Course Description

This course is intended for students beginning the professional study of mechanical engineering. The focus is on combining fundamental concept development with the practical specifications of mechanical components. Subjects covered by this course include engineering basics, failure prevention, gear components, joint components, flexible components, and various other mechanical components. Special topics will be covered regarding the pathway from mechanical engineering fundamentals towards future directions of the design engineers in research and industry towards advanced machinery, automation, and robotics.

To teach students how to formulate the design and manufacturing problems for mechanical systems.
To teach students how to apply the general mechanical engineering sciences in analyses specific to the design of mechanical components.
To teach students in a laboratory setting how to generate concepts, conduct analyses to size components, construct, assemble, and program a prototype of a system and test its function to meet the specifications of a design and manufacturing problem.
To reinforce students’ team skills through a team project, including problem formulation, problem solutions, and written reporting of results.
To reinforce students’ visualization and hands-on skills through project virtual prototyping and/or physical construction exercises.

Learning Outcome

As a core course for the mechanical engineering majors, this course lays the foundation for students to conduct machine design, manufacturing, and related research and development. The following learning outcomes are expected for students taking this course:

Given functional and manufacturing requirements, utilize concept generation methods within a team setting to achieve a consensus for a product concept.
Weigh trade-offs in concept and detail design from the perspectives of function, manufacture, design effort and available resources.
Apply basics of conservation and constitutive laws from the mechanical engineering sciences to understand the basic nature of a posed problem.
Compile reference (e.g. catalogue, handbook and textbook) resources to formulate an analysis for specific mechanical and mechatronic components addressed within those resources.
Make decisions regarding buy or build for individual components of a design.
Test, in a team setting or independently, the system performance and all failure modes that may be present per the analyses conducted during the design stage.
Communicate engineering decisions, justification for those decisions, designs, manufacturing plans, and test results in multi-media presentation and report writing.

Course Instructors & Teaching Support

Lead Instructor: Prof. Song Chaoyang
Teaching Assistant: Jie Yu
Teaching Administrator: Li Wenjing
Office: Room 512, North Block, New Engineering Building

Grading

20%: Lab Projects
20%: Assignments
30%: Final Exam
30%: Final Presentation & Report

Academic Integrity

This course follows the SUSTech Code of Academic Integrity. Each student in this course is expected to abide by the SUSTech Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic credit will be the student’s own work. Violations of the rules (e.g., cheating, copying, non-approved collaborations) will not be tolerated.

Course Materials

Required:
- HUST Textbook (Limited copies can be borrowed from the TA.)
Optional:
- Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering) 10th Edition by Richard G Budynas (Author), Keith J Nisbett (Author)
- Machine Design (5th Edition) by Robert L. Norton (Author)