Engineering Fundamentals

Basic principles of real power, reactive power, and apparent power in AC circuits.

Introduction to AC sinusoidal waveforms, amplitude, frequency, period, and RMS values.

Fundamental physics principles underlying fluid behavior, thermal systems, wave phenomena, and basic electrical concepts in engineering.

Fundamental concepts of pressure, temperature, heat transfer, waves, and basic electricity.

Introduction to the fundamental relationships and energy storage capabilities of ideal capacitors and inductors.

Defines basic electrical quantities and explains their relationships with charge, energy, and time.

Introduction to chemical kinetics, reaction rates, reaction orders, and the Arrhenius equation.

Introduction to total stress, pore water pressure, and Terzaghi's effective stress principle for saturated soils.

Understand the relationships between voltage, current, power dissipation, and energy transfer in DC circuits.

Introduction to macroscopic energy balances and the First Law of Thermodynamics for closed and steady-flow open systems.

Introduction to fundamental fluid properties including density, specific weight, specific gravity, and viscosity.

Fundamental concepts regarding hydrostatic pressure and manometry.

Fundamental principles of thermal conduction, convection, and radiation.

Understand Hooke's Law, the linear relationship between spring force and displacement, sign conventions, and the role of the spring constant in engineering analysis.

Introduction to ideal continuous reactors: Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactors (CSTR) and Plug Flow Reactors (PFR).

Introduction to the ideal transformer, focusing on turns ratio, voltage/current transformation, and impedance reflection.

Apply conservation of charge and energy to electrical nodes and loops using Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL) and Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL).

Understand the core principles of conservation of mass in continuous flow engineering systems.

Fundamental concepts of classical mechanics, including Newton's laws and the relationships between mass, force, and acceleration.

Introduction to phasors and the impedance of resistors, inductors, and capacitors in AC circuits.

Explanation of resistance, resistivity, and Ohm's law, and their use in basic calculations.

Combining basic resistive components into series and parallel networks to find equivalent resistance.

Introduction to the shear strength of soils, the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion, cohesion, and internal friction angle.

Understanding the three-phase soil model and fundamental volumetric and gravimetric relationships.

Application of the First Law of Thermodynamics to steady-state open systems.

Basic engineering concepts regarding temperature scales and specific heat capacity.

Introduction to balanced three-phase power systems, covering Wye and Delta connections, line vs. phase relationships, and power calculations.

Basic phase behavior and Raoult's law for ideal mixtures.

A foundational overview of kinematics, covering the difference between speed and velocity, acceleration, and the concept of momentum.

Fundamental concepts of energy transfer, work, kinetic and potential energy, power generation, and an awareness of torque.

A worked example demonstrating the calculation of mass from volume and density.

A worked example demonstrating Newton's Second Law of Motion (F=ma).

A worked example demonstrating the calculation of spring restoring force using Hooke's Law.

A worked example demonstrating the calculation of mechanical power from work and time.

A worked example demonstrating the calculation of pressure exerted by a force over an area.

A worked example demonstrating the calculation of mechanical work and potential energy.