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This course requires students to work in design teams to take an open-ended customer brief for a large scale one off item and create a unique engineering solution that matches that brief.

Students build on knowledge gained from previous courses in product development and mechanical analysis with more techniques introduced.  Additional skills on elements of design are introduced in this course and must be included in the student's design, these include design for Eco (sustainable design), design for environment, design for operation and maintenance, risk reduction, failure analysis and design for manufacture and assembly.

Students are required to produce project management documents, design documents and calculations to a standard acceptable in industry; these skills are taught and put into practice in the project.

1 lecture and 2 group discussion / tutorial per week

Mandatory Entry Requirements

None

Recommended Entry Requirements

None

SIT4044 Mechanical Design 4N

None

50% Report: group report

20% Set exercise: individual formal calculation and write up

20% Report: individual "Design for X" report

10% Portfolio: individual logbook

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

The aims of this course are to:

■ improve and broaden the student's engineering and design skills;

■ instil a capability to solve problems and reflect on solutions throughout the design process;

■ give the students an understanding of the quality of documentation used in the engineering industry

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ develop an open project brief into a complete concept design through problem analysis and resolution, achieving an inclusive and sustainable design, developing it to the point where manufacturing drawings could be created;

■ individually consider and communicate the wider context of "Design for X" (design for Eco/sustainable design, design for environment, design for operation and maintenance, risk reduction, failure analysis and design for manufacture and assembly) when creating engineering solutions, use external literature to explore concepts and justify decisions;

■ teamwork to integrate different aspects of the system, including "Design for X" into a project output;

■ use an array of industrial software packages to refine and/or verify design;

■ create a set of industrial quality project management documents and use these to control an engineering project;

■ create a sample set of engineering calculations using analytical tools and techniques and present them to communicate the solution so that an industrial partner will have confidence in their competence;

■ create a design disclosure of an engineering design.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.