Engineering design: introduction and methods
Also listed as: תכן הנדסי: מבוא ושיטות
Design as a method rather than as taste. Requirements, concept generation, selection matrices, embodiment, and enough optimisation to justify the linear algebra prerequisite.
- Semester
- Semester A
- Weekly hours
- 4h
- Counts as
- Core: systems
- Interest areas
- Mechanical design
Comes after
- Linear algebra
Opens up
- 0542-44253D printing and design of plastic parts
- 0571-4174Inventive design and thinking (TRIZ)
- Preliminary aircraft design
What it covers
Process and concepts
- Design process models, systematic design, Pahl and Beitz, VDI 2221
- From needs to requirements to a specification you can test against
- Concept generation: functional decomposition, morphological analysis, TRIZ, biomimicry
- Concept selection: Pugh matrices, weighted objectives, quality function deployment
Embodiment and manufacture
- Embodiment and detail design
- Design for manufacture and assembly
- Tolerancing and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Cost estimation, lifecycle and sustainability
Optimisation and reliability
- Design variables, objectives, constraints
- Linear and basic nonlinear programming, gradient methods
- Multi-objective design and Pareto fronts
- Design of experiments and Taguchi robust design
- Reliability, FMEA, project management, a team project and its documentation
Results worth carrying out
Weighted decision matrix
Taguchi signal-to-noise, larger is better
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker stationarity
Figures worth knowing
- Design-process flowcharts
- House of Quality matrix
- Pugh selection matrices
- Morphological charts
- Pareto fronts
Related courses
- 0542-4420Semester A · 4h
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תורת המכונות
Linkages, cams and gears analysed and then synthesised. The course that makes a mechanism something you can specify rather than something you copy.
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Applied project in mechanical engineering
פרויקט יישומי בהנדסת מכונות
An industry-mentored project rather than a research one. Less thesis value, and it converts into an internship or a first job at the host company more often than anything else in the catalogue.
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Research project for honours students 1
פרויקט מחקר למצטיינים 1
The honours research project, and the most direct on-ramp to a thesis in the catalogue. You pick a supervisor, produce results, and frequently continue the same problem into a masters.
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Research project for honours students 2
פרויקט מחקר למצטיינים 2
The continuation of the honours project, where the results get deep enough to defend. Under the direct track this is already the first part of the masters thesis.
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