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Unit Synopsis
Design of Machine Elements is aimed at integrating and applying prior knowledge in fundamental design, materials sciences, mechanics of materials, statics and dynamics coupled with design strategies and knowledge of machine elements to design various machine components. These skills and knowledge will help you to design, analyse, synthesize and deliver robust engineering solutions. You will acquire strong analytical knowledge of machine elements, their design and load carriage and power transmission mechanics.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: MATH11219 Engineering Mathematics AND (ENEM12009 Structural Mechanics OR ENEM14012 Solid Mechanics and Computational Analysis) Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 2. Project (applied) | 50% |
| 3. Project (applied) | 30% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: SUTE
Some weeks' lecture content is vast.
The unit coordinator should review and truncate the content in the said weeks to ensure the workload and time commitment are equitable.
The UC audited the unit in conjunction with the mechanical engineering discipline leader and UCs of ENEM12009 Structural Mechanics and ENEX13003 Mechanical Design Practice. This led to the removal of some content covered in these units. The unit content now better conforms to a 6 cp load.
Source: Informal student feedback
Distance students find it difficult to undertake group assessment in the unit due to work commitments.
UC should consider changing the group assessment to an individual applied project type of assessment.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Develop detailed design of machine components to Australian and International Standards
- Apply the formal procedures of detailed machine design, including requirements, solutions, modelling and evaluation to solve problems
- Analyse and design a range of machine elements, explain the physical basis of their design, usage and operational limitations
- Interpet various design codes and standards
- Work effectively in teams by: identifying individual roles and responsibility, interacting positively with colleagues, and communicating effectively at group meetings
- Communicate as professionals through the production of drawings (computer aided) and Bill of Materials, and through written technical reports.
Learning outcomes are linked to Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies and also discipline capabilities.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 2 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | ||
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | |||
| 5 - Team Work | • | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 2 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||||||||
| 3 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | |||||||