Mechanical Engineering Dept.

Law of managerial economics. Management models. Revenue of the firm: production decisions, cost of production, profit analysis of the firm, pricing techniques. Marketing, Demand and Forecasting. Distributive trade in Nigeria. Business finance & investment. Capital budgeting & management control. Government policies and the firm. Financing technology: capital equioment, investment appraisal methods. Break-even analysis. Fundamrntal of cost accounting with emphasis on production costing. Areas of conflicts between engineers and accountants. Engineering valuation.

This course deals majorly with linear optimisation techniques. This is a course covering the linear quantitative management tools which are applicable in management of industries. This is primarily designed for mechanical engineering students to expand their knowledge in the areas of industrial engineering and management. In the course, students will be taught how non-linear optimisation models can be formulated, in the areas probability theory, queuing models, inventory models, decision analysis and other related areas. Students’ knowledge of the subject matter will be extended to solution procedures and the optimal solution interpretation as regards decision making in the academic and manufacturing industries. The course will impart useful management skills of providing solutions to waiting line problems, inventory and other nonlinear programming problems in production systems. Hands-on training of students in the areas of application of computer software in solving many of the non-linear programming algorithms will be carried out. Topics to be covered include Probability theory, Deterministic theory, and Queuing theory with applications, Inventory theory (deterministic, stochastic models, economic order quantity, etc.), Markovian decision model and their applications, Reliability, Decision trees, Utility theory, Fundamentals of simulation and Non-linear programming (Kuhin-tucker conditions, Quadratic programming, Convex programming), and Application of operations research computer software to solving the stated problems.

This course is designed primarily for final year students of Mechanical Engineering. It provides a comprehensive knowledge and insight into Engineering Design. Topics to be covered include: Finite element methods of stress analysis. Ergonomics. Use of anthropometric data. Design for economic manufacture, assembly and disassembly, safety, misuse, recycle and repair/rework. Rules for product design and part design. Design of manual and automated assembly workstations. Flexible manufacturing system. Part feeding devices. Design of a flexible assembly cell. Robotics in assembly cell design. Robot requirements. Cell design and control. Use of Interlocks in assembly cell design. Error detection and recovery. Computer aided drafting and design: basic elements. Use of common design packages such as AutoCAD. Design drafting /free hand drawing and engineering working drawing. Design of systems and machines. (Project must be given to students in groups of four on design of assembly cell when it is five weeks into the semester)

This course focused on systems analysis and optimization of work study and productivity. This includes practical example: production study optimization and analysis, industrial location and localization). Productivity measurement such as: machine efficiency, labour, skill, availability, remuneration and economic situation. Motion study which covers: measurement of labour, line balancing, work station, work study and work measurement, standard time, work sampling and use of work study software packages.

This course is designed primarily for students of Mechanical Engineering. It provides a comprehensive knowledge and insight into the linkage of industrial activity with environmental and social sciences. It discusses how we can rearrange the Earth in a way to protect the health of natural ecosystem and the health of future generations. It encompasses resources, laws and economics, environmental accounting, industrial products and processes, life cycle assessments and case studies of corporate environmental policies.

Refrigerant cycles. Absorption cycle. Refrigerant properties: flammability and toxicity. Miscibility, theoretical hp per ton of refrigeration. Rate of leakage. Leak detection. Vapor density. Common refrigerants: halocarbons, ammonia, others. Classification of refrigeration,Systems, Chemical reactions in refrigeration systems. Halocarbon refrigerants, ammonia, oils, oil-refrigerant reactions. Refrigerant selection: compression cycle, absorption cycle, refrigerant pipe sizing. Halocarbons system, Ammonia system. Secondary refrigerants, brine selection, design considerations and applications.

The course metrology is an optional course and is a 3 units course. Metrology cut across all disciplines of Engineering and even beyond because it describes the importance of measurement especially of manufactured parts. The course starting with traditional method of measurement goes through modern machines to measure geric features of parts. These include features measuring instrument and machines parts and how to select them. Importance of automated measurement, principles of dimensioning and tolerance are all included.

This course is an application of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics earlier learnt in the course of the five period of the B. Eng. Programme. It brings to the fore the fundamentals of the systems and mechanisms operating in unison to bring about smooth functioning of Internal Combustion Engines (ICE). The course is intended to impart the descriptive, analytical and practical aspect of the ICE to students in the most modern form in order to meet up with requirements of various ICEs.

This course is designed primarily for final year mechanical engineering students at the Federal University of Technology, Akure. Areas to be covered include: Introduction to the basic concepts of computer aided design (CAD). The use of CAD to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, and optimization of engineering design. Application to research, development and industry. Simulation in Computer aided design for verification and validating designs. Simulation language types, comparing their features and capabilities. Tool path simulation. The use of databases in CAD systems. Graphics and Displays. CAD packages and software: Types and areas of applications. Design documentation. NC programming: Origin, use and applications. CAD systems: Hardware and Software installations.

