Mechanical Engineering Design Technology

Program Overview

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Mechanical Engineering Design Technology Diploma Program

Overview

The Mechanical Engineering Design Technology Diploma Program at EPIC College of Technology provides students with the knowledge and skills required for research, design, and development of mechanical systems, parts, and products from their concept stage through all phases of engineering, fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, modification, maintenance, and decommissioning.

Curriculum

The program covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Mechanical engineering design principles
• Finite element design principles
• GD & T and blueprint reading
• AutoCAD - Basic and Advanced
• SolidWorks - Basic and Advanced
• CATIA
• Microstation
• Pro-Engineer - Basic and Advanced
• Autodesk Inventor - Basic and Advanced
• Hands-on project
• Engineering project management
• Technical report writing and presentation skills
• Canadian industrial practices and workplace culture

Program Details

• Duration: 34 weeks
• Lessons: 217

Course Outline

1. Mechanical Engineering Design Principles

• Lesson 1.1: Introduction to design principles
• Lesson 1.2: Load and stress analysis
• Lesson 1.3: Deflection and stiffness
• Lesson 1.4: Fatigue failure
• Lesson 1.5: Shaft and shaft components
• Lesson 1.6: Design welded joints
• Lesson 1.7: Fundamentals of mechanical engineering design
• Lesson 1.8: Load analysis II
• Lesson 1.9: Materials
• Lesson 1.10: Static body stresses (part I)
• Lesson 1.11: Static body stresses (part II)
• Lesson 1.12: Elastic strain, deflection and stability
• Lesson 1.13: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

2. Finite Element Design Principles

• Lesson 2.1: Introduction to the finite element method
• Lesson 2.2: Potential energy and approximate analysis
• Lesson 2.3: Concept of discretization
• Lesson 2.4: Mathematics preliminaries
• Lesson 2.5: Methods of weighed residuals
• Lesson 2.6: Variational methods of approximation
• Lesson 2.7: Construction of finite subspaces
• Lesson 2.8: Computer implementation of finite elements methods
• Lesson 2.9: Elliptic differential equation
• Lesson 2.10: More advanced topics in element generation
• Lesson 2.11: Parabolic differential equations
• Lesson 2.12: Structural mechanics: plane truss and plan frame analysis
• Lesson 2.13: Isoparametric finite elements
• Lesson 2.14: Displacement—based bending elements in solid and structural mechanics
• Lesson 2.15: Programming the finite element method
• Lesson 2.16: Introduction to advanced topics in finite element analysis
• Lesson 2.17: ANSYS-getting started
• Lesson 2.18: ANSYS—Array parameters—coupling and constraint equations
• Lesson 2.19: Sub-modeling
• Lesson 2.20: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

3. GD & T and Blueprint Reading

• Lesson 3.1: Purpose of GD & T
• Lesson 3.2: Datums
• Lesson 3.3: Forms of tolerances
• Lesson 3.4: Orientation
• Lesson 3.5: Position tolerance theory
• Lesson 3.6: Location tolerances
• Lesson 3.7: Coaxial controls
• Lesson 3.8: Orientation measurement in GD&T
• Lesson 3.9: Common GD&T mistakes
• Lesson 3.10: Drawing review for GD&T
• Lesson 3.11: Implementation of GD&T
• Lesson 3.12: Analysis of measurement applications
• Lesson 3.13: Geometrics symbols
• Lesson 3.14: Blueprint reading—mechanical
• Lesson 3.15: Blueprints reading—sheet metal drawings
• Lesson 3.16: Blueprint reading—welding drawings
• Lesson 3.17: Blueprint reading—piping drawing
• Lesson 3.18: Blueprints reading—drawing for numerical control
• Lesson 3.19: Blueprint reading—gears
• Lesson 3.20: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

4. AutoCAD - Basic

• Lesson 4.1: Setting up a basic drawing
• Lesson 4.2: Use basic drawing, editing and viewing tools
• Lesson 4.3: Coordinate systems
• Lesson 4.4: ONSAP command
• Lesson 4.5: Controlling the drawing
• Lesson 4.6: Fillets
• Lesson 4.7: Trimming and extending
• Lesson 4.8: Inquiry and measurement
• Lesson 4.9: Annotating your drawing text part I
• Lesson 4.10: Mirroring and rotating
• Lesson 4.11: Annotating your drawing part II
• Lesson 4.12: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

