Department of Mechanical Engineering COURSE OUTLINE

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

PART A: General Information

1. Course Number ME 245

Course Title Engineering Mechanics and Theory of Machines
Credit (Contact) Hours 4.00
2. Level and Term (Section) Level 2, Term 1
Academic Term July 2023
3. Type of Course Non-Departmental course
Offered to Department of Industrial and Production Engineering
4. Pre-requisite Course(s) None
5. Course Website Designated MS Teams for the class.
6. Lecture Schedule Sec A: Sat (10 Am), Mon (11 am), Wed (10 am-12 pm) – Room: IPE 322
Sec B: Sat (9 am), Mon (12 Pm), Tue (11 am-1pm) – Room: IPE 325
7. Important Dates For important dates and examination schedules and latest updates,
please follow the course website:
Designated class in MS teams named “ME 245 (IPE): Engineering
Mechanics and Theory of Machines (July 2023)”.
Join the class with the code yha127c.
8. Course Teacher(s)
Name (Initials): Office: Email: Consultation Hour(s)
Dr. Mohammad Jane Alam Khan (JAK) ME 511A ronin@me.buet.ac.bd Saturday (3 pm - 4 pm)
Mr. Shahriar Alam (SAD) ME 401 shahriar@me.buet.ac.bd Tuesday (3 pm - 4 pm)
Mr. Md. Aminul Islam (MAIO) ME 418 aminulolin@me.buet.ac.bd Wednesday (3 pm- 4pm)

PART B: Course Details

9. Course Content (As approved by the Academic Council)
Basic concepts of mechanics; Forces in trusses and frames; Friction; Centroids and moment of inertia;
Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. Mechanisms: displacement, velocity, and acceleration; Static and
dynamic balancing of rotating components. Undamped and damped free vibration of one and two degrees of
freedom; Forced vibrations; Whirling of shafts and rotors; power transmission by ropes, belts, and chains;
Gears and gear trains; Study of cams.
10. Course Objectives
To familiarize the students with the ideas of statics, dynamics, machines, and mechanisms.
To comprehend the principles of governors, gears and gear trains, flywheel, cam- follower, and mass-
balancing.
To utilize the Laws of Mechanics to predict the effects of forces and motions of machines and
structures by solving different mathematical problems.
To realize the concept of vibrations, resonance, and oscillations.
To correlate their theoretical knowledge to the practical examples of machines that can enhance their
lateral thinking.
To design and analysis of various structural and mechanical devices found in a wide range of
engineering applications.
11. Knowledge required:
Basic level courses related to physics and chemistry.
12. Course Outcomes
CO Corresponding Domains and Delivery Assessment
No. CO Statement PO(s)* Taxonomy Method(s) and Tool(s)
level(s)** Activity(-ies)

Demonstrate free-body diagrams of real-

life problems about rigid bodies and write Lectures Class Test
the appropriate equilibrium equations PO (3) Tutorials Assignments
1 C2
from the free-body diagrams HomeWorks Final Exam
 Define and analyze fundamentals of
Lectures Class Test
mechanics and different mechanism.
PO (1) C1 Tutorials Assignments
2 in theoretical and real-life
PO (2) C4 HomeWorks Final Exam
applications
Perform numerous theoretical and
analytical techniques for investigating
Lectures Class Test
effects of forces, moments, and vibrations PO (2)
3 C3 C5 Tutorials Assignments
in equilibrium or moving mechanical PO (4) HomeWorks Final Exam
systems and machines
Assess the working principles of statics,
Lectures Class Test
dynamics, as well as various machines
Tutorials Assignments
4 and bringing to an understandable PO (2) C4
HomeWorks Final Exam
conclusion
Compare different concepts like statics,
Lectures Class Test
dynamics, links, gears, cams, etc. to
Tutorials Assignments
5 identify their appropriate uses in practical PO (1) C2
HomeWorks Final Exam
uses.

