Module Overview

Module 1 teaches core Python for engineering work, with worked examples that rotate across the six engineering fields this course serves - Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Chemical, and Industrial. Every code example is tagged with its discipline, e.g. # [Electrical], so you always have a familiar entry point and pick up a little cross-field literacy along the way.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Write basic Python scripts to automate engineering calculations
• Work confidently with numbers, text, lists, and dictionaries
• Read and write CSV and Excel files programmatically
• Explain why Python has become the lingua franca of engineering data work

Each lesson has a worked example followed by practice exercises — try the exercises yourself before checking the Knowledge Check answers. To run or change the code, open this notebook in Colab or Jupyter (see the repo README); if you are reading it online, the code and its output are shown inline as you go.

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