ME-544 Advanced Manufacturing Process

Room: Engineering Building, Room 328, TTH 1730-1845
Instructor: Dr. Jim Burns
Office: Engineering Building, Room E105A
Office hours: MW 10:00-11:30
Email address: jburns@mail.sdsu.edu
Telephone: (619) 594-6076

This page serves as an information source for those interested in taking ME 544, as well as a resource for those already taking the course. This page includes basic course information, abstracts on current ME 544 student projects, other course related information, and links to manufacturing-related resources on the world wide web.

Course Description

Manufacturing Engineering involves the understanding and coordination of marketing, design, production engineering and factory operation - all within a financial and business context. Wealth creation through competitive manufacturing is increasingly seen as essential to the maintenance of growth in the industrialized nations. It is becoming apparent that successful industries are managed by engineers with an appropriately broad education and training. Manufacturing engineers naturally have particular expertise in the design and operation of manufacturing facilities but their role is increasingly as leaders of multi-disciplinary teams.

Text Book

The text Manufacturing Engineering and Technology by Dr. Serope Kalpakjian presents topics with a balanced coverage of relevant fundamentals and real - world practices, so that the student develops an understanding of the important and often complex interrelationships among the many technical and economic factors involved in manufacturing.

Assignments

Fall 1997 Schedule for the class
Plackett-Burmann Screening Exercise Instructions

Student Projects

• Thermographic inspection
• Lathe Vibration control
• ALFA composite materials
• Robotic filament winding
• ProENGINEER Lab Setup
• Injection molding capabilities
• Stereolithography
• Trip-steel sensor wire annealing process
• Fanuc Robot Facility
• Create ME542 web page
• Concentrated polymer suspensions