*PO (1): Engineering knowledge; PO (2): Problem analysis; PO (3): Design/development of solutions; PO (4): Investigation; PO
(5) Modern tool use; PO (6): The engineer and society; PO (7): Environment and sustainability; PO (8): Ethics; PO (9):
Individual work and teamwork; PO (10): Communication; PO (11): Project management and finance; PO (12): life-long learning

**C-Cognitive: C1: Knowledge; C2: Comprehension; C3: Application; C4: Analysis; C5: Synthesis; C6: Evaluation
A-Affective: A1: Receiving; A2: Responding; A3: Valuing; A4: Organizing; A5: Characterizing
P-Psychomotor: P1: Perception; P2: Set; P3: Guided Response; P4: Mechanism; P5: Complex Overt Response; P6:
Adaptation; P7: Organization

13. Lecture Plan

Lectures Topics Reference COs
TB-1,2
1 Introduction; Basic concepts of Mechanics CO (2,5)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-1,2
2-3 Statics of Particles and Rigid Bodies CO (1,2)
Ref. [i, ii]
Undamped and damped free vibration of one and two degrees of TB-3,4
4-7 CO (1, 2, 3, 4)
freedom; Forced vibrations. Ref. [iii, iv, v]
TB-1,2
8-10 Kinetics of Particles: Newton’s 2nd Law CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-1,2
11-14 Analysis of Structures – Forces in trusses and frames CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-3,4
15-17 Power transmission by ropes, belts and chains. CO (1, 2, 3, 4)
Ref. [iii, iv, v]
TB-1,2
18-20 Kinetics of Particles: Energy and Momentum Methods CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-1,2
21-23 Friction CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-3,4
24-27 Whirling of shafts and rotors, Gears and gear trains CO (1, 2, 3, 4)
Ref. [iii, iv, v]
TB-1,2
28-30 Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Forces and Accelerations CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-1,2
31-34 Centroids and Centre of Gravity CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-1,2
35-37 Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Energy and Momentum Methods CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-1,2
38-39 Distributed Forces: Moment of Inertia CO (1,2,3,4)
Ref. [i, ii]
TB-3,4 CO (1, 2, 3, 4,
40-44 Mechanisms: displacement, velocity, and acceleration.
Ref. [iii, iv, v] 5)
TB-3,4
45-48 Study of cams CO (1, 2, 3, 4)
Ref. [iii, iv, v]
TB-3,4 CO (1, 2, 3, 4,
49-51 Static and dynamic balancing of rotating components.
Ref. [iii, iv, v] 5)
52-53 Review class
14. Assessment Strategy
Class Participation: Class participation and attendance will be recorded in every class.
Continuous Assessment: Continuous assessment any of the activities such as quizzes, assignment,
presentation, etc. The scheme of the continuous assessment for the course will be declared on the first day of
classes.
Final Examination: A comprehensive term final examination will be held at the end of the Term
following the guideline of academic Council.

15. Distribution of Marks

Class Participation 10%
Continuous Assessment 20%
Final Examination 70%
Total 100%

16. Textbook
1. Beer, F. P. and Johnston, E. R., Vector Mechanics for Engineers (Statics and Dynamics), Publisher –
McGraw Hill Companies, 10th Edition.
2. Hibbeler, R. C., Engineering Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics)
3. Khurmi, R. S. and Gupta, Theory of Machines. (S. I. Units), J. K. Eurasia Publishing house
(Pvt)Ltd., ISBN: 9788121925242.
4. Hannah J. and Stephens, Mechanics of Machines, R.C. Bujicor pdf. 1997. (4nd
Ed.),ISBN:9788176496797.

17. References
(i) Shelley, J. F., Engineering Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics), Publisher–McGraw-Hill,1980.
(ii) Bansal, R. K., A Textbook of Engineering Mechanics, Laxmi Publications, 6th Edition.
(iii) Rattan, S. S. McGraw Hill, Theory of Machines. (5th Ed.). 2019, ISBN: 9789353166335.
(iv) Bevan, T., Pearson, Theory of Machines, (3rd Ed.). 1986, ISBN: 978-8131729656.
(v) Inman, D. J, Engineering Vibration. Printice-Hall; 2014, (4th Ed.), ISBN: 9780132871693

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Date of approval by BUGS:06 February 2023