436-363 Manufacturing Studies 2

Students will be expected to be familiar with the material of 436-203 Manufacturing Studies 1 and 436-220/1 Engineering Design and Materials 1 and 436-222/3 Engineering Design and Materials 2.

Unit 1, Industrial Psychology: Upon completion of this unit, students should have gained knowledge of human behaviour in work organisations; be able to identify relationships among organisational variables including formal structure, interpersonal relations, groups, managers and motivation theory; and be able to transfer their knowledge and skills to the behavioural problems of the future employers.

Topics covered include individual and group behaviour in organisations, particularly in small organisations; motivation, leadership and morale; organisational culture, group dynamics, conflict and its resolution; power, politics and ethics; and organisational change.

Unit 2, Forming Processes: Drawing on the second-year introduction, students completing this course should be able to predict main forming parameters, such as loads, pressures and work of deformation and have the ability to design tooling for selected metal forming processes.

Topics covered include metals: metal forming as a system; metal forming processes including sheet metal forming, drawing forging, net shape manufacturing; process modelling; tools and material used in forming processes; and ceramics and powder metallurgy: types of technical ceramics, applications, pressing, plastic forming, injection moulding and casting; drying and firing; and powder metallurgy processes, metal-matrix composites.

Two examinations not exceeding two hours each at the end of semester, group and individual assignments, laboratory and tutorial work to a maximum of 10 000 words or equivalent. Students will be notified of the weighting of assessment components at the beginning of semester.

• G Moorhead and Griffin, Organisational Behaviour. 3rd edn, Houghton and Mifflin, 1992.