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The rules of the Mechanical Design Project Game (when we play together)
This post is intended for the students engaged in the Mechanical Design Projects, 1st year of Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Mons.
The Department of Machine Design and Production is in charge of organizing projects for more than 100 students. This implies some organisational difficulties that will be overcome with an appropriate behaviour.
Every minute counts for us: as a student, we expect that you are able to produce any document to feed our discussion: your drawings, a printed copy of papers and documents that are needed as references. If we have to discuss your SolidWorks models, they should be available on a computer in Design Lab.
As in real professional life, you will have to write minutes of meetings. We suggest you to write a short summary of the information exchanged (in French or English) during our meeting. Send it to us by email.
We will need time to answer your questions. It is much easier for us to handle an acute question, formulated in a single document with all equations, data and figures.
All documents you write must contain your name, the title of the project, the name of your supervisors and the current date.
An Ideal Library for Machine Design Projects
Besides the lecture notes of the courses available from the Moodle platform, order the students in mechanical engineering could be interested to know which books would be valuable for their personal bookshelf, pills especially in the perspective of the mechanical design project. It is possible to find valuable information on the Internet, but nothing replaces a printed document to get a complete overview on different technological options or high quality figures.
This is a first selection that will be completed over time. Do not hesitate to recommend your own proposals.
#1. A technological engineering handbook. Mémotech “Conception et dessin” (Claude Barlier , René Bourgeois, Mémotech, Casteilla, 2011) is a must-have with more than 650 pages of technical data and accurate design rules.
#2. A bearing catalogue (write to a distributor to get a paper copy)
#3. The Design of Rolling Bearing Mountings by Schlaeffer. (Print and bind it!)
#4. A coursebook on machine design written in English. (Fundamentals of Machine Elements by Bernard Hamrock et al., Machine Design – An Integrated Approach by Robert L. Norton, Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook by Peter R.N. Childs, …)
#5. A collection of printed catalogues for belts, chains, electrical motors, sealings, … (write to distributors)
#6. A general engineering handbook (Dubbel Taschenbuch für den Maschinenbau, available in English; Mechanical Design Handbook by Harold A. Rothbart)
#7. A coursebook on machine design written in German
References #1, #2 and #3 are essential.