Course detail
Design and CAD
FSI-4KC-A Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester
The course introduces the students to the basics of the design methodology in the application on the selected machine unit, i.e. design unit, including task assignment, information collection, variant design, optimal design, component and assembly drawing, list of items and with technical report. Everything with the possibility of using CAD programs and their calculation tools for designing the dimensions of standard machine components.
Language of instruction
English
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Knowledge of the appurtenances of component drawings and assembly units. Knowledge of available CAD system.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The student has to submit a satisfactory elaborated solution of the design problem. Final classification according to ECTS.
Attendance at seminars is required and controlled. Maximum of two authorized absences without compensation of lesson are tolerated.
Aims
Aim of the course CAD is a synthesis and practical application of knowledge acquired in previous machine design courses to design an engineering unit. Students elaborate a complex project with full support of CAD programs. Graduates will be able to design a simple system design that meets the basic design requirements according to the assignment.
Competences acquired:
Ability of creative thinking within the individually assigned machine design task with the possibility to apply his / her original solution to the problem.
Ability to use design methodology in designing a machine unit, including task assignment, information collection, variant design, optimal design, component and assembly drawing, list of items and with technical report.
Knowledge of CAD support in the field of computational tools for the design dimensions of standard machine components.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-STI-A: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's, compulsory
Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization STI: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
– Design methodology fundamentals, algorithm of constructional project solution. Assignment of a constructional project.
- Design accelerator – design of dimensions.
- First calculations, design drawings, consultations.
- Design of tolerances, dimensional chains.
- Control calculations, design drawings, consultations.
- Consultation of draft drawing.
- Drawings of Parts I – consultation.
- Drawings of Parts I – evaluation.
- Assembly drawing, list of items, technical report.
- Component drawings II – tutorial, assembly drawing, list of items, technical report, consultations.
- Assembly drawing, list of items, evaluation, technical report, consultation.
- Technical report, evaluation.
- Submitting, checking the repair and completeness of the design task. Graded course-unit credit.