ME30365: Reverse engineering
[Page last updated: 27 October 2020]
![]() | 2020/1 |
![]() | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
![]() | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
![]() | 120 |
![]() | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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![]() | CW 100% |
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Description: | Aims: This unit aims to: * Enable students appraise existing products and recognise common mass manufacturing materials, manufacturing processes and product assembly processes; * Develop students' expertise in product analysis * Build students' technical understanding of the engineering design details seen in products. * Enable students to practise reverse engineering in order to create new product and feature ideas. Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit a student will be able to: * Identify, in detail, commonly used engineering materials, manufacturing processes and product assembly processes; appraise them and provide reasons for their use in a particular application; * Complete a systemic process of "mechanical dissection" and product analysis. * Present a detailed understanding of the engineering embodiment details, which can determine the manufacturing processes, and the functioning of the product components in use. * Generate creative design improvement ideas following a reverse engineering process. Skills: * Problem solving and analytical thinking (F/A); * reverse engineering (T/A); * design communication (A); * concept generation for design. Content: * Theory and methods from reverse engineering regarding materials recognition, manufacturing process recognition and assembly sequence recognition. * Examples of cases and the situations in industry where reverse engineering is used in product development and/or manufacturing. * Systemic approach(es) to the 'tear-down process'. * Framework(s) for deducing the role of product components and manufacturing features. |
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ME30365 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Mechanical Engineering
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