The course aims to provide students with the fundamental engineering mechanics and statics concepts using a project-based and modular teaching model. Students will become familiar with structural systems, such as trusses, beams, and frames, and understand the forces acting on basic structural members and the reaction forces occurring at joints and connections. These concepts will be discovered/taught through team projects and experiments; hence, the students will connect the theory to real-life problems.

The course covers subjects on rigid body mechanics and equilibrium, including force vectors, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, force resultants, moments, structural analysis of trusses, beams and frames, internal forces, center of gravity, centroid, area integrals, moment of inertia, friction.