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Engineering Challenges in a Global World

  • ENSC1001
  • Semester 1, Semester 2 (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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This unit lies at the start of the pathway to becoming an engineer. Engineers conceive ways to re-arrange objects, materials and systems to achieve beneficial outcomes. There are many personal and professional skills and knowledge, which need to be gained in order to make use of the technical knowledge that students acquire in other units, and to apply these to real projects. <br/><br/>In this unit students study a real project in one of three geopolitical contexts. They learn how the context influences the objectives, the process and the outcomes; to work in small engineering teams with distributed expertise—no one person knows enough to reach the objective so members of the team have to... -- Course Website

Instructor: Winthrop Professor Caroline Baillie (Semester 1) and Assistant Professor Rita Armstrong (Semester 2)



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