References:

Goals:

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

select the appropriate prototyping technology for a given design, analysis, or manufacturing situation,

understand the causes of geometric form errors and material property anomalies inherent in rapid prototyping technologies,

apply rapid prototyping technologies appropriately in a substantial engineering design-manufacture project,

operate 2-3 rapid prototyping machines.

Prerequisites by topics:

Topics:

Prototyping requirements in engineering design

Physical principles of rapid prototyping technologies

Principles of SLA, FDM, LOM, SLS, concept modelers, Capabilities and limitations, Applications in product development
 

Selection of RP processes

Selection decision making, Characterizations of processes, Development of evaluation criteria
 

Role of prototyping in engineering design

Resource allocation for prototyping, Cycle time compression,

Separation of design and manufacturing (new design-for-manufacture paradigm)
 

Geometric error measurement

Basics of metrology, Computer-aided verification
 

Design Project

Applications in design (possibly focus on design of RP machines)

Applications in manufacturing
 

Laboratory

Training on each RP technology in RPMI (what to do and how to do it)

Accuracy and calibration experiments on SLA

RP process selection

Training on CMM

Design project

Delivery mode (%):

Grading:

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Revised July 2004