This course is designed primarily for final year students of Mechanical Engineering whose electives are Automobile Engineering. It provides a comprehensive knowledge and insight into the Structures and Design of Vehicles. Topics to be covered include: Revision of basic theories of strength of materials. Shear in beams. Thin walled beams. The theory of elastic hinges and collapse mechanism. Unit load method of analysis. Analysis of vehicle structures: main structural elements of a vehicle. Methods of idealization of vehicle structures; beam element, space frame, simple structural surfaces, etc. Loading cases: torsion and bending. Deflection and torsional stiffness.Matrix methods of analysis. Vehicle structure design: Structural layout to accommodate suspension and running gear. Chassis frame design. Floor design, Roof design. Design of complete car, bus, truck and utility vehicles. Design of structures for production: Types of section for car body. Design for spot welding. Adhesives and sealants, gravimetric analysis, weather stripping materials for vehicle body.

The course provides a basic principles of vehicle ride, handling and control systems. It starts from the kinematics of the planar vehicle and basics tyre mechanics and applies the methods to vehicle handling and ride analysis. The students are guided to write basic vehicle handling programs for studying the concepts of vehicle over-, neutral- and under steer in both transient and steady states. The program can easily be extended to incorporate higher degrees of freedom, curvature responses and four wheel steer systems.

This course is designed primarily for students of Mechanical Engineering. It is a technical elective and pulls together the background knowledge in real life examples of design and evaluation. . The course will be presented as a series of lectures and site visits. Lectures will provides a comprehensive knowledge and insight into analytical theory and systematically explore the fundamentals of heating and cooling systems. Site visits will enhance the understanding of the theory and enable students to perform design of a small heating and cooling system.

The course will provide the students with the definition of powder metallurgy and also introduce them to the different powder making processes. Other stages that are involved in the production of metal powders will be studied. These stages include sizing and grading of metal powders, compaction of metal powders, sintering and finishing operations. Strong emphasis will be on the theoretical aspect of the course. Areas of application as well as economic importance in terms of investment will be considered. Advantages and the disadvantages of the process will be thought. The study will looked into the future trend for powder metallurgy process and products as well as safety in line with powder metallurgy process.

participating medium; Radiation heat transfer in absorbed medium, calculation of heat exchangers. 04 - Heat and Mass Transfer COURSE PARTICULARS Course Code: MME 504 Course Title: Heat and Mass Transfer No. of Units: 3 Course Duration: Two hours of theory and One hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks. Status: Compulsory Course Email Address: [email protected] Course Webpage: http://www.fwt.futa.edu.ng/courseschedule.php?coursecode=MME%50504 Prerequisite: NIL COURSE INSTRUCTORS Dr A. Oyetunji Room 201, 2nd Floor, SEET Building, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Phone: +2348035795336 Email: [email protected] [email protected] and Mr. A. O. Talabi Room 215 , 2rd Floor, SEET Building, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Phone: +2348176229860 Email: [email protected] COURSE DESCRIPTION MME 504: Heat and Mass Transfer (3 Units) Basic derivation of transport properties based on kinetic theory of gases. Use of dimensionless parameters; Re, Se, Pr. Basic heat transfer equations and mechanisms-steady state and unsteady state heat transfer Heat transfer coefficients. Application of dimensional analysis to heat flow. Basic mass transfer equation. Mass transfer equations and models. Mass transfer between multiple phases; Mass transfer equipment; Motion of single particle in fluids. Terminal falling velocities. Calculation of pressure drops .Counter current and co-current flow of fluids through packed columns .Theory of similarity, Heat transfer in forced cross and longitudinal flow; Heat transfer and hydraulic resistance; Heat transfer by free convection and condensing vapours; boiling liquid ; Radiation heat transfer between solids separated by a transparent (diathermal)participating medium; Radiation heat transfer in absorbed medium, calculation of heat exchangers.

This course is designed for students in the field of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering to acquire quality knowledge in the area of design and production of metals and alloys. However, students studying mechanical and production engineering are not exempted from the benefits offered by this course as it provides sound knowledge and a dependable background on how most engineering parts are produced. In fact, the sustainability of any manufacturing industry depends on the knowledge of foundry. This is simply because most parts needed in operation and maintenance is economically produced via foundry technology. The course is nourished with practical problems and solutions that will enhance the skill of the students especially those that are willing to be self-reliant in future. The course is an entrepreneurship course that avail the student the opportunity of becoming self-employed after they might have graduated from the University. Topics to be covered in the course include: melting practice; casting processes; gating systems; fluidity; risering; solidification of metals/alloys; casting defects; and casting design COURSE OBJECTIVES The objectives of this course are to: ï‚· provide the students with knowledge on the principles that guides production of sound engineering castings COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES / COMPETENCIES Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: (Knowledge based) ï‚· know the furnaces used in the production of metals and alloys; ï‚· understand melting practice and chemical reactions that take place in the furnaces; ï‚· describe moulding, casting and solidification processes; ï‚· differentiate between the different casting processes and their end products; ï‚· develop designs for engineering components produced via against defects; and (Skills) ï‚· produce sound castings without defects. GRADING SYSTEM FOR THE COURSE This course will be graded as follows: Class Attendance 5% Assignments 5% Mini Project & seminar 10% Test(s) 20% Final Examination 60% TOTAL 100%

