MATS1600 Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Course description

Today, mechanical design is conducted using various digital engineering tools. In this course you will be gaining an understanding of different engineering design philosophies. Besides this you will also comprehend how failure prevention is the fundamental concept behind all mechanical design activity. Furthermore, you will use knowledge and skills from traditional mechanical subjects together with digital engineering tools to design mechanical parts, components and products. This course offers a right balance of theoretical concepts coupled with practical application and hands-on 3D modelling training.

Individual written exam, 3 hours

The exam result can be appealed.

In the event of a resit or rescheduled exam, an oral examination may be used instead. In case an oral exam is used, the examination result cannot be appealed.

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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 general competence:

Knowledge

The student:

• understands the basic principle of engineering design and stress analysis.
• is familiar with failure theories and failure modes.
• is familiar with the systematic work involved in designing parts, and assembling the parts together to form components and products.
• knows the production documentation requirements.
• knows the rules for machine drawing.
• is familiar in using industrial standards and codes for designing mechanical parts
• understands the basic theoretical background of stress analysis and is able to perform simple stress analysis using FEA tools.
• is aware of various design tools and resources.

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 simple stress calculations.
• constructing and dimensioning common machine parts and components such as welds, shafts, and simple shafting/transmissions.
• carrying out simple fatigue calculations for the machine parts.
• conducting simple finite element analysis.

General competence

The student must:

• be able to use Inventor to design engineering components and perform simple stress analysis.
• be capable of performing simple stress calculations for engineering components.

Lectures, lab exercises, project work and assignments. Group lectures based on digital engineering tools, lectures and laboratory work.

8 of 10 compulsory assignments must be approved.

The coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam.

The tasks are delivered in Canvas.

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

• a compulsory measurement laboratory workshop

The course deals with sensors, measurement techniques, and important elements of industrial automation. The course also is an introduction to programmable logic controller (PLC) programming.;

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 knowledge of:

• systemisation and industrial instrumentation
• automation and IT layers at an industrial plant (Field, Control, Supervision, Planning, and Management);
• physical principles of different;instruments;;;

• principles of;data acquisition systems (data/signal conditioning, classification of instrumentation error, different calibration techniques);
• PLC systems: Components of PLC, Input/Output devices of PLC;
• principles of PLC programming;
• Industrial Internet of Things (IoT);;

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;;Skills

The student is capable of:;;

• setting up simple automation plan;;
• providing a solution for measurement of different variables in automation process;;

• providing solution to minimize the measurement errors;
• suggesting a PLC system with required I/O devices;
• programming basic PLC programs for automation tasks;

General competence

The student is capable of:;;

• setting up a general automation plan;
• setting up a basic data acquisition system;
• developing simple PLC programs;;

Lectures and laboratory assignments are central. The laboratory teaching is built to support the classroom teaching and for hands on contact with a number of products and solutions used in the industry.

The teaching consists of lectures combined with exercises, laboratory assignments and a small project

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

• 4 compulsory hand-in exercises. estimimated time 4 hours on each exercise
• 4 lab assignments with submission, estimimated time 5 hours on each assignment.
• 1 project in groups (10 hours per student)