436-223 Engineering Design and Materials 1C - Basic Concepts in Engineering Design and Materials Selection

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

436-105 Engineering Communications, 436-103 Engineering Mechanics or 421-103 Engineering Statics and 100-level Mathematics

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Upon completion students will; comprehend fundamental concepts of engineering design through various stages of the design process: problem formulation and structuring, ideation, decision making, and communication; have developed an awareness of the integrative nature of engineering design through the experience of balancing a range of factors; have observed the close interrelation between the properties of engineering materials and the design process.

Topics covered include; general approach to design problems. Invention, analysis, decision making. Objectives, criteria and constraints. Design strategies. Technical, ergonomic and economic factors. Appraisal of benefit and cost. Fault and failure analysis. Probability, uncertainty, and assessment of risk. Use of computers in engineering design and materials selection. Interfacing geometric and mathematical models, sensitivity analyses, combinatorial search. Rational approaches to the selection of engineering materials from first principles.

Assessment

Practical work, projects and reports not exceeding 30 pages; one examination not exceeding three-hours

Prescribed Texts

• Lewis, W. P. and Samuel, A. E., Fundamental of Engineering. Design, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
• Ashby, M. F., Materials Selection in Mechanical Design. Pergamon, 1992.