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Introduction to Engineering Design

ENG1100

  • Level 5
  • 15 Credits
  • 0.125 EFTS
  • Course duration: 17 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 9 hours per week
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This course fosters creativity and introduces conceptual design, sustainable design in engineering, industrial design, computer aided design and drafting.

This course will give you training and practice in the engineering design method and introduction to engineering handbooks and commercial catalogues. This is a necessary foundation for future studies in the more advanced courses of the qualification.

CAD software

As part of this course, you will be using CAD software, so we recommend you become familiar with a 2D CAD program before the start of the course.

Textbooks

There is a textbook needed for this course. Visit our textbook page for more information.

Textbooks

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

  • Access to a laptop or desktop computer
  • Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.

How to apply

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