ME 3700 - Machine Design

• Students will be able to design machine components and assemblies including the use of common elements such as fasteners, bearings, keys, shafts and gears.
• Students will be able to analyze designs for failure in yielding under static and dynamic loads using textbook/analytical methods including the effects of combined stresses and geometric stress concentrations.
• Students will be able to select materials for designs from commonly used engineering metals based on constraints and criteria for use in mechanical part design and discuss tradeoffs in decision making in this regard.
• Students will be able to design parts based on various considerations relating to overall factor of safety and discuss the reasoning for said factors.
• Students will be able to interpret calculated results, discussing sources and effects of uncertainty, and ways to improve the subsequent risk in a design.
• Students will be able to design mechanical parts using stress-life approaches of fatigue analysis to project part life and strength based on loading scenarios, including the effects of combined and mean stresses.
• Students will be able to analyze machines and machine parts for location of critical loads and stresses and propose design changes to mitigate risk of failure or improve existing designs.
• Students will be able to estimate static and dynamic loads on parts in real-world scenarios to develop subsequent design specifications.
• Students will be able to approximate complicated scenarios with simple models, discerning the applicability and accuracy of the model.
• Students will be able to read and summarize a formal engineering specification.