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.

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 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.

The course will provide a basis for developing an understanding of and the ability to assess the aesthetics, styles and architecture of our built-up environment and historical development to date. The course will develop students insight into the concept of building tradition and the adaptation of new buildings and building projects to their surroundings. It will also give students knowledge of the constructional history of architecture.

Elective courses are set up under precondition that there are enough students in the course.

An individual report (word limit 3000-4000) based on a case study from Mechanical Engineering.

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

All aids are permitted.

Knowledge

The student:

• has knowledge of the historical development of building architecture in Norway and Europe, and has learnt to identify the most important architectural styles
• has knowledge of constructional architectural history
• has knowledge of the main characteristics of and differences between local building traditions in Norway
• has knowledge of the historical development of urban planning and the design of street networks and outdoor spaces in built-up environments
• has knowledge of how environmental considerations and the desire for sustainable development can be linked to the concept of building traditions in order to develop good residential environments

Skills

The student:

• is capable of seeing a building project from the architect's perspective when designing and dimensioning a building
• is capable of making the right choices in connection with planning and building applications by using his/her knowledge of architecture, building traditions and aesthetics, and of ensuring good adaptation to the existing built-up environment, the scenery and the surroundings
• is capable of meeting the Planning and Building Act-s requirements for building traditions and aesthetics
• understands how building traditions and aesthetics can be addressed in building projects, and particularly in connection with urban renewal/regeneration (balconies, retrofitting of insulation, noise barriers), densification, annexes/extensions etc.
• has knowledge of how environmental considerations and the desire for sustainable development can be linked to the concept of building traditions

General competence

• The student:is capable of making sensible choices in connection with planning and building applications based on an overall assessment of the many requirements for aesthetics and compliance with building tradition
• benefits from his/her knowledge of constructional architectural history when designing buildings
• is capable of proposing more sustainable urban development

Lectures, assignments, city walks, excursions and inspections of building environments and building projects in Oslo. Visual architectural documentation from films, slides etc. Lectures by students. Canvas software is used as an aid.

Arvind Keprate