Faculty of Engineering

School of Mechanical and

Manufacturing Engineering
MMAN2100 Engineering Design

MMAN2100 ENGINEERING DESIGN

COURSE OUTLINE SESSION 2 2013

CONTENTS

Page
Course staff 2
Course Information 2
Assessment 4
Academic honesty and plagiarism 5
Course schedule 6
Resources for students 7
Continual course improvement 7
Administrative matters 8
Overall 8

COURSE STAFF
Course Convener
Jason Held
Room ME114 (for now)
Tel (02) TBD
Fax (02) 9663 1222
Email j.held@unsw.edu.au
Additional teaching staff
TBA

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COURSE INFORMATION
Units of credit and student-centred and self-directed learning
This is a 6 unit-of-credit (UoC) course. It involves 6 hours per week (h/w) of face-to-face
contact. Expect an additional minimum of 5 hours per week of your own time (including
stuvac and exams). This wont always be evenly spread throughout the session; with
project work, there will be peak-load periods, so start early and plan ahead.
How the course relates to other course offerings in the program
You learnt some basics of the principles of design in ENGG1000 Introduction to
Engineering Design and Innovation. These skills will be expanded in this course. You
learnt about CAD skill in MMAN1130 Design for Manufacture. These skills will be
applied to the drawing parts for the design project to reflect your design outcome. You
learnt about free body diagram analysis in MMAN1300 Engineering Mechanics 1. Free
body diagrams will be used extensively in analysing loadings in the design tasks. You
have also taken Mechanics of Solids.

The objectives of the course

This course will familiarise you with the processes used in industry to design products.
The focus is on how to design, creating an ability to go from product requirements to
production in a formal and organised fashion.
Regardless of whether your future lies in mechanical, mechatronic, aerospace or
manufacturing engineering, understanding this process is a fundamental skill useful for
the rest of your careers.
Design is an open-ended problem for which there is normally no single correct answer,
only locally optimal solutions. Design lies in the middle-ground between creativity,
customer requirements, industry standards, and machining capabilities.
In this course you will gain experience in the process from concept through prototype of
a small product. You will spend time with a customer, scoping requirements,
sketching options, and drafting schematics. Then you will iterate your designs through
a process of construction, testing, and refinement to get as close to an optimum
performance of the product as possible.
You will work in teams, and each team will compete for the best product for use by the
customer. The best designs will be chosen by the customer for prototyping.
Expect to get your hands dirty, but they will get dirty in an organised and productive
fashion.
These tasks also enable you to improve your written communication skills, drawing
capability through presentation of design reports including proper engineering drawings
for manufacturing and assembly.
The design and build project enables you to improve your ability in group cooperation,
project planning and budget consideration from concepts to completion (prototype
testing).
Teaching strategies that will be used and their rationale
The teaching strategies that will be used include:

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Presentation of the material in lectures so that you know how to approach various
design tasks.
Discussion and practice in tutorials to answer queries and provide feedback on your
design work.
Group projects to familiarise you with real life tasks.
Suggested approaches to learning in the course
This class has hands-on skills and brain-thinking skills. Practice your hands-on skills
as much as you can (thats the fun part) but also understand how to apply some basic
industry standards and tolerances to your designs.

Read the material presented in lectures.

Keep the material as a reference. Dont try to memorise these skills through a book.
Learn by practice.
Gain practical hands-on experience in the tutorials. Break things, make mistakes,
then fix them again.
Practice your skills every week so the skills can burn in. They get rusty over time.
Keep your logbook up to date. This is a very good habit to learn now that will
benefit you in the future.
Strive for attention to detail from day one. Use your references. Welcome to
engineering.
Help your mates, in class, and in project groups. Were all in this together.
Done practicing yet? No youre not. This class is only the beginning

Expected learning outcomes; their association with the teaching strategies and
with the suggested approaches to learning
On completion of the course, it is expected that you will
Have your first experience applying formal design process to a practical engineering
problem.
Gain start-to-finish practice with development of a small product using industry
standards.
Find the right balance in scoping a products requirements. Too many can
complicate development. Too little can fall short of a customers needs.
Be familiar with the basic approaches in design tasks involving design
considerations, constraints, process and management.
Be familiar with the practical designs of basic machine components, taking into
account functionality, manufacturing and assembly, reliability, as well as
affordability.
Be able to cooperate in group projects.
Know how to apply the design approach to real life design problems.
Have improved written communication skills and drawing capabilities.

