ME122 - Processing of Materials in Manufacturing
Spring 2012 with Professor Youssefi
This class taught fundamentals of manufacturing methods and provided the opportunity to test 3 types of processes. The team projects are detailed below with photos.
- 3D Printing - Rapid prototyping process was used to print a hollow mobius strip with internal details that could not be easily machined. The CAD was created using surface modeling and a bonus hippo was modeled to take advantage of the hollow space inside the design.
- CNC - Computer numerical control was used to machine a hippo submerged in water. This design was a free form surface that might be difficult to machine accurately by hand and had no overhanging features. We also generated and verified the tool path before sending to the machine for production.
- Water Jet - We designed a 3D hippo puzzle made of 2D pieces for the water jet project. Hippo skeleton was cut out for part complexity.