Engineering Fundamentals
Mechanics, materials, and the communication conventions engineers use to make and defend decisions.
- Engineering Fundamentals: Mechanics and Materials
- Engineering Communication
- Statics and Equilibrium
NSW Engineering Studies Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Engineering Studies” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Mechanics, materials, and the communication conventions engineers use to make and defend decisions.
Forces and stability in structures, materials choice, and the management of civil works.
Vehicle and transport systems, energy, and the trade-offs in moving people and goods.
Machines, mechanisms and hydraulic systems, and the calculation of their performance.
A Engineering Studies paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 4–6 |
| calculate | Calculation | 2–4 |
| compare | Short answer | 3–6 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–5 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| interpret | Short answer | 3–5 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–6 |
HSC Engineering Studies - Written Paper Shape — 100 marks, 180 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.