Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

This subject is the major individual research project in the
course. At the end of the fourth year academic period, each
student will be given, or allowed to select, a research project
related to manufacturing engineering.
The student will be expected to make all preparations,
designs, literature surveys, during the fourth year industrial
training session. At the beginning of the final semester of the
course, the student may be required to give a short oral
presentation of the aims, objectives and experimental method
to be followed.
~ ~ 5 0 Engineering 1
Project
No. of hours: total one hundred and thirty seven
hours over eighteen weeks
Assessment: student seminar, technical report and
performance assessment
Subject aims and description
This subject aims:
to allow students to integrate the knowledge and skills
they have gained throughout the course into a targeted
engineering investigation with the aim of producing a
substantial report and, if appropriate, usable equipment;
to develop individual initiative in pursuing an engineering
0 objective;
5. to plan and manage, in conjunction with a staff member,
$ the progress of an engineering project.
O, Topics are selected by students from a list prepared by
academic staff or students may suggest their own topic based
on an individual's interest or industrial experience. Projects may
be university based or industry based. The project may take
;n various forms in which technology, research and development,
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exper~mental work, computer analysis, industry liaison and
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~ ~ 5 0Engineering 9 Mathematics
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: tutorial assignments, practical work
and examination
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to round off the student's knowledge of
mathematical methods required by practising engineers and to
place these methods into perspective through a study of
different mathematics structures used in the mathematical
modelling of engineering systems.
Numerical Analysis
Classification of partial differential equations. Numerical
appoximation of derivatives - forward, backward and central.
Approximate solution of parabolic equations - heat equation.
Euler Method (FTCS), symmetry, Richardson's Method (CTCS),
Crank-Nicolson Method (CTCS). Stability. Explicit and implicit.
Solution by direct methods and iterative methods. ~erivative
boundarv conditions. Converaence. stability and consistencv.
~erturbaiion and von ~eumann stability anilysis. convection
equation, 'upwind' differencing, courant-~riedrichs-~ewy
condition. Other methods: Dufort-Frankel. Keller Box. 2D heat
equation and the AD1 method. ~ ~~roximate solution of
hyperbolic equations - wave equation.
References
Smith, G.D. Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations. 3rd
edn, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985
Spiegel, M.R. Theory and Problems of Complex Variables. S.I. (metric)
2nd edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1974
MM~IO Combined Heat and Mass Transfer
No. of hours per week: five hours (65 hours)
Assessment: examination, assignments and
practical work
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to apply the theories of heat and mass
transfer studied in the fourth year of the course, to the design
of equipment for the operations listed below.
Industrial applications of heat and momentum transfer.
Diffusional operations: drying, crystallisation, water cooling
and humidification. Single and multi-effect evaporator systems;
thermal and mechanical recompression. Operation, control and
economics of evaporation systems.
Textbook
Treybal, R.E. . Mass Transfer Operations. 3rd edn, New York,
Hill, 1980
Reference
Norman, W.S. Absorption, Distillation and Cooling Towers. London,
Longmans, 1961
~ ~ 5 1 Chemical 1 Engineering Design
No. of hours per week: five hours (65 hours)
Assessment: examination, practical work and
assignments
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to acquaint the student with the
responsibilities of the professional chemical engineer and some
of the issues that may be confronted.
A separate segment seeks to consolidate the student's previous
work in computer programming by applying it to problems
relevant to hidher future career.
The syllabus covers: aspects of chemical plant design:
formulating the design; the design procedure; flowsheets and
their uses in design work; safety and health considerations;
economic aspects; plant layout.
Computer aided design: the use of software packages for
flowsheeting, flowsheet preparation and layout; exercises in
preparation of computer solutions to problems in momentum,
heat and mass transfer.
Textbook
Ross, G. Computer Programming Examples for Chemical Engineers.
Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1987
~ ~ 5 2Engineering 0 Science
No. of hours per week: four hours
Thermo/fluid mechanics, energy systems and energy modelling.
Students must take two of the three alternatives offered.