Credit Hours:

3-0-3

Prerequisites:

ME 3210 or equivalent; or with the consent of the instructor

Catalog Description:

Materials processing analysis and selection. Manufacturing systems design. Economic analysis.

Textbooks:

S. Kalpakjian and S. Schmid, Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, 6th Ed., Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (2017)

J. Tlusty, Manufacturing Processes and Equipment, 1st Ed., Reading MA: Addison-Wesley (1999)

Instructors:

Jonathan Colton

Goals:

• To provide students with an integrated treatment of the analysis of traditional and non-traditional manufacturing processes, their selection and planning, within an economic framework.
• To be able to select the appropriate combination of processes and equipment to manufacture a part through a deep understanding of the analysis of manufacturing processes.

Topics:

• Review of material properties and behaviors
• Review of manufacturing processes
• Process economics
• Solidification Processes
• Deformation Processes
• Sheet Metal Processes
• Material Removal Processes
• Polymer and Composites Processing
• Welding / Joining

Course Format:

The course will be taught in two segments. The first segment will introduce the fundamental topics. These will provide a common background for all of the students and for the second segment of the course. The second segment will focus on the analysis of specific processes. Students will examine and analyze representative products and determine the most cost effective set of processes that will produce the product. A manufacturing system design and analysis will be a typical output, carried out in group mini-projects.

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