Instructor

N. D. Ebrahimi

    Schedule

UNM is offering this course as an online course. As such, except for three (3) semester exams, there are no required, synchronous (live) class meetings during the semester.

    Office Hours                      Appointments

Students who may have questions on the homeworks are offered a "Flipped Classroom" session on most Friday afternoons (2:00-3:00 PM) throughout the semester.

    Announcements

Urgent course updates, announcements, etc. will be sent to you via your UNM e-mail account. For this reason, it is important that you check your UNM e-mail Inbox on a very regular basis.

If you prefer to receive e-mail through other accounts (addresses), you can update your UNM preferred e-mail account at http://dss.unm.edu/.

 

    Assignments

Assignments will be given regularly. No late homework will be accepted under any circumstances.Assignments are inspected (and “graded”) for the level of effort exhibited by the student, not just for the correctness of the final answers. Working diligently on assignments constitutes the best path toward doing well in exams (and, therefore, receiving a good grade in the course). It is the responsibility of the students to make sure that they gain a high level of competency with the course subject through assignments.

 

 

    Exams Logistics

1.      Non-cumulative

2.      Quantitative as well as concept-type (multiple-choice, true-or-false, etc.) questions

3.      Range of coverage: all home works (and their supporting material) that are due before the day of exam

4.      One sheet of notes (8.5 × 11.0 in., only one side) and calculators are allowed

  5.      Cell phones, tablets, smart watches, Laptops and all other similar electronic devices are not allowed

    Point Accumulation             Grades

Grades will be curved.

• 15%: Home-works (subject to availability of funds and qualified personnel for grading)

• 85%: Three (3) Semester Exams (equally weighted) 

    Instructional Support

This resource is available only to registered students; access will be granted on the first day of the semester (check your UNM e-mail Inbox when the semester starts). You will be provided with course e-handouts as well as supplemental material (Lecture Notes, etc.).

    Textbook

Your textbook will be available through the UNM Bookstore or from online booksellers. The International version of the textbook (which is less expensive) does not include US Customary System of Units; therefore, we are not able to use this version of the book in ME 459. However, the more affordable loose leaf as well as the electronic versions and used &/or rental copies are acceptable.

So, you have the option of obtaining any one of the following book formats:

 

 

Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design; 11th edition
by Richard  Budynas and J. Keith  Nisbett
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

• Hardcover

ISBN10: 0073398217  | ISBN13: 9780073398211(Access Card is not required.)

• Textbook Rental

• Loose Leaf

ISBN13: 9781260407648

• eText

(McGraw-Hill "Connect" account is not required.)