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CAD Drawings
While DESIGN PROCESS as such is the real message of this course, the CAD system
is the medium which you are expected to use for the design work you do. Remember
that a good drawing is NOT done by just pressing a button on the computer. It is the
user who makes the outcome good or bad quality. Remember to:
Follow the Australian drawing standards throughout your presentation.
Provide only minimal outline representation for proprietary items, e.g. couplings,
pulleys, sprockets, gears, belts, chains, bearings, seals, nuts, screws, washers and
bolts, etc.
Where features are repeated, show in full once only and indicate repeats notionally.
Use symmetry to advantage where it exists. Centrelines are a vital feature to
achieve this.
Last but not least, directly dimension sizes based on function requirements, rather
than sequentially or from one corner of the product.
Failure to abide by these guidelines will attract a significant penalty.

ASSESSMENT
Overall rationale for assessment components and their association with course
objectives

You will be assessed on your design process, ability to follow standards for your
chosen industry, and on the quality of your final product. There is no final exam.
Congratulations.
Submitted assignments are based directly on your project work, conducted during the
tutorial. They must be done in class in order to verify the comprehension of the ideas. If
in doubt, discuss with the tutors to clarify (Do not simply believe whatever the tutors
say. Be convinced).
Each student will keep a logbook to evaluate your design process and provide
feedback. Logbooks will be collected at week six and at the end of the project.
Because the large class size we will not accept late submissions except in extreme
conditions. A late submission returns a zero for a grade so its better to turn in a partial
solution than a late solution.
The Group Project will make the final grade. You will be evaluated on your ability to
understand and meet customer requirements with your design and final product.
A standard specification is available from the School Office to aid presentation of your
assignments (in all courses). All submissions should have a standard School cover
sheet. The cover sheet is not a title page and not considered as part of the document
but contains information for management purpose. Please fill in properly and indicate
your group number, regardless whether it is an individual or group work, for easy return
of the marked work. All submissions are expected to be neat and clearly set out. All
calculations should be shown as, in the event of incorrect answers, marks are awarded

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for method and understanding. The format of the assignment report, the design
consideration and technical drawings (if appropriate) will also contribute to the
assignment marks. All results with units must have their appropriate units written.
The tutorial work, drawing exercises and design project will provide the remaining of the
grade.

Assignments Logbook Group Project Total

15% 25% 60% 100%

Special consideration and supplementary assessment

To apply for special consideration and conditions for the award of supplementary
assessment, see Administrative Matters for All Courses, available from the School
office as part of The Guide, or on the School website. Note that special consideration, if
granted, is for an alternative assessment, rather than free marks, for the missing tasks.
No special consideration will be accepted for group work when some group member(s)
have problems to complete work in time. In this case, the rest of the group members
shall take over the effected work so the whole group will not suffer otherwise.

ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM

Academic honesty (including misconduct, plagiarism)
What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the presentation of the thoughts or work of another as ones own.* Examples include:

direct duplication of the thoughts or work of another, including by copying material, ideas or concepts
from a book, article, report or other written document (whether published or unpublished),
composition, artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, web site, Internet,
other electronic resource, or another persons assignment without appropriate acknowledgement;
paraphrasing another persons work with very minor changes keeping the meaning, form and/or
progression of ideas of the original;
piecing together sections of the work of others into a new whole;
presenting an assessment item as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in
collusion with other people, for example, another student or a tutor; and
claiming credit for a proportion a work contributed to a group assessment item that is greater than
that actually contributed.

