Course syllabus

  1. Learning outcome
  2. Course syllabus

010083202-67 กลศาสตร์เครื่องจักรกล (Mechanics of Machinery)

Course Syllabus

Data entry : Dr.Kerati Suwanpakprek
1. Course number and name

010083202-67 กลศาสตร์เครื่องจักรกล (Mechanics of Machinery)

2. Credits and contact hours

3(3-0-6)

3. Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name

Dr.Kerati Suwanpakprek

4. Text book, title, author, and year

5. Specific course information

  1. brief description of the content of the course (catalog description)
    Kinematics of machinery, displacement, velocity, and acceleration analysis, cam, gear train, different types of mechanisms, synthesis of linkage, static and dynamic force analysis of machine, static and dynamic balancing machine.
  2. prerequisites or co-requisites
    010083121-67 Engineering Mechanics
  3. indicate whether a required, elective, or selected elective (as per Table 5-1) course in the program
    Required :

6. Specific goals for the course

  1. specific outcomes of instruction (e.g. The student will be able to explain the significance of current research about a particular topic.)
    1. CLO1 Identify the physical problem including determination of forces and moments acting on a mechanism and its degrees of freedom (DOF) by using Gruber criterion [PI1a]
    2. CLO2 Draw the free-body diagram, and solve for unknown reactions using Newton’s law of motion in case of static equilibrium and D'Alembert principle in case of dynamic equilibrium of a planar linkage [PI1b,c,d]
    3. CLO3 Ability to identify the kinematics of planar (2-D) motion of a mechanism in terms of linear and angular kinematics, e.g. displacement, velocity as well as acceleration [PI1a]
    4. CLO4 Ability to choose and solve for decent equations of motion among these formulation principles: force & acceleration; Application of method of virtual work to determine required input torque in order to operate such a mechanism. [PI1a,b,c]
    5. CLO5 Ability to interpret the solution for physical meaning and verify the solution with alternative equations [PI1d]
  2. explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes listed in Criterion 3 or any other outcomes are addressed by the course.
    ABET Student Outcome (SO) Listed in Criterion 3 Course learning outcome (CLO)
    SO1 an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
    • CLO1 Identify the physical problem including determination of forces and moments acting on a mechanism and its degrees of freedom (DOF) by using Gruber criterion [PI1a]

7. Brief list of topics to be covered
Week Topic Details Activities
Week 1 Introduction Fundamental: Types of links and joint, degrees of freedom, mobility, inversion etc. Describe syllabus, e-learning system Lecture on (Sec. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12) H.W. of Chapter 1 are as follows: 1.7, 1.14, 1.22, 1.30, 1.39
Week 2 Planar Linkage Design Reviews of Engineering Dynamics, Planar Linkage Design Lecture on (Sec. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4) H.W. of Chapter 3 are as follows: 3.4, 3.19
Week 3 Graphical Position, Velocity and Acceleration Analysis Position analysis: vector polygons, Velocity analysis: vector polygons, algebraic method Lecture on (Sec. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5) Quiz#1 (Announcement of #1 group project on e-learning web page, i.e., mechanism construction including a design report)
Week 4 Graphical Position, Velocity and Acceleration Analysis Acceleration analysis: vector polygons, algebraic method, Coriolis acceleration Lecture on (Sec. 4.6, 4.7, 4.8) Quiz#2 H.W. of Chapter 4 are as follows: 4.1, 4.4,4.18
Week 5 Linkage with Rolling and Sliding Contact, and Joints on Moving Sliders Linkage with Contacts Lecture on (Sec. 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7) Quiz#3 H.W. of Chapter 5 are as follows: 5.1, 5.7, 5.17
Week 5 Computational Analysis of Linkages and Spatial Mechanisms Loop closure, closed-form & iterative solutions Lecture on (Sec. 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5) Quiz#4 H.W. of Chapter 7&8 are as follows: 7.1,7.5 8.1, 8.5
Week 7 Profile Cam Design Type of Cam, Displacement Diagram, Type of follower motion (Part 1) Lecture on (Sec. 10.1,10.2,10.3)
Week 8 Profile Cam Design Cam design. (Part 2) Lecture on (Sec. 10.4,10.5) Quiz#5 (Announcement of the #2 individual project on e-learning web page, i.e., Using EXCEL or MATLAB software to design a given cam profile and draw the SVAJ diagrams including a report) H.W. of Chapter 10 are as follows: 10.1, 10.12
Week 9 Spur Gears Standard Spur Gears Lecture on (Sec. 11.1,11.2,11.3,11.4,11.5, 11.6,11.7) H.W. of Chapter 11 are as follows: 11.1
Week 10 Gear Trains Type of Gear trains, Planetary gear trains synthesis. Lecture on (Sec. 13.1,13.2,13.3,13.5) Quiz#6 H.W. of Chapter 13 are as follows: 13.1, 13.3, 13.22
Week 11 Static Force Analysis of Mechanism Static Equilibrium Lecture on (Sec. 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5) H.W. of Chapter 14 are as follows: 14.1, 14.5
Week 12 Dynamic Force Analysis of Mechanism Force analysis of machinery Lecture on (Sec. 15.1,15.2,15.3) Quiz#7 H.W. of Chapter 15 are as follows: 15.1, 15.3
Week 13 Static and Dynamic Balancing Mass balance on rotating shaft design and calculation. Lecture on (Sec. 16.1,16.2,16.3)
Week 14 Static and Dynamic Balancing Dynamics of engine. Balancing of reciprocating engine. Lecture on (Sec. 16.4,16.5) Quiz#8 (Submission Due of Project #1 and #2) H.W. of Chapter 16 are as follows: 16.3
8. Course Assessment
Course assessment Weight score (%) Assessment tools Date
Midterm Exam I 35 midterm examination 17 Aug 2026 - 21 Aug 2026
Final Exam 40 final examination 19 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2026
Homework 5 assignment 22 Jun 2026 - 16 Oct 2026
Project 20 assignment, group discussion 06 Jul 2026 - 16 Oct 2026
The grading table
Grading Rank
>= 80% A
74% - 79.99% B+
67% - 73.99% B
59% - 66.99% C+
51% - 58.99% C
46% - 50.99% D+
40% - 45.99% D
0% - 39.99% F

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