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22-Mec-B5 Product Design and Development: December 2016

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  1. Question 1 Improving the Cost Effectiveness of a Car Roof Rack for Bicycles
  2. Question 2 Design for Manufacture and Assembly
  3. Question 3 Radical and Incremental Design
  4. Question 4 Non-disclosure Agreements and Securing Intellectual Property
  5. Question 5 Design, Materials, Processes and Canadian Productivity
  6. Question 6 Enhancing Reliability and Robustness
  7. Question 7 Material Selection for a Kitchen Table and a Computer Case

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Paper format. National Exams, December 2016 — 07-Mec-B5 Product Design and Development. Three hours; open book, with a Casio or Sharp calculator permitted. Question 1 is compulsory and carries 40 marks; four of the remaining six questions are chosen, each worth 15 marks, for 100 marks. Six 15-mark questions are printed (130 marks on the page against 100 attempted), and only the first five questions appearing in the answer book are marked. Most answers are expected in essay form or as tables, figures and charts, and the marking scheme on the last page splits every question into its sub-parts. All seven questions are answered here so that the paper works as a complete study resource.

Reference texts. Ulrich & Eppinger, Product Design and Development (McGraw-Hill); Dieter & Schmidt, Engineering Design; Pahl & Beitz, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach; Boothroyd, Dewhurst & Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly; Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design; Kalpakjian & Schmid, Manufacturing Engineering and Technology; O’Connor & Kleyner, Practical Reliability Engineering; Ross, Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering; Vaver, Intellectual Property Law (Irwin Law, Canada). None of these appear in the shared mechanical citation file, so each is cited in place.