Awesome course. Waiting for new machine design part course by same instructor.

Great content, love it. Looking forward for part 2 please!

Great course!. Waiting for Part 2!

Awaiting Part 2

This class is more organized than most. In other classes, you can only download a computer transcription of the lecture, with no corrections or alterations made to it by the instructor. It certainly cannot stand on it's own as a learning tool. Also, you take the quizzes, you submit your answers, and it tells you which answers are right or wrong.

In this class you can download the slides she uses, and after you get the quiz 100% correct you can download the answer sheet (in case you just guessed at an answer and see how it was supposed to have been done).

But it's not perfect. Some slides are missing from the downloads. And in the week 5 lectures the downloaded additional notes have the equations used but are all missing the =, +, and - symbols, which makes using them for reference a pain.

Another annoying thing is that if you don't score well enough on an exam (like I didn't because I used the wrong equation for the area of a circle) you have to wait 24 hours to take it again. And there is no real time clock - when you come back the next day it still says you have to wait 24 hours and not the actual hour or two. This should be changed.

And don't bother to leave a question on the material or an exam - there is no one to answer your note. You're on your own kid.

And this is only Part 1. A Part 2 and 3 was promised 6 years ago but has so far not shown up.

I did learn some things from this class even though I'm an engineer with 20 years of experience and took it as a refresher class. But if I do see a Part 2 or 3 I'll be taking it.

The professor is good in communicating the concepts. But you may need to go through the text book before you begin the course. The best part about the course is the emphasis on the examples and the real life application of Machine Design principles. The best part of the entire course is the part on fatigue. I have not seen any book that has explained the concept of fatigue so well. The course will be finished with a breeze if you have your Mechanics of Material and Mechanics of rigid bodies in good command

I am waiting for the other parts of Machine design since 1 year.

Thank you, Dr Wingate, for an excellent course. The content was clearly structured and explained with examples. What a great combination of practice problems, quizzes and final exam. It helped a lot to have worked solutions (including 'thoughts') after each attempt at the questions because I could learn from best practice in terms of initial thoughts on the problem and steps in the analysis. It kept me engaged and determined to work harder and dig deeper. It was the kind of challenge I was looking for. I found it difficult sometimes to visualize the forces and I'll look for some software online. It would be interesting to get some insight into where the components we analysed might be used in practice. Dr Wingate, many thanks for the very substantial effort in designing and delivering this course.

This is a very wonderful course by Dr. Kathryn Wingate. The entirety of the course are well put together, right from the introduction to the end of the course is just A grade! I love the way Coursera structured the course progression by ensuring one pass the previous module quiz before the next module is made available. I would so much like it if Dr. Kathryn Wingate can put this kind of wonderful piece together for us in Machine Design 2. In fact, my initial intention for enrolling in Machine Design class was to learn about Machine Component Design but at last, she made me realize I would need to know about machine failure first before even talking about component design. Thanks so much for this great study!

I thoroughly enjoyed every tutorial in the course. The quizzes are exceptionally well-structured, enhancing critical thinking from a design perspective. I am genuinely grateful for such a meticulously organized course, as it has surpassed my expectations in terms of the skills and knowledge gained. I want to extend a special thanks to the instructor, Dr. Kathryn Wingate, whose expertise and guidance have been invaluable throughout the course. Dr. Wingate, you are truly exceptional, and I appreciate your efforts immensely. Also, I want to mention that you are beautiful. Thank you once again for offering such an outstanding learning experience.

I found the course very helpful. The material selection and considerations especially nomenclature and Ashby plots is not often taught as part of Machine Design but is a prerequisite for successful design and this course covered it very well. I found the Marin factor and stress concentration modules very interesting. The best thing I liked about the course was that the concepts were related to practical case studies such as Aircraft wing testing and Aircraft accident. The learner can understand much better as compared teaching abstract concepts. Thank you very much to Georgia Tech faculty and staff.

This is really a good course for people looking basic design analysis and introduction to machine design. The examples provided are apt and really interesting, like the hip surgery and Boeing airplane testing. The references are great, I have always followed metric units but the course is neutral grounds for people so I did not find any troubles on that part. I believe more courses of this series would be fun to complete. And for everyone looking forward to this course, I would say definitely do it, it would not take much of your time and the skills you would acquire are must for knowledge prospect.

