APSC 101 Engineering Design & Practice Units: 3.20
This course develops the ability to conceive, design, and implement solutions in an engineering context via team-based design projects. It develops complex problem solving, teaming, critical thinking, and communication skills, and provides guidance in incorporating safety, ethical, economic, and social factors in engineering problem solving. Examples and project topics are chosen to complement instruction in other first year courses, specifically including programming and graphics. This course is integrated with APSC 199, and coordinated by the same instructors.
K3.2(Lec: Yes, Lab: No, Tut: Yes)
K3.2(Lec: Yes, Lab: No, Tut: Yes)
Offering Term: F
CEAB Units:
Mathematics 0
Natural Sciences 0
Complementary Studies 13
Engineering Science 8
Engineering Design 17
Offering Faculty: Smith Engineering
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Create and use quantitative models to analyze systems
- Define and deconstruct a complex engineering problem.Â
- Generate and evaluate multiple alternatives, supporting chosen approach.
- Design, implement, and evaluate a simple prototype.
- Evaluate performance of design relative to specifications and theoretical predictions.
- Identify, organize, and critically evaluate information from an appropriate range of sources.
- Takes initiative to plan, organize, and complete task as an individual and team member, in order to meet goals.
- Seek and integrate diverse and alternative viewpoints, including Indigenous perspectives where applicable, in decision-making.
- Provides effective feedback to peers.
- Produce clear, concise, precise and well-organized written communication with language appropriate for the audience.
- Produce graphical elements that are generally well designed, and support the main purpose.
- Describes how safety is integral to producing effective solutions from start to finish.
- Integrate appropriate standards, codes, legal and regulatory factors throughout design activities.
- Incorporate concepts of sustainable design and development into engineering activities.
- Identify and resolve potential ethical issues using ethical principles and codes.
- Intentionally incorporate principles of fairness, access and opportunity into decision making.
- Evaluate and reflect on own knowledge, skills and learning.