Engineering Terminology ENGI 1211

This course is particularly designed to enhance students with the required foundation to undertake further engineering courses. Starting with the review of the terminologies related to college basic requirement courses, including: Engineering drawings, project management, planning and finance, health, quality and safety management. 

In addition, from Civil and Architectural engineering prospectuses, topics include: structures and materials, hydrology, urban design.Furthermore, the course shed light on both software and biomedical Engineering mostly needed terminologies.

This course aims to:

• Equip students with professional Engineering terminologies.
  
• Provide students with the opportunity to develop confidence in linguistics   skills through exercises. 
  
• To help students acquire confidence in dealing with others by encouraging pair-work and group work.
  
• Enhance overall communication skills in English.
  

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
Define basic technical terminologies related to different engineering disciplines including:

• Geometric figures, lines, points and angles in English. 
  
• Project life cycle consisting of: feasibility study, design, planning, scheduling, resources, implementation and closing of an engineering project. 
  
• Finance related terms such as capital, assets, bonds,….
  
• Different types of loads, elastic and plastic bodies.
  
• Foundations, types of settlements, concrete, bricks….
  
• The internal framework of the body (skeleton).
  
• Hard and software engineering.  

• Pose the ability to describe/understand health, safety and quality requirements.
  
• Demonstrate the ability to give simple profession-related instructions.
  
• Use engineering terminologies in the right context.