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Mechanical Engineering is a very broad topic. Important in Mechanical Engineering is: does the product/part break or deform too much. To determine this, knowledge of materials and mechanics is needed.
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Important topics for Industrial Designers are: Applied Physics, Materials, Mechanics, Simulation and Finite Element Analysis.  * [[MechanicalEngineeringIntroduction|Introduction]]
 * [[Materials]]
 * [[Mechanics]]
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== Literature: ==
 * '''Applied Physics''': Young & Freedman, University Physics, 13th edition.
 * '''Mechanics''': Fenner R.T., Mechanics of Solids, CRC Press.
 * '''Materials''': Ashby, Shercliff, Cebon, Materials: engineering, science, processing and design, Butterworth Heinemann.
 * '''Khan academy website (self study website):''' http://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics
To operate more complex products very often sensors and actuators are needed. Thus knowledge of how sensors and actuators work is needed. To control the actuators, given the sensor inputs, also knowledge of system behaviour and controllers are needed.
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'''Good software tools''':  * [[System behaviour]]
 * [[Sensors]]
 * [[Actuators]]
 * [[Control]]
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 * Computer Aided Design & Finite Element Analysis: SolidWorks, [[http://openscad.org/|OpenScad]], [[http://www.freecadweb.org|FreeCAD]]
 * Mathematical packages: !MatLab, Mathematica
 * Simulation packages: Simulink,[[https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/|NetLogo]], SimPy
 * Materials:
  * MatWeb http://www.matweb.com/
  * CES Edupack http://www.grantadesign.com/education/edupack/

CES Edupack is a materials database which contains data about approximately 3000 materials. The database contains mechanical, electrical, optical, cost price, eco, typical application and producers data.

Below you find presentations I regularly give about:

 * Materials selection [[attachment:MaterialsSelection.pdf|presentation]]
 * Material behavior [[attachment:MaterialBehavior.pdf|presentation]]
 * Mechanics [[attachment:MechanicsForID.pdf|presentation]]
 * Finite Element Analysis [[attachment:FiniteElementModelling.pdf|presentation]] and example finite element analysis [[attachment:ExampleFiniteElementAnalysisStudy.pdf|results]].
 * Systems behaviour, how do zero -, first - and second order systems behave, [[attachment:SystemBehaviour|presentation]].
 * TRIZ, product redesign based on patent knowledge (creative thinking) [[attachment:TRIZPresentation.pdf|presentation]]
 * Discrete Event Simulation [[attachment:DiscreteEventSimulation|presentation]], how to predict the behaviour of discrete, parallel and interacting (social and/or physical) systems.

Most above mentioned software packages are made freely available for Industrial Design students. Simulink (as part of Matlab) and SolidWorks are available from the TU/e PC software page.
Nature is beautiful. Phenomena in different fields of physics, like mechanics/electronics/pneumatics/hydraulics, can be described using the same type of mathematical equations. See also the research fields of [[System behaviour]] and [[Mechatronics]] [Isermann2005].

Mechanical Engineering

Important in Mechanical Engineering is: does the product/part break or deform too much. To determine this, knowledge of materials and mechanics is needed.

To operate more complex products very often sensors and actuators are needed. Thus knowledge of how sensors and actuators work is needed. To control the actuators, given the sensor inputs, also knowledge of system behaviour and controllers are needed.

Nature is beautiful. Phenomena in different fields of physics, like mechanics/electronics/pneumatics/hydraulics, can be described using the same type of mathematical equations. See also the research fields of System behaviour and Mechatronics [Isermann2005].


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