Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
School of Engineering

MET 306

Computer Aided Design

 

Syllabus

Announcements:

 

Labs (activities) with are to be placed on the instructor's desk before class starts on the date they are due or they are late.  You are not to be in another lab finishing up assigned work, then walking into class 10 minutes late and turning it in for full credit.  That is not fair to students who complete assignments in timely fashion.

 

There has been questions on when the class “starts”

Section 1 –  Tuesday 7:00 PM

Late work will only be accepted (subject to 10% reduction) until 5:00 pm Thursday

 Graded labs will be returned the following Tuesday during the lecture period

Important:  Your instructor has 20+ lab assignments to grade.  Most of these assignments are composed of five to six pages of documentation.  Not following directions concerning the order of sheets turned in or not stapling sheets will cost you 10% of the grade for that project.  You do not want the instructor having to try to "find" information in your documentation packet.

Note:  Assuming a vertical orientation of your papers, staples always go in the upper left corner.  Drawings printed in a horizontal format will be placed such that the top of the drawing is on the “left” in the packet.  Refer to the Handout – Stapling Sheets Together.pdf file in the EGT_121 subdirectory listed in the box below.

Downloads are available from the pro_e courseware data disk (V:\METBD_306)

Perceived Level of difficulty of all labs (student opinion)

Interesting note:

“Researchers show that even when you do learn things through multi-tasking, you compromise the quality of that learning. Foerde et al. (2006) showed that while people can and do learn things while multitasking, the learning is less flexible and more specialized. What that means is that when you go to recall something you learned while multitasking, chances you won’t do so quite as easily or readily.

In addition, the more the task requires attention and concentration, such as learning a new subject, the more your learning will be negatively affected by multi-tasking.”    John M. Grohol, Psy.D., PsychCentral.com, October 30, 2008.

 

EGT 121 Handouts; courtesy of Mr. Evans are available at: V:\_EG T 121- Handouts\EG_T_121_Handouts_S09.pdf

You can refer to these documents when creating detail drawings.

 

Color student copies are available at:  http://behrend.psu.edu/cmc/student-copies.htm

Note the copy center accepts cash, Lion Cash and personal checks.

 

Assignment

Date
(Week)

Description

Due

Lab 1

8/25

Holes, Rounds, Cuts, Draft, Detail Drawing (Review)
Inheritance Features (New)
     Additional Reading : Hiding External Sketches

Beginning of Lab 2

Lab 1 Continued

9/1

Lab 1 Continued.  Wildfire 4 interface

 

Lab 2a
Lab 2b

Lab 2c

9/8

Parallel Blends with Ordinate Dimensions (Review), Composite Curves
Top-Down Assembly (Review), Composite Curves
Swept Blends (Using neutral files, analysis information)

Beginning of Lab 3

Lab 3a
Lab 3b
Lab 3c

9/15

Surface Modeling 
Manually creating Shells w/ Surfaces
Boundary Surfaces 

Beginning of Lab 4

Homework 1

 

Lab 4a
Lab 4b

 

9/22

Software Piracy 

 

 

Modeling surface tangency (traditional), Surface creation using ISDX

10/8

 

 

Beginning of Lab 5

Homework 2

 

Lab 5

9/29

Variable Section Sweeps – How To

 

Pro/Casting

10/8

 

Beginning of Lab 6

 

Lab 6

 

10/6

 Pro/Manufacturing - Tool path generation
Vericut - Checking tool paths

 

Beginning of Lab 7

 

Homework 3

Lab 7a
Lab 7b

10/13

Forces in Truss

 

Sheetmetal

10/20

 

Beginning of Lab 8

Lab 8

10/20

Mechanism Design

Beginning of Lab 9

Semester Project

 

Part 1 

Part 2  

Part 3

10/29

11/19

12/15, 5:00 PM

Lab 9

Progress Report

10/27

Excel Spreadsheet for Engineering Design

Beginning of Lab 10

Lab 10

11/3

Expert Framework Extension

Beginning of Lab 11

Lab 11

11/10

Automation with Excel and  Pro/E using Pro/PROGRAM

Live Grading of Lab 11

Beginning of Lab 12

Lab 12a

Lab 12b

Lab 12c

11/17

Automation with Mathcad and Pro/E

 

Semester Project, Part 2 due 11/19

Beginning of Lab 13

Lab 13a

12/1

Introduction to Sensitivity/Optimization Studies with Behavioral Modeler

Beginning of Lab 14

Lab 14a 
Lab 14b 
Lab 14c 

 12/8

Applications with Behavioral Modeler

5 PM - 12/15/09