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This course introduces new Aerospace Engineering students to the field of AE and to the curriculum. An overview of aerospace engineering from a design perspective. Job role for maintenance staff. Training opportunities and job progression. Introductory aerodynamics, lift, drag and the standard atmosphere. Aircraft performance. History of aviation, meteorology and astronomy. 200 Level

Overview of aerospace engineering from a design and systems perspective. Introductory aerodynamics, lift, drag and the standard atmosphere. Aircraft performance, stability and control. Propulsion. Structures. Rocket and spacecraft trajectories and orbits.

Philosophy and evolution of agricultural and biosystems engineering. The role of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers in the society and human development. The relationship between agricultural and biosystems engineering and the other engineering disciplines. Significance of agricultural and biosystems engineering. Introduction to agricultural and biosystems engineering: farm power and machinery engineering; soil and water engineering; crop processing and storage engineering; farm structures and environment engineering; biosystems engineering. ABE and sustainable development. The global development goals (SDGs). Climate change impacts on agriculture, adaptation and mitigation measures; Climate smart agriculture. Career opportunities in agricultural and biosystems engineering. 200 Level

The role of the chemical engineer. Units and dimensions. The mole unit. Conventions in the method of analysis and measurement. Temperature. Pressure. Physical and chemical properties and measurement. Techniques of solving problems. The chemical equation stoichiometry, material balances in single units, recycle, bypass, purge. This course will be supported with guest lectures from senior chemical engineers in industries, government and academia. 200 Level

History of civil engineering. Branches of civil engineering. Roles of civil engineers in government, industry and academia. Allied professionals and their interaction with civil engineers. Career oppoturnities in civil engineering, professional and regulatory bodies. 200 Level

Historical development of modern computing and computer engineering profession; roles and responsibilities of the computer engineer; career paths and development (public and private sectors, academic/research and industry); overview of computer engineering design; computer devices/hardware in the age of‘ smartness’ and Internet of Things and People ‘IoTs and P’; identification of computer software and hardware components and operational relationships (central processing units, input/output devices, operating systems, languages, 200 Level

Introduction to energy production by controlled thermonuclear reactions. Nuclear fusion reactions, energy balances for fusion systems, survey of plasma physics; physical conditions required to achieve net fusion energy, plasma physics of magnetic confinement, overview of fusion energy concepts, inertial confinement; neutral beam injection; RF heating methods; vacuum systems; material challenges in fusion systems; tritium handling.

History of Electrical Engineering. Evolution of EEE. Duties of EE Engineers. Areas of specialisation and work environment. Skill requirements (soft and hard). Qualities for EE Engineers. Careers related to EEE. Typical course modules. Job outlook/opportunities for EE Engineers. Future of EEE. Professional registration (NSE, COREN, IEEE, IET). Passive components (R, L, C, transformers): descriptive features, including values and colour codes, uses in electrical circuits.DC and AC signal parameters 200 Level

Electrical circuits (electrical quantities – Units, DC and AC Signals, Root-Mean-Square (RMS) Value, Average Value, Instantaneous Values, Form Factor, Crest Peak or Amplitude Factor); Electrostatics (Introduction, Capacitors, Capacitance, Capacitance of an Isolated Sphere, Spherical Capacitor, Parallel Plate Capacitor, Capacitors in Series and Capacitors in Parallel); magnetism and electromagnetism (Introduction, Absolute and Relative Permeabilities of a Medium, Magnetic Induction (Magnetic Flux Density), Flux Per Unit Pole, Field Intensity or Field Strength, the Production of Magnetic Induction by a Current, Biot-Savart Law (Laplace’s Law), Magnetic Circuit, Comparison of the Electric and Magnetic Circuits Magnetisation Curves; Electromagnetic Induction; Faraday’s Laws of Electromagnetic Induction); Basic laws and theorems (Introduction, Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws, Superposition Theorem, Thevenin Theorem, how to thevenize a given circuit, Delta/Star transformation and Star/Delta transformation); three phase system (Introduction, Relationship between line and phase voltage, Delta connected system with a balanced load, power with balanced 3-phase load, Measurement of Power in a 3-phase three-wire system and Power Factor Measurement); electric power (Introduction, Power in an Alternating Current Circuit, Active, Reactive and Apparent Power, Power Triangle, Power Factor, why improve Power factor, Power factor in a Capacitive Circuit, the Practical importance of Power Factor, Effect of low Power Factor, Power Factor Corrective Equipment, Effect of reactive power consumption, StaticVar Compensations for AC and DC Transmission and Industry, Typical Static Var Compensator, Advantages of Static Var Compensator, Power Factor Economics and Electricity Tariffs); introduction to electrical machines (Electric Machines and Transformers, Classification of Electrical Machines, Basic Equations of DC Machines, Operating mode of DC Machines, Transformers, Ideal Transformer and Efficiency of a Transformer); basic electronics (Introduction, Electronic Tubes, Semi-conductors, Junction Diode, Field Effect Transistor and Optoelectronics); electrical measurement (Measurement of Resistance by the Voltmetre-Ammetre Method, Ohmmetres and A. C. Bridges). 200 Level

Basic circuit laws: Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws; Nodes, Branches and loops, Series elements and voltage division, parallel elements and current division, Star-Delta transformation. AC Fundamentals: Review of Complex Algebra, Sinusoids, Phasors, Impedance and Admittance, Series and parallel combination of Inductors and Capacitors, Mesh and Nodal analysis, RMS and Average values, steady-state analysis of series and parallel combination of RLC with sinusoidal excitation, Instantaneous power, Real, Reactive and Apparent power, Concept of Power factor, Frequency. Network Theorems and Resonance: Superposition theorem, Thevinin’s theorem, Nortorn’s theorem, Maximum power transfer theorem, Reciprocity theorem, Resonance in Electrical circuits, Analysis of series and parallel Resonance. 200 Level