436-420 Engineering Design

436-356 Design/Control 2 or 436-358 Design/Control - Environmental and 436-363 Manufacturing Studies 2, or equivalents

Upon completion, students should have learned to liaise with industrial clients, and to identify and define complex engineering problems with a special focus on engineering design in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. In the course of this work students will be guided in the synthesis of solutions to these problems while learning to adopt a professional approach to engineering problem solving through writing, proposals, making bids, setting, targets and schedules for meeting these targets, managing projects in accordance with agreed schedules, and reporting on the results achieved; gained an appreciation of the application of theoretical and practical knowledge to a wide range of design problems in mechanical and manufacturing engineering. The total work content in the engineering project represents approximately 100 person hours of effort per student.

Topics covered include the design process; invention and innovation, conceptual design; design strategies; topological and mathematical models; reliability, probabilistic methods in design; integration of design and manufacturing; quality and fitness for purpose; design project management, and concurrent engineering.

A professional engineering project report of no more than 8000 words with no more than 40 pages of supporting material in the way of appendices, diagrams, tables, computations and computer output (80%). One lecture assignment not exceeding 400 words (10%). One professional presentation of the work completed in the engineering project (10%).