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Solid Modeling and Reverse Engineering: The Stimulus For Teaching Manufacturing

Harry L. Hess

The College of New Jersey

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Engineering programs must motivate students to participate in the globally important topic of manufacturing. Required courses may be the first and only chance to stimulate the students’ desire to study the basic concepts of manufacturing processes, organization and production systems. Unfortunately, this can be a very labored process and if the material is not geared to the creative mind, potentially outstanding engineering students may be lost to other fields. Solid modeling and reverse engineering are two highly effective methods used at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in the Department of Engineering to enliven and stimulate great subject interest in the students for the manufacturing processes and will be the subject of this paper.

The previously mentioned concepts of manufacturing processes, organization, and production systems are being taught in the Engineering Department’s Manufacturing Processes course. The required course is taken early in the engineering students’ college experience during the sophomore year and has proven to be quite positive for the students.

Because the course relies heavily on involving the students in hands-on learning activities, it assists them to better understand theoretical concepts. The hands-on approach utilizes laboratory activities and is ideally suited for teaching the concepts of design and analysis of metallic and plastics welding fabrications and castings, lathe turnings, as well as the set-up and analysis of plastics molding (injection, compression, thermoforming and extrusion blow) investigations. The laboratory environment, a custom facility containing laboratory size equipment, encourages students to develop and present solutions to manufacturing processes, organizational and production systems problems through the use of solid modeling software, solid object processing plus metallic and plastics processing facilities.

The course emphasizes the practical learning experiences approach and makes it possible for the students to: • Use modern engineering design tools • Use modern engineering manufacturing processes • Apply product design • Work in groups

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Hess, H. (2002, June), Solid Modeling And Reverse Engineering The Stimulu Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10347