Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions/week, 1.5 hours/session   

Prerequisite    

2.007 Design and Manufacturing I

Co-Requisites

2.017 Design of Electromechanical Robotic Systems 

and (2.005 Thermal-Fluids Engineering I or 2.051 Introduction to Heat Transfer)

Note: Corequisites are subjects that must be taken concurrently.

Mission Statement

Manufacturing is how we satisfy human need and create wealth. The challenge is to produce products that are responsive to customers with high quality and low cost. A graduate of this course should have the tools and confidence to go into any manufacturing entity that is using an unfamiliar process/system to make a product he/she has not seen, and yet be able to make intelligent decisions.

Scope

This course introduces you to modern manufacturing with four areas of emphasis: manufacturing processes, equipment/control, systems, and design for manufacturing. The course exposes you to integration of engineering disciplines for determining manufacturing rate, cost, quality, and flexibility. Topics include process physics, equipment design and control, quality, design for manufacturing, and systems design and operation. Labs are integral parts of the course, and expose you to various manufacturing fundamentals and practices.

Objectives

• Internalize the attributes along which the success or failure of a manufacturing process, machine, or system will be measured: rate, quality, cost, and flexibility.
• Provide exposure to a range of current industrial processes and practices used to manufacture products in high volume, high quality, and low cost. Focus in depth on a few selected processes.
• Apply physics to understand the factors that control the rate of production and influence the quality, cost, and flexibility of processes.
• Apply an understanding of variation to the factors that control the production rate and influence the quality, cost, and flexibility of processes and systems.
• Understand the role of control in processes and systems, especially in view of the presence of variations.
• Provide exposure to a range of manufacturing system constraints.
• Understand the impact of manufacturing constraints on product design and process planning.

Textbook

Kalpakjian, S. Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN: 9780135228609.

Credit and Workload

This course is a 12-unit subject. Each week, on the average, the course requires 3 hours of lecture, 5 hours of laboratory, group meetings, preparation for the laboratory, and report writing, and 4 hours of study and homework. Six units may be applied to the General Institute Lab Requirement.

Grading Policy

Your grade will be based on your overall performance in class, labs, group meetings, and quizzes. They count approximately as follows:

The quizzes are closed-book and cover material from the lectures as well as the labs. One sheet of handwritten notes is allowed.