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ME 313: Manufacturing Processes, Fall 2005 (Turng), formerly Course Homepage of Turng

ME 313: Manufacturing Processes, Fall 2005 (Samuel), formerly Course Homepage of Samuel

ME 313: Manufacturing Processes, Spring 2005 (DeVries), formerly Course Homepage of instructor DeVries

ME 313: Manufacturing Processes, Spring 2004 (Pfefferkorn)

ME 313: Manufacturing Processes, Fall 2001 (Li), formerly Course Homepage of Li

ME 313: Manufacturing Processes, Spring 2000 (Smith)

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313 Manufacturing Processes. I, II; 3 cr. A quantitative and qualitative study of manufacturing processes for metals, plastics and ceramics including machining and forming; plastics and powder metallurgy; and welding and casting. Emphasis on process selection for optimum design. Laboratory experiments and demonstrations. Quality, strength, and economic evaluations. P: MS&E 350 or cons inst.

Course Prerequisite(s)

MS&E 350 or cons inst.

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Basic metallurgical structures
Phase diagrams, equilibra and metastability
Rate and growth processes in solids
Stress and strain and material properties

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Kalpakjian, Serope and Steven R. Schmidt, Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Fourth Edition, 2001, Prentice-Hall Inc.
T. Osswald, Polymer Processing Fundamentals, Hanser Publishers, Munich, 1998
Course materials for laboratory sessions from Bob's Copy Shop (Randall St.) required

Course objectives

To gain an understanding and appreciation of the breadth and depth of the field of manufacturing
To recognize the strong interrelationships between material properties and manufacturing processes
To become familiar with some of the basic metal cutting, forming, welding, casting, and polymer processes
To learn and apply the basic terminology associated with these fields
To increase your knowledge and broaden your perspective of the manufacturing world in which many of you will contribute your talents and leadership

Topics covered

Material forming processes including extrusion, wire drawing, and sheet metal shearing, bending, stretching and drawing
Material removal processes including cutting tools and machine tools
Welding processes and process selection
Welding design, costs and thermal distortions
Metal casting processes, design and applications
Properties and behavior of plastics
Plastic and metal powder processing

Class/laboratory schedule

There are two fifty-minute lectures and one three-hour laboratory period each week

ME 313 is divided into three five-week sessions. The three lecture sections rotate through the course in groups of approximately 36 students. Students spend five weeks in metal cutting and forming (Professor DeVries), five weeks in welding and casting (Dr. Samuel) and five weeks in polymer processing (Professor Osswald).

Each session of the course is separately graded with a composite grade determined from the average of the grades earned in each of the three sessions.

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

As a part of the learning environment, ME 313 contains aspects of the following: economic, environmental, ethical, societal, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability considerations.

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

ME 313 supports the following program objectives of the mechanical engineering department:

ME 313 applys mathematical tools and scientific principles to a variety of manufacturing process applications through assigned homework problems and laboratory acivities. ME 313 conducts weekly experiments on a variety of manufacturing processes in which performance characteristics are measured, analyzed and interpreted, and communicated through written reports. ME 313 provides the student with a solid foundation of manufacturing processes that builds upon the materials background provided in MS&E 350. ME 313 strengthens team building skills through group activities in laboratory settings. ME 313 provides one of the necessary tools, namely a knowledge of manufacturing processes, that enables the student to carry out this activity through homework and laboratory assignments. ME 313 through the professional and ethical standards demonstrated by the faculty teaching the course aspects of professionalism and ethics are introduced into lectures when appropriate. ME 313 requires the student to perform an experiment requiring a compreshensive formal laboratory report in which the writing skills anre evaluated and influence the report grade. Through the extensive industrial experiences of the senior faculty teaching this course numerous practical examples are brought into the classroom and laboratory. ME 313 provides the student with a background in manufacturing processes that, inturn, provide the student with the capability to better understand the design and realization of engineered products and systems.

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

Students are graded on a combination of homework exercises, laboratory assignments and reports (some formal) as well as hour examinations.

Person(s) who prepared this description

Tim A. Osswald
Jay M. Samuel

Copyright 2007 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Date last modified: 04-Aug-2007
Content by: deptinfo@me.engr.wisc.edu
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