Design and Manufacture 1 - MECH40007
Aims
To introduce new undergraduate students to the practical elements of mechanical design and manufacture and to prepare them for the project work they must undertake in the 2nd and 3rd years of the course. Teaching the full extent of the design process from customer brief through to conceptual and detail design. The instruction extends to teaching practical manufacturing skills to enable students to make these designs themselves in the departmental workshops.
ECTS units: 10
Role
Course Leader
Design, Make and Test Project - MECH60003
Aims
This module will be one of the most important in your degree course. Firstly, it aims to reinforce and integrate the knowledge, understanding and skills that you have acquired in engineering science, design, manufacturing and management modules. Secondly - and just as importantly - it sets you to work in a realistic engineering project environment, with rigorous time and budget constraints. When you begin to apply for a job, employers will take your engineering knowledge and analytical skills for granted. It's your team-working and organisational skills which they will need to be convinced of and will set out to test in 'assessment centres'. As part of this module, therefore, Assessment Centre Skills Workshops are offered to raise your awareness of the broader, transferable skills it can help you acquire.
ECTS = 20
Role
Associate Course Leader
Manufacturing Technology and Management A - MECH60005
Aims
The aim of this module is to provide the knowledge and understanding of product machining to enable participation in CNC machine tool selection, CAM programming, cutting tool selection and the use of metrology. In addition, to convey the purpose and objectives of lean and associated problem solving methodologies such as Muda analysis, value stream mapping, total productive maintenance and failure mode & effect analysis and use practical diagnostic and improvement tools such as 5S, PDCA cycles, SMED, Poke Yoke, Ishikawa diagrams and statistical process control. This is a level 6 version of the enhanced level 7 MTM module and students cannot take both for credit towards their final degree.
ECTS = 5
Role
Course Leader
Manufacturing Technology and Management B - MECH70053
Aims
The aim of this module is to provide the knowledge and understanding of product machining to enable participation in CNC machine tool selection, CAM programming, cutting tool selection and the use of metrology. In addition, to convey the purpose and objectives of lean and associated problem solving methodologies such as Muda analysis, value stream mapping, total productive maintenance and failure mode & effect analysis and use practical diagnostic and improvement tools such as 5S, PDCA cycles, SMED, Poke Yoke, Ishikawa diagrams and statistical process control. This is the level 7 MTM module, there is also a Level 6 module and students cannot take both for credit towards their final degree. The Level 7 module has a greater focus on the product costing and process management within the coursework assessment.
ECTS = 5
Role
Course Leader