Course Details

1. Appreciate the major sectors of mechanical engineering
2. Understand the basic principles of various fields of mechanical engineering.
3. Perform simple calculations to various fields of mechanical engineering.
4. Understand basic physical concepts.
5. Appreciate the types of materials and their mechanical properties.
6. Appreciate the use of computer on every day activities.

Introduction to Mechanical Engineering: The Sectors

Production Engineering (Materials Technology, Manufacturing Processes, Production Systems, CAD/CAM/CAE, etc)

Structural Engineering (Machine Elements, Engineering Design, Controls, Dynamics of Machines, Robotics, etc)

Energy (Thermodynamics, Fluids, Heat and Mass Transfer, Gas Turbines, etc)

Basic Physical Concepts

Codes and standards

Units, rules for use of SI Units, preferred Units

Force and its units

Forces in equilibrium, resultant of a system of forces

Moment of a force

Conditions for static equilibrium

Center of mass, centroids

Introduction to Materials

Types of materials

Material behavior

Materials design and selection

Metals and alloys

Mechanical Properties of Materials

Introduction to mechanical testing and properties

Stress, strain and elasticity

The tension and compression test

The stress-strain diagram

Thermodynamics

Heat, work, and system

The state of a working fluid

Reversibility

Reversible work

Fluids

Pressure

Manometers

Continuity equation

Bernoulli’s equation

Introduction to Computer Technology

Description of the main components of a computer.

Familiarisation with the Windows operating system.

Introduction to MS-Office (MS-Word, MS-Excel, Powerpoint)

Use of the Internet and e-mail

• Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, by Serope Kalpakjian, Steven R. Schmid, Prentice Hall, 2003.
• Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics by Paymond A. Serway, Robert J. Beichner, International Thomson Publishing, 2000
• Science and Engineering of Materials by Donald R. Askeland, Wadsworth Pub Co, 4th edition, 2002
• Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technologists by T.D. Eastop and A. McConkey, Longman, 1997
• Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics by Donald F. Young, Theodore H. Okiishi, Bruce Roy Munson: John Wiley & Sons, 4th edition, 2002
• Ramon Matatoledo, Introduction to Computer Science, McGraw-Hill, 1999.

The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.