| Name |
Description |
Period |
| Principles of Engineering Design Practice | A course designed to help students define an engineering task, given a generally and incompletely specified need, gather and critically assess information required to clarify the task and support conceptual design, create alternative conceptual design solutions, evaluate concept choices and decide on the most suitable design concept; to carry out embodiment and detail design of mechanical systems | September - December |
| Research Methods | Familiarise learners with the planning of a research project, through the preparation of a literature review and research proposal as well as providing the students with an opportunity to plan, execute and reflect on primary data collection methods | April - August |
| Materials Forming Processes | To familiarise learners with fundamentals of metal forming and casting processes, techniques of forming and casting sound products, polymer characteristics and processing, manufacture of polymer and metal matrix composites. | April - August |
| Engineering Materials and Metallurgy | Discusses the various materials used in engineering applications, chemical processes in the production of engineering mate¬rials and the process of production of metals, ceramics, polymeric and composite materials | Jan - March |
| Non Destructive Testing of Materials | Describes Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) principles, their requirements, stan¬dards and applications, relates the equipment for various NDT techniques and interpretation of results from an NDT procedure | Jan - March |
| Production planning and control | Forecasting and planning for the capital requirement for product manufacture, purpose s of production planning, planning for production using computer-based models, optimization on machine and personnel utilization, development of optimal production quantities and re-order points for materials | Jan - March |
