Warsaw, Poland

Mechanics and Machine Design

Mechanika i Projektowanie Maszyn

Bachelor's - engineer
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⇑Mechanics and Machine Design at PW Warszawa

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.pw.edu.pl/engpw

⇑Test: Is Mechanics and Machine Design the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. An old mechanical device stops working at home. What do you do?

2. How do you feel about technical drawing and 3D modelling in CAD software?

3. Physics lessons on forces, moments and friction – how did you find them?

4. You need to choose gears and bearings for a small conveyor. How do you go about it?

5. How do you feel about workshop classes on a lathe and milling machine?

6. A shaft in your prototype breaks during testing. How do you react?

7. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on design projects with students from many countries. How do you feel about that?

8. Your team must design and build a small working machine by the end of the semester. How do you feel?

9. How do you feel about precision – dimensions and tolerances measured in hundredths of a millimetre?

10. What motivates you most to study Mechanics and Machine Design?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Design
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, coding, and graphic design) is also considered to use design thinking.
Machine
A machine uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an intended action. Machines can be driven by animals and people, by natural forces such as wind and water, and by chemical, thermal, or electrical power, and include a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement. They can also include computers and sensors that monitor performance and plan movement, often called mechanical systems.
Mechanics
Mechanics (Greek μηχανική) is that area of science concerned with the behaviour of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment. The scientific discipline has its origins in Ancient Greece with the writings of Aristotle and Archimedes (see History of classical mechanics and Timeline of classical mechanics). During the early modern period, scientists such as Galileo, Kepler, and Newton laid the foundation for what is now known as classical mechanics. It is a branch of classical physics that deals with particles that are either at rest or are moving with velocities significantly less than the speed of light. It can also be defined as a branch of science which deals with the motion of and forces on objects.
Mechanics
Not one word is said here of acausality, wave mechanics, indeterminacy relations, complementarity, … etc. Why doesn’t he talk about what he knows instead of trespassing on the professional philosopher’s preserves? Ne sutor supra crepidam. On this I can cheerfully justify myself: because I do not think that these things have as much connection as is currently supposed with a philosophical view of the world.
Erwin Schrödinger My View of the World (1961) pp. vii-viii.
Machine
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923.
Design
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
Donald Norman (2002), The Design of Everyday Things, Introduction to the 2002 Edition
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