Instructor

Dhanesh Manik

Semester

Autumn’ 21

Course Difficulty

Difficult to score

Time Commitment Required

2-3 hours before every quiz( total 3), 2 hours on each assignment( 7) and endsem prep

Grading Policy and Statistics

5 AAs, 11 ABs, 16 BBs: Total 69 students

Attendance Policy

No attendance(online sem atleast)

Pre-requisites

None

Evaluation Scheme

Quizes: 50% (best 3/4)
Assignment; 20%(best 7/10)
Endsem: 30

Topics Covered in the Course

Review of kinematic analysis-mobility, displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of mechanisms. Kinematic synthesis - Function generation, path generation and rigid body guidance. Graphical and analytical techniques of synthesis Dynamic analysis of mechanism - Equations of motion, forward and inverse dynamic analysis, simulation of systems of interconnected rigid bodies. Vibration - review of single and two DOF systems. Multi DOF systems vibration, transfer matrix, Holzer and vector iteration techniques. Lagrange s equation of motion. Vibrations of continuous systems-axial, torsional and lateral vibration of bars. Introduction to nonlinear and random vibration.

Tutorials/Assignments/Projects

Some assignments were very time consuming.

Feedback on Exams

Papers were not very scoring, and the marking scheme was not very lenient.

Course Importance

This course is not needed for UGs. ME 306-Kdom is already a core course in the 6th sem

How strongly would I recommend this course?

Grading scheme is very erratic across the years. Would recommend to avoid this course, as (a) the content will be covered in ME306, (b) Stats not reliant for a good grade

Review By: Shardul Burde