Queens University Presentation

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Queens University Presentation
INTEGRATED LEARNING AT QUEENS UNIVERSITY
(Canada) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INITIATIVES
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Where is Kingston, Ontario?
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The Engineering Program at Queens University
Twelve Years at School
Common First Year
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Three Years in Selected Program for a Total of
Four Years
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Engineering Programs at Queens University
(Three of these programs are run out of
Departments in the Faculty of Arts and Science.)
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Common First Year Program
The subjects taken in the common first year
are APSC 100 (Practical Engineering Modules
) This course provides the laboratory experience
and professional skills fundamental to the
practice of engineering. It consists of three
modules Module 1, Communication, Teamwork, and
Leadership Skills Module 2, Laboratory Skills
Module 3, Engineering Design Project. The lecture
content will cover such issues as personal
learning styles, team dynamics, oral and written
presentation skills, laboratory data collection,
analysis and presentation, workplace equity
issues and workplace safety. (4/16/16/20/16) APSC
111 (Mechanics) An introduction to Newtonian
mechanics Ð a subject which is applicable to
everyday engineering problems. Lecture topics
are vectors, motion of a particle, particle
dynamics, work and energy, statics of rigid
bodies, oscillations, waves, conservation of
energy, momentum, and collisions. (0/38/0/4/0)
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Content Designation
At the end of each course description is a string
of numbers that indicates the weights for the
course in each of five categories M/BS/CS/ES/E
D Where M Mathematics BS Basic
Science CS Complementary studies ES
Engineering Science ED Engineering
Design The Canadian Engineering Accreditation
Board (CEAB) requires that at graduation the
student must have taken the following numbers of
Academic Units (effectively the equivalent of one
lecture hour) in each category M195,
BS195, MBS420, CS 225, ES 225, ED 225,
ESED 900
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Common First Year Program (Continued)
APSC 131 (Chemistry and Materials) This course
combines fundamentals of chemistry and uses these
fundamentals to gain an understanding of why
materials have the characteristics they do. 
Areas of study are gases and their behaviour
three states of matter and their properties
water and aqueous solutions chemical bonding
quantum mechanics and atomic structure solids
thermodynamic processes and thermo chemistry and
introduction to materials science. (4/16/16/20/16)
APSC 141 (Personal Computers in Engineering)
The course provides an introduction to the role
and application of computers and computing in
modern engineering practice. The course is
divided into three modules covering the
application of personal computer software to data
analysis symbolic analysis and preparation of
technical reports, presentations and Web pages.
Each module will be examined separately. Students
must pass all modules to pass the course. This
course is co-coordinated by the Department of
Chemical Engineering. (0/0/6/18/0)
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Common First Year Program (Continued)
APSC 151 (The Earth's Physical Environment) The
physical processes that shape the crust of the
earth are discussed and demonstrated with
lectures, practical laboratory sessions, and a
field trip in the Kingston area. The application
of the principles of the earth sciences to
environmental and resource concerns is
emphasized. (0/30/4/14/0) APSC 161 (Basic
Engineering Graphics) The principal objective of
this course is to develop the ability to
visualize and communicate three dimensional
shapes. Standard engineering methods are
covered. (0/0/4/34/4)
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Common First Year Program (Continued)
APSC 171 (Calculus I) More integration
techniques numerical integration, improper
integrals. Curves, speed, velocity. functions of
several variables, partial derivatives,
differentials, error estimates, gradient, maxima
and minima. Sequences, series, power series
Taylor polynomial approximations. Double and
triple integrals, polar and cylindrical
coordinates applications to mass, center of
mass, moment, etc. (40/2/0/0/0)
APSC 112 (Electricity and Magnetism) This
course continues from APSC111to introduce
electricity and further develop fundamental ideas
of mechanics. Lecture topics include electrical
current and resistance, EMF, D.C. circuits and
electrical measurements, electric charge,
electric field and potential, magnetic fields and
their origin, electromagnetic induction, dynamics
of rigid bodies, oscillations, waves. (0/34/0/8/0)

