Course Details
- Course Code: OS-TT-VME301
- Mode of Delivery: Onsite
- Duration: 36 Months
- Price: On Request
Mechanical Engineering
Course Overview
The programme is a three-year course. The first year is the foundation, where candidates are immersed in subjects like communication skills, soft skills, work ethics, engineering maths and science, as well as technical & practical skills relevant to their chosen field. These subjects will prepare them for more specialised units as they progress to the next year. Year 2 is the Core Specialisation which exposes students to a more specialised field of trade. Year 3 is the Advanced Specialisation which takes students further to their specialised units. Core and specialist units engage them to be more industry-ready or university qualified.
Those with a General Education Certificate who wish to pursue vocational studies.
Candidates looking for admission to the programme must have attained at least a General Education Diploma (Grade 12) from the Sultanate of Oman or its equivalent qualification approved by the Omani MoHERI (Ministry of Higher Education Research and innovation) In all cases, it is required for the candidates to undergo a pre-assessment to establish their current academic level, especially in English, Engineering Mathematics, Science and ICT.
Candidates on successful completion of the three-year programme are entitled to a ‘Vocational Diploma” attested by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
Other Details
Indicative Modules Only
Engineering Product Design and Manufacture
- Statistical methods
- Data handling
- Graphical representation
- Validating designs
- Objective referencing
- Indirect benefits and opportunities
- Balancing benefits and opportunities
- Further modifications
Thermodynamic Principles and Practice
- Thermodynamic parameters:
- Fundamental parameters of thermodynamics:
- Thermodynamic temperature, including absolute temperature
- Ratio of specific heat
- Linear thermal expansion
- sensible heat
- latent heat: latent heat of fusion, latent heat of vaporization
- thermal energy
- thermal power/or heat transfer rate
- Thermodynamic process parameters:
- absolute pressure
- reversible and irreversible transformations
- constant volume process
- constant pressure process
- Ideal Gas Laws – Boyle's law and Charles's Law
Conversion between temperature scales.Investigating Incidents and Observations at Work Module
- Reasons for investigating incidents and observations
- Incident reporting
- Incident causation models
- Which events should be investigated?
- Incident investigation teams
- Investigation tools and techniques
- Interviewing witnesses
- Improvement strategies and action planning
By the end of the course the candidate will be able: (Indicative Objectives Only)
- To communicate efficiently and effectively in an engineering environment.
- To communicate efficiently and effectively in an engineering environment through IT skills.
- To develop knowledge and practical application of statutory regulations and organizational safety requirements to enable them to work safely.
- To carry out a range of relevant assembly methods & techniques on engineering.
- To carry out a mechanical maintenance task safely on an engineering product or system.
- To understand the fault finding and routine maintenance in mechanical system and components.
- To examine engineering processes to create products or deliver services safely and effectively as a team.
- To apply knowledge and understanding of engineering methodologies, processes, features and procedure to iterative design.