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MM271 Manufacturing Technology
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examinations and assignments
Subject aims and description
The subject is taken in conjunction with MM272
(Manufacturing Practices) and also compliments the subject
MM270 taken by all manufacturing and mechanical
engineering students.
As such, it expands upon the fundamentals of those
subjects to provide the manufacturing engineering student
with both a wider and more rigourous treatment of a range
of manufacturing technologies. In addition, students are
introduced to concepts and techniques associated with
engineering dimensional metrology which serve as a bridge
between the technologies and quality in manufacture.
Texts
Kalpakjian. 5. Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials. 2nd
ed, Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley. 1991
MM272 Manufacturing Practice
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: practical work and assignments
Subject aims and description
The aims of this subject are:
to familiarise the students with the workings and
functionality of manufacturing machines;
to reinforce materials taught in the Manufacturing
Technology and CADICAM subjects of the course;
to develop in the students experimental skills;
to develop the students report writing skills.
MM280 Introduction to Management
No. of hours per week: two hours for two
semesters OR four hours for one semester
Subject aims and description
Topics of each week's lectures and tutorials are listed below:
self management; people management; industry
management; management functions and context.
Textbook
Sarnuelson. M. Supervision in Australia - Concepts and Practice of
Management. Brisbane: Wiley, 1985
Plus selected references
MM297 Professional Computing
No. of hours per week: one hour two semesters
Prerequisite: standard first year introductory
course EE188 or a course equivalent to the
computing component of EE188
Assessment: test and assignment
A second-year subject in the School of Manufacturing and
Mechanical Engineering.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to teach the development of structured
programs using the PASCAL language. The structure and
function of sy;tem software such as operating systems,
compilers etc. are discussed as examples. FORTRAN is
introduced as another language for programming
engineering problems.
Building on the PASCAL programming taken in the first year
the students will gain programming experience in both
PASCAL and FORTRAN 77. The problems given will be
relevant to the students specialising in chemical, production
or mechanical engineering fields.
Topics: data structures and algorithms, and structured
programming using PASCAL language; architecture of
operating systems (compilers, editors, linkages, assemblers);
overview of other high level languages and introduction to
syntax of FORTRAN 77; programming with FORTRAN 77.
Texts and References
Elter, D.M. Structured FORTRAN 77 for Engineers and Scientists. 2nd
ed, Menlo Park: Benjamin Cummings, 1987
Savitch. W.J. Turbo Pascal: an introduction m the art and science of
programming. 3rd ed, Redwood City: Benjamin Cummings, 1992
MM312 Unit Operations
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: practical work and examination
A third-year subject in the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing).
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to impart understanding of physical
phenomena involving particles, and the importance of these
in chemical manufacturing.
FluidJparticle systems: hydraulic classification, hindered
settling, thickening. Flow through packed beds, sand filters,
fluidisation, pneumatic and hydraulic conveying, filtration and
centrifuging.
Handling and transport of powders, powder mixing,
crushing, grinding and screening.
Text book
Coulson, J.M. Richardson, J.F. and Backhurst. J.R. Chemical
Engineering. Vol. 2, 4th ed, Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1990
MM315 Heat Transfer
No, of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: practical work and examination
A third-year subject in the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing).
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide the student with a sound
approach to the design and selection of heat transfer
equipment.
Description and characteristics of shell and tube exchangers,
and alternative geometries; boilers, condenserj, etc. with
examples of their use.
Review of previous work in heat transfer, namely unidimensional
conduction, Newton's Law of cooling, overall
heat transfer coefficients.
Prediction of heat transfer coefficients by the mechanisms of
natural and forced convection, film and dropwise
condensation; nucleate and film boiling. LMTD, FT and E-
NTU methods to determine temperature driving forces.
Thermal rating of shell and tube exchangers; pressure drop
in heat exchangers.
MM320 Energy Systems
No. of hours per week: four hours
A third year subject in the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering (Mechanical).
Subject aims and description
This subject comprises:
Thermodynamics two and a half hours per week
Fluid mechanics one and a half hours per week.
Thermodynamics: Heat transfer. Forced and free convection,
the thermal boundary layer in laminar and turbulent flow,
momentum and eddy diffusivity, dimensional analysis applied
to convective processes. Boiling and condensation. Types of
heat exchangers, NTU, effectiveness. Combined modes of
heat transfer. Combustion. Combustion equations for
stoichiometric, rich and lean mixtures. Solid, liquid and gas
fuels, exhaust and flue gas analysis, Enthalpy of formation