Important course booking guidelines

Researcher Academy courses are very popular and the majority are run in both semesters to give you the opportunity to attend at a time of the year that suits you.Semester 1 courses will be available for booking from the second week of October and Semester 2 courses from the second week of February.

Target audience:

Primarily, 1st year PhD Students registered at the Faculty of Engineering. Course will be available to all researchers registered at the University of Nottingham who need ABAQUS skill in their projects. This module is ideal for new researchers with no previous Computational Finite Element Analysis skills.

Taught Period:

Prerequisites: ‘A’ level of Mathematics or equivalent experience, programming logic and some understanding of basic mechanics including forces, moments and equilibrium is preferable, however the course is delivered at a very basic level.

Corequisites: Good computational skills and understanding are suggested

Summary of Content: This module includes development of modelling and analysis techniques within ABAQUS to enable the student to create, to display and to analyse Finite Element Analysis Problems.

Method and Frequency of class:

Activity	Number of weeks	Number of Sessions	Duration of a Session
Practical	4 weeks	1 per week	2 hours

Further Activity Details: Students will be expected to make use of the software in order to complete work, outside the timetabled classes.

Method of Assessment:

Assessment type	Weight	Requirements
Coursework	100	Modelling Assignment

Course Mentor: Dr David Hann

Education Aims: To provide students with some practical ABAQUS/FEA skills particularly for use in project work. Also to provide students with an awareness of the computational tools available for use within the PhD Studies.

Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this module students will be able to:

• Apply core engineering and mathematical principles to evaluate FEA system analyses and appreciate their limitations.

• Identify data sources, extract and synthesise data from various sources to create models and analyses.

• Identify and critically evaluate developing FEA tools and techniques.

• Understand and appreciate the principles of Finite Element Analysis process within the context of ABAQUS.

• Justify and communicate techniques selected for model generation and analysis.

• Provide visualisations as computer models of a product, component or system.

Offering School: Researcher Academy/Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

Booking Guidelines

Latecomer policy

Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment
When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk). This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

              It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.