Undergraduate Course: Conceptual Design for Mechanical Engineers 3 (MECE09030)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Design is often regarded as the central creative activity of engineering, this course aims to enhance the skills of analysis and synthesis required to develop solutions to open-ended problems. CDM3 aims to teach techniques for the effective evaluation and communication of design ideas. To support this
the students will also acquire a knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes selection along with the most common component / system failure modes. |
| Course description |
Course Syllabus:
Unit 1 - Course Overview
Introduction; The Design Process; Creative style; Brainstorming.
Unit 2 - Concept communication
Effective graphic and verbal communication of design ideas to groups and individuals.
Unit 3 - Material and process selection
To build the general understanding of the uses and limitations of common engineering materials and which processes can be used to shape them.
Unit 4 - Design Requirements and Design Definition
Exploring the design requirement through the use of tools like
the requirement Trees and producing Product Design Specifications. Identification of Design need; Product Life Cycle; Legislative constraints.
Unit 5 - Concept calculation, approximations and assumptions
To gain an understanding of the types of calculations and estimations that can be used to select and evaluate design concepts.
Unit 6 - Numerical design tools.
The creation of numerical design tools to aid the design process and optimise simple engineering components and systems.
Unit 7 - Material Properties and Failure
Static Strength; Stiffness; Brittleness; Resilience; Toughness; Creep.
Unit 8 - Stress Concentration
Design for Static Strength.
Unit 9 - Fatigue Failure
Terminology; Measurement; Characteristic Curves; Miner's Rule; S-N Curves.
Unit 10 - Component and system Failure
Reliability of an assembly and the cost of reliability.
Unit 11 - Tools for exploring the failure of a Design
Fault tress; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
Unit 12 - Design of Experiments
Factorial Experiments; Limitations of Factorial DOE.
Unit 13 - Taguchi Methods
Fractional Factorial Experiments; Linear Graphs; Confounding.
Unit 14 - Orthogonal Arrays
Parameter selection; Interpretation of Results.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Propose engineering designs to open ended problems that are feasible, in terms engineering mechanics, economics, and other competing requirements of the design;
- Communicate design solutions and put forward reasoned arguments for how these designs address the product design specification, and design drivers that are not explicitly stated;
- Evaluate multiple design options by producing numerical design tools and using appropriate calculations to refine the designs or by designing efficient experimental test programs;
- Select appropriate materials and manufacturing processes for a given engineering problem;
- Interrogate System and component designs for likely causes of failure through static or dynamic loading and adverse environmental conditions.
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Reading List
Shigley, "Mechanical Engineering Design", McGraw Hill (2015)
Pugh, "Total Design", Addison-Wesley (1991)
O'connor, "Practical Reliability Engineering", Wiley (2012)
Kalpaljian, - Manufacturing Engineering and Technology", Pearson (2014)
Ashby, "Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design"
Butterworth-Heinemann (2014)
These, and other texts, are available in the University Library.
Materials Selection on Mechanical Design, Michael F. Ashby (Forth Edition) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Conceptual engineering design,Open-ended design,iteration,design calculations,component / syste |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Robinson
Tel: (0131 6)50 8689
Email: Adam.Robinson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk |
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