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MAE 5200 : Dimensional
tolerancing in Mechanical Design
Update: 21-Nov-09
Catalog Description
Fall or Spring: 2 credits.
Seven-week half-term. Prerequisites: MAE 2250 or an equivalent CAD-based design
course, plus 2.5 years of engineering mathematics including probability and
statistics.
Designers use dimensional
tolerances to limit spatial variations in mechanical parts and assemblies; the
primary goals are interchangeability in assembly, performance, and cost. This
course covers traditional limit tolerances briefly, but focuses mainly on
modern geometric tolerances and their role in assembly control. Students learn
how to represent assemblies in terms of mating and relational constraints and
how to design tolerances and inspection procedures from part and assembly
specifications.
Course Description &
Assessment
See
Working Document 1 below. The Outcomes Assessment for the F'07 course (the most
recent prior offering) is in MAE5200_Course_Outcomes_Assessment_F'07.pdf
.
F'09
Course Offering
MWF,
11:15 – 12:05, Upson 207, beginning 5-Oct-09 and ending 23-Nov-09; final exam
30-Nov-09
Working Documents
4) Allowances_and_Tolerances_for_Fits.pdf
5) http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2009/September/Exact_Construction.cfm
7) 2009_Sample_Exam_Questions.pdf
8) 2009_Course_Improvement_Survey.pdf
History of the Course
An experimental half-term,
2-credit tolerancing course was taught once in 1991/1992 as MAE 520. Elements of that course were subsumed into the
various full-term 'manufacturing' courses taught as MAE 514 between 1993 and
2005. In F'06 MAE 520 was revived as a half-term, 2-credit tolerancing course
to strengthen Cornell's offerings in mechanical design, and to serve as a vehicle
for codifying advances in tolerancing theory and practice
For more information,
contact
Professor H. B. Voelcker
190 Rhodes Hall