Course Syllabus

SIE 383 - Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Spring Semester 1998

1997-98 Catalog Data:

SIE 383 - Integrated Manufacturing Systems (3) Introduction to the integrated manufacturing enterprise and automation. Topics include computer-aided design, process planning, computer numerical control machining, machine vision, application of robots and automation.. 2R, 2L, 2ES, 1ED. P, 260, MSE 331.

Text Book:

N. Singh, Systems Approach to Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing, John Wiley and Sons, 1996.

References: None

Instructor:

Suvrajeet Sen, Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering

Prerequisites by Topic:

  1. Engineering design process
  2. Numerical methods in engineering
  3. Computer literacy in running standard software packages

Method for Assessing Student Knowledge of Prerequisite Topics:

Remedial instruction offered to students as needed.

Goals:

Overall Educational Goal:

This course discusses both design as well as manufacturing, and teaches the student to appreciate the integration of these two areas.

Specific Instructional Goals:

  1. Understand tools for design, including design analysis, design optimization and graphics.
  2. Understand basic ideas in manufacturing processes and automation of processes.
  3. Understand integration of design and manufacturing, and concurrent engineering.

Course Topics:

  1. Finite Element Analysis (8 hours)
  2. Design Optimization: One Dimensional Search And Multidimensional Extension. Use Of Unconstrained Minimization For Design (4)
  3. Computer Graphics: Homogeneous Transformations, Geometric Models, Virtual Reality (4)
  4. Manufacturing Processes (8)
  5. Numerical Control And Programming (5)
  6. Process Planning (5)
  7. Manufacturing Databases (3)
  8. Concurrent Engineering (3)

Class Requirements:

  1. Three lecture sessions per week.
  2. Seven homework assignments including laboratory experience
  3. Two examinations and a final

Computer Usage:

  1. AUTOCAD
  2. Optimization Algorithms
  3. VRML Web sites
  4. APT and NC Programming

Laboratory Projects:

Engineering Drawing

Operating Table-top machines

Assessment of Course Goals:

  1. Class examinations.
  2. Case project report.
  3. Homework evaluation

Contribution to professional component:

1.

Mathematics or Basic Science

0

credits

2.

Engineering Science or Design

3

credits

3.

General Education Requirements

0

credits

4.

Major Design Experience

0

credits

Contribution to program objectives: Goals 1, 2, 4, 5

Prepared by: Suvrajeet Sen    Date:February 20, 1998

 


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