Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Engineering
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Practical
Tutorial
Module Offerings
4306MECH-SEP-CTY
Aims
This module aims to introduce students to a range of general engineering practices and standards.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Create and interpret CAD models and engineering drawings which are produced to current standards.
2.
Safely carry out a range of engineering workshop procedures using standard processes.
3.
Plan and record self-learning and development as the foundation for lifelong learning and the requirement to become a professional engineer.
4.
Use practical laboratory skills to investigate complex problems by carrying out experimental procedures, processing the data collected, and effectively communicate the findings.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Technical and Design Communication:
• British Standard (BS) for technical product documentation and specifications (BS 8888:2011).
• Engineering graphics: orthographic projections and oblique/isometric drawings.
• Drawing layouts, sections views and dimensioning.
• Geometric tolerancing, datums, limits and fits.
• Generating 3D CAD models and creating engineering drawings from these to current technical standards.
• Introduction to general engineering components (shafts, bearings, gears, keyways, fasteners) and associated standards.
Engineering Workshop Practice:
• Hands-on experience in an engineering workshop environment.
• Practical workshop skills, training in machining processes and operations.
• Use of hand-tools, machine-tools, digital manufacture processes, and an appreciation of human skills needed in manufacture.
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings
• Understanding tolerances and fits and taking accurate and precise measurements.
• Health and safety in engineering workshops.
Continuing Professional Development:
• Residential field trip with team working.
• Environmental, sustainability and ethical responsibilities for engineers (UN Sustainable Development Goals).
• Career planning (workshop, personal reflection, and careers guidance).
• Introduction to skills for study.
• Professional body exposure and student membership.
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
• Introduction to online security and data security.
Experimental Methods and Laboratory Skills:
• Physical quantities, SI units, magnitudes and order of operations.
• Representation of data/calculations: significant figures, tables and graphs.
• Accuracy, precision, uncertainty and errors.
• Introduction to numerical methods and software required for performing data analysis and effective communication of results.
• Performing experiments: recording notes, measurements and observations, and handling and processing experimental data.
• Analysis of results using spreadsheets, formulation of discussion and conclusions.
• Technical reports and presentations.
Additional Information:This module provides students with an insight into the environmental, sustainability and ethical responsibilities for engineers. As part of the Continuing Professional Development module component students are taken on a field trip to the learn about the following: renewable energy (wind turbines, photovoltaic solar panels, hydroelectric power), eco sanitation (compositing toilets, vertical flow reed bed filtering system), natural building materials / associated construction techniques, and Zero Carbon Britain (an initiative to provide the knowledge, confidence and skills to transform complex economic, social and political systems and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040).
This module includes content which relates to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
SDG6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
SG11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG13 – Climate Action