MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

TECHNICAL STREAM
Semester 2

2016

ENGG1000
Engineering Design and Innovation
Mechanical Engineering
Technical Stream Outline

Contents
1

Staff Contact Details ..................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ................................................................................................................... 3

Course Details .............................................................................................................. 3

Course Information ....................................................................................................... 5

4.1

Aims of the Mechanical Stream ............................................................................... 5

4.2

Learning Outcomes ................................................................................................. 5

4.3

Technical strategies ................................................................................................ 6

Technical Stream Assessment ..................................................................................... 6

Resources for Students ................................................................................................ 6

6.1

Resource Documents ............................................................................................. 6

6.2

Suggested Reading ................................................................................................ 6

6.2.1

Books ............................................................................................................... 6

6.2.2

Websites .......................................................................................................... 7

Staff Contact Details

Technical Stream

Dr Chris Menictas

Coordinator

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Ainsworth Building, Room 402F
c.menictas@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 6269

Mentors

Mentors will be involved during the hardware lab

demonstrations.

Introduction

ENGG1000 is a single course coordinated by the Faculty of Engineering. This document

outlines details of the technical stream offered within ENGG1000 by the School of
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering; it is intended to be read in conjunction with
the Faculty-wide course outline.
The work of an academic is irregular in its nature and meetings are often called at short
notice.
As-such, your Technical Stream Coordinator is unlikely to have regular
consultation times but, if they are in their office and your approach is polite, they can
probably give you a minute or two.
If your enquiry is of a general nature, post it on the Technical Stream Forum on Moodle:
https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au.
One-on-one e-mail should be used as a last resort since it is an inefficient use of
everyones time.

Course Details

The Mechanical Stream nominally occupies the Thursday 2:00pm to 4:00pm time slot,
from Weeks 3 to 11 inclusive, as shown in Table T.
It will consist of 4 technical lectures, online resources and 3 hardware labs.

Table T: Schedule for Thursday activities (current 08Aug16).

Date

Time

Activity

Location

24pm

Impromptu Design Activity

Various

4-5pm

Final Competition

Clancy

23pm

Lecture Intro to Design

Clancy

28Jul

4Aug

Project Launch

Various

45pm

Mentor Meet and Greet

TBA

23pm

Lecture Hardware 1 & 2,

Matl's & Proc

34pm

11Aug
3-4pm
45pm
23pm
18Aug

3-4pm
45pm
23pm

25Aug
3-4pm
45pm
1Sep

24pm

22Sep

Various
Colombo ThA
Moodle Mech Stream
Various
Colombo ThA
Moodle Mech Stream
Various
Willis J18
Lab 116

3-4pm
45pm

Mentor Session

Various

24pm

Hardware Lab 2

Willis J18
Lab 116

45pm

Mentor Session

Various

24pm

Project Presentations

Various

45pm

Mentor Session

Various

23pm

15Sep

Hardware Lab 1

Moodle Mech Stream

Mentor Session
Lecture Hardware 9
Brakes and Clutches
Online resources
with interactive forum

45pm

8Sep

Online resources
with interactive forum
Mentor Session
Lecture Hardware 3, 4 & 5
Fasteners & Ad's, Shafts &
Bearings
Online resources
with interactive forum
Mentor Session
Lecture Hardware 6, 7 & 8,
Gears Springs, Belts and
Chains
Online resources
with interactive forum
Mentor Session

Colombo ThA

Various
Colombo ThA
Moodle Mech Stream

SEMESTER BREAK
6Oct

13Oct

20Oct

25pm

Compliance Testing

TBA

24pm

Hardware Lab 3

Willis J18
Lab 116

45pm

Mentor Session

Various

24pm

Free Labs

45pm

Mentor Session

27Oct 25pm

Various

No Class

Hardware labs will be run during weeks 6, 8 and 11. No preparation is required before
attending the Labs although you must wear covered shoes and attend at the allocated
time for your assigned group.

4 Course Information
4.1

Aims of the Mechanical Stream

The main aims of ENGG1000 are clearly explained in the Faculty Course Outline. The
Mechanical Stream is intended to introduce you to engineering materials, manufacturing
processes and mechanical engineering components. It is designed to provide you with
an introductory understanding of how your concepts can be realised from an engineering
perspective and what considerations may need to be taken. The aim is to convey basic
knowledge of mechanical systems and provide hands on experience with key
mechanical parts that can be used in your design project.

4.2

Learning Outcomes

Additionally to the Faculty learning outcomes, on successful completion you should be

able to:

Appreciate some of the design challenges faced by mechanical and design

engineers, and what kinds of skills and knowledge are required for professional
communication.

Gain valuable hands-on experience and knowledge of mechanical components

and materials.

Understand through active demonstrations such as Nitro, XO-1 and Jet as to

how all these components come together and perform a required function.

Gain an insight into different ways of evaluating mechanical and general

engineering systems.

Suggest approaches for amending simple design problems.

5

4.3

Technical strategies

This technical stream consists of lectures and hardware labs. The lectures will provide
some basic mechanical engineering principles to act as a starting point for addressing
the design brief. Note that it is not the intention of the lectures, or the technical stream
to directly teach you how to solve your design problem. Its purpose is to give you the
knowledge for determining how to do this yourself. The aim therefore is to strengthen
your knowledge base and skills to help you successfully complete the project. The
hardware labs are intended to provide hands-on experience with the components that
can be used in a mechanical system. They are also the basis of the technical
assessments for the mechanical stream and an interactive way to gain further
understanding of what is discussed in the technical lectures.

Technical Stream Assessment

A total of 20% of your course mark is drawn from work assessed in the Thursday technical
labs. Three hardware labs will be run, each worth up to 10% of your final course mark.
Your best two lab scores will be taken for your assessment.

Resources for Students

6.1

Resource Documents

Resource documents will be provided on the Mechanical Engineering Technical Stream

moodle site.

6.2

Suggested Reading

Other useful general references include:

6.2.1 Books
Cross, N. (2000). Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design, 3rd
edition, John Wiley and Sons.
Dominick, P.G. et al. (2001). Tools and Tactics of Design, John Wiley & Sons.
Dowling, D., Carew, A., and Hadgraft, R. (2010).
Australasian Guide, John Wiley & Sons.

Engineering Your Future: An

Horenstein, M.N. (2010). Design Concepts for Engineers, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall.
Samuel, A., Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design Creativity, Engagement and
Learning, Springer-Verlag London Limited (2006)
Voland, G. (2004). Engineering by Design, 2nd Edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall.

6.2.2 Websites
www.howstuffworks.com
www.matweb.com
www.knovel.com (accessible via UNSW Library Sirius)

Dr C. Menictas
08 August 2016