5. AutoCAD - Advanced

• Lesson 5.1: Working with blocks
• Lesson 5.2: Defining block attributes
• Lesson 5.3: External references
• Lesson 5.4: Working with advanced drawing options
• Lesson 5.5: Grouping and advanced editing of sketched objects
• Lesson 5.6: Concepts of data exchange, object linking and embedding
• Lesson 5.7: Template drawings
• Lesson 5.8: Advanced 3D sketching—introduction to free from design
• Lesson 5.9: Advanced 3D sketching
• Lesson 5.10: Visualization
• Lesson 5.11: Component design
• Lesson 5.12: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

6. SolidWorks - Basic

• Lesson 6.1: Introducing SolidWorks
• Lesson 6.2: Navigating SolidWorks interface
• Lesson 6.3: Working SolidWorks interface
• Lesson 6.4: Working with sketches
• Lesson 6.5: Part design—designing simple 3D solid models
• Lesson 6.6: Part design—continues
• Lesson 6.7: Assembly design- creating simple assembles
• Lesson 6.8: Assembly design—creating simple assemblies (continue)
• Lesson 6.9: Creating drawings
• Lesson 6.10: Creating drawings (continued)
• Lesson 6.11: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

7. SolidWorks - Advanced

• Lesson 7.1: Part design (solid model)—advanced features
• Lesson 7.2: Part design (solid model)—advanced features
• Lesson 7.3: Part design (solid model)—advanced features
• Lesson 7.4: Part design (solid model)—advanced features
• Lesson 7.5: Part design (solid model)—advanced features
• Lesson 7.6: Part design—editing and evaluation
• Lesson 7.7: Assembly design—creating assemblies
• Lesson 7.8: Assembly design—creating assemblies
• Lesson 7.9: Assembly design—creating assemblies
• Lesson 7.10: Assembly design—creating assemblies
• Lesson 7.11: Using assembly configurations
• Lesson 7.12: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

8. CATIA

• Lesson 8.1: User interface and basic manipulation
• Lesson 8.2: Reference features
• Lesson 8.3: Sketch geometry creation
• Lesson 8.4: Manipulation and operation on sketcher geometry
• Lesson 8.5: Advanced sketcher modification and analysis
• Lesson 8.6: Introduction to part design
• Lesson 8.7: Part design revolved features and holes
• Lesson 8.8: Part design dress-up features
• Lesson 8.9: Part design advanced dress-up features
• Lesson 8.10: Advanced part design ribs, slots and stiffeners
• Lesson 8.11: Introduction to assembly design
• Lesson 8.12: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

9. Microstation

• Lesson 9.1: Launching microstation
• Lesson 9.2: Element creation
• Lesson 9.3: Sketch tools
• Lesson 9.4: Working with cells
• Lesson 9.5: Precision input with AccuDraw
• Lesson 9.6: Working with existing elements
• Lesson 9.7: Making measurements
• Lesson 9.8: Using patterns to add definition
• Lesson 9.9: Organizing design data
• Lesson 9.10: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

10. Pro-Engineer - Basic

• Lesson 10.1: Concept of solid modeling
• Lesson 10.2: Customizing personal working environment
• Lesson 10.3: Sketches
• Lesson 10.4: Constraints
• Lesson 10.5: Pad and shaft features
• Lesson 10.6: Sketcher tools and techniques
• Lesson 10.7: Sketched features techniques
• Lesson 10.8: Pocket and groove features—detailed design
• Lesson 10.9: Feature management
• Lesson 10.10: Introduction to dress-up features
• Lesson 10.11: Advanced dress-up features
• Lesson 10.12: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

11. Pro-Engineer - Advanced

• Lesson 11.1: Working with multi-profile sketches
• Lesson 11.2: Duplication features
• Lesson 11.3: Additional features
• Lesson 11.4: Relations
• Lesson 11.5: Parent/child relationships
• Lesson 11.6: Part information
• Lesson 11.7: Rib and slot features
• Lesson 11.8: Multi-section solid design
• Lesson 11.9: Assembly design
• Lesson 11.10: Assembly techniques
• Lesson 11.11: Generative drafting and assembly information
• Lesson 11.12: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

12. Autodesk Inventor - Basic

• Lesson 12.1: Principles of parametric design
• Lesson 12.2: Creating sketches
• Lesson 12.3: Designing parts
• Lesson 12.4: Documenting parts
• Lesson 12.5: Creating assemblies
• Lesson 12.6: Documenting assemblies
• Lesson 12.7: Advanced modeling techniques
• Lesson 12.8: Sheet metal design
• Lesson 12.9: Stress analysis
• Lesson 12.10: Stress analysis
• Lesson 12.11: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

