Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION | ||||||
Course Unit Code | AMEM414 | ||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||
Prerequisites | AMEM317 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||
Course Contents | � The position of the design process within the company
The necessity for systematic design, Design methods, Systems theory.
� Product planning and clarifying the task
General approach. Product definition, Design specification, House of quality, Task clarification
� Conceptual design
Abstracting to identify the essential problems. Establishing function structures, Developing working structures, Examples of conceptual design, Evaluating designs, Decision making techniques
� Embodiment design
Basic rules and principles, Guidelines for embodiment design, Materials selection and design, Materials processing and design, Detail design
� Parametric design
Modeling and Simulation, Cause and effect analysis
� Design for Minimum Cost
Cost Factors, Fundamentals of cost calculations, Methods for estimating costs
� Optimization
Unconstrained & constrained optimization, Global and local optima, Steepest descent method, Transformation methods, Strategies for solving optimization problems
� Laboratory Work:
Individual or small group modeling and problem solving, from selected areas such as structural, heat transfer, fluid mechanics with the use of common industrial packages such as ANSYS Workbench and Matlab.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | Lectures and lecture-based problem classes for exam preparations. Assignments for learning how to obtain and present relevant information. Laboratory sessions with aim to get acquainted with lab equipment and instruments for measuring noise and pollution. Knowledge checking: One midterm examination, assignments, laboratory reports and final examination. | ||||||
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |