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lecture notes: design factors which influence design of vehicles for passenger transport, performance, off-road & other purpose built vehicles, design process of systems & total vehicles with multiple design constraints including legislative regulation, alternative & hybrid power systems, team organization & planning

iron-carbon diagram in detail, Steels, non-ferrous alloys, composites, non-metallic materials, corrosion and the principles underlying the selection of materials in mechanical design, processes taking place during heat treatment of metallic alloys and how they influence their microstructures and properties

processes which are involved in the manufacturing of parts and products, relating these processes to basic engineering concepts, product designs and practices: lectures (phase diagram, heat treatments, casting & injection modeling, plastics product manufacturing, processing of particles for powder metallurgy, layered manufacturing, metal forming, machining, tolerance & quality control)

• Engineering Dynamics - notation & units, rectilinear & curvilinear motion, coordinates, motion, Newton's 2nd law, work-energy relation, potential energy, momentum, impact, rigid bodies, instantaneous center of velocity, moving frames, inertia, Euler's laws, work-energy relations

• Engineering Statics - Notation and units, Vectors, Equilibrium equations for a particle, Moment of a force, Equivalent force-couple systems, Equilibrium for rigid bodies, trusses, Frames and machines, Internal forces, Dry Friction, Wedges and screws, Belts, Moments of Inertia, Equation sheet for exams
• Mechanics of Elastic Bodies - How materials carry load, Hooke's law and factor of safety, Extension of bars, Thermal strain, Torsion of a circular shaft, Area moment of inertia, Pure shear and power transmission, loads, bending moment diagrams, Pure Bending, Shear stress in beams. Beams with axial loads, Plane stress, Mohr's circle, Hooke's law, Pressure vessels, Deflection of beams, Buckling of columns

• Applied Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics - flow systems encountered in engineering
  design, viscous flow in pipes, external & compressible flow, turbomachines (pumps), thermodynamics
  of gas mixtures, psychometrics and air-conditioning processes

• Thermal Management Measurements - laboratory techniques for diagnosing and documenting thermal management problems in electronic equipment, design of thermal management solutions (air-cooled systems)

root-finding, elementary numerical linear algebra, solving systems of linear equations, curve fitting, numerical quadrature and numerical solution to ordinary differential equations

materials & processes from perspective of thermodynamics & kinetics, laws of thermodynamics, solution theory, equilibrium diagrams, diffusion, phase transformations, development of microstructure: lecture slides & summaries, study materials, course download

mechanics of solids with applications to science and engineering, geometry of the motion and/or deformation of the structure, conditions of geometric fit, forces on and within structures and assemblages, physical aspects of the structural system (including material properties) which quantify relations between the forces and motions/ deformation: readings, course download

responses exhibited by solid engineering materials when subjected to mechanical & thermal loadings, introduction to physical mechanisms associated with design-limiting behavior of engineering materials (stiffness, strength, toughness, durability), basic mechanical properties of engineering materials, testing procedures, ways in which properties characterize material response: readings, labs, course download

systematic approach to design & assembly of mechanical assemblies, mechanical & economic models of assemblies & assembly automation, basic engineering models of part mating, explanation of the remote center compliance, system view of assembly, including product architecture, feature-based design, computer models of assemblies, analysis of mechanical constraint, assembly sequence analysis, tolerances, system-level design for assembly & JIT methods, economics of assembly automation:projects