1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Content
I. Economics and finance
Topics will be drawn from
Supply and demand, elasticity, pure competition,
monopoly and oligopoly
Macroeconomics of cost, profit marginal concepts
Source of finance and cost of capital
Macroeconomic fundamentals
Banking system and credit
National accounts, GDP, government controls
Markets, resource allocation
Share market
Economic indicators
11. Accounting
V,
c introduction to accounting
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2 - financial accounting and annual reports, financial ratios
U management accounting, budgeting, standard costing,
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historical costing, marginal costing, Activity Based
t; Costing (ABC).
Recommended reading
Douglas, E.J., Managerial Economics. 4th edn, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice Hall, 1992
Hirsch, M.L. and Louderback, J.G., Cost Accounting. 2nd edn,
Boston, Mass., Kent Publishing Company, 1986
Thom~son, A.A. Jnr., Economics of the Firm. 4th edn, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall International, 1985
MM396 Computer Science
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: MM297 Assessment: test and assignment
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing)
Objectives
To show how computer systems can be used effectively in
manufacturing environments. This has two levels on
technical level the way processes, machines are controlled
and on production level how the computers are used to
organise databases, to manipulate data, by design of a system
in-house or applications of packages (off-shelf).
Content
Computer architectures, with emphasis on special purpose
systems to support real time systems, communication between
computers and machines, processes, etc.; database including an
overview of mostly used systems; detailed discussion of
relational databases including normalisation of data, design
approached, query languages; overview of a database package
such as DBase 111-V; spreadsheet modelling, implementation
using a package.
Recommended reading
Saola, P., DBase III Workbook. Swinburne Bookshop
MM41 4 Stagewise Processes
12 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examinations and practical work
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing - Chemical Stream)
Content
Applications of mass transfer operations such as distillation,
gas absorption, liquid -liquid extraction and leaching, in
chemical manufacturing; descriptions of the equipment in
which these operations are carried out.
Behaviour of plate and packed columns; characteristics of
packings; bubble cap and sieve trays, weirs and
downcomers; flooding, hold-up and pressure drop; selection
of optimum column diameter.
The concept of the equilibrium stage as applied to distillation,
liquid - liquid extraction, leaching and other mass transfer
operations. Graphical and computer-based design techniques
employing this concept McCable-Thiele, Sorel, and Ponchon-
Savarit methods; batch and continuous operation.
Recommended reading
Treybal, R.E., Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York,
McGraw-Hill, 1980
Text
Ludwig, E.E., Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petroleum
Plants. 2nd edn, Houston, Gulf Pub. Co., 1977
MM41 5 Mass Transfer
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examinations, laboratory work, rtssignments
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing - Chemical Stream)
Content
Mass transfer theow Fick's law of diffusion: steadv staate
diffusion in single-phase systems; multicomponent and
transient diffusion; determination of diffusion coefficients.
Convective mass transfer; mass transfer coefficients;
interphase mass transfer. Theory and design of continuous
differential contactors; mass transfer with chemical reaction;
mass, head and momentum transfer analogies.
Recommended reading
Treybal, R.E., Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York,
McGraw-Hill, 1980
Perry, R.H. and Green, D., Pm's Chemical Enginem.ng
Handbook. 6th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1984
MM420 Energy Systems
9 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical)
Content
Thermodynamics
Radiation. Interchange and geometric factors, network
analysis for multi-surface interchanges. Reciprocating I.C.
engines; normal and abnormal combustion in S.I. and C.I.
engines, fuel octane and cetane ratings, knock and