BTEC First Engineering: Core Units for BTEC Firsts in Engineering and Common Specialist Units in All Pathways - Softcover

Tooley, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750680601 ISBN 13: 9780750680608

Publisher: Newnes (an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd ), 2006

Synopsis

"BTEC First Engineering" is a key course book covering the compulsory core units of the 2006 BTEC First Engineering schemes from Edexcel. Full coverage is given to the common core units of the Certificate/Diploma (units 1 and 2), plus the additional compulsory units for Diploma students (units 3 and 4), for all pathways. It also covers the three common specialist option units found within each pathway: Selecting Engineering Materials (unit 8), Using Computer Aided Drawing Techniques in Engineering (unit 10), and Electronic Circuit Construction and Testing (unit 19). BTEC First Engineering students will find this a clear, straightforward and easily accessible text, which encourages independent study and covers all the core material they will be following throughout their course. Knowledge-check questions and activities are included throughout, along with review questions, innovative 'Another View' features, and worked mathematical examples, all of which relate to real-world engineering contexts. Students will gain a valuable insight into various areas of engineering technology and related industries, providing a potential springboard to further training, eventual progression to qualifications within higher education, or to suitable employment. For those students wishing to progress to BTEC National, this text covers all the vital material required as a prerequisite for progression to NQF Level 3. The book is supported with extensive online resources. It is packed with features to encourage learning - knowledge-checks, activities and practice questions - and complete with additional resources available for download, for both lecturers and students.

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

This key course book covers the compulsory core units of the 2006 BTEC First Engineering schemes from Edexcel. Full coverage is given to the common core units of the Certificate / Diploma (units 1 and 2), plus the additional compulsory units for Diploma students (units 3 and 4), for all pathways. It also covers the three common specialist option units found within each pathway: Selecting Engineering Materials (unit 8), Using Computer Aided Drawing Techniques in Engineering (unit 10), and Electronic Circuit Construction and Testing (unit 19).

BTEC First Engineering students will find this a clear, straightforward and easily accessible text, which encourages independent study and covers all the core material they will be following throughout their course. Knowledge-check questions and activities are included throughout, along with review questions, innovative Another View features, and worked mathematical examples, all of which relate to real-world engineering contexts.

Students will gain a valuable insight into various areas of engineering technology and related industries, providing a potential springboard to further training, eventual progression to qualifications within higher education, or to suitable employment. For those students wishing to progress to BTEC National, this text covers all the vital material required as a prerequisite for progression to NQF Level 3.

The book is supported with extensive online resources. At http://www.key2study.com students will find:

a 2D CAD package that can be used to carry out the practical CAD activities described in the book
downloadable CAD drawing templates and Visio symbol libraries
an engineering materials database which can be modified and added to by students
spreadsheets for solving some common engineering calculations
additional software and an on-line quiz for unit 19.

In addition, for lecturers only, http://textbooks.elsevier.com has answers to the review questions in units 3 and 4.

Mike Tooley is formerly Vice Principal and Head of Faculty of Engineering at Brooklands College, Surrey, and is the author of many best-selling engineering books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Newnes (an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd )
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750680601
• ISBN 13: 9780750680608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304