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.

Ingen forkunnskapskrav.

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

The course is organised into a series of lectures and seminars. Students are expected to play an active role. Lectures are given by both the course lecturer and invited lecturers. Students will also be required to present papers, and discuss course themes during lectures and seminars.

Students must submit a work requirement of 11 pages (+/-10%) on a course topic, preferably written in groups of 3-5 students. The paper must be approved by the course lecturer. Students whose papers are not approved after the first submission will be given the chance to resubmit once. Papers that are not approved after two submissions will disqualify students from sitting the final examination.

Students may use a spelling dictionary, as well as a bilingual dictionary during this written school exam.

Students are awarded grades on a descending scale from A to E for pass and F for fail.

The written exam will be assessed by an internal and external examiner. The external examiner grades a random sample consisting of at least 25 per cent of the written exams. The grades given for this sample provide a basis for the internal examiner-s assessment. The external examiner will also grade papers where there is doubt about giving a grade of pass.

Einar Øverbye