BSME - IC 1 - First Semester

The course introduces mechanical engineering (ME) as a discipline and its various applications. It also discusses ME as a profession with emphasis on the requirements for professional practice as well as career opportunities. The course also provides venues to develop engineering skills in order to succeed in engineering studies.

 After completing this course, the student must be able to perform the following:

1. Explain the field of Mechanical Engineering and its applications.

2. Explain Engineering Profession and the requirements for professional practice.  

3. Define Mechanical Engineering as a career and identify the career opportunities for Mechanical Engineers.  

4. Apply Engineering skills to an Engineering Design project. 

Hello, my dear students.

For this semester, we will review the basics of chemistry (I hope we can do this fast since you have had your chemistry before) in the application of these basic fundamentals in your major subjects.  Since chemistry is a science, it involves measurements which can be done using various tools and apparatus in the laboratory.  Your periodic table is your companion all through out the course together with your scientific calculator, so be sure they are beside you always.

Your honesty and integrity in learning the course is one of your "pabaon" which you can take while you journey in this life.  I admonish you to learn chemistry heartily and ask questions if you are in doubt. Know where you stand in terms of preparation and knowledge and ask God to give you the Holy Spirit to inspire you for knowing what is true because this is the only thing that nobody can steal away from you.  Do your best in this four years with prayer and honest work and God will reward you for your perseverance.

Problem solving in chemistry needs to be systematic and neat.  While this plays a major role in forming good habits in presenting solutions and answers to engineering students, it also provides good notes for studying.  

Chemistry deals with the study of the basic knowledge of matter; its composition and properties; the energy involves as it changes chemically and physically; how they are named as they combine; the mass conservation in all chemical reactions and how this becomes easier for us to predict and analyze their amounts and products; and how to control their concentrations to give us quality satisfying commercialized foods and beverages.  

These are yet the basics.  The engineers should know how our way of getting our resources and producing these products affects our body, our community and the world.  Are these worth the effort?  Will this do good or bad to us and to our environment? 

I believe, the ways of chemistry lead you to discover the answers to these questions. I am here to guide and help you achieve that goal.  

Be ready.  Read what is assigned and do your part in mastering the basics well. God bless.