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Common First Year Program (Continued)
APSC 132 (Chemistry and the Environment) This
course examines several environmental topics, and
the relevant background chemistry. The chemistry
includes black body radiation, the second law of
thermodynamics, Gibbs energy and equilibrium,
fuels, acid-base chemistry, and gas phase
kinetics. Environmental topics include ozone
depletion, acid rain, air quality, global warming
and the environmental impact of various energy
conversion processes.   (0/32/0/10/0) APSC 142
(Computer Programming for Engineers) This course
introduces concepts, theory and practice of
computer programming using Java as the working
language. Implementation uses microcomputers. The
emphasis is on the design of correct and
efficient algorithms and on programming style.
Applications are made to engineering
problems. (6/0/0/22/8)
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Common First Year Program (Continued)
APSC 172 (Calculus II) More integration
techniques numerical integration, improper
integrals. Curves, speed, velocity. functions of
several variables, partial derivatives,
differentials, error estimates, gradient, maxima
and minima. Sequences, series, power series
Taylor polynomial approximations. Double and
triple integrals, polar and cylindrical
coordinates applications to mass, center of
mass, moment, etc. (40/2/0/0/0) APSC 174 (Linear
Algebra) Vectors, dot and cross products, lines
and planes, projections. Vectors in n-space.
Systems of Linear equations. Matrix algebra and
linear transformations, inverses. Spaces and
subspaces. Linear independence, basis and
coordinates, dimension, rank. Determinants,
Cramer's Rule. Eigenvectors, eigenvalues and
diagonalization with applications. Orthonormal
bases and symmetric matrices. (42/0/0/0/0)
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Common First Year Program (Continued)
APSC 190 (The Practice of Engineering) This
course is intended to be an introduction to
issues associated with professional engineering
practice and with the impact of engineering on
society. Topics include the role and
responsibility of the professional engineer in
society, discussions of ethics, of health and
safety, and of equity in the workplace.
Opportunities will also be provided to develop
skills in communications, creative
problem-solving, and teamwork. (0/0/42/0/0)
APSC 191 (The Practice of Engineering) This
course is intended to be an introduction to a
number of issues associated with professional
engineering practice. Topics covered include the
role and responsibilities of a professional
engineer in society, ethics and gender equity in
the workplace, communication skill development,
and dispute resolution. (0/0/12/0/0)
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Mechanical Engineering Program
Second Year Common Core CIVL 220 Statics and
Solid Mechanics ELEC 210 Introductory Electric
Circuits and Machines MATH 225 Ordinary
Differential Equations MATH 272 Application of
Numerical Methods MECH 212 Design Techniques
MECH 213 Manufacturing Methods MECH 215
Instrumentation and Measurement MECH 228
Kinematics and Dynamics MECH 230
Thermodynamics I MECH 241 Fluid Mechanics I
MECH 270 Materials Science and Engineering
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Mechanical Engineering Program (Continued)
Third Year Common Core MECH 302 Technical
Communication MECH 321 Solid Mechanics II MECH
323 Machine Design MECH 328 Dynamics and
Vibration MECH 330 Applied Thermodynamics II
MECH 341 Fluid Mechanics II MECH 346 Heat
Transfer MECH 350 Automatic Controls MECH 398
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I MECH 399
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory II PHYS 333
Electronics for Scientists and Engineers STAT
367 Engineering Data Analysis
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Mechanical Engineering Program (Continued)
Mechanical Engineering Option Complementary
Studies 1 Technical Elective Materials
Engineering Option MECH 370 Principles of
Materials Processing MECH 371 Fracture
Mechanics and Dislocation Theory
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Mechanical Engineering Program
Forth Year Common Core COMM 244 Project
Management and Economics MECH 460 Design
Project I Mechanical Engineering
Option Complementary Studies Technical
Electives Materials Engineering
Option Complementary Studies Technical
Electives
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Elective Courses in Mechanical Engineering Program
Partial List of Elective Courses CHEE 390
Polymer Science and Process Technology CHEE
481 Air Quality Management ELEC 448
Introduction to Robotics Mechanics and Control
MECH 314 Manufacturing Engineering MECH 370
Principles of Materials Processing MECH 371
Fracture Mechanics and Dislocation Theory MECH
412 Mechanical Behaviour of Advanced Materials
MECH 420 Vibrations MECH 422 Stress and
Strain Analysis MECH 424 Life Cycle
Engineering MECH 426 Manufacturing Business
Strategy MECH 430 Thermal Systems Design MECH
431 Building Energy Systems MECH 435 Applied
Combustion MECH 439 Turbomachinery MECH 441
Fluid Mechanics III
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Elective Courses (Continued)
MECH 444 Computational Fluid Dynamics MECH 448
Compressible Fluid Flow MECH 452 Mechatronic
Systems Design MECH 455 Computer Integrated
Manufacturing MECH 456 Introduction to
Robotics MECH 462 Design Project II MECH 465
Computer-Aided Design MECH 466 Solid
Modelling MECH 472 Corrosion and Failure
Analysis MECH 477 Design of Automotive
Structures with Advanced Materials MECH 478
Biomaterials MECH 480  Aerospace Engineering
MECH 482 Noise Control  MECH 491 Design of
Biomechanical Devices MECH 495 Ergonomics and
Design MECH 497 Spacecraft Systems Design
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New Chairs Related to Engineering Education

