MATS1600 Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Course description

Today, mechanical construction and technical design are conducted using digital engineering tools. In this course, you will use knowledge and skills from traditional mechanical subjects together with a digital engineering tool to design mechanical parts, components and products. You will also learn how to document your work.

Lectures and compulsory group assignments

None.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• is capable of identifying common mechanical components and structural components and explaining what they are used for
• is familiar with the systematic work involved in constructing parts, and putting the parts together to form components and products
• knows the production documentation requirements
• knows the rules for machine drawing

Skills

The student is capable of

• digitally modelling parts, components and products, and generating correct detailed drawings and assembly drawings based on the digital models
• carrying out power analysis and stress calculations
• constructing and dimensioning common machine parts and components such as screws and screw connections, welds and welded assemblies, shafts, shaft bearings, shaft-hub connections and simple shafting/transmissions
• carrying out simple fatigue calculations for machine parts based on infinite service life
• conducting simple element analysis

General competence

The student is capable of

• correctly documenting his or her own work and presenting them digitally

Group lectures based on digital engineering tools, lectures and laboratory work.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• a compulsory measurement laboratory workshop

Portfolio assessment of four individual construction projects. Students are expected to work on the assignments for four hours per week throughout the semester. The assignments must be submitted on Canvas.

The exam result can be appealed.

The Building Process course prepares students for a profession, and they are expected to have already acquired a number of building qualifications during the course of their studies. The Building Process course trains students to work as part of a systematic whole and it enables them to make better use of a life-cycle approach, where technical and functional performance as well as financial, social and environmental issues are taken into consideration.

Presence on the course days is important for the result of the exam.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has:

• an understanding of cooperation and management when using BIM
• an understanding of life-cycle analyses, costs, time consumption, quality assurance systems, HSE in the building and construction industry, environmental certification systems and use of the Management, Maintenance, Operation and Development system
• knowledge of the phases in a building project and the different parties’ roles and responsibility, with the main emphasis on integrated planning using BIM
• knowledge of different contract models and the different contracts used in the building and construction industry
• knowledge of the statutory requirements that apply to the building

Skills

The student is capable of:

• preparing plans for progress, finances, production, HSE and quality assurance
• drafting and using contracts and descriptions in accordance with applicable standards/process codes
• carrying out a simple risk analysis

General competence

The student:

• has an understanding of the interaction between the different players involved in the building process
• has an understanding of consequences
• has the ability to communicate the construction engineer’s roles in a systemic context
• is capable of working in a team