Product Development and Materials Engineering – (M.Sc.)

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Master of Science: Product Development and Materials Engineering,
starting autumn 2012.
Courses are preliminary and may be subject to change.

Semester 1
Computer Programming for Design Automation, 7.5 credits
This course aims to give students basic knowledge and practical skill to use computer programming to automate engineering design processes. Focus is on system architecture and how to practically develop and program such systems. The course includes the following topics: Design Automation - Knowledge and data representation - Knowledge and data relations - Inference mechanisms - Knowledge and data handling - Algorithms - System examples Computer Programming - Basic programming operators - Functions - Object oriented programming - Graphical programming (visual components) - Events - API-programming - Databases - SQL

Conceptual Engineering Design, 7.5 credits
The course focuses the early phases of engineering design work and aims at giving insight into systematic methods applicable to a broad spectrum of problems in mechanical design, and to understand the principles that lie behind successful design solutions. The course includes the following topics: - Clarification of the design task - Creation of insight into product functions - Design of product families and IT-support for variant design - Optimal design solutions - Selection of manufacturing processes - The design process

Introduction to Industrial Design, 6 credits
The objective of the course is to: - Understand Industrial Design as a subject and in what context it is applicable - Create an understanding of design methods and how they interact with other methods in product development and adjacent disciplines. - Create an understanding of science for design. The course contains the following elements: - Design methods, research and science for design - Design history - Human-centered design - Target group analysis and stakeholders - Design brief and functional analysis - Design communication - Meaning of artefacts

Materials and Design, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to develop an ability to select the optimum material for a given engineering application with due consideration to functional requirements. In addition to materials properties and design requirements, tactile, visual and acoustic properties are also highlighted. The course includes the following topics: - Review of material properties and manufacturing processes. - Introduction to material selection charts. - Developing instructions for material selection. - Surfaces, finishes and colours. - Environmental impact of materials. - Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Disassembly (DFD) will be treated. - Industrial case studies.

Multi-Cultural Competence, 1.5 credits
The aim of the course is to train national and international students in the basics of intercultural communication that leads to multi-cultural competence and personal long lasting friendship. Communication and culture, worldview, ethnocentrism, egocentrism, be a likeable person, avoid stereotyping, cultural values, language and non-verbal communication, the cross-cultural adaptation process, becoming interculturally competent.

Semester 2
Advanced Casting Materials Processing, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to give the students knowledge about metallic materials microstructure and its relation to mechanical properties, with focus on cast and heat treated materials. The perspective is to optimize the material and design in engineering applications. An introduction to advanced software, experimental methods, and microscopy to explore material characteristics is discussed. The course includes the following topics: - Overview of casting materials and processes - Fundamental phenomena during solidification and the formation of a microstructure, and their influence on mechanical as well as physical properties for cast alloys. - Metallurgy at melting, refining and nucleation, and its influence on the solidification - Physical properties such as thermal expansion and thermal conduction in both solid and molten material - Investigation of materials, sample preparation, and analysis method, including Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), optical microscopy, and equipment for analysis of mechanical and physical properties.

Integrated Product Development, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to give the students knowledge and an understanding of how a product´s design is affected by, and has effects on, important aspects related to different interested parties and life-cycle phases. The course will present different approaches to support integrated product development. The integration of design and production is specially emphasized. The course includes the following topics: - A holistic approach to product development and a life-cycle view on the product design - Methods and tools for integrated product development - Processes supporting integrated collaboration and related organizational issues - Integration of product models and product related information - Production aspects and product design properties that are mutually dependent - Cost estimation and costs analyzes in product development - Methods and approaches in product design for manufacture and assembly

Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to provide deep knowledge and understanding about engineering materials and manufacturing processes as well as an introduction to advanced process simulation software. The course includes the following topics: - Introduction to engineering materials and their application area - Review of material properties of steel alloys, aluminum wrought and cast alloys, magnesium alloys, composites and polymers. - Introduction to manufacturing processes - Relationships between material selections and manufacturing processes - Overview of advanced process simulation software - Economical and environmental aspects in relation to material and process selections

