1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB640 or MEB641
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB743 RELIABILITY & MAINTENANCE
MANAGEMENT
Overview of maintenance responsibilities and tasks; maintenance
vision and mission; organisation for maintenance; creating
a maintenance plan with reliability centred maintenance
(RCM); real time maintenance planning and control; availability;
maintainability; repair pools; spare parts inventory
management; cost of downtime; downtime reduction; maintenance
project planning; shutdowns/turnarounds; performance
measures; documentation and document control; configuration
management; computer based maintenance management
systems; total productive maintenance (TPM); condition
monitoring technology and management; budgetary
control; performance measures; financial analysis for asset
management.
Courses: EE43, IF56, ME35, ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB775 TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Ethics in business, policy and public service; health and safety
administration and responsibilities; innovation, planning, creativity
and intellectual property; planning and legal aspects of
new technology and technology management.
Courses: ME45, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB776 DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING 2
The system of limits and fits; AS1654; geometric analysis for
different features; inter-changeability and loop equations; geometric
tolerancing; datum systems; basic features of jig and
fixture design.
Courses: IF53, IF56, ME35, ME45, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB777 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Forecasting analysis and inventory control; linear programming,
distribution models of assignment and transportation
problems; plan layout including the principles of work study;
maintenance and Monte Carlo simulation.
Courses: EE43, IF53, IF56, ME35, ME45, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB778 CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
The unit aims at introducing the student to the issues impacting
product development and how the principles of concurrent
engineering are used to reduce time to market for
new products. Topics covered include: introduction to accelerated
product development and formation of product
development teams; Quality Function Deployment; design
and project management; CAD and solid modelling; rapid
prototyping; design for assembly and manufacture; electronic
data interchange/CALS; product portfolio analysis;
organisation; and FMEA/design of experiments. Technologies
at QMI such as CAD, Ideas software, DFMA software
and the stereo-lithography apparatus will be utilised in this
unit.
Courses: IF56, IF53
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB780 REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT
DESIGN & EVALUATION
Functional requirements of orthoses; orthotic biomechanics;
design and construction of orthoses; biomechanics of artificial
limbs; alignments techniques; amputee socket design and
manufacture; wheelchair design requirements; clinical evaluation
of rehabilitation equipment.
Courses: ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB790 SPACECRAFT & SATELLITE DESIGN
Application of the theory of rigid body dynamics to the problem
of spacecraft stabilisation and altitude control system
design. Application of heat transfer theory to thermal control
system design on spacecraft.
766
Courses: EE43 Prerequisites: EEB692
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB791 TISSUE MECHANICS
Why model and experiment on biological tissue? large strain
elasticity; rheological modeling and physical analogues of the
soft and hard tissues of the human musculo-skeletal system;
relationship between the collagenous arrangement and function
of a biological material; introduction to the microscopic
and phenomenological methods of tissue modeling; constitutive
relationships and their importance to the engineering
analysis of some biological tissues; bone mechanics and fracture;
uses of large strain elasticity: modeling of skin, cardiac
muscles, veins and arteries; modeling of tissues of the articulating
joints of the musculo-skeletal system.
Courses: ME46
Prerequisites: MEB213, MEB333, MEB513
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB792 MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Medical signal and image acquisition requirements and methods
(e.g. X-ray, CT, MRI, ECG, EMG); signal conversion;
digital filtering principles (convolution) fast Fourier transformation
methods; data compression and storage techniques,
three-dimensional reconstruction and display methods.
Courses: ME46 Prerequisites: CSB192, PHB504
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB801 PROJECT
Investigate and present a formal report on a mechanical engineering
problem; project may be industry based or arise from
applied research.
Courses: ME45, ME47
Credit Points: 40 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ MEB802 PROJECT
The student is required to investigate in depth and present a
formal report on a problem area taken from the full range of
mechanical engineering practice. Project may arise through
investigation in applied research programs or specific topic
from industry.
Courses: ME45
Credit Points: 32 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ MEB803 SPECIAL TOPIC 4
See MEB503 Special Topic 1
Courses: IF56, ME45, ME46, 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
■ MEB804 IMPLANT DESIGN
Review of biocompatible materials for total joint replacement;
determining design loads using biomechanical models; design
for fixation in the body; lubrication and wear in joint
replacements; methods of manufacturing joint replacements;
methods of manufacturing joint replacements; requirements
for instrumentation; quality assurance, clinical trials, implant
tracking and retrieval (including failure analysis); relevant
standards (AS, ISO, ASTM, BS); sterilisation methods and
requirements; the future of orthopaedic joint replacements.
Courses: ME46 Prerequisites: MEB333, MEB513
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB811 INDUSTRIAL NOISE & VIBRATION
Vibration measurements; spectrum analysis; Kurtosis, Cepstrum
and envelope analysis; averaging; gear, bearing and rotor vibration;
whole body and arm vibration; noise measurements;
noise power; industrial standards; attenuation methods.
Courses: IF53, ME45, ME45, ME47
Prerequisites: MEB613 or MEB512
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB871 COMPUTER CONTROL OF
MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Analysis of digital control systems and its application to proc-