Course Listing
for first-year students
The following is a listing and links to online course materials for APSC designated courses for first-year students.
Course web pages can be directly accessed by typing http://courses.engineering.ubc.ca/apsc###/
(where ### is substituted by the three-digit course number, eg. 150 for APSC 150 Engineering Case Studies)
(where ### is substituted by the three-digit course number, eg. 150 for APSC 150 Engineering Case Studies)
- APSC 110 Co-operative Work Placement
- Supervised, technical work experience in an established company or organization for a minimum of three months. Technical report. Restricted to students meeting the requirements of the Faculty of Applied Science and the Co-operative Education Program.
- APSC 122 Introduction to Engineering
- Non-credit course designed to introduce students to Engineering. Information on the Faculty, the profession and the particular skills and type of work done by practising engineers in different disciplines. [1-0-0]
- APSC 150 Engineering Case Studies
- Application of scientific principles and technical knowledge to practical problems. Introduction to the engineering design process and to engineering graphics. [3-4-0]
- APSC 151 Computer-Aided Engineering Graphics
- Orthographic projection, technical sketching, development of the ability to visualize in three dimensions. Standards and conventions of engineering drawing, graphical presentation of engineering data. Micro-computer based graphics aids. Engineering geometry and the solution of space problems. [1-0-4]
- APSC 160 Introduction to Computation in Engineering Design
- Analysis and simulation, laboratory data acquisition and processing, measurement interfaces, engineering tools, computer systems organization, programming languages. [2-2-1]