The emphasis will be on the rational utilization of technology as economic resource in Nigeria The course will reflect commitment and aspirations of the government and people of Nigeria to deploy S&T as the fulcrum of all activities that can be geared towards realizing the nation’s potentials as a regional power in Africa, emerging as a global economic power within a short time. Technology Policy & Planning as course will provide the knowledge of building a nation that is able to provide steadily and on a progressive basis, high standard of living and quality of life for its citizens by harnessing science and innovation outputs as well as the energies and talents of its highly resourceful people.

This is a course which is a summary of the entire knowledge acquired in the entire metallurgical and materials engineering programme. It has been designed for selection of appropriate and suitable materials for engineering designs and constructions. The principles of materials selection, which are types, structures, properties and applications, are covered in details.

This course is designed primarily for final year students of Mechanical Engineering whose electives are from Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineering. It provides a comprehensive knowledge and insight into psychrometry, and the use of psychrometric chart for design. Topics to be covered include: The psychrometrics chart, sensible heating and cooling, dehumidification, water injection, steam injection, cooling and dehumidification with reheat. Preheat and humidification with reheat, mixing and adiabatic saturation with reheat, super saturation, system characteristics, Comfort and inside design conditions, climate and outside design conditions. The choice of supply design conditions, equipment selection techniques. The psychrometrics of air-conditioning process. Use of R&A design packages.

This course is an application of many other courses learnt over the years. These other courses include: Applied Mechanics; Fluid Mechanics; Thermodynamics; Machine Design and Strength of Materials. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their design and dimensional analysis skills. Topics to be covered include Fluid Machines design and operations

This course is all about the network analysis, an industrial and production management aspect of mechanical engineering. It entails the concepts of shortest route model, shortest-route algorithm in both general and acyclic and cyclic networks. Critical path scheduling will be treated including Critical Path Method (CPM), Project Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) and crashing. The use of network for crew-size determination and labour sizing will be extensively discussed. Prediction of ordering time and level, employment scheduling, flow network, activity networks and their generalisation will also be discussed. Other topics include signal flow graphs and applications of network methods. Students will also be introduced to the various applications of network analysis computer software packages.

This course is the art and science of experimenting with models. it is performed to check and optimize the design of a system before its construction, helping to avoid costly design errors and ensuring safe, high-quality, and cost-effective products. Other purposes include analysis, performance evaluation, sensitivity analysis, comparison of alternative, forcasting, safety, human in the loop training teaching, and decision making. It focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their simulation ability. Topics to be covered include: System models and system simulation, discrete event, digital simulation, programming considerations and languages GPSS, SIMSCRIRT and SIMULA and other simulation packages. Statistics definitions and concepts of random number generation and languages statistics definitions and concepts of random number generation. Stochastic variables generation, input parameter, output analyses, the design of experiments.

This course is an elective and will be available at 500 level.

Basic Concepts of Computer Aided Engineering. The development and comparative analysis of the of the following manufacturing concepts; Flexible manufacturing systems, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Cellular Manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Information and Communication Technology in design, multimedia, wide area network, internet, world wide web (www), virtual reality and video conferencing. .

The course is“Green Engineering”, the application of sustainable and systems engineering concepts to product design and manufacture. The course presents core engineering theories in tandem with related economic principles, towards marshaling environmental resources and engineering products both during and after the product lifecycle. The principles are introduced so that clear understanding of the basic issues related to green product design is well understood. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to provide total reorientation on eco-friendly engineering product design and manufacturing.

Refractory Technology (MME 530) is an optional elective course available in the department designed to enable interested students have more detailed knowledge in refractory production, use and related material science governing these. It is structured on the background general knowledge that the current students would have had in Fuels, Furnaces and Refractories (MME312). Hence the course draws on that background knowledge to move on to the relatively more indepth details of how inherent properties refractory minerals affects/dictates suitable technology in the course of the production. The inherent properties and production specifics combine to determine applications for the various refractories in the various service demands and environments encountered in the materials processing furnaces, ovens, kilns and stoves. These are all correlated in the course. Being a special elective of the last semester of a B. Eng. Degree training, the scientific and technical content are pitched towards that of professional course training.

The course is an extension of industrial Ecology I for first semester of 500 levels and is an optimal course in industrial Ecology Design option. As a course it cut across all discipline since all within the environmental level to be taking into consideration. Urban integrated waste management as well as other isolated industrial area will be highly treated. Those places like mining area refineries, ocean, and atomic energy station with their wastes. Hospital premises have to be part of discussion. Topics to be covered include composition and minimization of waste recycled materials, availability and improvement analysis for product, processes and facilities among others.