Updated on: 01/12/2023 Modern life depends on engineers to develop, support and control the mechanical products and systems that are all around us, for example cars, machinery and manufacturing and transport systems. To make a contribution as an engineer, you must be able to draw on an important range of principles developed by early engineering scientists, such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and James Watt. There is an increasing demand for multi-skilled engineers who can apply principles from several engineering disciplines to develop solutions to engineering problems. This unit will develop your mathematical and physical scientific knowledge, and understanding to enable you to solve problems set in an engineering context. You will explore and apply the algebraic and trigonometric mathematical methods required to solve engineering problems. The mathematical and physical science principles covered in this unit or the engineering principles covered in this unit. This sits at the heart of the qualification and gives you a foundation to support you in any engineering technician role, a trainee job role with an employer, or to help with your progression to higher education.