HSC Engineering
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Module 1: Civil Structures
Structure in focus: Bridges.
1. Historical and Societal influences.
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
2. Engineering mechanics and hydraulics.
- Students learn about:
- Stress and strain
- Truss analysis
- Method of joints.
- Method of sections
- Bending stress induced by point loads
- Uniformly distributed loads
- Crack theory
- Students learn to:
- Apply mathematical and/or graphical methods to solve problems related to the design of civil structures
- Evaluate the importance of the stress/strain diagram in understanding the properties of materials
- Calculate the bending stress on simply supported beams involving vertical point loads only
- Describe the effect of uniformly distributed loads on a simple beam, without calculations
- Examine how failure due to cracking can be repaired or eliminated
3. Engineering materials
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
- Describe basic testing conducted on civil structures
- Examine the properties uses, and appropriateness of materials used in civil structures
- Make appropriate choices of materials and processes for uses in civil structures
- Investigate the structure and property relationships in materials
- Explain the special properties produced by composite materials
- Experiment with simple pre-tensioned and post-tensioned structures
- Evaluate the significance of corrosion problems in civil structures
- Describe methods used for recycling materials when civil structures are replaced
Module 2: Personal and Public Transport
Structure in focus: Motor Vehicles
1. Historical and Societal influences.
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
2. Engineering mechanics and hydraulics.
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
3. Engineering materials
- Students learn about:
- Heat treatment of ferrous metals
- Heat treatment of steels
- Annealing
- Normalising
- Hardening and tempering
- Structure property relationships
- Structure/Property relationship in the material forming processes
- Forging
- Rolling
- Casting
- Extrusion
- Powder Forming
- Non-ferrous metals
- Aluminium and its alloys
- Brass, Bronze
- Structure/Property Relationship
- Annealing, strengthening
- Ceramics and Glasses
- Semi-Conductors
- Laminating and heat treatment of glass
- Polymers
- Structure/Property Relationships and applications
- Engineering textiles
- Manufacturing processes for polymer parts.
- Heat treatment of ferrous metals
- Students learn to:
- Identify appropriate heat treatment processes
- Justify appropriate choices for ferrous materials and processes used in transport parts and systems
- Experiment with metals to reinforce the concept of heat treatment
- Explain the method and applications of various ferrous metal forming processes
- Justify appropriate choices of non-ferrous materials and processes for use in transportation parts and systems based on relevant structure/property relationships
- Justify appropriate choices of ceramics and glasses used in transportation parts and systems
- Identify the types and function of common semiconductors used in the electronics of the transport industry
- Justify appropriate choices of polymers and their manufacturing processes used in transportation parts and systems
4. Engineering electricity/electronics
- Students learn about:
- Power generation/distribution
- Electrical energy and power
- AC/DC circuits
- Electric motors used in transport systems
- Principles
- Applications
- Control technology
- Digital technology
- Power generation/distribution
- Students learn to:
Module 3: Aeronautical engineering
1. Scope of the Profession
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
2. Historical and societal influences
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
3. Engineering mechanics and hydraulics
- Students learn about:
- Forces: Lift, Drag, Weight and Thrust.
- Basic Aerodynamics - Bernoulli's Principle
- Bending stress - Airframes
- Propulsion systems - Jet Engines and Turboprops
- Fluid Mechanics
- Hydrostatic and dynamic pressure
- Application to aircraft components
- Application to aircraft instruments
- Students:
4. Engineering materials
- Students learn about:
- Specialised testing of aircraft materials
- Dye penetrant
- X-ray
- Magnetic particles
- Ultrasonic
- Aluminium and its alloys used in aircraft
- Aluminium Silicon
- Magnesium, Aluminium Copper
- Structure/Property/Application relationships
- Heat treatment of applicable alloys
- Polymers
- Structure/Property relationships and Application
- Modifying materials for aircraft applications
- Engineering textiles
- Composites
- Types and applications in aircraft
- Structure/Property relationships
- Corrosion
- Common corrosion mechanisms in aircrafts
- Pit and crevice corrosion
- Stress corrosion
- Specialised testing of aircraft materials
- Students:
- Describe non-destructive tests used with aircraft materials and components
- Analyse structure, properties, uses and appropriateness in aeronautical engineering applications
- Investigate the effects of heat treatment on the structure and properties of aluminium alloys
- Select and justify materials and processes used in aeronautical engineering
- Outline the mechanism of corrosion common to aircraft components
Module 4: Lifting Devices
1. Historical and Societal influences
- Students learn about:
- Students:
2. Engineering Mechanics and Hydraulics
- Students learn about:
- Conditions of equilibrium for non-current coplanar forces
- Fluid mechanics
- Archimede's and Pascal's Principle
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Applications to lifting devices
- Students:
3. Engineering Materials
- Students learn about:
- Testing of materials used in Lifting devices
- Tension, compression
- Hardness
- Impact
- Structure/Property relationships in heat treatment processes
- Normalising
- Hardening/Tempering
- Structure/Property relationships in forming processes
- Forging
- Casting
- Extrusion
- Rolling
- Powder Forming
- Testing of materials used in Lifting devices
- Students:
- Describe the properties, uses and appropriateness of materials in Lifting Devices
- Evaluate manufacturing processes for components used in lifting devices
- Investigate impact testing
- Experiment with and assess structure/property relationships, before and after heat treatment
- Analyse the Structure/Property relationship developed through forming processes
4. Engineering electricity/electronics
- Students learn about:
- Applications found in appropriate lifting devices
- Motors
- Motor Control
- Electrical safety
- Applications found in appropriate lifting devices
- Students:
Module 5: Telecommunication
1. Scope of the Profession
- Students learn about:
- Students learn to:
2. Historical and Societal Influences
- Students learn about:
- Students:
3. Engineering materials
- Students learn about:
- Specialised testing
- Voltage, current, insulation
- Copper and its alloys in telecommunication
- Structure/Property relationships
- Semiconductors
- Types and uses in telecommunications
- Polymers
- Insulation materials
- Fibre-Optics
- Types and applications
- Specialised testing
- Students:
4. Engineering Electronics
- Students learn about:
- Telecommunications
- Students:
Communications
- Freehand and technical drawing
- Pictorial and orthogonal projections
- Australian Standard AS1100
- Orthogonal assembly drawings
- Development
- Development of transition pieces
- Graphical mechanics
- Graphical solutions to complex engineering problems
- Sectioning of orthogonal views
Miscellaneous Aggregates
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