For the purposes of this policy, submitting an assessment item that has already been submitted for
academic credit elsewhere may be considered plagiarism.

Knowingly permitting your work to be copied by another student may also be considered to be
plagiarism.

Note that an assessment item produced in oral, not written, form, or involving live presentation, may
similarly contain plagiarised material.

The inclusion of the thoughts or work of another with attribution appropriate to the academic discipline
does not amount to plagiarism.

The Learning Centre website is main repository for resources for staff and students on plagiarism and
academic honesty. These resources can be located via:

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www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism

The Learning Centre also provides substantial educational written materials, workshops, and tutorials to
aid students, for example, in:

correct referencing practices;

paraphrasing, summarising, essay writing, and time management;
appropriate use of, and attribution for, a range of materials including text, images, formulae and
concepts.

Individual assistance is available on request from The Learning Centre.

Students are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study and one of the
identified causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow sufficient time for
research, drafting, and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all assessment items.

* Based on that proposed to the University of Newcastle by the St James Ethics Centre. Used with kind permission
from the University of Newcastle
Adapted with kind permission from the University of Melbourne.

This is a serious matter and you must ensure that whatever you submit does not contravene
the academic honesty and plagiarism policy of this university and this school

(www.mech.unsw.edu.au/info-about/our-school/policies-procedures-guidelines/academic-
matters#plagiarism).

If you do contravene this policy then the actions of the university can be severe to you as a
student. Dont test this.

The Learning Centre website is main repository for resources for staff and students on
plagiarism and academic honesty. These resources can be located via:
www.lc.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism

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COURSE SCHEDULE
A table of lecture and tutorial or practical class topics for each week is listed below.
This schedule may be subject to change at short notice to suit exigencies.

Week Tues (2-hr) Thurs (1-hr) Tut1 Tut2 Deliverable

1 Introduction / Research n/a n/a Picking
overview projects
Design processes Conceptualisation General
<projects> - logbook
2 Feasibility Systems Engineering Initial Initial n/a
Presentation Presentation
Requirements scoping Mass / Power budgeting
3 Drawing basics Conceptual design Project Time Project Time Requirements
CG and CM Mockups and 3D Printing

4 Detailed design (Guest lecture) Mechanical Project Time Project Time Conceptual
Design standards
5 Drawing views Drawing symbols Project Time Project Time n/a
6 Tolerances descriptive geometry Presentations Presentations Detailed
design
7 Electric Power Sys (Guest lecture) Mechatronic Lab prototyping Lab prototyping n/a
Command data handling
Cabling
8 Production Planning (Guest lecture) Electrical Lab prototyping Lab prototyping Logbook 1
Motors (AC/DC, Steppers)
Batteries
9 Prototyping Thermal Systems design Lab prototyping Lab prototyping n/a
10 Testing Refinement Compliance Compliance Test results
testing testing
11 Design Details Design Details Design Design n/a
refinements refinements
12 TBA (Guest Lecture) Industrial Final Final n/a
presentations presentations
13 LEAN manufacturing Future of design Final Final Logbook fin
presentations presentations

Specific topics may be introduced and announced for the General tutorial sessions.
Deliverables are assignments due at the end of the week

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RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

Textbook details (in bookshop, UNSW library, Open Reserve)
SHIGLEYS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN, R.G. Budynas and J. K. Nisbett,
9th ed., McGraw Hill.
ENGINEERING DRAWING, A.W. BOUNDY, 7th ed., McGraw Hill.
In addition, partial lecture notes (.ppt) will be available online to assist revision.
List of required and suggested additional readings and availability (in bookshop,
UNSW library, Open Reserve)
The following books contain material useful in supplementing that provided in the
textbook.
FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE DESIGN, Vols. 1 to 5, Orlov, R., MIR Publishers,
Moscow.
MATERIALS AND PROCESSING IN MANUFACTURING, De Garmo, E.P., Collier
MacMillan, New York/London.
MACHINE DESIGN, Deutschman, A.D., Michels, W.J. and Wilson, C.E., Collier
MacMillan, New York.
STEEL DESIGNERS HANDBOOK, Gorenc, B.E. and Tinyou, R., NSWUP, Sydney.
MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, Kalpakjian, S., Addison-
Wesley, New York.
MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, Yankee, H.Y., Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.
Manufacturers catalogues are required for selecting proprietary components for the
design project.
Some catalogues are available from some web sites, but students should beware of the
availability and applicability of the products to the local market.
Additional materials provided on Web
Lecture notes, assignment information, progress marks, announcements, class/group
discussion forums, etc.
Recommended Internet sites
UNSW library site for past exam papers and data sheets.

