1997 QUT Handbook

plied to viscous flow; compressible fluid flow including normal
shock waves.
Courses: ME35, ME45, ME47 Prerequisites: MEB363
Corequisites: MAB488
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB473 MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING 1
Practical machining principles and operations; cutting tool
technology; analysis of tool wear and tool life; economics of
machining; introduction to CNC technology and NC part programming;
non-traditional material cutting processes; principles
of engineering metrology.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB475 MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Introduction to basic manufacturing processes; chip formation;
forces, power and velocity equations; fundamentals of turning,
milling, drilling and grinding operations; cutting tool materials
and geometry; cutting fluids and surface; tool life analysis and
selection of cutting conditions; introduction to metalworking
principles; classification and method of analysis of metal forming
processes; applications of these methods to forging, extrusion
and rolling processes; introduction to sheet-metal forming
and non-traditional forming techniques; introduction of nontraditional
technologies including abrasive water jet cutting, laser
and use of rapid prototyping tools such as stereo-lithography
apparatus and its application in the medical field.
Courses: ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB483 DESIGN 3
Design of mechanisms; basic structures; computer aided design.
Courses: IF53, IF56, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB111, MEB133 or MEB134, MEB314,
MEB381
Corequisites: MEB336
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB484 BIOENGINEERING DESIGN 1
Introduction to design methodology and problem solving; risk
and safety factors in design; types of bearing and bearing selection;
design of beams and shafts; type and choice of gear
mechanisms; human factors engineering; psychological factors
in design of displays; bioengineering applications of design
theory.
Courses: ME46
Prerequisites: MEB121 or MEB181, MEB212 or MEB213
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB490 PROJECT
Investigation and analysis of technological or managerial problems
in medical engineering and presentation of a written report.
Courses: ME46
Credit Points: 32 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB501 PROJECT
A survey of relevant literature and organized experimental
work resulting in conclusions presented in a formal report.
Courses: ME35
Credit Points: 16 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB503 SPECIAL TOPIC 1
A series of lectures and tutorials in areas which are of special
professional relevance to the student’s intended career path,
or which may be available on occasion from visiting scholars.
Courses: IF53, ME35, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: Students to have achieved an appropriate level
of preparation in topic area concerned
Corequisites: Depending on the syllabus of the particular
special topic offered
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB513 STRESS ANALYSIS
Stress and strain in three-dimension; strain-gauge rosette
analysis; two-dimensional problems; axi-symetrically loaded
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problems; torsion of non-circular section; introduction to
plates.
Courses: ME45, ME46, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB212 or MEB213, MAB488
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB514 NOISE & VIBRATIONS
Introduction to noise measurement and instrumentations; noise
levels, frequency and time, subjective noise levels, A-weighting,
Leq, SEL, noise dose, noise standards, N-C curves; sound
power level, directivity, reduction index, absorption coefficient;
free field, reverberant field, semi-reverberant field,
Sabines equation, the behaviour of sound in rooms and enclosures,
barriers and partitions; free vibration, stiffness, damping
and logarithmic decrement; forced vibration rotating
unbalance, whiling, support motion, vibration isolation and
transmission and resonance; normal mode of vibration, coupling,
multi-degree of freedom, vibration absorbers and dampers;
vibration analysis using Energy method, Holzer method
and Matrix iterations; introduction to computer based vibration
programs.
Courses: ME45, ME47 Prerequisites: MAB488, MEB111
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB532 ADVANCED MATERIALS
Properties and applications for modern advanced composites;
fibre reinforcements of ceramic, metal and polymer materials.
Coatings of metals and ceramics by vapour deposition; plasma
and advanced techniques. Surface treatments for frictional and
wear performance. Properties of ultra high strength steels.
Courses: ME35, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB230 and MEB231 or MEB334 and
MEB430
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB551 PROPULSION & ENGINES
Performance of turboprops; turbofans; turbojets; ramjets;
pulsejets; scramjets and their components; engine efficiencies;
single and multistage rockets; liquid and solid propellent rockets;
specific impulse; burning time; thrust; thrust specific fuel
consumption.
Courses: EE43 Prerequisites: MEB362
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB553 AERODYNAMICS 2
Analysis of the inviscid incompressible flow about airfoils
and finite wings, the compressible flow about supersonic and
transonic airfoils, and the compressible flow through supersonic
nozzles and diffusers. The aerodynamic design requirements
for supersonic and transonic airfoils and aircraft, the
effects of compressibility on aircraft performance.
Courses: EE43 Prerequisites: 454
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB554 HEAT TRANSFER
Conduction; steady-state, one and tow dimensions, unsteadystate;
convection: physical principles and empirical relations
for forced and natural-convection systems; radiation heat transfer;
condensing and boiling; heat exchangers and overall heat
transfer coefficients.
Courses: ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB455, MEB462 or MEB466
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB572 MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING 2
Introduction to metalworking principles; hot and warm forging
operations; extrusion operation; flat rolling operation; deep
drawing operation; shearing/blanking operation; spinning
operation; non-traditional metal forming operations; die/
moulds in manufacturing processes; introduction to casting
of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys; shrinkage and
porosity; fluid flow and design considerations in casting.
Courses: IF53, IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB580 BIOENGINEERING DESIGN 2
Effect of manufacturing processes on material properties and