The purpose of this course is three-fold:

• Professional Engineering: to introduce you to Engineering as a profession.  This material includes how the Engineering profession is defined and regulated in Canada, how one becomes a Professional Engineer, how to work effectively in teams, and how intellectual-property laws apply to software.  It also includes codes of ethics, practitioners' responsibility to mitigate risk and ensure public safety, and the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS).

• Introduction to Software Engineering:  to introduce you to the discipline of Software Engineering and some of the activities involved in engineering software systems.  This material includes an introduction to software-engineering development processes, quality metrics, project planning, software safety, and numerical methods for dealing with imprecise inputs and computations.

• Engineering reports: to introduce you to basic methods for documenting engineering design decisions and analysis results.  The course's design project and report simulates the type of report you will be expected to write for co-op work-term reports.