School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Advanced Mechanical Design
  • Unit Code

    ENS5114
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ferdinando Giovanni GUZZOMI

Description

This unit builds on the general principles of mechanical design and applies these to detailed designs for product development. Building on the principles taught in the preceding unit, Mechanical Design and Development, more advanced mechanical design topics are covered relating to the detailed design of mechanical system elements. Students will work in teams to complete a major multidisciplinary detailed design project, which will require creative solutions to be effectively communicated.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3105, ENS5105, ENS6132

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS6104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and optimise, through computer simulation, mechanical system elements.
  2. Apply mechanical design principles to solve detailed design problems.
  3. Communicate mechanical design solutions in a variety of forms including design drawings, engineering reports, and presentations.
  4. Contribute in a team to prototype multidisciplinary projects.
  5. Explain and critique how design principles are applied to mechanical system elements.
  6. Generate and critique creative solutions to complex design problems.

Unit Content

  1. Design processes and management.
  2. Design review and optimisation.
  3. Fatigue (including FEA) and life cycle calculations.
  4. Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
  5. Linear elastic fracture mechanics.
  6. Shaft design (including FEA).
  7. Spur and helical gear design.
  8. Stress concentrations.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, laboratories and group projects.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory based problem sets10%
Laboratory WorkFinite Element Analysis Laboratories10%
ProjectMajor group research, design and simulation project40%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Advanced Mechanical Design
  • Unit Code

    ENS5114
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ferdinando Giovanni GUZZOMI

Description

This unit builds on the general principles of mechanical design and applies these to detailed designs for product development. Building on the principles taught in the preceding unit, Mechanical Design and Development, more advanced mechanical design topics are covered relating to the detailed design of mechanical system elements. Students will work in teams to complete a major multidisciplinary detailed design project, which will require creative solutions to be effectively communicated.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3105, ENS5105, ENS6132

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS6104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and optimise, through computer simulation, mechanical system elements.
  2. Apply mechanical design principles to solve detailed design problems.
  3. Communicate mechanical design solutions in a variety of forms including design drawings, engineering reports, and presentations.
  4. Contribute in a team to prototype multidisciplinary projects.
  5. Explain and critique how design principles are applied to mechanical system elements.
  6. Generate and critique creative solutions to complex design problems.

Unit Content

  1. Design processes and management.
  2. Design review and optimisation.
  3. Fatigue (including FEA) and life cycle calculations.
  4. Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
  5. Linear elastic fracture mechanics.
  6. Shaft design (including FEA).
  7. Spur and helical gear design.
  8. Stress concentrations.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, laboratories and group projects.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory based problem sets10%
Laboratory WorkFinite Element Analysis Laboratories10%
ProjectMajor group research, design and simulation project40%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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