PDI module - basic applied science 2 / PDI module - basic applied science 2

Department of Technology and Innovation, Odense
Teaching activity id: PDXBAS2-U2.
Teaching language: English.ECTS / weighting: 9 ECTS / 0.150 full-time equivalent.
Period: Spring 2017.Approved: 24-10-16.
Offered in: Odense.

Subject director:
Assistant Professor Steffen Michael Sørensen, Institut for Teknologi og Innovation.

Prerequisites:
None

Content - Key areas:
MAP2
  • This course unit provides students with a deep understanding of the applications, the properties and the shaping processes of the most important engineering materials like polymers, lightweight metals and special steels.
  • The course builds on the basic course MAP1 and will provide the student with a deeper knowledge of specific material and process classes and better skills in selecting the right material and process for an application using appropriate software and literature.
  • The course strongly supports the project work when considering functionality, reliability, safety and environmental issues.
  • Company visits, external guest lecturers and problems based on real life tasks will also be part of the course.

CAD2
The drawing is a means of communication by which the designer can inform other people about its intentions, desires and requirements for the product.
The drawing is a document and a "data warehouse" containing all the technical requirements, which results in to issue proper functioning.
The drawing must contain tolerances, reflecting the theme functions.
It acts as a legal contract between the two companies when a supplier and a customer enter into an agreement to produce and deliver items from a drawing.
This is crucial for both supplier and customer, the tolerances, i.e. symbolic language that is used in the drawings, is unique, and that both sides interpret tolerances in the same way.
Today, it can only happen if both parties use the GPS matrix system.

Business Economics and Finance
The course provides the necessary insights to identify the management accounting techniques appropriate to solve particular domestic and global business problems. It provides cost accounting fundamentals with focus on decision making affecting today and the future, meaning it identify accounting information for costing, planning and budgetary systems, capital investments, pricing and key performance measurements.

Learning outcomes:
MAP2
Knowledge:
  • Corrosion Theory
  • Classification of Polymers
  • Composite materials

Skills:
  • Convert the design requirements into a prescription for selecting material and process
  • Make a Systematical material selection
  • Select Manufacturing Processes  

Competences:
  • Serve as the theoretical background to the subjects, which will be studied in a more practical context during the project work.

CAD2:
Knowledge:
  • Be able to use 3D CAD program
  • Interpret geometric tolerances
  • Prepare drawings of machine elements and bill of materials.
  • Implement tolerance calculations for dimensions.

Skills:
  • Apply various graphic forms in accordance with applicable rules and standards, including:
  • Graphic communication and engineering projection drawing
  • ISO tolerances and fits
  • Linear dimensions and tolerances
  • Geometrical tolerances, DS/ISO 1101

Competences:
  • Develop a complete set of drawings that can form the basis for production, parts lists and quality control.

Business Economics and Finance:
Knowledge:
  • Standard costs and costing systems
  • Cost allocation
  • Relevant revenue and costs for decision making
  • Capital investment analysis
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Budgeting
  • Income statement and balance sheet
  • Break-even analysis
  • External pricing
  • Key Performance Measurements

Skills:
  • Understand the importance of management and cost accounting  in the organization
  • Describe and estimate standard costs
  • Analyze and use cost behavior
  • Build up, explain and apply costing systems
  • Build up, explain and apply traditional cost allocation methods for indirect costs
  • Calculate and explain relevant costs and benefits for decision making in connection with outsourcing, replacement of equipment and utilization of constrained resources.
  • Evaluate, and choose between different investments alternatives
  • Estimate, explain and analyze capital investment decisions (NPV, IRR and payback)
  • Set up and explain income statement (P&L) and balance sheet according to alternative stock costing methods
  • Work out and evaluate a sensitivity analysis
  • Calculate and analyze cost-volume-profit relationships
  • Calculate and evaluate alternative price setting methods
  • Calculate and evaluate different key performances measurements (ROI, margin and turnover)

Competences:
  • Various theories and models for understanding, calculating and evaluating economic decision-making in organizations.
  • Estimate relevant data in connection with future capital investment and sensitivity analysis, decision making, planning, budgeting, income statement and balance sheet  

Time of classes:
Spring

Lessons:
88

Form of instruction:
Teaching will be through lectures, tutorials and discussions.
The lectures are to present the topics and will often be followed by discussions and tutorials to achieve a deeper understanding.
The lectures will also serve as the theoretical background to the subjects.

Examination conditions:
The precondition for participating in the PDXBAS2 exam is that the individual portfolio for CAD2, MAP2 and Business Economics and Finance meet the requirements announced at the start of the semester.

Evaluation
Internal written examination assessed according to the 7-point grading scale based on an overall assessment of:
  • Individual performance at the written exam (approx. 70 % of the grade)
  • Individual portfolio of hand-ins as announced at the beginning of the semester (approx. 30 % of the grade)

Programmes:
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Product Development and Innovation)
2. semester, mandatory. Offered in: Odense