ME 383 – Mechanical Component Design – Winter 2018
Syllabus
Instructor
Dr. Matt Campbell
Office: Rogers 408
Phone: 541-737-6549
email: matt.campbell@oregonstate.edu
Lecture
TTh 8:30 – 9:50 am, Johnson 102
Teaching Assistants
Lukman (mohammoh@oregonstate.edu)
Daniel (hulsed@oregonstate.edu)
Trung (phamtr@oregonstate.edu)
Kam (tabattak@oregonstate.edu)
Office Hours
Instructor: Monday 11 – noon; Thurs. 10 – 11 am in
Rogers Hall 408
Teaching Assistants: Wednesday 2 – 3 pm; Friday 10 –
11 am in Dearborn 100.
Text
Required hardcopy (electronic copies cannot be used
during the “open-book” exams)
Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design, 9th edition or
higher, eds. Budynas & Nisbett, McGraw-Hill.
Online
Course Material and announcements will be posted at:
https://oregonstate.instructure.com/courses/1669044
Course Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students
will be able to:
1. Reverse engineer a real product and analyze
external forces
2. Select and apply an appropriate static failure
theory to a machine component
3. Select and apply an appropriate dynamic (fatigue)
failure theory to a machine component
4. Select mechanical components for a given load
situation and analyze for failure
5. Perform a competitive analysis and provide
insights on risk and reliability
6. Communicate analysis results and basic
engineering concepts
The goal of this course is to develop a basic
understanding of machine design, including systems,
machine elements, and components. You will learn the
basic mechanics necessary to model and analyze
subsystems of machines. Through hands-on activities,
you will also be exposed to the actual arrangement and
assembly of machine elements in real-world systems
and consumer products.
Prerequisites: ME 316, ME 382
In ME 382, you learned about the overall design
process; in ME383 you will learn about detailed
mechanical design. Perhaps a more important
prerequisite is ME 316. We will build directly upon the
stress analysis taught within that course. It is strongly
recommended that you review the material from ME
316 in the first week of the term!
Student Conduct:
See http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/regs.htm
Accommodations:
Accommodations are collaborative efforts between
students, faculty and Disability Access Services (DAS).
Students with accommodations approved through DAS
are responsible for contacting the faculty member in
charge of the course prior to or during the first week of
the term to discuss accommodations. Students who
believe they are eligible for accommodations but who
have not yet obtained approval through DAS should
contact DAS immediately at 541-737-4098.
Class Format
The class format will include lectures, labs, homeworks
and exams.
Grading
Exam1: 20%
Exam2: 20%
Exam2: 25%
Homework: 0% (see lab description)
Lab Project: 35%
Homework Policy
Homework will be assigned but not collected or graded.
You are encouraged to work these examples in order to
keep up with the fast pace of the lecture material and
the demands of the project. During lab time, the
instructor team may: 1) ask to see previous
homeworks, 2) ask how your efforts compare to a
homework problem, or 3) set aside lab time to work on
currently assigned homework problems.
Lab Project
Throughout the 10 lab sessions, you will apply the
textbook materials to a real engineering artifact. You
and your teammates are to analyze an existing product
for safety and reliability to determine the best ways
that it can be redesigned.
Lab Project Grading
Lab Assignments: 40% (4 at 10%)
Interactions & Presentations: 28% (8 at 3.5%)
Final Report & Presentation: 32% (19% & 13%)
Lab Project Activities
1. Select a mechanical product for study. The product
must have at least 5 moving parts – ideally a
majority of them should be steel parts. Your team
must obtain a real version of the product to work
with. Final approval of your product selection will
be given by the instructor team. Submit a
description by your second lab meeting.
2. Complete 4 team-based lab assignments (10% each)
throughout the course of the term. The teaching
assistants will present the expectations of these to
you in lab. The efforts from these lab assignments
should be revised and worked into your final
written report (see item 4).
3. Deliver brief (~ 5 min.) presentations of your team’s
efforts in every lab (except during week 1 and week
10, thus 8 times at 3.5% of grade). You will be
expected to provide visuals and show actual parts in
a manner that is clear to the entire lab class. Given
that your lab group consists of 4 people each,
individuals will be expected to lead 2 of these for
your team. A portion of the weekly grade is also
allocated for your interest and engagement with
other groups as well as your completion of
homework problems. The instructor team may: 1)
ask to see previous homeworks, 2) ask how your
efforts compare to a homework problem, or 3) set
aside lab time to work on currently assigned
homework problems.
4. At week 10, you are expected to deliver a final
report and presentation of your efforts. The report
should be no more than 10 pages (single line
spacing, 12-point font, 1-inch margins) plus
including copious appendices for detailed work
(such as free-body diagrams). This should be a
standalone report on the product along with ways
that it should be redesigned. You should include
content from your previous lab reports, but that
content should be improved based on feedback from
the grading of the 4 lab assignments (lab
assignments are graded lightly but heavily
commented, if you don’t address these comments in
the final report, your report grade will be low). In
addition to the report which is 20% of your lab
grade, your group should prepare a professional
presentation for the week 10 labs which is 15% of
your lab grade and between 15 and 20 minutes in
length. Be sure to include cleaned and clear physical
components during the presentation.

Course Schedule:
Homework
Lectures Topic Reading Assignments*
Assignments
9-Jan Introduction, Loads to Stresses 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 4.3
HW #1
11-Jan Adv. Loading, Stress Equations 3.4, 3.5, 3.7 – 3.12, 4.5, 4.17
16-Jan Stresses & Failure Theories 3.13, 5.4, 5.5
HW #2
18-Jan Failure Theories & Stress Concentrations 5.7, 5.8, 5.2, 3.13, 5.4, 5.5
23-Jan Fatigue 6.1, 6.4, 6.70 – 6.10
25-Jan Exam 1 HW #3
30-Jan Fatigue 6-11, 6.12
1-Feb Fatigue 6.13, 6.14
HW #4
6-Feb Shafts 7.1 – 7.7
8-Feb Bearings 11.1 – 11.3
13-Feb Bearings 11.6, 11.8, 3.19 HW #5
15-Feb Bearings / Gears 11.10, 11.12, 13.1, 13.2
20-Feb Exam 2 HW #6

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 22-Feb Gears 13.5, 13.12 – 13.14
27-Feb Gears 14.3 – 14.18
1-Mar Springs 10.1 – 10.5
HW #7
6-Mar Springs 10.6 – 10.10
8-Mar Bolts 8.1, 8.3 – 8.5
13-Mar Bolts 8.6 – 8.9 HW #8
15-Mar Bolts 8.11, 8.12
23-Mar Final Exam (@ 7:30 am; although date and time may change
* Reading assignments represent the sections that will be covered in class, on homeworks, and in the exams.
Inevitably, there will be issues with your chosen lab project artifact that will not be covered in these sections. It is
your responsibility to find and read other sections of the text relevant to your project.