I would just like to say that it really works. Yes, it works, especially this amazing course taught by Dr. Kathryn Wingate, an excellent docent. Now, I feel much more confident as a junior Engineer, in Machine/Mechanical Design, thanks to the opportunity offered by both GeorgiaTech and Dr. Kathryn Wingate to enhance my knowledge and analytical skills on this branch. The environment of learning is perfect which includes: explaining, online materials, learning methodology, exercises, Dr. Kathryn Wingate's willingness to cover this course, and everything else. Highly recommended from me.

Material is very well outlined, clear, examples cover much of what normally you could find in real life. the idea of evaluating on a short quiz keeps you alert and vigilant of your progress. I am not new in fatigue analysis, and found it very good to remember my old college days.

I do however suggest, a little more in depth analysis of fluctuating stresses on much more complicated systems, such as shafts. But I presume this might be included in a second part which I would like to bee published soon. (machine elements, screws, fasteners, gears etc.)

thank you for this course. Miss Kathryn Wingate ma'am for teaching us and guide us. this course very help me in solving fatigue failure problem and also made me more confident in static as well as in fatigue problem. i personally prefer this course to every mechanical engineer. i am eagerly waiting for MD part 2 and other course from Georgia Tech. i wish Kathryn ma'am will also teach us in future.

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You're going to need to be patient. Your answers will vary a lot from the answers in the quiz but keep on trying. Don't approximate too much, try to keep your answers to 2-4 decimal points. The lecturer explains extremely well. You get a see a fatigue test of an airplane, it's very exciting to watch. Overall good, would highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn about failure theories, very comprehensive.

Course content was good but found instructors presence in discussion forum somewhat lacking.Questions asked in the forum remain unanswered more so related to case studies.Coursera certificate design is also sub par with the instructor’s signature barely legible(only artifacts) and no watermark.Would request Georgia Inst. and coursera to at least look into the certificate aspect.

I a really good course! It is extremely useful to remember concepts, improve the application in problem solving and, above all, strengthen knowledge. It is recommended to have already known the topics to be able to solve the challenges prior to the explanation, but it is not too difficult if you do not know them since it is didactic from the beginning. Excellent course!

I extremely recommend this course to all mechanical engineering students, the course is simplified and well-organized. And thanks to Dr. Kathryn Wingate, she organized the course brilliantly and arranged the topics appropriately. I liked the way she linked theory knowledge to practical examples from her abundant experience. I really benefited from this course.

Un curso excelente de diseño mecánico que sirve adecuadamente como un complemento a clases presenciales. Tiene un bajo nivel de dificultad para estudiantes familiarizados con el tema de teorías de falla, sin embargo, los ejemplos vistos en clase son sencillos y son muy buenos para principiantes y excelentes como re paso para estudiantes veteranos o graduados.

I have to say that this course was so fun and informative! I came in thinking that this was going to be a refresher but there was so much that I had learned from this course. It really got me excited to learn more. Also, the instrutor was absolutely amazing. She made it so easy to understand everything that she presented! I hope there is a Part II soon!

Very good course for beginners. Explanations are short and concise and very clear. Don't know how Part 2 is organized, but I think it would be nice to have also an introduction to CAD/CAE softwares like Inventor or SOLIDWORKS and to solve some of the examples with those softwares so people is aware of the existing numerical possibilities.

dr.kathryn is very professional and she simplify theories to perfectly understanding i become more understanding all f course contents and be more sufficient in machine design

i would to thank the doctor for her explaining

and thank georgia institude of technology for this useful course

Es un curso excepcional. La exposición realizada por la Dra. Kathryn Wingate, es clara y precisa. Estoy esperando la segunda parte del curso. Muchas gracias Dra. Kathryn.

It is an exceptional course. The presentation by Dr. Kathryn Wingate is clear and precise. I am waiting for the second part. Thank you very much Dr. Kathryn

If you are looking for an introductory course on various fatigue theories this is a good course for such. The first 2 weeks are a review of mechanics of material. Notably the various individual and combined stresses experienced in beams and shafts. Weeks 3-5 is where such fatigue theories as Goodman and Mohr begin.