Mechanical Engineering
From your Discipline Director, Sara Domingues, take a look at her reviews for some Mechanical Engineering courses!
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First Year
Course Name
Useful Links
Materials Science on YouTube
Student Review
- Course is textbook heavy (read every night)
- Do practice problems from slides
- Assignments are from textbook
- Midterm/Exam are straight from textbook examples and lecture notes
- Labs are done in groups; time consuming but fun
- Course notes are usually not posted, so attend lectures
- Study halls are SUPERRR helpful
- Passable course
- My personal favourite
Course Breakdown
Assignments – 7.5%
Experiments – 17.5%
Midterm Test – 20%
Final Examination – 55%
Total: 100%
To pass the course, a student must:
● achieve a minimum overall grade of 50%, and
● achieve at least 50% in the weighted combination of the midterm test and the final
exam.
Additional Info
Common concepts on tests:
- Atomic structure
- Atomic bonding in materials
- Crystallinity
- Lattice structure
- Crystal systems
- X-ray diffraction
- Amorphous materials
- Imperfections and diffusion in solids
- Phase diagrams and phase transformations
- Structures of metals, polymers and ceramics
- Corrosion and degradation.
- Thermal and electrical properties of materials
Strengthen your foundation with lessons from McGill University
- Textbook Recommend
- Attend lectures (very helpful)
- Ask TA questions via email or during lab
- Ask your prof questions too
- Protractor, HB and 2H pencils needed
- Solidworks has a lot of useful tutorials on youtube and on the actual software
- First couple of computer labs are usually the tutorials, so you can practice before
- SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!!! Always save 15 minutes before submission, and periodically during your lab
- Name files correctly
- Don’t use a ruler (50% penalization)
- Lots of marks are offered for the manual studios & exams, so it is also a passable course
- Solidworks can be brutal at first
- No study halls provided
Term Test I (Theory & Manual) 15%
Term Test II (CAD) 15% (SolidWorks)
Lab Work:
CAD Assessment (1) 7% (SolidWorks)
CAD & Manual Studios 24%
Academic Integrity Quizzes 4% (online quizzes via D2L)
Final Exam (Theory & Manual) 35%
Total: 100%
To pass the course, a student must:
● achieve a minimum overall grade of 50%,
● achieve at least 50% in the weighted combination of the term tests and the final exam,
and
● achieve at least 50% in the weighted combination of all lab work.
CAD TESTS:
Know these features on Solidworks:
– revolve
– boss extrude
– extrude cut
– hole wizard
– shell
– fillet
– counterbord
– pattern feature
– section/auxillary views
DRAWING TESTS:
– look through previous examples done in class/at labs/previous exams
– threaded fasteners (table questions from notes)
– development questions
– sectioning assembly
– hole tolerancing problems
– auxillary view questions
– dimensioning always included
