ENME406-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Engineering Product Design and Analysis

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course develops engineering design skills with a particular focus on the proficient use of modern CAD-integrated finite element analysis (FEA) tools for optimising product attributes. Modern CAD software is used to produce detailed part and assembly models, which students then analyse. Major topics include: fundamental principles of FEA, design of organic shapes by free-style CAD, CAD-integrated analysis (e.g. stress/strain, thermal loading, dynamics), non-linear analysis (with experimental validation), optimisation, user needs, and the recursive nature of the product design process.

Learning Outcomes

  • Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course:
     WA1 – Engineering Knowledge
     WA2 – Problem Analysis
     WA4 – Investigation
     WA5 – Tool Usage
     WA6 – The Engineer and the World
     WA9 – Communication
     WA10 – Project Management and Finance

  • Course topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.

    1. Introduction; analysis in the design process
            1.1. Understand the role of analysis, within a design process (WA1)
            1.2. Understand the process of analysis (WA1)
    2. CAD-integrated Finite Element Analysis (FEA); fundamental principles
            2.1. Apply and critically evaluate the success of pre-processing and model building: be able to define the domain of interest, select appropriate finite elements, define the material properties, apply appropriate boundary and initial conditions (WA1, WA2)
            2.2. Evaluate real-life engineering product/components and convert them into FEA models that sufficiently and accurately represent the boundary conditions and load regimes (WA4, WA5, WA6) (EIE3)
    3. Design process/methods; optimisation, free-form CAD, user needs, failure modes and effects analysis, design documentation.
            3.1. Convert user needs into product features, including documentation (WA6, WA10) (EIE2)
            3.2. Competently use commercial FEA software to analyse linear stress/strain in engineering products with complex and free-form geometry (WA4, WA5) (EIE4)
    4. Fundamental principles; 1D FEA (MATLAB implementation), 2D stress analysis, dynamic analysis, large deflections, non-linear materials, composites
            4.1. Understand the fundamental concepts used in FEA, specifically the mathematical principles underpinning 2-dimensional stress analysis, and apply these to simple representative problems (WA2, WA4, WA5)
            4.2. Obtain solutions for linear elastic problems. Understand sources of non-linearity (e.g. geometry, materials, and contacts) and the challenges of non-linear analysis, for example, convergence (WA4, WA5)
    5. Practical application of a commercial FEA package; Dassault Systèmes Simulia: ABAQUS, PTC Creo / Dassault Systèmes Solidworks
            5.1. Post-processing: interpret the results of FEA solutions in order to answer the questions that led to the FEA analysis (WA4, WA5) (EIE4)
            5.2. Understand the organisational work streams whereby FEA processes are integrated into the product development process, and how FEA adds value to product innovation (WA7, WA11)
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 10:00 - 11:00 E5 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00 Jack Erskine 031 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00 A6 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 Rehua 005
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 12 Oct

Course Coordinator

Digby Symons

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

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