2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
Materials and Design for Engineering Design
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuaki Inaba / Yoshihiro Mizutani
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ESD.D405
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on the way of material selection when people design products. In this course, students will learn how materials' physical properties, mechanical properties, thermal behavior, electrical response, durability, and environmental impact can be reflected in design.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to select materials which students want to design by learning basics of material selection through exercise and case studies.
Keywords
Materials, Design
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This course introduces how to select appropriate materials and checks students' understanding by exercise in the first half of the course. Students will have chances to work on the cases by applying knowledge acquired through this course in the latter half of the course.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Engineering Materials and Properties, Material Property Charts | Understand materials history, engineering materials and properties. |
| Class 2 | Material Selection | Understand material selection. |
| Class 3 | Multiple Constraints and Conflicting Objectives | Understand multiple constraints and conflicting objectives. |
| Class 4 | Selection of Materials and Shape | Understand selection of materials and shape. |
| Class 5 | Case study: Pressure vessel 1 (Design pressure vessel assuming with tiny undetectable crack by NDT. Minimize weight/footprint of the vessel by selecting suitable materials and dimension of the vessel depend on the application of the vessel.) | Case study: Pressure vessel 1 (Design pressure vessel assuming with tiny undetectable crack by NDT. Minimize weight/footprint of the vessel by selecting suitable materials and dimension of the vessel depend on the application of the vessel.) Use the case study to better understand the topics covered and evaluate one's own progress. |
| Class 6 | Hybrid Materials | Understand hybrid materials. |
| Class 7 | Environment and materials | Understand environment and materials. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Michael Ashby，Materials Selection in Mechanical Design 4th Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, (2011)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Michael Ashby，Hugh Shercliff, and David Cebon, Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, (2007)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Exercise (35%) and report (65%)
Related courses
- TSE.A201 ： Material and Molecular Engineering
- TSE.A202 ： Solid Mechanics and Structure Engineering
- MEC.C201 ： Mechanics of Materials
Prerequisites
Student require the following knowledge: basics of strength of material, engineering materials.