National University of Singapore

CS1010E Programming Methodology

This module introduces the fundamental concepts of problem solving by computing and programming using an imperative programming language. It is the first and foremost introductory course to computing. Topics covered include computational thinking and computational problem solving, designing and specifying an algorithm, basic problem formulation and problem solving approaches, program development, coding, testing and debugging, fundamental programming constructs (variables, types, expressions, assignments, functions, control structures, etc.), fundamental data structures (arrays, strings, composite data types), basic sorting, and recursion.

Grade: A+ (taken in Special Term Part II, graded)

EG1311 Design and Make

This module covers the fundamentals of engineering design and prototyping. Students will learn design principles and tools through lectures and engage in experiential learning through group design projects. A stage-based design process will be covered. Students will develop skills in Arduino-controlled electronics, CAD modelling, and rapid prototyping to demonstrate their ideas.

Grade: Pass (taken as advanced placement course, gradeless)

MA1505 Mathematics I

This module provides a basic foundation for calculus and its related subjects required by engineering students. The objective is to equip the students with various calculus techniques for their engineering courses. The module emphasises problem solving and mathematical methods in single-variable calculus, sequences and series, differential calculus for functions of several variables, multiple integrals, vector-valued Functions and vector fields.

Grade: Pass (taken as advanced placement test, gradeless)

Summary:
12 MCs cleared with CAP 5.0

Semester 1:

MA1512 Differential Equations for Engineering

This is a seven-week module specially designed for students majoring in Engineering. It introduces the basic concepts in differential equations with applications in engineering. Major topics: First order ordinary differential equations and applications. Second order ordinary differential equations and applications. Partial differential equations and applications. Laplace transforms and applications.

Grade: A+

MA1513 Linear Algebra with Differential Equations

This is a six-week module specially designed for students majoring in Engineering. It introduces the basic concepts in linear algebra with applications in engineering. Major topics: Matrix algebra, linear system of equations, vector spaces, linear independence, basis, orthogonality, rank, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, linear systems of differential equations, linearization of nonlinear systems.

Grade: A

ME1102 Engineering Principles and Practice I

This is part 1 of a 2-module package – Engineering Principles and Practice – that introduces Year 1 students to what engineers do and the engineer’s thought process. EPP I focuses on the engineering principles of how systems work and fail, and the engineering practice of how they are designed, built and valued. Given a practical engineering system, e.g. a drone, or an engineering event, e.g. the Challenger space shuttle disaster, students are guided to deconstruct the system into inter-connected sub-systems. Following which they will develop an understanding of how forces, energy flow and/or mass flow between sub-systems impact the whole.

Grade: A

ME2102 Engineering Innovation and Modelling

This module introduces the students to the various standards and techniques of sketching, prepare engineering drawings and specifications, and interpreting drawings. Students also get to use advanced commercial CAD software to do 3D solid modeling. Above all, this module expands the students’ creative talent and enhances their ability to communicate their ideas in a meaningful manner. Major topics include: Principles of projections; Isometric; Orthographic and Isometric sketching; 3D solid modeling; Sectioning and Dimensioning; Drawing standards; Limits, Fits and Geometrical Tolerances. This module also provides the student with the fundamental knowledge to do calculations on design components like bolts, screws, fasteners, weld joints, springs, gears, material selection, fatigue, bearings and shafts.

Grade: A

ME2134 Fluid Mechanics I

This is an introductory course to fluid mechanics as applied to engineering. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid and flow, students are taught fluid statics, which cover hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies, surface tension forces, buoyancy, metacentric height and stability of floating bodies. Numerous examples of engineering applications pertaining to each aspect of fluid statics are presented. In the section on fluid dynamics, basic principles of fluid motion are introduced. This covers the continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations. The momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach are included. In the analysis of fluid-mechanics problems, dimensional analysis and similitude are taught with engineering examples. On viscous flow in pipes, laminar and turbulent pipe flows, Hagen-Poiseuille law, friction factor, losses in pipe fittings and use of Moody’s Chart will be covered. This module ends with an introduction to pumps, their elementary theory and matching pump and system characteristics.

Grade: A

CFG1002 Career Catalyst

Career Catalyst will establish an important first touch point as part of a three/four-year roadmap to engage and prepare students in creating multiple pathways for themselves. Students will be equipped with essential skills and knowledge to make informed decisions on specialisations, develop soft skills as well as gain overseas exposure and real-world industry experience. This module consists of four lectures and two e-seminars spread across the first six weeks of the freshmen academic year, aimed to provide an early introduction to the concepts of career planning, personal branding and industry awareness. Students will learn to develop a strategy to maximise their time and resources while in University, be confident in mapping out a career plan and work towards strengthening their fit to achieve their career aspirations.

