineers begins with statics, which teaches the concepts of particle and rigid body equilibrium. Students will apply vector algebra to work with position and force vectors, moments of forces, couple moments, and equilibrium of 2- and 3- dimensional bodies. Structural applications, such as 2-dimensional trusses, frames and simple machines, shear forces and bending moments in beams are presented. Coulomb friction, centroids and centres of mass, as well as area moments and products of inertia, are also included.