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At the completion of the module, the students should be able to:
1) Explain the relationship between design, materials and manufacturing, and describe the trends in manufacturing;
2) Describe traditional manufacturing processes for metals (e.g. casting, forming, machining) and polymers and discuss their relative merits;
3) Describe appropriate methods for materials processing, joining and surface engineering;
4) Appreciate the influence of microstructure on material performance and show examples of ways in which the microstructure is influenced by processing;
5) Explain the concepts of additive manufacturing and discuss its merits relative to traditional manufacturing processes;
6) Analyse the efficiency and productivity of manufacturing processes.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 36 |
Laboratories | 14 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 75 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Not yet recorded. |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Philip Cardiff | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Vincent Hargaden | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Jufan Zhang | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Liam Byrne | Tutor |
Mr Oisin Byrne | Tutor |
Mr Michael Donohue | Tutor |
Ms Akshaya Jagannath | Tutor |
Mr Brian O'Dwyer | Tutor |
Boyuan Pang | Tutor |
Mr Derek Reilly | Tutor |
Mingyue Shen | Tutor |
Yanbo Zhao | Tutor |