310545 (v.1) Design Methodology 431

Area:	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Syllabus:	Stages of engineering design. Guided iteration methodology. Codes and standards. Tolerances. Formulating the problem: engineering design specification; quality function deployment. Content of the engineering design specification. Generating conceptual alternatives. Function-first decomposition. Applied techniques of creative idea generation: brainstorming, synectics, creativity inhibitors. Evaluation and redesign of engineering concepts. Pugh's method, Dominic method. Pahl and Beitz method. Evaluating manufacturability of concepts. Selecting materials and processes. Material-first approach. Process-first approach. Configuration design of parts. Definition, goal, formulating part configuration problems. The part configuration requirements sketch. Introduction to parametric design. Optimisation methods. Lagrange multipliers. Search methods - uniform search, Fibonacci search, golden section search, multi-variable search methods, lattice search, univariate search. Steepest ascent. Linear programming. Simplex algorithm. Geometric programming. Introduction to Taguchi methods. Design for robustness. Design of experiments. Orthogonal arrays and interactions. Introduction to axiomatic design. Axiomatic design framework: domains, hierarchies, zigzagging.
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Field of Education:	030703 Industrial Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Essential *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External