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.

The course builds on MAPE1300 Mechanics.

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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.

Coursework spring 2021 due to Covid:

2 of 10 assignments must be approved

Coursework earlier:

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

• a compulsory measurement laboratory workshop

Exam spring 2021 due to Covid-19:

The portfolio consists of an individual report (word limit 3000-4000) based on a case study from Mechanical Engineering.

[Exam earlier]:

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.

All aids are permitted.

Grade scale spring 2021:

Graded scale A-F

[Grade scale earlier:]

Pass/fail.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.