Product Design and Manufacture BEng

Sketching; an essential skill for all Product Designers. This module will develop your sketching skills, taking you from the basics of drawing simple objects through to mastering drawing in perspective and constructing complex objects. We utilise modern and up to date technologies and as such the sketching which is taught and practised within this module will be digital and produced through the use of digital drawing devices! In this module you'll learn:

• Progressively learn to add detail to drawings.
• How to draw in 3-point perspective.
• How to draw quickly and neatly.
• To draw complex forms.
• How light and shade can explain complex forms. 
• Exercises to help develop an understanding and appreciation of form.

An introductory module covering analysis methods applicable to engineering design including: 

• Linear and rotational motion: Displacement, velocity and acceleration 
  
• Relationship between angular and linear motion 
  
• Newton's Laws for linear & rotational motion  
  
• Linear and Angular Momentum, including conservation of momentum 
  
• Work, Energy & Power, including kinetic & potential energy 
  
• Geared systems 
  
• Drive systems, including tangential drives and vehicles  
  
• Load characteristics and steady-state characteristics 
  
• Flywheel design 
  
• Static and dynamic balancing 
  

In this yearlong module you'll gain a deeper understanding of engineering design principles using practical project work. You'll learn CAD from the ground up, and by the end of the module you'll be well versed in the software.

Further you'll undertake practical workshops, where you'll learn how to use fundamental engineering machinery, which forms the basis of more advanced techniques you'll learn in higher level modules.

Topics covered include:

• Process of design supported by practical design activities
• Engineering drawing CAD solid modelling and drawing generation  
• Machine elements Group Design Project with Integrated Individual Element  
• Machine shop practical training 

Practising Product Designers are often referred to as a jack of all trades and a master of none; This module begins a series of modules which focus on the broader discipline of Industrial Design and many topics which influence the practice that Designers need to be well versed in to create appropriate solutions to problems! To support the learning of these topics, and to begin understanding the process of design in a little more depth, students who participate in this module will undertake a short design project.

Other topics covered include:

• History of Design.
• Impact on Popular Culture.
• Role of the Designer.
• Design Methodology.
• Ethical Responsibility.
• Graphical Skills.
• Photography.
• Portfolio Skills.
• Sustainability and Ecology.

A deep understanding of both materials and manufacturing techniques used to process these materials is essential for all product designers, to produce effective and commercially viable products. This year long module introduces students to the properties of materials, the main failure mechanisms which a designer will be concerned with (e.g overload, fracture, creep, fatigue) and core manufacturing methods used in engineering applications.

It includes the following topics:

• Role of materials and material properties in the design process.
• Selection and use of materials.
• Basic science underlying material properties Approaches to avoid failure of materials.
• Introduction to manufacturing in the UK.
• Casting, machining, moulding, forming, powder processing, heat treatment, surface finishing and assembly.
• Introduction into additive manufacturing an introduction to manufacturing metrology.

This module introduces a range of fundamental elementary mathematical techniques that can be applied to mechanical engineering, manufacturing and product design problems.

The aim of the module is to provide engineering students with a base in mathematical knowledge which can then be built on if required in subsequent years, however as a product design student this will be the only maths module you will undertake.

This module includes:

• The calculus of a single variable, extended to develop techniques used in analysing engineering problems
• Advanced differential and integral calculus of one variable
• First-order ordinary-differential equations
• Algebra of complex numbers
• Matrix algebra and its applications to systems of equations and eigenvalue problems
• Functions and their properties
• Vector spaces and their applications
• Vector calculus

An introductory module covering analysis methods applicable to engineering design including: 

• Review of basic mechanics: vectors, units, forces and moments, Newton’s laws 

• Static equilibrium: force and moment analysis in design; frictional forces 

• Free body diagrams and Pin-jointed structures  

• Stress, strain and elasticity 

• Multi-axial stress-strain; thin walled vessels under pressure 

• Shear stress and torsion of shafts 

• Plane stress; Mohr's circle analysis  

• Beam bending: shear force & bending moment diagrams 

• 2nd moments of area of cross-sections 

• Bending stresses in beams