Engineering

This module is categorised into two UNITS:

Unit 1 focuses on the Anthropology of Identity. The unit explores the anthropology of identity – the study of how people define who they and others are about ethnicity, nation and race.

 Unit 2 focuses on Belief and Ritual. The unit offers an exploration of how anthropology as a discipline has attempted to answer questions such as what is a ritual? How does it work? What does it mean to believe? How do beliefs, and practices affect and structure the world we live in? And how, in turn, do history, politics and time shape ritual practices, meanings and subjectivities? What does a ritual say about history, politics, and social life? How do rituals change and transform? Can a ritual be a site of contestation and resistance?

The Module aligns the work and life of the Engineers to the society and its culture. The work and life of the engineer is not isolated from the society and culture. There should always be alignment.

The purpose of this course is to provide the beginning engineering student with an insight into how computers work. This will be done in two stages. Firstly, we will explore the underlying components of a computer and the way they carry out processes and instructions then look at using programming code to instruct a computer. Emphasis will be put on the application of computer programming not only in success stories in the software industry but also in familiar scenarios in business as well as engineering. Students will learn algorithmic problem-solving, coding, and debugging techniques. Students will write programs to solve simple problems drawn from a wide range of disciplines, primarily in the sciences and business. Zero computing background is assumed.

The signals and systems I module is considered basic electrical engineering science. The student will be provided with the theoretical and mathematical foundations required to understand linear systems and the associated deterministic signals.