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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Advanced Mechanical Design
  • Unit Code

    ENS5114
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • 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.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory based problem sets10%
Laboratory WorkFinite Element Analysis Laboratories10%
ProjectMajor group research, design and simulation project40%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory based problem sets10%
ExerciseVirtual laboratory work10%
ProjectMajor group research, design and simulation project40%
Assignment ^Summative assessment of unit content40%

^ 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Advanced Mechanical Design
  • Unit Code

    ENS5114
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Simona O'BRIEN

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 unit from ENS3105, ENS5105, ENS6132

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS6104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate life expectancy of mechanical components for safe operation under a dynamic load, by applying fatigue principles and gear calculations analysis.
  2. Generate and critique creative design solutions for complex mechanical systems under dynamic loading.
  3. Analyse complex mechanical problems by applying finite element analysis computer simulations.
  4. Calculate the required dimensional properties of mechanical components and structures for safe operation under a dynamic load.
  5. Work collaboratively to plan and implement a prototype design project, based on a real-life mechanical application.
  6. Research and compile a comprehensive written prototype design project report, and orally present key findings to an industry audience.

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

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
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

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory based problem sets10%
Laboratory WorkFinite Element Analysis Laboratories10%
ProjectMajor group research, design and simulation project40%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentTheory based problem sets10%
ExerciseVirtual laboratory work10%
ProjectMajor group research, design and simulation project40%
Assignment ^Summative assessment of unit content40%

^ 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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