Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Lismore |
Unit description
Introduces the design of mechanical systems. Students work in teams to address a design brief. Scope includes full mechanical design and detailing of workshop-ready engineering drawings, complete specification of material selection and manufacturing processes, risk and safety assessments, systems integration, model-based design using CAD, and design for functionality, reliability and manufacturing. Cost is estimated.
Unit content
Critical evaluation of design brief
Design of a simple powered machine using principles of systems engineering
Synthesis of machine frame
Power transmission and controls
Materials selection
Tribology
Risk and safety assessment
Model-based design using CAD
Basic design for manufacture and cost estimation
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | communicate mechanical engineering ideas and design concepts through engineering graphics, oral presentations and written reports | Communication and social skills | ||||||
| 2 | generate and develop design concepts | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 3 | produce engineering drawings to Australian Standard AS1100 | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | analyse a complex problem by separating it to its individual components | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | use CAD and CAM packages effectively | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 6 | manage a project: team skills, project scheduling, and resource and time management using Microsoft Project | Communication and social skills | ||||||
| 7 | communicate effectively with clients and suppliers towards production of a system design with components supplied from various sources. | Communication and social skills | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- communicate mechanical engineering ideas and design concepts through engineering graphics, oral presentations and written reports
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- generate and develop design concepts
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- produce engineering drawings to Australian Standard AS1100
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- analyse a complex problem by separating it to its individual components
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- use CAD and CAM packages effectively
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- manage a project: team skills, project scheduling, and resource and time management using Microsoft Project
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- communicate effectively with clients and suppliers towards production of a system design with components supplied from various sources.
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- Budynas, RG & Nisbett, K, 2015, Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design, 10th edn, Edition in SI units, McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-981-3151-00-0.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Component Design Report -3 reports 20% each | 60% |
| Project report | 30% |
| Presentation | 10% |
Fee information
Domestic
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