Students in this course will learn through experience about challenges in the application of mechanical dynamics, material mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. Students will get first-hand experience with machines, and conduct experiments on forced vibrations, material bending, stress concentration, thermoelectric generation, the Stirling engine, the conservation of momentum of fluids, and Reynolds, thereby deepening their understanding of mechanical engineering. Specifically, students will conduct experiments on forced vibrations of single and two degree-of-freedom systems, bending deformation and stress concentration of materials, conversion efficiency of thermoelectric generation, properties of the Stirling engine, the conservation of momentum of fluids and Reynolds. Students will perform a comprehensive exercise in class 8 to deepen their understanding of mechanical engineering.
The main aim of this course is, by conducting application experiments in mechanical engineering, to deepen students' understanding of mechanical engineering and improve critical thinking skills, and practical and problem-solving skills. In addition, students will learn teamwork, leadership, communication skills, data collection, processing, and organization methods, observation methods, and how to write reports through these experiments.
Students will acquire the following skills from taking this course.
1) Ability to explain applied aspects of mechanical engineering that cannot be learned just from classroom lectures.
2) Ability to conduct applied experiments related to mechanical engineering.
3) Methods to obtain and process data.
4) Ability to write technical reports.
Forced vibration, Bending of material, Stress concentration, Thermoelectric generation, Stirling engine, Momentum conservation of fluid, Reynolds
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
At orientation in the first class, the instructor will explain the frame of mind and suggestions for students' experiments, as well as composition guidelines for experiment reports. In class 2 and 5, students will be divided into 2 groups, and exercises will be carried out relating to experiments to be conducted in this course. In class 3 and 4, and class 6 and 7, students will be divided into 4 groups to work on an experiment respectively. Reports must be submitted by the deadline. In addition, students are required to carefully read the experiment manual in advance to ensure experiments are run safely and smoothly.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Orientation | Students will gain an understanding of course description and aims, methods for conducting experiments, and how to write reports. |
Class 2 | Exercises of mechanical dynamics and material mechanics | Learn the basics of mechanical dynamics and material mechanics required for the experiments in class 3 and 4. |
Class 3 | Experiments on forced vibrations of single and two degree-of-freedom systems | Measure vibrational displacement of excited pendulum to understand resonance of mechanical system. |
Class 4 | Experiments about beam bending and stress concentration | Learn the relationship between load and displacement of beam bending, and calculate the Young's modulus of material. Learn the phenomena of stress concentration. |
Class 5 | Exercises of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics | Learn the basics of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics necessary for the experiments to be carried out in class 6 and 7. |
Class 6 | Thermoelectric power generation and Stirling engine | Understand the power generation by thermoelectric effects and the characteristics of Stirling engine |
Class 7 | Experiments about law of momentum conservation and Reynolds's experiment | In order to comprehend the law of momentum conservation in fluid flow, measure the force exerted on the blade by the jet, and power of water mill. To understand laminar-turbulent transition, observe the visualized pipe flow under setup of the Reynolds' experiment. |
Class 8 | Comprehensive exercise | Deepen understanding of mechanical engineering |
Experiment manual "Applied Experiments for Mechanical Engineering" is distributed by the instructor.
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Students are required to attend all classes and perform all experiments. Students will be comprehensively evaluated on the content of experiment reports, as well as activeness and seriousness when participating in experiments and exercises.
Students must have successfully completed Basic Experiments for Mechanical Engineering(MEC.P211.A), Mechanics of Materials (MEC.C201.R), Thermodynamics (MEC.E201.R), Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics(MEC.F201.R) and Mechanical Vibrations(MEC.D201.R) or have equivalent knowledge.