ME3525:03
Mechanical and Mechatronic Design
Townsville
Prerequisites: ME2525 ME3511 ME3512 ME3514 ME3515
39 lectures, 39 hours workshops. Second semester.
Available to level 3 mechanical engineering students.
Design in accordance with standards. Legal and ethical machine safety requirements. Optimisation and modelling. Detailed investigation of selected design problems in a number of areas of mechanical engineering. Topics will be drawn from the following areas: Acoustics, dynamics, machine element design, solid mechanics and the design of thermal and fluid machinery. Some selected students may undertake collaborative projects with industry.
Learning Objectives:
- to introduce students to the use of standards in design;
- to promote student awareness of legal and ethical machine safety requirements;
- to reinforce subject material from a number of areas of mechanical engineering and to develop design skills specific to these areas.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).
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