13. Autodesk Inventor - Advanced

• Lesson 13.1: Top-down design
• Lesson 13.2: Adaptive design
• Lesson 13.3: Design accelerators
• Lesson 13.4: Frame design
• Lesson 13.5: Standardize assembly constraints (mates)
• Lesson 13.6: Content center administration & publishing
• Lesson 13.7: Sheet metal overview
• Lesson 13.8: Creating standard punch features
• Lesson 13.9: Dynamics sketching & direct manipulation (heads up display)
• Lesson 13.10: Introduction to iLogic
• Lesson 13.11: Advanced surfacing tools
• Lesson 13.12: Presentations
• Lesson 13.13: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

14. Hands-on Project

• Lesson 14.1: Design process steps
• Lesson 14.2: Design project management
• Lesson 14.3: Engineering principles
• Lesson 14.4: Economics
• Lesson 14.5: Brainstorming engineering ideas
• Lesson 14.6: Design concepts
• Lesson 14.7: Reverse engineering
• Lesson 14.8: Analysis and synthesis
• Lesson 14.9: Design review I
• Lesson 14.10: Design review II
• Lesson 14.11: Design review III
• Lesson 14.12: Final review, group presentations
• Lesson 14.13: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

15. Engineering Project Management

• Lesson 15.1: Introduction, project cycle and management processes
• Lesson 15.2: Initiating project
• Lesson 15.3: Project scope planning
• Lesson 15.4: Project scheduling
• Lesson 15.5: Project costing
• Lesson 15.6: Managing quality
• Lesson 15.7: Managing project communication
• Lesson 15.8: Managing project communication
• Lesson 15.9: Project risks management
• Lesson 15.10: Life cycle cost
• Lesson 15.11: Tendering process
• Lesson 15.12: Contracting process
• Lesson 15.13: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

16. Technical Report Writing and Presentation Skills

• Lesson 16.1: Introduction to technical writing
• Lesson 16.2: Compiling the input information
• Lesson 16.3: Report structure
• Lesson 16.4: Essentials of technical writing
• Lesson 16.5: Development process
• Lesson 16.6: Report outline
• Lesson 16.7: Report appearance
• Lesson 16.8: Types of reports specifications
• Lesson 16.9: Writing the specification
• Lesson 16.10: Oral presentation of reporting
• Lesson 16.11: Project proposals
• Lesson 16.12: Ethics and documentation in engineering writing
• Lesson 16.13: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

17. Canadian Industrial Practices and Workplace Culture

• Lesson 17.1: The best industry practices
• Lesson 17.2: Workplace safety
• Lesson 17.3: Canadian workplace culture
• Lesson 17.4: Cultural intelligence
• Lesson 17.5: Getting job ready
• Lesson 17.6: Retaining the job
• Lesson 17.7: Entrepreneurship and small business skills
• Lesson 17.8: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam

Program Outline

Outline:

