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Mechanical Engineering - MEEN 301

Manufacturing Processes and Materials

  • Introduce manufacturing
  • Explain the design process
  • Introduce the material selection
  • Explain the properties of materials
  • Introduce the computer-integrated manufacturing
  • Introduce the quality in manufacturing process
  • Explain the crystal structure of metals
  • Analyze the basic atomic arrangements
  • Explain the body centered cubic
  • Explain the face centered cubic
  • Analyze the hexagonal close packed
  • Determine plastic deformation
  • Explain the slip plane and slip system
  • Explain the grain and grain boundaries
  • Introduce the properties of materials:
    • Tension
    • Test specimen
    • Test setup
    • Tension test
    • Stress-strain curve
    • Hooke’s law
    • Ductility
    • True stress and true strain
    • Torsion
    • Bending
    • Hardness
    • Fatigue
    • Creep
  • Explain the types of fractures
  • Introduce the physical properties of materials
    • Density
    • Melting points
    • Thermal conductivity
    • Thermal expansion
    • Electrical properties
    • Magnetic properties
    • Corrosion resistance
  • Introduce the metal casting process
  • Classify the casting process
  • Introduce sands
  • Explain the types of sand molds
  • Analyze the major components of sand molds
  • Introduce the cores
  • Explain the sand molding machines
  • Introduce the sand lingers
  • Explain the sand casting operations
  • Inspect the casting
  • Discuss the melting practice and furnaces
  • Introduce the extrusion of metals
    • The extrusion process
    • Extrusion practice
    • Hot extrusion
    • Cold extrusion
    • Impact extrusion
    • Hydrostatic extrusion
  • Find extrusion defects
  • Explain the extrusion equipment
  • Introduce rolling the metals
    • Flat rolling
    • Flat-rolling practice
    • Rolling mills
  • Explain the shape-rolling operations
  • Analyze the production of seamless tubing and pipe
  • Introduce continuous casting and rolling
  • Video display seminars:
    • Forging
    • Tube bending
    • Water Jet Cutting process
    • Casting
    • Plastic injection molding
    • Heat treating
    • Turning, lathe, milling & machining center basics
  • Field trips
  • Machine shop exercises

Prepared by Dr. Pankaj Chandra, P.E.