Module manager: Dr Hau Hing Chau
Email: H.H.Chau@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
PDES1130 Quantification Techniques for Product Design PDES1170 Statics
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module is designed to develop students’ (1) engineering analysis skills, including mathematics and mechanics, that are prerequisites for other technical modules in Levels 1, 2 and 3, and (2) the ability to apply these skills to design problems. A mixture of lectures, a practical design and build project, and a laboratory are used to encourage students to learn and apply these skills from various perspectives.
On completion of this module, students will be able to;
- apply mathematical tools and techniques to support design work, including statistics and their applications in design and research environments.
- understand mechanical principles and analysis to underpin the design and technical modules later in the product design programme.
- communicate with other technically based disciplines
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes:
1. Develop knowledge and understanding of Mathematics and an awareness of statistical methods necessary to support application of key engineering principles;
2. Appreciate the influence of basic engineering principles on Product Design;
Understand the fundamental principles of mechanical analysis relevant to Product Designers;
3. Apply quantitative methods in an Engineering context, for example, to understand the performance of components;
4. Identify and calculate typical forces and stresses within structures and components;
5. Monitor, interpret and apply results of analysis and modelling in order to bring about design improvements.
These module learning outcomes contribute to the following AHEP4 learning outcomes:
6. Apply knowledge of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles to broadly-defined problems. Some of the knowledge will be informed by current developments in the subject of study (B1)
7. Analyse broadly-defined problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles (B2)
8. Select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to model broadly-defined problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed (B3).
9. Use practical laboratory and workshop skills to investigate broadly-defined problems (B12)
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills:
1. Problem solving & analytical skills [Work ready skills]
Mathematical principles to support analysis of data and mechanical principles including
- Arithmetic manipulations and Algebra
- Functions and graphs
- Geometry and trigonometry
- Calculus
- Notions of statistics
Mechanics for designers
- Definition of forces, stresses and strains
- Moments and torques
- Newtons Laws of motion
- Elasticity, Hookes Law and elastic constants
- Pin-jointed frameworks and support conditions
- Bending moments and shear force diagrams in simple beams
- Centroids of area, neutral axis and second moment of area
- Simple beams: stress and deflection
- Work, power, energy conversion and transmission
- Rotational motion: torque, angular velocity, shear stress in shafts
Methods of assessment
The assessment details for this module will be provided at the start of the academic year
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 44 | 1 | 44 |
| Practical | 18 | 1 | 18 |
| Seminar | 22 | 1 | 22 |
| Private study hours | 116 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 84 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
An online discussion board will be monitored.
Minerva quiz after each asynchronous lecture.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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