Department of Mechanical Engineering
MECHENG 334
Engineering Design III M - 2011
Course Organiser:
Professor Xun Xu
Lecturers:
A/Prof. Simon Bickerton (Room 1.903), Email: s.bickerton@auckland.ac.nz
Prof. Xun Xu (Room 1.1002), Email: x.xu@auckland.ac.nz
Mick Ou, Email: lou004@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Lectures:
Thursday: 4.00 - 5.00pm (OGGB5/260-051)
Friday: 12.00 - 1.00pm (ClockT039/105S-039)
Design Offices:
Wednesday: 12.00 -2.00pm. There is NO design office in week 1.
Rooms 4.501/2/3 or 1.311/1.312/1.307/3.517 (see over page)
Main Theme:
The main aim of this course is to use modern and computer-aided tools to assist
mechanical engineering design (including design of a mechanism and structure
product). A major theme is to introduce an integrated approach toward
engineering design, involving major stages of a product development process,
i.e. computer aided design, visualisation, analysis, manufacturing and testing.
Objectives:
- To apply the principles studied in Parts I-III of your degree program to the
design of mechanical engineering devices and components.
- To develop the ability to work both individually and as part of a team.
- To better understand the entire design process and the sequence of
performing tasks in designing a product.
- To develop skills in the effective use of CAD tools for mechanism design.
- To develop skills in the effective use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) as a
modern design tool.
- To develop some fundamental skills in computer-aided process planning and
manufacturing (CAPP-CAM), and computer numerical controlled (CNC)
machining.
- To be exposed to structural testing and capable of post-testing analysis.
Report Submission:
Project reports and assignments must be submitted as advised. Any late
submissions will be penalised (20% for 0-8 hours late, 35% for 8-24 hours, 50%
for 24-48 hours). Reports and assignments will not be accepted after 48 hours
without a valid medical or compassionate excuse. All late submissions must be
delivered in person to the course organiser. If the submission consists of several
items they must be placed in a suitably sized unsealed envelope, with your and
your group’s name(s) and project/assignment name clearly marked on it.
Ethics:
All work submitted must represent your individual effort or must clearly identify
assistance obtained from others. If the submission represents the work of several
students, the exact contribution from each person must be stated. Any work that
contains sections that are copied from other sources without appropriate
acknowledgement or that is the result of excessive collaboration will be severely
penalised.
Workbook/Design Pads: You will have to document your project development work in a project
workbook. The material contained in the workbook/design pads will be assessed
for completeness and evidence of evolutionary development.
Textbook:
No particular textbook is required for this course. A list of recommended readings
will be supplied with the project descriptions.
PTO
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Projects and Course Weighting:
Coursework
Project A
Project B
Test
Weeks
Title
1-5
Computer-aided Mechanism Design
6-12
Computer-aided
Design/Analysis/Manufacturing
(Application of Finite Element Analysis for
Structural Design)
11
Mechanism Design, DfM and Finite
Element Analysis
Organisers
Xun Xu
Simon Bickerton
Xun Xu
Weighting
30%
50%
20%
The first Design Office will be held in 4.501/2/3 on the 9th of March.
Other Design Offices are held in School’s computer rooms 1.311 & 1.312 (maybe 1.307 or 3.517, too),
primarily in the form of tutorials:
Date
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 8
April 27
May 4
May 11
May 18
Day
Wednesday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Friday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Time
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 1.00
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 2.00
12.00 to 2.00
Content
Pro/Mechanism
Pro/Mechanism
Pro/Mechanism
ANSYS Workbench
ANSYS Workbench
ANSYS Workbench
ANSYS Workbench
Pro/NC
ANSYS/Pro/NC
Tutorial
Tutorial
Clinic (optional)
Lecture + Demo + Tutorial
Tutorial
Tutorial
Clinic (optional)
Tutorial
Clinic (optional)

Course Test date: May 25, 12.00 to 2.00pm in Design Offices 4.501/2/3.

Project B mechanical testing week: week 12 (starting from Tuesday or Wednesday).
ALL MATERIALS CAN BE FOUND ON CECIL
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