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MSE 442A-442B/542A-542B - Materials Engineering Design


Fall and Spring Semester

2000-01 Catalog Data: MSE 442A-442B - Materials Engineering Design (2-2) Application of engineering design principles to materials applications and processes. 442A: Product and Process Design. 442B: Cost and Economic Analysis. Writing-Emphasis Course. P, MSE 360R. May be convened with MSE 542A-542B.

Textbook:

George E. Dieter, Engineering Design, A Materials and Processing Approach,McGraw-Hill New York, 1999.

References:

Chemical Engineering Handbook

Prerequisites by Topic:

Senior standing in Materials Science and Engineering (Materials Properties and Behavior, Materials Processing)

Method for Assessing Student Knowledge of Prerequisite Topics:

Evaluation of early homework assignments.

Overall Educational Goal:

To prepare the MSE graduate to undertake design projects in the
industrial, scientific and engineering context (including ethics, safety, costs, scheduling,
economics and social issues).

Specific Instructional Goals:

  1. Product design
  2. Plant design
  3. Costing
  4. Profitability analysis

Course Topics (Class Hours):

  1. Introduction and project possibilities (2)
  2. Selecting a project, precision of project, tasks, cost of the design, economic design (2)
  3. Sources of information (2)
  4. Steps in the design process, narrowing the possibilities (2)
  5. Decision charts (2)
  6. Discussion of first report contents (2)
  7. Materials selection (2)
  8. Safety, ethics (2)
  9. Critical path schedulilng (2)
  10. Cost evaluation - capital costing techniques (2)
  11. Economics of scale, 6/10 rule (2)
  12. Lang factor and percentage-of-delivered equipment capital cost estimation techniques,
    contingencies, "safety factors" (2)
  13. Operating cost estimation techniques, manufacturing costs, product costs (2)
  14. Pricing a product (1)
  15. Economic decision making, time value of money, determining the best of alternative
    investments (3)
  16. Net cash flow, income taxes, maximizing NCF (1)
  17. Depreciation, scrap value, payback period (1)
  18. DCFROROI, conclusions (2)

Class Requirements:

  1. One lecture session per week
  2. One individual meeting with instructor per week
  3. Four written reports
  4. Two verbal reports
  5. Approximately ten homework assignments
  6. *Note: Graduate-Level: requirements include defense of the design project before the student's research committee.

Computer Usage:


  1. Decision charts
  2. Microsoft Project
  3. Flowsheets and drawings
  4. Report preparation (PowerPoint)
  5. DDB, IRR, NPV, SLN (Excel)

Laboratory Projects:

None

Assessment of Course Goals:


  1. Thorough grading of six reports (plus homework)
  2. One-on-one interviews with instructor

Contribution to Professional Component:


Mathematics or Basic Science,       credits
Engineering Science and Design,   4   credits ( 100% design)
General Education,       credits
Major Design Experience,      

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