MATS1600 Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Course description

Mechanical design and manufacturing form the basis of all the mechanical components being utilized by humans. In this course, you will be gaining an understanding of different engineering design philosophies and manufacturing methods. You will use knowledge and skills from traditional mechanical subjects together with digital engineering tools to design mechanical parts and manufacture them using suitable methods (additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing). This course offers the right balance of theoretical concepts coupled with practical application and hands-on 3D modeling training.

Supervised individual written exam, combination of multiple choice and free text assignments, 3 hours.

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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 stages of engineering design.
• 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 rules for machine drawing.
• is familiar with using industrial standards and codes for designing mechanical parts.
• is able to perform simple stress analysis using FEA tools.
• is aware of the workflow of digital manufacturing.

Skills

The student is capable of:

• digitally modeling 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 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.

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

3 of 4 compulsory assignments must be approved.

1 mandatory labs must be approved.

The tasks are delivered in Canvas.

A three-hour individual written school exam.

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.

A handheld calculator that cannot be used for wireless communication or to perform symbolic calculations. If the calculator's internal memory can store data, the memory must be deleted before the exam. Random checks may be carried out.

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 the structure and function of the different blood cells
• can characterise blood cells in a non-pathological blood sample and describe the selected pathological cells/conditions
• can describe the principles for different methods of measuring selected hematology and coagulation analyses
• can describe the significance of different analyses for diagnosis and treatment
• can explain the principle for manual counting and differentiation of blood cells
• can explain different sources of error relating to hematological analyses and how the sources of error can affect the results
• can explain the hemostasis mechanism
• can describe some blood diseases

Skills 

The student

• can carry out regular manual and automatic hematology and coagulation analyses
• can perform start-up, daily maintenance and quality control of hematology and coagulation instruments
• can identify and characterise normal and certain pathological cells/conditions in the blood by means of manual and digital morphology
• can assess and assure the quality of sample materials and test results
• can assess and interpret scattergrams (plots) from automatic cell counters
• can interpret test results in conjunction with other parameters

General competence

The student

• can make plans for and carry out own laboratory work by using relevant documents such as procedures, product information and method applications

Work and teaching methods used are lectures, group work, peer assessment and laboratory work individually and in groups. 

Parts of the teaching used is the ‘flipped classroom’, where digital learning resources will be made available to students in advance and the time they spend at the university will be used to work on assignments and group work. Digital learning resources are also used in the form of practical assignments in digital morphology.

In order to be permitted to take the exam, the following must have been approved: 

• a minimum of 90 per cent attendance in laboratory teaching