• The Mechanical Engineering Design Technology Diploma Program provides knowledge and skills required for research, design, and development of mechanical systems, parts, and products from their concept stage through all phases of engineering, fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, modification, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• The program includes computer-aided design programs such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and Autodesk Inventor and Pro/E (Creo) as well as hands-on work experience by completing a mechanical design project from beginning to end.
• Engineering practices are worked right into the curriculum so that students learn not only the underlying engineering design principles but the latest software as well.
• Students will learn principles of mechanical design, engineering analysis, computer-aided design, prototyping, blueprint reading, geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing, and will gain the ability to communicate complex mechanical engineering concepts through drawings, 3D models, and related documentation.
• They will develop strong analytical and problem-solving skills needed for successful employment in manufacturing, processing, metal fabrication, automotive, aerospace, oil and gas, energy, environmental, and other industry sectors.
• Module Descriptions:
• Mechanical engineering design principles:
Introduction to design principles, load and stress analysis, deflection and stiffness, fatigue failure, shaft and shaft components, design welded joints, fundamentals of mechanical engineering design, load analysis II, materials, static body stresses (part I), static body stresses (part II), elastic strain, deflection and stability, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Finite Engineering Design Principles: Introduction to the finite element method, potential energy, and approximate analysis, concept of discretization, mathematics preliminaries, methods of weighted residuals, variational methods of approximation, construction of finite subspaces, computer implementation of finite element methods, elliptic differential equation, more advanced topics in element generation, parabolic differential equations, structural mechanics: plane truss and plan frame analysis, isoparametric finite elements, displacement-based bending elements in solid and structural mechanics, programming the finite element method, introduction to advanced topics in finite element analysis, ANSYS-getting started, ANSYS-Array parameters-coupling and constraint equations, sub-modeling, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• GD & T and Blueprint Reading: Purpose of GD & T, datums, forms of tolerances, orientation, position tolerance theory, location tolerances, coaxial controls, orientation measurement in GD&T, common GD&T mistakes, drawing review for GD&T, implementation of GD&T, analysis of measurement applications, geometrics symbols, blueprint reading-mechanical, blueprints reading-sheet metal drawings, blueprint reading-welding drawings, blueprint reading-piping drawing, blueprints reading-drawing for numerical control, blueprint reading-gears, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• AutoCAD-Basic: Setting up a basic drawing, use basic drawing, editing, and viewing tools, coordinate systems, ONSAP command, controlling the drawing, fillets, trimming and extending, inquiry and measurement, annotating your drawing text part I, mirroring and rotating, annotating your drawing part II, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Auto CAD-Advanced: Working with blocks, defining block attributes, external references, working with advanced drawing options, grouping and advanced editing of sketched objects, concepts of data exchange, object linking and embedding, template drawings, advanced 3D sketching-introduction to free from design, advanced3D sketching, visualization, component design, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• SolidWorks-Basic: Introducing SolidWorks, navigating SolidWorks interface, working SolidWorks interface, working with sketches, part design-designing simple 3D solid models, part design-continues, assembly design-creating simple assembles, assembly design-creating simple assemblies (continue), creating drawings, creating drawings (continued), course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• SolidWorks-Advanced: Part design (solid model)-advanced features (lessons 1-5), part design (solid model)-advanced features (lessons 6-10), part design-editing and evaluation, assembly design-creating assemblies (lessons 1-5), assembly design-creating assemblies (lessons 6-10), using assembly configurations, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• CATIA: User interface and basic manipulation, reference features, sketch geometry creation, manipulation, and operation on sketcher geometry, advanced sketcher modification and analysis, introduction to part design, part design revolved features and holes, part design dress-up features, part design advanced dress-up features, advanced part design ribs, slots, and stiffeners, introduction to assembly design, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Microstation: Launching microstation, element creation, sketch tools, working with cells, precision input with AccuDraw, working with existing elements, making measurements, using patterns to add definition, organizing design data, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Pro-Engineer-Basic: Concept of solid modeling, customizing personal working environment, sketches, constraints, pad and shaft features, sketcher tools and techniques, sketched features techniques, pocket and groove features-detailed design, feature management, introduction to dress-up features, advanced dress-up features, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Pro-Engineer-Advanced: Working with multi-profile sketches, duplication features, additional features, relations, parent/child relationships, part information, rib and slot features, multi-section solid design, assembly design, assembly techniques, generative drafting and assembly information, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Autodesk Inventor -Basic: Principles of parametric design, creating sketches, designing parts, documenting parts, creating assemblies, documenting assemblies, advanced modeling techniques, sheet metal design, stress analysis, stress analysis, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Autodesk Inventor -Advanced: Top-down design, adaptive design, design accelerators, frame design, standardize assembly constraints (mates), content center administration & publishing, sheet metal overview, creating standard punch features, dynamics sketching & direct manipulation (heads up display), introduction to iLogic, advanced surfacing tools, presentations, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Hands on Project: Design process steps, design project management, engineering principles, economics, brainstorming engineering ideas, design concepts, reverse engineering, analysis and synthesis, design review I, design review II, design review III, final review, group presentations, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.
• Engineering Project Management: Introduction, project cycle, and management processes, initiating projects, project scope planning, project scheduling, project costing, managing quality, managing project communication, project risks management, life cycle cost, tendering process, contracting process, course overview, exam preparation, and final exam.

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Careers:

The Mechanical Engineering Design Technology Diploma Program prepares students for a variety of careers in the mechanical engineering field, including:

• Mechanical Design Engineer
• Product Design Engineer
• Manufacturing Engineer
• Quality Control Engineer
• Project Manager
• Technical Writer
• Sales Engineer