5 ECTS credits
125 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1022656BNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
Department
Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen
Educational team
Tim De Troyer (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
90 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

This course aims to further develop a broad set of engineering skills, such as machining (subtractive manufacturing), rapid prototyping, the correct measurement of the physical world using sensors, data analysis, the control of mechantronic componens, and finally scientific communication.

Practical exercises and laboratory practicals:

Part general engineering skills

  • The visual display of quantitative information
  • Data analysis and uncertainty quantification (error analysis and propagation)
  • Professional and scientific writing in LaTeX, including how to cite and refer correctly

Part electromechanical engineering skills:

  • Advanced rapid prototyping (advanced 3D printing)
  • Machining: CNC and manual turning and milling
  • Introduction to metal forming (tapping, drilling, filing ...)

Part electronic engineering skills:

  • Reading and interpreting datasheets of activa and passive electronic components
  • Correct use of electronic measurement devices, such as an oscilloscope, function-generator and measurement probes
  • Design and simulation of electronic circuits with analog and digital components
  • Design and assembly of a Printed Circuit Board
  • Application of a microcontroller platform based on Arduino or a PIC in an electronic design
Course material
Handbook (Recommended) : Oxford advanced learner's dictionary, Oxford University Press, 11, Oxford University Press, 9780194798488, 2020
Handbook (Recommended) : Technical English, Vocabulary and grammar, N. Brieger and A. Pohl, Summertown publishing, 9781902741765, 2002
Handbook (Recommended) : Cambrigde English for engineering, M. Ibbotson, Cambrigde, 9780521715188, 2001
Handbook (Recommended) : Technical communication with MLA update, M. Markel, 12de, Bedford/ St-Martin's, Boston, 9781319383640, 2018
Digital course material (Required) : Slides of the lectures, T. De Troyer, Canvas
Additional info

Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via e-mail.

Participation in the lectures, workshops, practical exercise sessions and industrial visits is mandatory.

Learning Outcomes

Objectives

D1: has insight in the working of mechanical, electronic, and mechatronic components (BaLO 3, 4)

D2: can determine possibilities and limitations of a mechanism (BaLO 3, 4, 6)

D3: has insight in the use of rapid prototyping for the construction of mechanical and electronic parts (BaLO 1, 4, 6)

D4: has insight in measurement errors and uncertainties and can apply this (BaLO 1, 6, 8)

D5: has insight in the propagation of errors and can apply this (BaLO 1, 6, 8)

D6: has insight in the elementary principles of safety and risk mitigation, and applies this (BaLO 9, 13) 

D7: can measure and read physical quantities with a PC and/or microcontroller, analyse, and present graphically the data sets using a computer (BaLO 1, 6, 8, 11)

D8: can control actuators with a PC and/or microcontroller (BaLO 6, 11)

D9: is aware of what an engineer does in the industry (BaLO 13)

 

AD1: reasons and acts in a structured and systematic manner (BaLO 9)

AD2: communicates in Dutch in a comprehensible and structured manner (BaLO 10, 11)

AD3: develops a professional attitude (BaLO 9, 10, 13)

Learning Outcomes

  • BaLO_3 To solve practical engineering problems from an understanding of the basic theory and from an understanding of basic methods for the schematisation and modelling of processes or systems.
  • BaLO_5 To effectively look up scientific and technical information, to evaluate and process such information and to refer to it correctly.
  • BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
  • BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
  • BaLO_11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually. 
  • BaLO_12 To be able to work in a team in different roles, to have insight in one's performance; to take shared responsibility for determining and achieving the goals of the team.
  • BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Other exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: Exam time 1st session:
    Practical exercises and laboratory practicals: Evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 100%
    - part general engineering skills: evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 30% (transferred to 2nd session if 10/20 or more)
    - part electromechanical engineering skills: evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 35% (immediately transferred to 2nd session)
    - part electronic engineering skills: evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 35% (transferred to 2nd session if 10/20 or more)
    Exam time 2nd session:
    Practical exercises and laboratory practicals: Evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 100%
    - part general engineering skills: evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 30%
    - part electromechanical engineering skills: 35% (immediately transferred from 1st session)
    - part electronic engineering skills: evaluation of exercises and completed assignments: 35%

    Not observing the laboratory regulations during the preparation, execution and/or reporting of the practicum, may result in a zero for the considered practicum.

Additional info regarding evaluation

An illegitimate absence of more than 25 % for the practical exercise sessions leads to a refusal to participate in the practical exercises exam. This leads to an absent quotation for the related exam. The sanctions taken in the first exam session are transferred to the second exam session.

In this project, it is permitted to use generative AI only as (i) support for the development of programming code, and (ii) as paraphrasing tool voor the writing assignment. Any use of generative AI should be properly referenced.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Startplan (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electronics-ICT Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering: Standaard traject (76 ECTS) (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Engineering Technology: Electromechanical Engineering: Verkort traject (60 ECTS) (only offered in Dutch)