Through Engineers’ Eyes – final thoughts

Congratulations on reaching the end of the course!

The concept wheel shows how the last four weeks fit together. The final short video reviews these weeks. The chances are that you have developed engineers’ eyes.

This is a wrap up week.

Week 4 concept wheel (Click to expand)

In the experiment for this final week, accelerations were present. So we needed Newton’s second law – the heart of Dynamics – and we needed to understand motion. There’s so much more, but we have come to the end of our course, so deeper study will have to wait.

So, we have seen how to represent loads from gravity, friction, and wind. And although it was brief, we have made a start on dynamics. In fact, you can apply what we have learnt about loads to Dynamics too.

We learnt practical skills in engineering mechanics, and along the way our vision expanded to take in more of the engineering world view.

We hope that you have enjoyed learning about Engineering Mechanics through experiment, analysis and design, and that you are getting used to your ‘engineers’ eyes’.

We’ve enjoyed following your discussions and other contributions. Now we would like your overall impressions of the course in the comments section.

If this course has inspired you to consider further academic study in the field of Mechanical Engineering check out the UNSW Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering website for more details.

We wish you all the very best.

Ganga Prusty and Robin Ford