Engineering Design and Material Selection

Abstract

This course provides an introduction to engineering design. Through hands-on, practice-oriented exercises, students experience the fundamentals of design concept generation and selecting materials. They create 3D models in CAD for their own customized design and fabricate them using 3D printing. Three case studies in healthcare, mobility and sustainable materials will be explored.

Objective

The lecture and exercises teach the fundamentals of engineering design, drawing and CAD as well as additive manufacturing and material selection. After taking the course, students will be able to tackle simple design tasks, generate and evaluate concepts, accurately create technical drawings of parts and assemblies as well as read them. Students will also be able to create models of parts and assemblies in a 3D, feature-based CAD system. They will understand the links between engineering design and material selection, with a particular focus on sustainable materials, as well as additive manufacturing.

Content

Introduction to Engineering Design • design requirements • concept generation and selection • prototyping Design Representations • Sketching in Engineering Design • Technical Drawing: o projections, views and cuts o dimensioning o assemblies • CAD: o CAD modeling operations o parametric design and feature-based modeling o assemblies o creating 2D drawings from 3D part models Fabrication and Additive manufacturing Material Selection • materials and their properties, with special emphasis on sustainable materials • basic mechanics • material selection processes • testing material properties Three case studies in healthcare, mobility and sustainable materials

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