CHAPTER 5 DETAIL OUTLINE OF UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
5.1 Term wise Detail Outline of Core Courses
5.1.5 Level-3 Term-I
IPE 3103: Product Design- I 3.00 Contact Hour 3.00 Credit Hour
Product Planning: Generic development process; Front-end process; Adapting the generic development process; Steps of identifying customer needs of a product.
Product Specifications: Steps of establishing target specification; Steps of refining the specifications.
Concept Generation of Product Design: Five step methodology of product concept generation.
Selection of Product Design Concept: Concept screening; Concept scoring; Prototyping of Product:
Principle of prototyping; Planning for prototypes.
Product Architecture: Application of architecture; Implications of the architecture; Establishing the architecture.
Industrial Design of Product: Assessing the needs for industrial design; Industrial design process and management.
Designing Products for Manufacture and Assembly: Basics; Overview of DFMA methodology.
The Product Design and Process Selection: Types of process; Process flow structures; Product process matrix; The virtual factory; Specific equipment selection; Choosing among alternative process and equipment.
Product Development Economics: Elements of economic analysis; methodology of economics of product development projects. Value Engineering and Product Design; Robust Design in Product Designing; Concurrent Engineering of Product Design; The KANO Model in Product Design;
Managing The Supply Chain in Product Design; Product Reliability Concept in Product Design, Life cycle assessment.
IPE 3105: Manufacturing Process- II 3.00 Contact Hour 3.00 Credit Hour
Different machining processes: Turning, drilling, shaping, boring, planning, milling, grinding, reaming, broaching, etc.
Sheet Metal Working: Cutting operations, bending operations, drawing and other sheet metal forming operations, precision forming process, various features of metal forming die. Introduction to die cutting operations; Dies and punches; Cutting operation by punch; Die clearance; Blanking and piercing die design; strip layout.
Metal Forming: Rolling and other deformation process related to rolling, Forging and other deformation process related to forging, Extrusion and other deformation process related to forging.
Modern machining processes: Abrasive jet machining, Water Jet Machining, Ultrasonic machining, Electro-chemical, Electro-discharge, Electron beam, LASER beam and etc.
35 IPE 3107: Operations Management
3.00 Contact Hour 3.00 Credit Hour
Overview of operations management: Basic concepts: Management process, Basic purpose, Objectives, Targets, Production process, Production or operations Systems, Types of production or operations systems; The role of operations management; Functions of operations management.
Demand forecasting: System and methods; Importance of demand forecasts; The demand forecasting system; Forecasting methods; Subjective (or Predictive) forecasting methods; Casual forecasting methods; Time series forecasting methods; Routine short-term forecasting.
Aggregate Planning: Types of production plans; Phases of aggregate planning; The aggregate planning problem; Allocating demand or production periods assuming linear cost relationships;
Allocating demand or production periods using alternatives with nonlinear costs; Comparison of aggregate planning methods; Implementation of aggregate planning; Master Production Schedule.
Inventory systems and models: Specification of an inventory system; Determination of inventory related costs; Inventory model building; Economic-order quantity (EOQ) model; Economic- production-quantity (EPQ) model; Inventory model allowing shortages; Inventory model allowing price discounts; A single stage inventory model under condition of risk.
Inventory-Management systems: Determination of safety- stock size for specified service level, the fixed-order quantity (Continuous- review); The fixed-order-interval (periodic- review) system; The base-stock (Optional-Replenishment) System; Bill of materials; Material- Requirements Planning (MRP).
Operations scheduling: Introduction: the scheduling system; Flow- shop scheduling; Job- shop scheduling; Project scheduling with CPM and PERT. JIT, MRP II, ERP, DRP, Group Technology.
IPE 3109: Numerical Analysis 3.00 Contact Hour 3.00 Credit Hour
Interpolation: Newton’s formulae for forward and backward interpolation, Lagrange’s interpolation method Bessel’s interpolation method.
Solution of Nonlinear Algebraic: Iterative method, Regula falsi method, Newton method, Graphical presentation and significance of the above methods; Initial approximation and convergence criteria, Checking for Convergence.
Solution of linear Algebraic Equation: Iterative method, Matrix inversion method, Gauss elimination and pivoting method, Triangular factorization method.
Numerical Differentiation: Expansion of a function by Taylors’s series; Forward difference formula, central difference formula and backward difference formula, their error calculation application.
Graphical method of differentiations; partial differentiation.
Numerical Integration: General formula for equidistant ordinates, Trapezoidal rules, Simpson’s rule, Weddle’s rule and calculation of their error; Graphical Integration.
Solution of Differential Equations: Introduction to differential equation, geometric interpretation;
Eular’s methods, Taylor’s series methods, Runge- Kutta method for different order, Predictor- Corrector methods, their application and error analysis.
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Solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDE): Introduction to partial differential equation, geometric interpretation, Definition of Elliptic, Parabolic and Hyperbolic PDF and their solution by finite difference technique, D’Alembert’s solution, Crank-Nicholson method, Iterative method.
Calculation of Residuals and test of accuracy.
Curve Fitting: Linear regression and correlation, Least squares estimators, confidence limits and test of significance.
Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors: Introduction and concept of Eigen value and Eigen vector. Solution of homogeneous linear system, estimation of the size of Eigen values.
ME 3177: Fluid Mechanics and Machinery 3.00 Contact Hour 3.00 Credit Hour
Fluid statics: Basic hydrostatic equation, Pressure variation in static incompressible and compressible fluids; Forces on plane and curved surfaces. Continuity, Momentum and energy equations;
Introduction to in viscid incompressible flow to include two dimensional basic flows. Dimensional analysis and similitude; Fundamental relations of compressible flow, Real fluid flow; Frictional losses in pipes and fittings, Introduction to boundary layer theory, Introduction to open channel flow.
Types of fluid machinery, Rotodynamic and positive displacement machines; Impulse and reaction turbines; Centrifugal and axial flow pumps; Dimensional analysis applied to fluid machinery: specific speed. Unit power. Unit speed, Unit discharge; Performance and characteristics of turbines and pumps; Cavitation; Reciprocating pump, Gear and scow pumps; Fans, Blowers and Compressors.
IPE 3104: Product Design- I Sessional 3.00 Contact Hour 1.50 Credit Hour Sessional works compatible to IPE 3103.
IPE 3106: Manufacturing Process- II Sessional 3.00 Contact Hour 1.50 Credit Hour
Sessional works compatible to IPE 3105.
ME 3178: Fluid Mechanics and Machinery Sessional
1.50 Contact Hour 0.75 Credit Hour Sessional works compatible to ME 3177.
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