School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Engineering Mechanics
  • Unit Code

    ENS1101
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Themelina PARASKEVA

Description

This unit provides a thorough coverage of the principles of engineering mechanics with a focus primarily on the fundamentals of statics and application of these principles to problems related to engineering structures and systems.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have achieved a scaled score > 49.99 in ATAR Physics or WACE PHY3A/3B or must have passed SCP1132. Students must have also passed MAT1137 or MAT1236 or must have achieved a scaled score >49.99 in ATAR Mathematics Methods or ATAR Mathematics Specialist or WACE MAT3C/3D or equivalent.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENM2210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine forces and moments and construct free-body diagrams to accurately describe the performance of structural elements and systems based on the conditions of static equilibrium.
  2. Calculate the geometric properties of cross-sections of structural members.
  3. Examine, construct, test and choose a structural system that resists specified load conditions.
  4. Work collaboratively to plan, implement and communicate outcomes of a project to design a simple bridge structure.

Unit Content

  1. Structures: plane trusses, method of joints, method of sections, space trusses, frames and machines.
  2. Distributed force systems: centre of mass, centroids of lines, areas, and volumes, composite bodies and figures.
  3. Equilibrium in two and three dimensions: system isolation and free-body diagrams, equilibrium conditions.
  4. Basic concepts of mechanics and vectors.
  5. Two- and three-dimensional force systems: rectangular components, moments and couples, resultants.
  6. External loading and reactions acting on beams, shear force, axial force and bending moment, chains and cables.
  7. Frictional forces: laws of Coulomb friction.
  8. Work and energy: active-force diagrams, virtual displacements, degrees of freedom, potential energy and stability.
  9. Moment of inertia: transfer theorems, radius of gyration, moment of inertia by integration, moment of inertia for composite areas and for areas around inclined axes, and mass moment of inertia.
  10. Communicating and collaborating effectively in teams

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 21 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work and report20%
ProjectDesign project (teamwork)25%
TestMid-semester test15%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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