Course: Through Engineers' Eyes - Introducing the Vision: Engineering Mechanics by Experiment, Analysis and Design

Congratulations on reaching the end of the course! This has been the most important week of the course. You saw how to analyse rigid bodies that are ‘planar’ – that …

Dear Learners, It is my great pleasure in thanking you all for participating in the fourth iteration of this course and providing us with enough encouragement, constructive comments and motivation …

Power is force times speed. It’s also torque times rotational speed. We’ll use these equations – and others involving twist – to work out the performance of an electric car. …

What can I say? An elegant experiment will lead you into an understanding that will give you great satisfaction. It’s a short sweet video. Feel free to use the data …

Here you’ll gain the words for describing twist, and the method for calculating it. The general public has some idea of forces, but for them twist (or the related words …

If you use a spanner to undo a nut, the twist you generate comes from the force you apply. The twist and the force come as a package. If you …

This really simple experiment shows how twisting effects are generated and how they balance out. It’s another example of equilibrium – simple, elegant and surprisingly accurate. If you haven’t given …

This quick video highlights your progress towards Engineers Eyes. The concept wheel shows how it all fits together. Week 2 concept wheel (Click to expand) Are forces just a figment …

With the problem specified in the previous video you are now ready to work your way towards an engineering solution. The video leads you through the process with opportunities to …

Because design is central to engineering it is also central to developing engineers’ eyes. Here is your first encounter with it. You will select components that will meet a requirement …

You’ve got the concepts for adding vectors; now it’s time to apply them. Data from the experiment are given in the Downloads section below. You can use your own data …

Now that you have internalised the concept of the Free Body Diagram, you can reveal forces. What can you do with them? We’ll find many ways to manipulate forces in …

So simple, yet so profound. You won’t get engineers’ eyes until you have internalised the concept of isolating the object (or objects) you want to analyse. Only when a body …

By using the force transducers we can see how forces acting at a point combine to share a load. You can download the instructions to the experiment and the data …