Information About

Lecture:

MW 6:00 - 7:20 P.M. M128

Labs:

3 Hrs/Week TBD

Instructors:

Jian Cao, Room A217, Technological Institute,
Office Phone: 847-467-1032
Office Hours: Whenever available
e-mail: jcao@northwestern.edu

Professional Staff:

Milos Coric, Room AG28, Technological Institute,
Office Phone: 7-1995
Office Hours: Whenever available
e-mail: m-coric@northwestern.edu

Bob Taglia, Room LG78
Office Phone: 7-1311
Office Hours: Whenever available
Email: r-taglia@northwestern.edu

Teaching Assistants:

Neil Krishnan, Room B110, Technological Institute,
Office Phone: 847-467-1851
Office Hours: TBD
e-mail: n-krishnan@northwestern.edu

Kostyantyn A. Malukhin, Room BG41, Technological Institute,
Office Phone: 1-8984
Office Hours: TBD
e-mail: k-malukhin@northwestern.edu

Textbook:

1. Course Packet – available at Quartet Copies, 818 Clark Street, Evanston, IL 60201, Tel: 847-328-0720, Fax: 847-328-0742.

Referenses:

1. "Principles of CAD/CAM/CAE Systems" by Kunwoo Lee, published by Addison-Wesley.
2. "Dimensioning and Tolerancing Handbook", edited by Paul J. Drake, Jr., McGraw Hill,1999, Call number: 620.0045 D762.
3. "NC Machine Programming and Software Design," C-H Chang, M.A. Melkanoff, Prentice Hall, 1989, Call number: 621.9023 C456n.
4. "Systems Approach to Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing," N. Singh, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1996, Call number: 670.285 S617s.
5. "Computer Aided Manufacturing," T.C., Cheng, R.A., Wysk, H.P, Wang, Prentice Hall, 1998, Call number: 670.285 C456c.
6. "Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials," S. Kalpakjian, Addison Wesley, 1997, Call number: 670.K14m.

Course Web Site:

Northwestern Courses Site: courses.northwestern.edu
Project web sites of 2001/2002 can be found at: Course Web Site 2002
Syllabus of 2001/2002 can also be found at: Syllabus 2001/2002
Instructor ME340 web site: Course web site

Grading:

• 25% Quiz #1 (Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003)
• 20% Quiz #2 (Wednesday, March 13, 2003)
• 15% Homework
• 40% Project

ME 340-2 Course Objectives

1. Students should be able to design plastic parts with all the necessary details to assure manufacturability of the parts. Designs should be clear and understandable.
2. Students should be able to create these designs in a solid modeling software package. Unigraphics in the case of this course.
3. Students should be able to use Dimensioning & Tolerancing where appropriate to complete these designs.
4. Students should be able to generate NC machining code (i.e., G-code) of a desired shape.
5. Students should be able to understand the basic fundamentals in the core of CAD, i.e., data transformation and key characteristics of curve representations, and some CAE concepts.
6. Students should be able to grasp the essence of statistical tolerances, i.e., how to specify tolerances based on the function requirement of an assembly, how to select manufacturing processes based on the process capability and the cost model.
7. Students should be able to evaluate a measurement system and understand some principals of measurements.
8. Students will complete a full cycle 'From Art to Part', Specifically,

a. Design a plastic part to be injection molded within dimensional limits.
b. Design a plastic injection mold of the desired part
c. Create cutting paths of molds
d. Machine the tooling
e. Injection molding the parts
f. Conduct parametric study of the injection molding process
g. Measure the obtained plastic parts using a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and a portable laser scanner
h. Characterize the measuring systems
i. Complete a web page for the project

9. Students will be provided an opportunity to see how this 'From Art to Part' process is being used in industry.

ME 340-2  TENTATIVE SYLLABUS

Notes:

1. Laboratory schedule will be announced on Friday 1/10/03, around noon on course web site.
2. Homework problems will be distributed on the web and collected on Mondays.
3. Both quizzes are open-book, open-notes.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE

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