• Two chairs, aimed at developing and improving
  the programs in the faculty, have recently been
  established. They are
• The DuPont Chair in Engineering Education which
  is held by Dr. Caroline Baillie, a leading
  materials engineer and internationally renowned
  expert on higher education. She will support
  faculty-wide education development based on
  pedagogic research as part of Queen's Integrated
  Learning Initiative.
• The NSERC Chair in Design Engineering which is
  held by David Strong who has many years of
  industrial experience in the design area. The
  primary goal of the Chair will be to develop a
  multidisciplinary design engineering stream open
  to students from all of the engineering
  disciplines. The Chair will also work with all
  department in the faculty to achieve new
  standards in design engineering education

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Integrated Learning and the Integrated Learning
Centre
Integrated Learning Initiative Integrated
Learning is an important initiative in the
Faculty of Applied Science designed to enhance
the delivery of engineering education at Queen's
University. It will combine a new learning
facility with a restructured curriculum to
prepare graduates for the challenges and
complexities of the engineering profession of the
21st century.To support this initiative, a new
Integrated Learning Centre (ILC) has been
constructed. This new, multidisciplinary learning
environment is designed to complement the
classroom experience, enhancing design, team and
professional skills development.
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Integrated Learning Initiative
Through the Integrated Learning initiative, the
Faculty of Applied Science is strategically
redesigning the undergraduate learning experience
to make it more relevant, more effective, more
efficient, and more reflective of individual
learning styles. Students will work in teams on
problems starting in first year. By final year,
students will be immersed in real problems
provided by industry and government. Through
guided practice, students will learn the skills
of teamwork, communications, problem-solving and
self-directed learning. The Integrated Learning
initiative will significantly enhance these
skills and attitudes in a systematic way for
every student in Applied Science.
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ILC Facilities
The ILC facilities will include both "project
space" and "group rooms". These flexible spaces
are not just laboratories, and their activities
are not just experiments, but rather they are
spaces in which activities occur, covering many
facets of engineering practice, including
simulation, design, manufacture and
presentation. For the students, the ILC is a
professional work place complementing the
classroom experience by providing the offices,
meeting rooms, design space, project space,
manufacturing facilities and multimedia
facilities in which they can integrate material
from different sources and practice the skills
needed to elevate theory to practice.
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Integrated Learning Centre Philosophy
Philosophy The fundamental vision of the ILC is
to develop a multidisciplinary learning
environment that promotes team-oriented,
problem-solving skills, and exposes students to
real-world engineering concepts and open-ended
design projects. This is an important, indeed
essential, component of our ongoing curriculum
reform. The Integrated Learning Centre will offer
both the staff and the structures necessary to
provide students an opportunity to apply their
knowledge in new and creative ways.

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Integrated Learning Centre and the Instructor
For the instructors, the ILC will be a place to
try alternative ways of teaching and learning. A
place where flexible teaching spaces, work spaces
and presentation spaces can be reconfigured to
suit the needs of the class, where professional
help is available to assist in developing
innovative learning and in monitoring and
evaluating its results, and in which constraints
imposed by timetabling are minimized.
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MECH 212Design Techniques

• Introductory course
• Build enthusiasm for design
• Develop communication, team and observation
  skills
• Become experienced and knowledgeable in the
  design process
• Focus on creative design
• Left Brain (analytical, critical, verbal)
• Right Brain (perceptual, creative, visual)

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Creative Decision Making
The most creative decision making and problem
solving come about when both sides of the brain
bring their various skills to the table the left
brain analyzing issues, problems, and barriers
the right brain generating fresh approaches and
the left brain translating them into plans of
action. Edwards (1979). Drawing on the
Right Side of the Brain.
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Format
Course Format

