Imperial College London

This course teaches students to acquire the knowledge and ability to design and analyze complex mechanical systems. This teaches students about the design process, product design specification, computer-aided design, design for manufacturing, equivalent stresses and failure criteria, transmissions and machine elements, prototyping, fatigue, shaft design, practical workshop skills, conceptual design, motors and batteries, design in plastics, ergonomics, and intellectual property.

Topics covered provide students with a comprehensive knowledge, theoretical and applied, to design and realize a full mechatronic system. The course content includes an overview of Control systems, modelling of dynamic systems, Laplace Transforms, Root locus, Steady state errors, final value theorem, Frequency response analysis, Bode diagrams, Compensation, and PID Controllers.

This course introduces students to advanced numerical methods for the solution and optimization of both linear and nonlinear systems, so that they are able to apply them in real chemical engineering problems. Students learn about optimization theory and how to formulate optimization models for linear and nonlinear problems, select an appropriate solution method, and compute a numerical solution. The numerical software tool for this course is GAMS.

This course includes topics such as user-centric design, user study design, data analysis, and verbal and non-verbal robot behavior. Additionally, the course explores several human-robot interaction applications such as healthcare, education, and in-home robots.

This course builds on previous stress analysis courses by extending the concepts of linear elasticity to two and three dimensions, as the basis for advanced stress analysis. Topics covered include complex stresses and strains, Mohr’s circle, failure criteria, shear stresses in beams, thick-walled cylinders, plastic failure and buckling of struts. The course enables students to develop sufficient familiarity with stress analysis and strength of materials to design a safe and reliable load-bearing component of simple geometry (or to assess the safety of an existing one).

This course teaches the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and how they can be used to solve a range of simple engineering problems. The pace of the course takes account of students' lack of familiarity with the subject from pre-university studies. The aim of the lectures and tutorials is to develop analytical skills and some design appreciation, involving awareness of the interaction between thermodynamics and considerations of energy resources, materials, solid mechanics, economics, the environment, etc.

This course reinforces students' previous knowledge of stress analysis, and extends this knowledge to more advanced theories and techniques, and to apply these to practical problems. Most of these are developments of methods which have been previously acquired but to more sophisticated problems. New areas of thermal stresses, plastic deformation and residual stresses are treated and a new technique of analysis using energy methods is also introduced and developed. 

This is a project-based course where students work in a team to carry out the development and management of a relatively large scale software project, building a piece of software to fulfil the needs of a particular customer. Students put into practice state-of-the-art techniques used in industrial software development to ensure that their team produces software cooperatively, reliably, and on schedule. Each team works on a different project, and receives individual coaching to provide support and advice relevant to their particular project.

In this course, students study the principles of computer networking, analyze and discuss the OSI & TCP/IP models, demonstrate how a network is designed based on specific requirements, and learn basic principles of computer security.

This course examines kinematics and kinetics of human locomotion, bone, and soft tissue failure, macro- and micro-circulatory mechanics in various organs, and practical approaches to quantifying biomechanics. It describes how mechanics plays a role in basic physiological processes in the human body, as well as employing kinematic and kinetic principles to describe human locomotion. The course explores failure mechanisms of bone, as well as the differences between macro and microcirculatory flows. Students examine mass and fluid transport mechanisms in physiology.