Laboratory equipment including
Airflow rig
Deadweight tester
Venturi rigs
hydrostatic tank
Hounsfield and Lloyd tensile testers
Bending moment/shear force beam
Spring stiffness rig
hardness testing
Thin Cylinder
Force components rigs
Crane rig
Flywheel rig
Gyroscope rig
Cylinder head flow rig

Mechanics - Units & Prefixes, Newton's Laws of Motion, Stress / Strain Relationships and Hooke's Law, Solid Body Statics, Friction, Work & Energy Equations, Impulse and Momentum, Rectilinear Motion, Projectiles.
Fluid definitions and properties. Pressure and velocity and flow. Conservation of mass, energy and momentum applied to fluids. . Flow and pressure measurement. Pipe flow and fluid power. Buoyancy and stability of floating bodies.

Learning on all aspects of the contents will be facilitated by attending lectures.
Practical and analytical assignments using laboratory equipment
Problem solving and student centred learning
Contact hours: 24 hrs lectures; 24 hrs laboratory/tutorials

Fundamental Engineering Mechanics, P J Ogrodnik, Prentice Hall, 1998,

Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, YA Cengel, J.M. Cimbala, RH Turner, 4th Edn., McGraw-Hill, 2012, ISBN 0071325115

An introduction to Engineering Mechanics, D Reid, Palgrave, 2000, 0333949218

Foundation Engineering Handbook, Robert Day, 2010, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN-10: 0071740090

Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Ferdinand Beer et. al., 2010, 1st Edition, McGraw Hill, ISBN-10: 0073380156

2 problem based or laboratory assignments (100%) overall,
50% Solid Mechanics, [learning outcome 1, 2] Tutorial questions / scientific paper production
50% Fluid Mechanics [learning outcome 1, 2] hydraulic design

Module only available to students enrolled on the International Year One Engineering Certificate Programme.