Engineering Strategies & Practice I

Notes

Lecture Notes + Textbook Excerpts

Course Description

Engineering Strategies & Practice (ESP) is a two-course program within the first-year curriculum at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. These are introductory design courses, meaning that students work in teams on projects brought forward by real-life clients. In the fall semester, all groups work on one of a few projects brought forward by the same client (Hart House in my year, and Sidney Smith Commons the year prior). In the winter semester, however, teams work on projects that come a wide variety of clients at UofT and in industry. The primary text for this course is Designing Engineers: An Introductory Text, written mostly by University of Toronto professors.

My notes for the next course, APS112 (ESP II), can be found here. I originally planned on writing these notes in LaTeX, but after looking at the way I’ve structured the text and drawings in my notebook, I decided that my left hand is a better text editor. So, I took the liberty of scanning them instead. If you find any errors (or just want to provide feedback) feel free to reach out to arnav.patil@mail.utoronto.ca!