Applied Finite Element Analysis, 7.5 credits (Elective course)
The course objectives are: (a) to provide the fundamental concepts of the theory of the finite element method; and (b) to expose aspects of the application of the method to realistic engineering dimensioning problems through computational simulations using a major commercial general-purpose finite element code. The course includes the following topics: - Introduction to numerical methods - The basic concepts of FEM — structural analysis using pin-jointed elements - Generalisation to two- and three dimensions — continuum elements - Energy and variational approaches - Higher order quadratic elements - Practical guidelines for FE applications - Introduction to nonlinear FE analysis - Solid mechanics aspects of component design and damage mechanisms

Simulation of Rigid Body System, 7.5 credits (Elective course)
The objective of the course is to provide knowledge in rigid body dynamics and the numerical treatment of rigid body systems. The course includes the following topics: - Dynamics of particles - repetition - Planar kinematics of rigid bodies, Coriolis´ rule of derivation, relative motion of two points, kinematic constraints, instant center of velocities - Planar kinetics of rigid bodies, equations of motion, linear and angular momentum, mass moment of inertia - Power, balance in energy, kinetic energy, linear and angular momentum, impact - Rigid body dynamics in three-dimension, inertia tensor, parallel-plane motion, gyroscopic motion - Numerical treatment of rigid body systems by using a commercial system.

Semester 3
Computer Supported Engineering Design, 7.5 credits
The course focus is on the use of knowledge based computer technology to support and augment engineering design work. In particular, methods to wholly or partly automate different types of variant design, e g configuration, parametric design or platform based products, are treated. Both methodological and implementation oriented issues are addressed. The course includes the following topics: - Need for different types of computer support — analysis/synthesis. - Classification of design tasks and design knowledge - Mapping of design processes and design knowledge - Representation of knowledge and reasoning - Matching of design problems and solution strategy ConfigurationParametric designGenerative systems - Practical experience from industrial systems for automated - A systematic procedure to develop systems for automated design

Modelling and Simulation of Casting, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to give an introduction on modelling and computer simulations of phenomena regarding heat and mass flows required to model and simulate the casting process. Furthermore the microstructure and the defect precipitation of the casting are simulated to obtain the final material properties as the tensile strength and hardness. Focus is set on understanding the influence of input material properties and boundary conditions. The course includes the following topics: - Simulation of casting processes, an overview - Fundamentals of heat and mass flow - Heat transfer, solidification, their analytic and numerical solutions - Programming the flow phenomena - Use of professional casting simulation software - Validation of a casting simulation programme using commercial software

Optimization Driven Design, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to provide knowledge in the basics of design optimization, especially structural optimization by using FEA.The course includes the following topics: - Introduction to optimization driven design, structural optimization, size-, shape- and topology optimization, as well as response surface optimization - The steepest descent method, Newton´s method, KKT-conditions - Linear programming, the Simplex method, inner point methods, quadratic programming - Topology optimization, SIMP-model, Sigmund´s filter, sequential linear programming,compliance, contact conditions, sensitivity analysis (nested, adjoint) - Response surface optimization, successive response surface optimization, linear and quadratic response surfaces, the normal equation - Design of Experiments: factorial, Koshal, Box-Behnken, face centered, S-optimal - Scripting Abaqus/CAE by using Python.

Non-linear Finite Element Analysis, 7.5 credits
The aim of the course is to provide knowledge in the basics of the nonlinear finite element method. In particular provide knowledge in contact mechanics, plasticity and transient analysis.The course includes the following topics: - Strong and weak formulations of one-dimensional problems - The elasticity problem, continuum mechanics, stress, strain, balance laws, Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations - FE-formulation (strong and weak formulation), isoparametric formulation, numerical intergration - Contact mechanics, Signorini´s contact conditions, trial and error, penalty formulation, augmented Lagrangian formulation, Newton´s method, KKT-conditions - Plasticity, associative plasticity, the principle of maximum dissipation, J2-plasticity, radial return, isotropic hardening - Transient analysis, implicit and explicit methods, Runga-Kutta´s method, the central difference method, Newmark´s method, eigenvalue problems - Tutorials in Abaqus.

Semester 4
Final Project Work, 30 credits
The course aims to produce deepened knowledge and skills in the autonomous performance of a study which shows the students ability to apply, critically utilise and further develop the knowledge that the curriculum has provided, particularly in close collaboration with companies, organisations or public authorities.The course will contain the following elements: - Collecting, sorting and analysing data - Project planning - Project implementation - Report writing - Oral presentation and opposition and when required a physical modell and exhibition.