• Timetable (4 contact hours per week)
• 1130 Monday - Quiz and Lecture
• Content for weekly lab session
• 1130 Tuesday - Case Study (Guest Lecture)
• Highlighting content in the context of a real
  design
• Lab 230 Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday (Two-hour
  session)
• cd_at_me.queensu.ca

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Outline
Course Outline

• Weeks 1-2
• Communication and Observation Skills
• Weeks 3-6 MECHMANIA
• Design Process and Prototyping
• Weeks 7-11 Client-Based Designs (CBD)
• Professional Design Practice

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Weeks 1-2
Weeks 1 and 2

• Mechanical Dissection and Reverse Engineering
• Communication skills
• Listening
• Active observation
• Drawing
• Observation skills
• Spatial arrangement of components
• Functional interactions
• Design details
• Design decisions

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Guided Dissection
Guided Dissection

• Step by step instructions based on questioning
• Working groups of four (individual worksheets)
• Two-hour session, followed by one-hour session
  the next week

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Music Boxes
Guided Dissection (Continued)
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Oscillating Sprinkler
Guided Dissection (Continued)
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Weeks 3-6
Weeks 3 to 6

• Mechmania
• Design-prototyping challenge
• Complete design process to working prototype
  stage
• Teams of four
• Students must provide resources
• Instructors assume a coaching role with workshops
  in idea generation and group dynamics
• Endpoint is demonstration in front of an audience

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Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Mechmania IX
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Mechmania IX (continued)
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Mechmania IX (continued)
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Mechmania IX (continued)
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Mechmania X
Mechmania X
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Mechmania X (continued)
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Mechmania X (continued)
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Mechmania X (continued)
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Mechmania X (continued)
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Mechmania X (continued)
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Week 7
Week 7

• Components and Other Fun
• Recovery activity from Reading Week
• Second exposure to mechanical components
• Series of 16 stations with components and
  questions
• Reinforce active observation skills
• Groups rotate in 5 minute intervals
• Time to review answers at end

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Station 3
Week 7

• This is a ball bearing.
• Try an experiment. Hold the inner ring. Rotate
  the outer ring. How many times does the
  ball/retainer assembly rotate for each revolution
  of the outer ring?
• Why?
• If the outer ring rotates at 1760 rpm, what would
  the ball/retainer angular speed be?

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Weeks 8-11
Week 8-11
Week 7

• Client-Based Design
• Non-instructors with real needs
• Students required to assume a professional role
• Formal design process to mock-up stage
• Emphasis on needs assessment and independent
  research
• Endpoint is a written report

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Client Based Design
Client Based Design

• Process
• Week 8 initial meeting
• Informal oral meeting with client
• Week 9 design proposal
• Formal oral report to client
• Week 10 design review
• Formal oral report to instructors
• Week 11 report due
• Formal written report

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ClientBased Design
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ClientBased Design
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ClientBased Design
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ClientBased Design
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Course Marks
Course Marks

• Bank account model
• Nominal marks
• Bonus marks given for exceeding expectations
• Missing a quiz or laboratory
• Cannot be rescheduled (marks not available)
• Bonus projects
• Proposed by the student and approved before
  submission
• No limit on number

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MECH 452 Mechatronic Systems Design
MECH 452 in the Jackson ILCP (prototype of plaza
lab for ILC)
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MECH 452 Mechatronic Systems Design (continued)
Navigation by Photoresistor (find and contact the
light)
Navigation by RF Wireless (robot team following
task)
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MECH 452 Mechatronic Systems Design (continued)
photoresistor
RF receiver
bumper
Infrared 1
servomotor
Infrared 2
Landmine Exercise Typical Sensor Layout
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MECH 452 Mechatronic Systems Design (continued)
photoresistor
microcontroller
servomotor
LED indicators
regulator
Light Sensing with the Prototyping Board
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Manufacturing Engineering
MECH 314 Manufacturing Engineering
Students working in groups of 3 to 4 design,
build and test a pump

• All design and analysis done on computer
• Machine tools also computer controlled

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Manufacturing Engineering (continued)
Peristaltic or Tube Pump liquid in flexible
tube squeezed and pushed by rotating
rollers

• No contact means good for medical and food
  processing applications

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Manufacturing Engineering (continued)
Testing to check performance
Maybe not as exciting as building a car, but
lessons are the same
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Competition Projects
Competition Projects at Queens currently include
Free-flight, Formula SAE, Solar Car, Aerodesign
and Mini Baja (two).