Introduction: Design, Specification of design objectives and
constraints, Different phases of design process.
System modeling: Modelling of multi-energy systems like mechanical,
electrical, hydraulic, thermal etc.
Engineering Analysis: Role of analysis, Design spiral, Computer Aided
Engineering Analysis, Introduction to FEM softwares and simulation
tools, Visualization, Iterative process in design, Analysis and testing of
design projects, Instrumentation.
Learning from failure: Types of failure, Failure of machine components,
Famous case studies of failure, e.g., Liberty ships, Comet aircraft,
Challenger space shuttle etc.
Engineering Design: Projects for design of machine elements.
Communication of Technical information: written and oral
presentation, posters, report writing
Engineering Ethics, Sogi il ustainable design,
Environmental issuesEngineering Ethics, Social responsibility, Sustainable design,
Environmental issues
PARTB
Statistics: Introduction, Role of statistics in design and management,
measures of central tendency and dispersion, kurtosis, moments.
Probability: Introduction, Relevance of probability for failure analysis,
jointly distributed random variables, distributions- continuous and
discrete, Sampling distributionsHypothesis testing: Estimation and hypothesis testing, Parametric tests,
t-test, chi-square test, correlation and regression analysis, Application
of statistical packages.
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Optimization: Optimal design, Linear programming, Solution through
graphical and Simplex methods, Transportation problem, assignment
models.
Decision theory: Decision making, Decision tree. Use of OR software
packages.