Grade: CS

UTC1702B Thinking in Systems: Diseases and Healthcare

Does a virus attack any individual? Or, does an individual create conditions for infection? How should hospitals plan treatment strategies and patient-staff movements during an outbreak? Should government allocate more resources to prevent onset of chronic diseases rather than managing the complications arising out of chronic diseases? Students will approach such questions from a systems perspective, which involves: understanding behaviours of subsytems and stakeholders such as disease/ infection, patients, providers, payers and society. They will also learn how the interdependencies and interactions between the different actors of the system can be integrated into a holistic system that enables better understanding.

Grade: CS

UTW1001G Human Behaviours: How do ‘I’ fit in this Social World?

Human behaviours are complex. Individuals’ intrapersonal and interpersonal social skills could affect how well they function in a society. This course will allow students to examine psychosocial and sociocognitive theories that explain intrapersonal and interpersonal social skills which are defined as 21st-century competencies. Students will evaluate the appropriateness/effectiveness of intrapersonal skills such as the self-concept/image, self-regulated learning and maintaining intellectual openness, and interpersonal skills such as team cooperation/collaboration, conflict management, and leadership in educational, political and business settings. By the end of this module, students should be able to critically analyse and develop awareness of essential social behaviours and skills.

Grade: S

Semester 2:

DTK1234 Design Thinking

In this module, students use design principles to develop their creative potential and practise design thinking using a people-centered approach to solve problems and create new possibilities. Through practical activities, students will discover tools and mindsets that guide them in navigating ambiguity in a creative process, observing and learning from others in unfamiliar contexts, and generating and experimenting with ideas quickly. While students draw on design thinking as a personal creative skillset, they will also value the impact of design that affords people the opportunity and privilege to shape the world that they, and others, inhabit.

Grade: A

EE2211 Introduction to Machine Learning

This module introduces students to various machine learning concepts and applications, and the mathematical tools needed to understand them. Topics include supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques, optimization, overfitting, regularization, crossvalidation and evaluation metrics. The mathematical tools include basic topics in probability and statistics, linear algebra, and optimization. These concepts will be illustrated through various machine learning techniques and examples, such as forecasting population growth, classifying E-mail as spam or non-spam and predicting heart disease.

Grade: A

GEA1000 Quantitative Reasoning

This module aims to equip undergraduate students with essential data literacy skills to analyse data and make decisions under uncertainty. It covers the basic principles and practice for collecting data and extracting useful insights, illustrated in a variety of application domains. For example, when two issues are correlated (e.g., smoking and cancer), how can we tell whether the relationship is causal (e.g., smoking causes cancer)? How can we deal with categorical data? Numerical data? What about uncertainty and complex relationships? These and many other questions will be addressed using data software and computational tools, with real-world data sets.

Grade: A

ME2104 Engineering Principles and Practice II

Part II of Engineering Principles and Practice will focus on the engineering principle of how systems are energized and controlled and the engineering practice of how they are designed, built and valued. Most modern engineering systems are powered electrically. They convert some raw form of energy such as fuel (petrol, diesel) or battery (electrochemically stored energy), into electrical energy. Hence energy sources and energy conversion, electrical energy utilization through conversion into various functions, measurement of functions through their performance parameters will form the backbone of this module

Grade: A-

ME2135 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics

This module aims to introduce fundamentals of fluid dynamics covering notions of the continuum hypothesis, flow kinematics, mathematical tools for flow visualization, material derivative, fluid acceleration, conservation laws, Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, inviscid flows, potential flows, viscous flows, creeping flows and boundary layer flows. Review of relevant mathematical tools to support the theory will accompany the topics when and where it is required.

Grade: A-

ME2162 Manufacturing Processes

This module teaches students how to convert engineering materials into useful products, which is essential knowledge for any mechanical engineer. At the end of the course, students are expected to have a good idea of the mechanics and economics of the various methods of production. They should be able to assess which is the best manufacturing method and optimize the parameters to manufacture an engineering component. Major Topics: Cutting tool materials; Single and multi-point tools; Types of wear; Metrology, Manufacturing processes: cold and hot working; Rolling; Extrusion; Forgoing; Sheet and metal blanking and forming; Cold forming; Welding; Brazing; Soldering; Casting; Powder metallurgy; Plastics technology; Non-conventional machining: electro-discharge machining. This is a core module.

Grade: S

PF1101 Fundamentals of Project Management

The module covers the fundamental concepts of project management, identifying nine broad project management knowledge areas. Students are given an introduction to theories relating to the management of project scope, time, cost, risk, quality, human resources, communications and procurement. The overall integration of these eight knowledge areas and the management of externalities as the ninth project management knowledge area is also emphasised.

