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References
Aris, R. Mathematical Modelling Techniques. London, Pitman, 1978
Bridqman, P.W. DimensionalAna/ysis. New Haven, Yale University Press,
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Gupta, A.K. and Lilley, D.G. Flowfield Modelling and Diagnostics.
Turnbridoe Wells. Abacus Press. 1985
~ughes,h,F. and Gaylord, E.W. Basic Equations of Engineering
Science. New York, Schaum, 1964
Murthy, D.N.P., Page, N.W. and Rodin, E.Y. Mathematical Modelling: A
Tool for Problem Solving in Engineering, Physical, Biological and Social
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Sciences. Oxford, erga am on, i990
Rubinstein, M.F. Patterns of Problem Solving, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice Hall, 1975
Wells, D.A. Theory and Problems of Lagrangian Dynamics, New York.
McGraw-Hill, 1975
Young, W.C. Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain. New York,
McGraw-Hill. 1989
~ ~ 5 5 Reactor 6 Design
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: examination
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 kinematics 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. 2.4th
edn, Oxford, Pergamon, 1991
Denbigh, K.G. and Turner, J.C.R. Chemical Reactor Theory: An
Introduction. 3rd edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984
Levenspiel, 0. Introduction to Reaction Engineering
~ ~ 5 7 Manufacturing 0
Technology
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: assignments and tests
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: meltinq 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. Cold/
warmlhot working. Super-plasticity, 'n', 'm', and 'c' values.
Restoration, recovery. Spherodising. Eutectic and peritectic
materials.
Textbooks
Crawford, R.J. Plastics Engineering. 2nd edn, Oxford, Pergamon Press,
1987
Kalpakjian, 5. Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials. 2nd
edn, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1991
Roe, G. Elements of Metalworking Theory London, Edward Arnold,
1979
MMS~O Management Practices
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination, assignment and class
participation
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 cooperative 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
technoloqv on work, social environment, occupational health
and safe6 The engineering environment; optimisation of a
system of technology and people for maximising the desired
engineering outcomes; new applications of technology, sociotechnical
systems analysis for specification, selection and
implementation of total technical and working environment
requirements.
Job design to sustain cooperative 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, socio-technical 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 Pinter, 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 Pinter, 1982
Sarfati, H. and Kobrin, C. (ed.) Labour Market Fiexibility: A
Comparative Anthology. Aldershot, Gower, 1988
Windolf, F! and Wood, W. Recmitmentand Selection in the Labour
Market: A Comparative Study of Britain and West Germany Aldershot,
Avebury, 1988