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~ ~ 3 8 Managerial 1 Economics
No, of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignments and examinations
Subject aims and description
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
II. Accounting
introduction to accounting
financial accounting and annual reports, financial ratios
management accounting, budgeting, standard costing,
historical costing, marginal costing, Activity Based Costing
(ABC).
An accountinglfinance package will be used in teaching the
accounting section.
Textbook
Douglas, E.J. Managerial Economics. 4th edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice Hall, 1992
References
Hirsch, M.L. and Louderback, J.G. CostAccounting. 2nd edn. Boston,
Mass., Kent Publishing Company, 1986
Thompson, A.A. Jnr. Economics of the Firm. 4th edn, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice Hall International, 1985
~ ~ 3 9 Computer 6 Science
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisite: MM297
Assessment: test and assignment
Subject aims and description
The subject aims to introduce 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 computeis are
used to organise databases, to manipulate data, by design of a
system in-house or applications of packages (off-shelf).
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 mostlv used svstems: detailed discussion of
relational databases hcluding normalisation of data, design
approached, query languages; overview of a database package
such as DBase Ill-V; spreadsheet modelling, implementation
using a package.
Textbook and Reference
Saola, P. DBase 111 Workbook. Swinburne Bookshop
~ ~ 4 1 Stagewise 4 Processes
No, of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: examinations and practical work
Subject aims and description
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 downcorners;
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.
Textbook
Treybal, R.E. Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York, McGraw-
Hill, 1980
Reference
Ludwig, E.E. Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petroleum
Plants. 2nd edn, Houston, Gulf Pub. Co., 1977
~ ~ 4 1 Mass 5 Transfer
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examinations, laboratory work,
assignments
Subject aims and description
Mass transfer theory: Fick's law of diffusion; steady state
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.
Textbook
Treybal, R.E. Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York, McGraw-
Hill, 1980
Reference
Perry, R.H. and Green, D. Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook. 6th
edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1984