Materials and Manufacturing

Code

MMME1029

School

Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering

Level

1

Credits

20

Semesters

Full Year UK

Summary

This module introduces students to the properties of materials, the main failure mechanisms which a designer will be concerned with (e.g. fracture, creep, fatigue) and core manufacturing methods used in engineering applications. It includes the following topics:
 

• The role of materials and material properties in the design process.
• The selection and use of materials.
• The basic science underlying material properties and approaches to avoid failure of materials to provide the knowledge with which to design materials with better properties. For each property (or group of properties), a case study of practical design application will be addressed.
• An introduction to high value and low volume, and low value and high volume manufacturing processes including: casting, machining, moulding, forming, powder processing, heat treatment, machining and assembly.
• An introduction into Additive manufacturing.
• An introduction to Metrology.

Re-assessment
Students who fail this module overall and are required to complete a re-assessment will be re-assessed by exam. The re-assessment exam mark along with the ExamSys assessment marks will be used to determine whether students satisfy progression requirements. 

Target Students

Primarily for 1st year UG mechanical and manufacturing engineering students in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering.

Assessment

• 20% Assessment 1: ExamSys assessment - 25%: LO1, LO2, LO3
• 10% Assessment 3: Laboratory 1
• 50% Exam 1 (2-hour): Exam 1 - 50%: LO1, LO2
• 20% Assessment 2 (2-hour): ExamSys assessment - 25%: LO1, LO2, LO3

Assessed in both autumn & spring semest

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

LO2 - Apply knowledge of material science to the solution of simple problems - AHEP4: 1, 2,13  

LO3 -Conduct laboratory investigation of the behaviour and properties of different classes of Engineering materials. - AHEP4: 12

Conveners

• Professor Ifty Ahmed