Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

Students will use state-of-the-art simulation software to
thoroughly explore situations taken from current industrial
challenges. They will be responsible for all stages of the
project, starting from the basic definition of the problem,
and following right through to the final managerial report.
References
Human hterface Guidelines - the Apple Desktop Interface. Reading,
Mass.:Addison Wesley, 1987
Gero, J.S. (ed). Am'ficial Intelligence in Oesun: Proceedings of the
Fourth International Conference on the Applications of Artificial
Intelligence in Engineering. Cambridge, UK.: July 1989, Southarnpton:
Computational Mechanics Publication, 1989
Harmon, P., Maul, R. and Morrisey. W Expert Systems - Tools and
Applications. New York: Wiley, 1988
Price, J. How to Write a Computer Manual: A Handbook and
Software Documentation. Menlo Park, Calif.: BenjaminICurnmings,
1984
MM556 Reactor Design
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: examination
A fifth-year subject in the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing).
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to give students a basic understanding of
the principles involved in the design of batch and continuous
reactors, and to specifically study the operation of small
scale batch plant as used in many Australian industries.
Reactor design - a review of chemical reaction, kinematics,
flow kinematia of various reactor types including batch,
tubular and CSTR, temperature and pressure effects on
reactor performance. Adiabatic and isothermal operation.
Gas and liquid phase reactions. Heterogeneous operations.
Batch processes - unsteady state operation of chemical
plant with examples including batch distillation, batch
drying, batch filtration, batch reactors and batch leaching
and absorption, solvent extraction, ion exchange, semibatch
operation.
Textbooks
Coulson, J.M. and Richardson, J.F. Chemical Engineering, Vol. 2, 3rd
ed, krgamon Press, 1977
Denbigh. K.G. and Turner, J.C.R. Chemical Reamr Theory; An
Introduction. 3rd ed, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1984
Levenspiel. 0. Introduction to Reaction Engineering
MM570 Manufacturing Technology
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: assignments and tests
A fifth-year subject in the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Manufacturing).
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to complete the work commenced in
MM472. In the plasticity section emphasis is placed on the
analysis of hot working techniques and on load bounding
methods. The automation section emphasises the techniques
applied in automation and the use of industrial robots and
the plastics and rubbers section completes the development
of these techniques.
The syllabus revises essential materials engineering and also
includes: melting and solidification, deformation, slip, lattices.
Homologous temperature scale. Textures and anisotropy -
'r' value 'n' value. Effect of grain size - Hall Petch. Strain
hardening. Strain ageing. Ductility, yield point elongation.
Coldhvarmlhot working. Super-plasticity, 'n', 'm', and 'c'
values. Restoration, recovery. Spherodising. Eutectic and
peritectic materials.
Textbooks
Crawford, R.J. Plastics Engineering. 2nd ed, Oxford: Rrgarnon Press.
1987
Kalpakjian, 5. Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials. 2nd
ed, Reading. Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991
Roe. C. Elements of Metalworking Theory. London: Edward Arnold,
1979
MM580
Management Practices
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination, assignment and class
participation
A fifth-year subject in the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Mechanical).
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to address the key issues for managing
productive and innovative engineering environments and to
provide further elective study in management practice areas
of prime student interest.
This subject includes managerial concepts and practices that
engender a co-operative working environment required for
'World Class' productive and innovative engineering. It
consists of a compulsory core in which the key elements for
managing productive and innovative (typically that associated
with research and development) environments are studied.
Students then select an elective from one of the following:
Engineering leadership; project management; research and
development management; risk management; occupational
health and safety management; maintenance management;
informatics management; production management.
Elements of a productive environment: the working
environment; factors contributing to work performance,
structures of control, alternative social relations of
production, managerial goals and organisational structure;
impact of technology on work, social environment,
occupational health and safety. The engineering
environment; optimisation of a system of technology and
people for maximising the desired engineering outcomes;
new applications of technology, socio-technical systems
analysis for specification, selection and implementation of
total technical and working environment requirements.
Job design to sustain co-operative and productive
engineering environment; perspectives of the labour process
and factors contributing to the design of jobs, needs and
policies in the recruitment and selection of achievers, sociotechnical
analysis and design of optimum engineering system
and people combinations.
Elements of an innovative environment: relationship between
work design and engineering innovation (e.g. flexible
specialisation). Managing change; understanding the
psychology of change, specifying, designing, planning,
negotiating and implementing change. Managing innovation;
social dimensions of creativity, invention and technology;
technological diffusion and economic analysis of innovation.
References
MacLeod R. (ed.) Technology and the Human Prospect: Essays in
Honour of Christopher Freeman. London: Frances Printer, 1986
Rothwell, R. and Zegveld, W. Innovation and the Small and the
Medium Sized Firm: Their Role in Employment and in Economic
Change. London: Frances Printer, 1982
Sarfati. H. and Kobrin, C. (ed.) Labour Marker Flexibility: A
Comparative Anthology. Aldershat: Gower, 1988
Windolf, P and Wood, W. Recruitment and Selection in the Labour
Market: A Comparative Study of Britain and West Germany
Aldershot: Avebury, 1988