CONTINUAL COURSE IMPROVEMENT

Periodically student evaluative feedback on the course is gathered, using among other
means, UNSW's Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement (CATEI) Process.
Student feedback is taken seriously, and continual improvements are made to the
course based in part on such feedback.
The course has been redesigned significantly to shift to an emphasis on design process
that any engineer can use, with less emphasis on tools. This has made available more
time for drawing training and practice, as well as more project time and corresponding
progress feedback.

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ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS
This is a big class so be respectful to your mates and not talk during sessions. The
staff will be at class punctually, and so should you. If you cant get to class by 5 minutes
past the hour, please wait outside until a break. However, we encourage you to ask
questions and participate in discussion.
If you have some special problems relating to or affecting your progress in these
courses, especially of administrative issues, speak to the lecturer in charge to avoid
confusing or contradictory answers from different tutors.
Information about each of the following matters is presented in a handout available
from the School office. It is essential that you obtain a copy, read it carefully and
become familiar with the information, as it applies to this course and to each of the
other courses in which you are enrolled.
Expectations of students (including attendance at lectures and tutorials/laboratory
classes/seminars; and computer use, for example, in the use of email and online
discussion forums)
Academic honesty (including misconduct, plagiarism)
Procedures for submission of assignments and the Schools policy concerning late
submission
Examination procedures and advice concerning illness or misadventure
Student support services
Students who have a disability that requires some adjustment in their teaching or
learning environment are encouraged to discuss their study needs with the course
convener prior to, or at the commencement of, their course, or with the Equity Officer
(Disability) in the Student Equity And Disabilities Unit (SEADU): 9385 4734,
seadu@unsw.edu.au, www.studentequity.unsw.edu.au/content/default.cfm?ss=0,
Ground floor of the John Goodsell Building (F20). Issues to be discussed may include
access to materials, signers or note-takers, the provision of services and additional
exam and assessment arrangements. Early notification is essential to enable any
necessary adjustments to be made.
Information on Occupational Health and Safety policies and expectations
The OHS link is: http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/ohswc/ohs/ohs_home.html

OVERALL
Remember that as a designer, it helps to:
1. Combine logical skills with creative thought. This means you use the design
process as structure to meet your requirements but be free thinking with the
technical solution; aim to avoid problems in the first instance, rather than having
to deal with their results later.
2. Decouple problems; integrate solutions.
3. Have confidence in your own creativity and abilities in design.
4. Keep your nerve when it gets difficult.
5. Know your own strengths and weaknesses, and how you work best.
6. Know when you need help

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- to generate ideas, or
- in specialist areas of practice,
and
- be prepared to get it, and
- know where to go to get it (network with other designers).
And particularly remember that:
1. Ultimately it is the marketplace that defines success or failure for a product or
design.
2. The computer is a great tool but your imagination is the real designer.
3. No amount of theoretical analysis will save a design from the bad results of a
poor configuration, so get the configuration right first.
4. A superior product (specification, quality) at a competitive price and in an
attractive format always succeeds.
5. Simplicity will always be the hallmark of design excellence.
6. Simplicity is often not easy to achieve.
Finally, this is a subject to be enjoyed! We enjoy presenting it, and we hope you
enjoy developing in it.

Jason Held
July 2013

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