This course covers the study of the methodologies used in conducting an engineering research. It includes the types and application of research, characteristics of a good research, research design, research instrument and data gathering procedures. It also deals with the study of writing a research proposal in various formats.
This course deals with the relations between externally applied load and their effects on deformable bodies. Deformations, even though small, are of major concern. The course covers stress, strain, torsion, shear and moment in beams, stresses in beams, deflection of beams, restrained beams, statically indeterminate beams, stresses on combined loads and composite beams.