Grade: S

UTS2706 A social critique of markets in Singapore

This module is a social critique of markets and market behaviour in Singapore. Markets are often explained with methodological individualism as opposed to broader social systems that underscore behavioural and motivational determinants. This module presents an inter-disciplinary reading of selected economic concepts and critiques them from a social and holistic angle. It is principally a sociohistorical reading of how markets perform. In its application side, the module will reinterpret the success of Singapore using conceptual tools such as objective value theory, social productivity, the leisure class, and the historically determined social wage.

Grade: S

DMX1501 DYOM via edX MOOC (CS50x Introduction to Computer Science by Harvard University and edX)

Introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming. This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web programming. Languages include C, Python, and SQL plus HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Problem sets inspired by the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Course culminates in a final project. Designed for concentrators and non-concentrators alike, with or without prior programming experience. Two thirds of CS50 students have never taken CS before. Among the overarching goals of this course are to inspire students to explore unfamiliar waters, without fear of failure, create an intensive, shared experience, accessible to all students, and build community among students.

Grade: CS

Summary:
73 MCs cleared with CAP 4.90

Semester 1:

CDE2000 Creating Narratives

Creating Narratives is an interdisciplinary module which aims to explore the principles of communication in Design and Engineering. The purpose of the course is to make explicit to students how they can draw on visual and verbal resources to clearly articulate the valued knowledge in their disciplines to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in a succinct manner. Students will explore a range of narratives around multimodal artefacts such as posters, renderings, drawings, models and exhibits from these disciplines to become familiar with the ways to engage, inform, critique and persuade different audiences and communicate their designs effectively.

Grade: In Progress

EG2101 Pathways to Engineering Leadership

Recognizing that each professional leadership journey to comprises an individual’s internalised learning and experiences, this module provides a platform for students to explore different means and take active steps towards honing their professional and leadership skills based on their needs and experiences. Students will meet with mentors to discuss talks, lectures, workshops and other initiatives that can help them in their professional journey and be guided in reflecting on this journey for deeper impact. Despite the individual nature of each leadership journey, ethical values are recognized as indispensable for every engineering professional and will be part of this module.

Grade: In Progress

EG2501 Liveable Cities

The module introduces students to how cities are governed, planned, developed and managed to achieve the liveability outcomes of quality of life, sustainable environment and a competitive economy using the case study of Singapore and other cities, through a systems thinking lens. Students will understand the role that urban systems professionals, such as urban policymakers, planners, architects, engineers, real estate consultants and managers play in achieving liveable city outcomes in an integrated way, through combining their individual expertise in different disciplines.

Grade: In Progress

ME2115 Mechanics of Machines

This course covers the fundamental engineering principles on kinematics and kinetics. The topics of rigid body dynamics and vibration will be covered, including the theoretical development and practical application to mechanisms and machinery. The salient features of dynamics to be applied for each instance will be clearly explained and the interpretation of the results obtained will be highlighted.

Grade: In Progress

ME4241 Aircraft Performance, Stability and Control

Aircraft range, endurance, level and gliding flight, climb, takeoff and landing, static longitudinal and lateral stability, dynamic stability and control, flying qualities.

Grade: In Progress

ME4291 Finite Element Analysis

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of the finite element method, practical techniques in creating an FEM model, and demonstrates its applications to solve some important stress and thermal analysis problems in Mechanical Engineering. Some necessary background in mechanics will be briefed before the foundations of the FEM theory, concept and procedures are covered. Various formulations and applications to one- two- and threedimensional problems in solid mechanics and heat transfer will be covered to reinforce the theory and concepts. The precautions in the actual practice of FE analysis such as mesh design, modeling and verification will also be covered. Some instruction in the use of a commercial FEM software package will be given and students are expected to carry out one or more projects with it independently. This module should give students a good foundation for numerical simulation, and basic skills for carrying out stress and thermal analysis for a mechanical system.

Grade: In Progress

UTC2703 Infectious Diseases: Dynamics, Strategies and Policies

Waves of infectious diseases like Ebola, SARS, and avian flu have shaken countries in recent years. The complex unpredictable nature of infectious diseases has also been a source of fear and threat to humans and other life forms for several centuries. The origin, spread, prevention and control of infectious diseases involve actors including animals, birds, insects, humans, environment, society and economics. This module will explore the interconnections and interdependencies between these actors as models that involve a “system of systems”. Besides helping to relate model structure to dynamic behaviour, the models will be used to design optimal vaccination and control policies.

Grade: In Progress