Mechanical Engineering MEng

An introductory module covering fundamental concepts and principles of dynamics of mechanical systems and their applications to mechanical engineering systems and design, including:

• Linear and rotational motion: Displacement, velocity and acceleration
• Relationship between angular and linear motion
• Newton's Laws for linear & rotational motion
• Linear and Angular Momentum, including conservation of momentum
• Work, Energy & Power, including kinetic & potential energy
• Geared systems
• Drive systems, including tangential drives and vehicles
• Load characteristics and steady-state characteristics
• Flywheel design
• Static and dynamic balancing

In this yearlong module you'll gain a deeper understanding of engineering design principles using practical project work. You'll learn CAD from the ground up, and by the end of the module you'll be well versed in the software.

Further you'll undertake practical workshops, where you'll learn how to use fundamental engineering machinery, which forms the basis of more advanced techniques you'll learn in higher level modules.

Topics covered include:

• Process of design supported by practical design activities
• Engineering drawing CAD solid modelling and drawing generation  
• Machine elements Group Design Project with Integrated Individual Element  
• Machine shop practical training 

A deep understanding of both materials and manufacturing techniques used to process these materials is essential for all product designers, to produce effective and commercially viable products. This year long module introduces students to the properties of materials, the main failure mechanisms which a designer will be concerned with (e.g overload, fracture, creep, fatigue) and core manufacturing methods used in engineering applications.

It includes the following topics:

• Role of materials and material properties in the design process.
• Selection and use of materials.
• Basic science underlying material properties Approaches to avoid failure of materials.
• Introduction to manufacturing in the UK.
• Casting, machining, moulding, forming, powder processing, heat treatment, surface finishing and assembly.
• Introduction into additive manufacturing an introduction to manufacturing metrology.

This module introduces a range of fundamental elementary mathematical techniques that can be applied to mechanical engineering, manufacturing and product design problems.

The aim of the module is to provide engineering students with a base in mathematical knowledge which can then be built on if required in subsequent years, however as a product design student this will be the only maths module you will undertake.

This module includes:

• The calculus of a single variable, extended to develop techniques used in analysing engineering problems
• Advanced differential and integral calculus of one variable
• First-order ordinary-differential equations
• Algebra of complex numbers
• Matrix algebra and its applications to systems of equations and eigenvalue problems
• Functions and their properties
• Vector spaces and their applications
• Vector calculus

This year long module comprises a number of elements to provide you with:

• professional engineering, information searching, data analysis, health and safety and oral presentations 
• laboratory skills and development of house style laboratory report
• writing and understanding of computer programs including, loops, conditional statements, program flow, functions, basic input output, sound processing, image processing, variables, (1/2D) arrays, advanced plotting and simple computer graphics. 
• the application of computer code to control mechanical devices as part of a group project. 
• introduction to professional responsibilities of engineers including the fundamental role of sustainability, legal issues, patents, ethics and standards 

An introductory module covering fundamental concepts and principles of solid mechanics and their applications to mechanical engineering systems and design, including:

• Review of basic mechanics: vectors, units, forces and moments, Newton’s laws
• Static equilibrium: force and moment analysis in design; frictional forces
• Free body diagrams and Pin-jointed structures
• Stress, strain and elasticity
• Multi-axial stress-strain; thin walled vessels under pressure
• Shear stress and torsion of shafts
• Plane stress; Mohr's circle analysis
• Beam bending: shear force & bending moment diagrams
• 2nd moments of area of cross-sections
• Bending stresses in beams

This is an introductory module covering the fundamental concepts and principles of thermofluids and their applications to engineering problems. Topics covered include: 

• introductory concepts; properties of fluids, equations of state and the perfect gas law 
• hydrostatics The first and second law of thermodynamics, including heat engines 
• fluid dynamics: continuity, Euler and Bernoulli equations 
• processes undergone by closed systems 
• the steady flow energy equation 
• momentum flows including linear momentum, friction factors and pipe flows
• heat transfer