Dieter & Schmidt, "Engineering Design", Mcgraw Hill Education (India) Edition 2013
Dieter & Schmidt, "Engineering Design", Mcgraw Hill Education (India) Edition 2013
The Academic Committee in its meeting held on 23-1-2016 has taken the following decisions
regarding the Design &Engg course offered in the second semester of B.Tech programme
1. The following evaluation system is approved for Design & Engineering Course
(i) First internal exam closed book exam 25 marks
(ii) Second internal exam open book exam 25 marks
(iii) Assignment/projects 50 marks
(iv) End semester exam open book exam 50 marks ( 2 hours duration conducted
by the University)
2. Recommended to include one more reference book given below in the syllabus
Dieter & Schmidt, Engineering Design, McGraw Hill Education ( India) Edition
2013
Marks: 25
Closed Book;
Open Book:
Students are permitted to bring in class notes, own notes, text books and other books (
Maximum 3/4 books) for the test. Access to internet and mobile phones is NOT
permitted.
See the model Semester QP to get an idea of the type of questions for an Open Book
examination. Train the students in sketching out the design ideas.
Assignments: Marks: 20 Two assignments are to be given (10 marks each). These
assignments are to cover specific design/s, sketching of the design, and a short but
well written write-up on the design.
Projects:
Marks: 30 Two mini projects are to be assigned. One is to be a group project
and the other an individual one. A group of 3 or 4 students can take up the group
project. Each project is to be evaluated for 15 marks.
The Group Project is to be done in the practical hours given for the course. Projects
including the group projects are to be evaluated based on individual presentations and
answers to the questions raised. These presentations could be done during the
practical hours.
Max.Marks: 50
Time: 2 hrs
Students can use class notes, own notes, earlier assignments and any of the text or reference
books in this examination. However access to internet and mobile phones is NOT permitted.
Use simple sketches to explain the design.
Written details should be limited to less than 20 lines
1. Think of any two design changes for an ordinary soap box that can add value to it.
4. Computer mouse has certain features (two press buttons and the scrolling wheel) that can be
given any shape. It can be a flat one, a cylindrical one or a hemispherical one. But the common
mouse design is different from the above shapes.
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Why is this so?
Flat mouse
Cylindrical mouse
Hemispherical mouse
5. Why pencils are designed to have longer lengths than pens or a ball point pens?
6. Trees shed their leaves annually.
These leaves are fairly large - 6 to 20 cm average size.
Municipality would like to collect them for later use.
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