Course Details

1. Appreciate the major sectors of mechanical engineering
2. Outline the basic principles of various fields of mechanical engineering.
3. Perform simple calculations to various fields of mechanical engineering.
4. Describe basic physical concepts.
5. Identify the types of materials and their mechanical properties.
6. Demonstrate awareness on the use of computers in areas related to the discipline of automotive engineering.

�         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