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Channels, tubes and ducts (rigid and flexible).
Valves.
Filters.
Gauges and instruments.
Tanks and vessels - storage tanks.
Pressure vessels.
Header and surge tanks.
Weirs/dams/reservoirs.
EA711
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Shafting/Couplings.
Gearing.
Chain Drives.
Belt Drives.
Mechanical Drive Components
Mechanical Variable Speed Drives.
Brake and Clutch Designs.
Bearings.
Winch equipment.
Reciprocating Drive/Linearto Rotational Drive.
EA714 Thermodynamics 1
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Covers basic concepts, energy, energy transfer in open and closed systems, heat
engines.
EA715 Mechatronics 1
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
This module is used to provide feedback on a student's mechanical design skills by
allowing the opportunity to testthe constructability and operability of their designs. It
also provides the opportunity for construction of a system to meet a given quality
standard which may be used for any of the mechatronics modules.
EA716
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: EA715
Aims & Objectives
Mechatronics 2 (PlC Automation)
This module takes the process model completed in EA715 and interfaces it with a
standard industrial programmable controller, including all wiring and programming to
achieve automation. It also encompasses the commissioning and troubleshooting
requirements for the understanding of a complete operating system.
EA717
Human Factor
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Topics include:
Hydraulic Components.
Electro-Hydraulic Controls.
Hydraulic circuitry, servicing.
EA727
80 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: EA701
Drafting - Mechanical Drive
Systems
Content
Belt drives.
Chain drives.
Gear drives.
Gearterminology.
Drive shafts.
Reduction box assembly.
Machine drive system bases.
EA740
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Workshop Practices (Fabrication)
Topics include rolling, pressing, cropping, punching, manual metal arc, oxygen/acetylene,
gas metal arc, gas tungsten arc, submerged arc welding, safety hazards.
EA741
40 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Workshop Processes (Machining)
Includes machine tools, machine operations, cutting tools, work holding methods,
machine setup, centre lathe, milling machine, grinding machine.
EA772
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: EA003
Content
Introductory Dynamics
This subject covers an introduction to force, work, power, energy, torque, moment of
inertia, radius of gyration, conservation of momentum.
EA790
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Manufacturing Process
Includes forming processes, powder metallurgy, automatic lathes, grinding machines
and applications ofCNC in metal cutting.
EA804
40 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: EA859
Content
Topic include:
Stress and strain.
Bolted connection.
Welded connections.
Thin walled pressure vessels.
Properties of plane figures.
Beams.
Torsional stress.
Thermal stress.
EA859
Introduction to Strength of
Materials
Statics
60 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Force, equilibrium of concurrent co-planerforces, movement and torque, couples,
equilibrium co-planer forces, friction, forces in frames.
EA927
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Electronic Switching
Swinburne University of Technology I TAFE Handbook 2002