BTEC First Engineering Curriculum Support Pack: Core Units for BTEC Firsts in Engineering and Common Specialist Units in All Pathways

Tooley, Mike

ISBN 10: 0750680598 ISBN 13: 9780750680592

Publisher: Newnes (an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd ), 2007

Synopsis

Used alongside the textbook, "BTEC First Engineering", this pack offers a complete course for the core units and common specialist units of the 2006 BTEC First specification, providing all the essential resources needed by a busy lecturer to deliver interesting and stimulating lessons.Units covered: Unit 1 - Working practices in engineering; Unit 2 - Using and interpreting engineering information; Unit 3 - Applied electrical and mechanical science; Unit 4 - Mathematics for engineering technicians; Unit 8 - Selecting engineering materials; Unit 10 - Computer aided drawing techniques; Unit 19 - Electronic circuit construction and testing.In support of these units, the pack offers: teachers' notes on teaching strategies, assessment and resources; background on running the BTEC First in Engineering Sample schemes of work; solutions to selected review questions; worked solutions to activities; further activities, worksheets and handout material; and reference material for use as handouts A CD ROM with PDF documents of the complete pack. This pack will save teachers and course teams many hours' work preparing handouts and assignments. One chapter covers one unit of the 2006 BTEC First specification. It is developed by an experienced lecturer who has over 30 years experience of designing and delivering BTEC qualifications.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Tooley is a technical author and consultant. He was formerly Vice Principal at Brooklands College in Surrey, England, where he was responsible for the delivery of learning to over 10,000 Further and Higher Education students increasingly by flexible, open and on-line distance learning. Mike is the well-known author of several popular engineering and related text books, including widely adopted course texts for BTEC, GCE A-level and GCSE qualifications in Engineering. Mike's hobbies include astronomy, amateur radio, aviation, computing and electronic circuit design and construction.

From the Back Cover

The complete off-the-shelf resource for delivering BTEC First courses in Engineering from Edexcel

* This pack will save teachers and course teams many hours' work preparing handouts and assignments
* Chapter by chapter match to the units of the 2006 BTEC First specification
* Developed by an experienced lecturer who has over 30 years experience of designing and delivering BTEC qualifications

Used alongside the textbook, BTEC First Engineering, this pack offers a complete course for the core units and common specialist units of the 2006 BTEC First specification, providing all the essential resources needed by a busy lecturer to deliver interesting and stimulating lessons.

Units covered:
Unit 1 Working practices in engineering
Unit 2 Using and interpreting engineering information
Unit 3 Applied electrical and mechanical science
Unit 4 Mathematics for engineering technicians
Unit 8 Selecting engineering materials
Unit 10 Computer aided drawing techniques
Unit 19 Electronic circuit construction and testing

In support of these units, the pack offers:
* Teachers' notes on teaching strategies, assessment and resources
* Background on running the BTEC First in Engineering
* Sample schemes of work
* Solutions to selected review questions
* Worked solutions to activities
* Further activities, worksheets and handout material
* Reference material for use as handouts
* A CD ROM with PDF documents of the complete pack

Free student resources are available at http://www.key2study.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Newnes (an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd )
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750680598
• ISBN 13: 9780750680592
• Binding: Ring-bound
• Number of pages: 288