ELEMENTS OF MECHANICS AND MECHANISMS

Course Code: EA 1206 • Study year: I • Academic Year: 2024-2025
Domain: Electronic engineering and telecommunications • Field of study: Applied Electronics
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: English
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Seminar tutor: Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class
Number of teaching hours per semester: 42
Number of teaching hours per week: 3
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 3

Course aims:

• Solving technological problems in the fields of electronics applied.
• The principles and methods underlying the manufacture, tuning, testing and servicing of appliances and equipment in the fields of applied electronics.
• Explanation and interpretation of production processes and maintenance activities of electronic devices, identifying areas for testing and measuring electrical quantities.
• Application of management principles for the organization of technologically production activities, mining and service in the fields of applied electronics.
• Using criteria and methods for evaluating the quality of production and service activities in the fields of applied electronics.

Course Entry Requirements:

• Knowing the specifics of the main elements and mechanisms of the main methods used in mechanics. • The skills training design and implement a concrete mechanical research. • Knowing the geometric calculation mechanisms, gears.

Course contents:

• Static material point. • Rigid stand. • Dynamics of material point. • Rigid body dynamics and lighting systems. • Analytical Mechanics. • The clashes. • Structure mechanisms. • Kinematic analysis of planar mechanisms bars. • Analysis and Synthesis gear mechanisms. • The movement mechanisms under the action of forces. • Analysis and synthesis of cam mechanisms.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

• Capacity building and attitudes investigation mechanisms realities mechanical composition; • Forming an open epistemic attitudes and innovative mechanisms of mechanical components. • Knowledge of geometric calculation mechanisms, gears • Understanding the operating principle of mechanisms, gears, the wheel balancers • Measurement of geometric elements of a gear, cam mechanism • Analysis and interpretation of the results of various tests.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 70%; continuous assessment – 30%.

Recommended reading:

• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-72-elements-of-mechanical-design-spring-2009/lecture-notes/ - 14.04.2016
• NEIL SCLATER, NICHOLAS P. CHIRONIS, MECHANISMS AND MECHANICAL DEVICES SOURCEBOOK, SBN-13: 978-0-07-146761-2, ISBN-10: 0-07-146761-0
P.F. Kelly, -Elements of Mechanics, CRC Press, 2014, 444.
NEIL SCLATER NICHOLAS P. CHIRONIS, MECHANISMS AND MECHANICAL DEVICES SOURCEBOOK, McGraw-Hill, 2007, 551.