ENMT301-19W (C) Whole Year 2019

Mechatronics System Design

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 15 March 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 23 August 2019

Description

Developing skills in the mechatronic design process. Design and selection of components common to mechatronic systems using engineering science taught in other courses. Application of modern tools and processes to mechatronic design. Developing engineering communication skills in the context of design.

This whole-year course aims to provide students with knowledge, skills, and exposure to the integrated design process of mechatronics systems. Students use innovative and creative skills to design systems that exhibit ‘synergistic integration’ of mechanical, electrical, and computational elements.

Key aspects of this course are:
* Methods for breaking down a design brief and formulating requirements on which to base and evaluate a design.
* Division of a system into sub-systems for integrated, iterative design.
* Introduction of some of the main mechatronic engineering components and how to select them and use them in design.
* Methods for modelling systems in design (block diagrams, finite state machines, static models)
* Use of modern tools for mechatronic design
* Design communication

An important part of this course is the year-long team design project, which involves designing and implementing a complex mechatronic system (an autonomous, mobile robot), and competing against class members in the UC Robocup competition. This project brings together the material taught in this and other courses and provides students with practical experience in mechatronic design.


Semester one mainly covers
* Mechanical component design
* Mechatronic system design fundamentals
* System design tools
                 * Modelling
                 * Reliability and hazard analysis
                 * Version control (Git)
* Design communication



Semester two mainly covers
* Mechatronic components: sensors
* Modern mechatronic tools
                 * Signal processing
                 * Filtering

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply mechatronics design principles to a multidisciplinary engineering project.
2. Apply modern mechatronic engineering design and analysis tools/methods
3. Produce an integrated engineering solution to a broad problem that is not fully defined and is open-ended.
4. Effectively communicate design ideas and project work through engineering drawings, engineering design reports,           and project presentations.
5. Demonstrate organisational, project management, research, and interpersonal (team) skills.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Chris Pretty

Lecturers

Keith Alexander and Michael Hayes

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Mechanical Design Assignment 1 25 Feb 2019 6% Concept design
Mechanical Design Assignment 2 25 Mar 2019 12% Perspex beam
Writing Assignment 01 Apr 2019 5%
Mechatronics FTA Assignment 13 May 2019 5%
Progress Report 1 Robocup 17 May 2019 8%
Mechanical Design Assignment 3 27 May 2019 12% Bearing housing
Functionality Assessment Robocup 2% 29th-30th July
Progress Report 2 Robocup 30 Aug 2019 8%
IMU Assignment 13 Sep 2019 6%
Oral Presentation Robocup 5% 16th-17th September
Semester 2 Material Test 26 Sep 2019 15%
Robocup Final Competition 10 Oct 2019 8%
Final Report Robocup 22 Oct 2019 8%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,911.00

International fee $10,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

All ENMT301 Occurrences

  • ENMT301-19W (C) Whole Year 2019