Course description
Course No.
0510201W
Teacher
Course Name
Course hours
College
Mechanical Engineering
Dept.
Industrial Design
Fei Zhou (周飞)
English
Mechanisms and Machine Theory
Chinese
机械原理
Total
Experiment
Self-study
Practice
4
0
0
56
Theory
52
Course design
1. Yes
2. No
Course description：Describe the nature, academic status, and aims of the course (theory,
ability and technique)
1. Course nature and academic status
“Mechanisms and Machine Theory” is one of the important technical courses for
mechanical students in universities. It covers the basic knowledge needed in analysis and
synthesis of commonly-used mechanisms and the dynamics of mechanism systems.
Because this course can give students an elementary ability to design or improve
mechanical devices. Thus, it plays an important part in cultivating our creative ability in
the field of machine industry.
2. Course aims (theory, ability and technique)
This course “Mechanisms and Machine Theory” is an aid to the study of machines and
mechanisms. It focuses on the analytical methods and mechanism synthesis. Its aims are
to cultivate students’ basic design abilities and creative abilities in design. It is hoped that,
after studying this course, the students should grasp the basic theory and obtain the basic
knowledge and skills in mechanisms synthesis and kinematic as well as dynamic analysis
of machinery, and then could choose machinery motion patterns, analyze and synthesize
mechanisms and develop designs for practical working machinery.
Requirements for courses; ability and knowledge in advance
Before students study this course, they should learn many courses as the basic knowledge
for this course and understand the mechanism and structure of machine. Therefore，the
important courses should be studied in advance as the following courses:
(1) Higher mathematics
(2) Theoretical Mechanics
(3) Material Mechanics
(4) Structural Mechanics
(5) Metalworking Practice
(6) Descriptive Geometry & Mechanical drawing
Course structure explanation:
Make clear the necessary parts, optional parts, distribution of hours. Courses with experiments or
practice are expected to explain hours needed, content, scheme and functions.
The course structure mainly consists of eight parts, which are Introduction(1), Structural
analysis of planar mechanisms(2), Kinematic analysis of mechanisms(3), Planar linkage
mechanisms(4), Cam mechanisms(5), Gear mechanisms(6), Gear trains(7), Balancing of
machinery and Periodic speed fluctuation and its regulation(8). During my teaching, there
are two experiments arranged for students, which are the experiment of drawing the
schematic mechanisms and design of cam. The distribution of studying hours is shown in
Table 1.
Table 1. The distribution of hours for parts
Parts
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Hour(h)
2
6
4
4
12
14
6
4
Teaching methods (Lectures, practice, etc)
The teaching methods mainly consist of lectures, homework and answering questions.
According to the quality of homework, the teaching method will be modified to let the
foreign students understand the meaning of talks.
Forms of examination and requirements
Structure of the final grade(including presence, class performance, ), focus of exam, forms of
exam(test, interview, final report, etc)
The structure of the final grade is composed of the score in normal times and the score of
final examination, and their ratio is 1:1. The score in normal times is judged by the
presence, class performance, the homework quality and the experimental ability for
students, while the score of final examination is decided by the quality of answering
questions. If the student’s total score of above two parts is beyond 60, this means that he
passes examination.
Textbook
Name
Publisher
Author
Year
Price
Mechanism and Machine Theory
High
Press
Ye Zhonghe
2001
13.9
Education
Lan Zhaohui
M.R. Smith
References
Name
Publisher
Author
Year
Price
机械设计基础
高等教育出版社
黄华梁，
彭文生
2007
29.5
机械设计基础
高等教育出版社
汪信远
2001
15.70
Advanced Mechanism Design
Prentice-Hall Int. Inc
Erdman AG,
1985
Sandor GN,
Website
Course
members
Zhou Fei,
College
Mechanical Engineering