Advanced Manufacturing

This course provides an overview of the materials and processes and quality assurance topics used in commercial and specialized manufacturing products. Emphasis is placed on process evaluation techniques that can be extrapolated to other system areas such as new products and new technology. Emphasis is also placed on quality assurance including the history of the quality movement, group problem solving, and statistical methods such as statistical process control (SPC), process capability studies, and the concepts associated with lean manufacturing.

This course introduces students to concepts that enable them to think like a designer when approaching architectural, engineering and additive manufacturing tasks. Emphasis will be placed on design and problem-solving skills when working independently, or with a team. This course focuses on giving students exposure to creativity, problem solving skills, and the design processes in which a design-centered approach will be employed to develop innovated solutions. This course includes components to develop basic skills to express innovated solutions to design problems with the application of projects, drawings, as well as oral and written communication skills. Students will be introduced to related computer-based tools used by architect, engineers, and design manufacturers, (e.g., spreadsheet, word processing, presentation software, and Internet).

This is an introduction to project base learning. This course will involve research, team skills, the collaboration of trades, outsourcing, manufacturing management that emphasizes synthesis through collaborative learning. Students integrate and apply previous knowledge, skills, and experiences they learned in their major and other academic courses to complete individual & team-based projects. The course emphasizes communication skills, critical thinking, problemsolving, computer literacy, and teaming skills.

This course is designed to teach fundamental concepts of size description by geometric methods including appropriate engineering controls. Emphasis is placed on the drawing and application of common geometric dimensioning and tolerancing symbols to engineering drawings as designated by the latest ANSI/ASME Standards. Upon completion, students should be able to use geometric dimensioning and tolerancing symbols in applying size information and manufacturing controls to working drawings.

This course covers techniques involved when grouping related machines for the purpose of completing a series of manufacturing processes in a flexible manufacturing cell. The student will be involved with the computerized integration of programmable control systems such as robotics, machine tools, and other peripheral equipment to emulate real-world manufacturing concepts employed in flexible manufacturing cells.

This is a project or research-oriented course that emphasizes synthesis through collaborative learning. Students integrate and apply previous knowledge, skills, and experiences they learned in their major and other academic courses to complete individual & team-based projects. Students will perform an individual new concept project and a group, industry-based live project to demonstrate they know the skills learned in the program of study. At the end of the semester, students will be required to present their group project to an industry. The course emphasizes communication skills, critical thinking, problem solving, computer literacy and teaming skills.  NOTE:  This course is usually taken during the last two (2) semesters of the program of study.

This course emphasizes reverse engineering techniques and quality control inspection of parts employing 3D printing, scanning, and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM technologies). The emphasis is on using applicable software to convert scanned images from point cloud data into 3D models. The process will allow using software to clean up point cloud data, create airtight 3D models, run a comparison analysis of collected data to solid, improve or reproduce a scanned part, print the part and then perform an inspection using CMM probe for additional analysis and comparison.

This class is a study of the different Industrial Energy sources and the ethical and Government regulations associated with these sources of energy.

Students in this course explore the latest in energy technologies and how they are designed to increase efficiencies, protect the environment, and streamline processes. Students discover how some of the new technologies have been around for quite some time and the reasons they are capturing new attention.

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to green production in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include? Train workers in environmental issues? Implement and promote environmental programs, projects, policies or procedures? Conduct environmental incident and hazard investigations? Conduct preventive environmental inspections? Monitor environmental aspects at each stage of productions? Implement continuous improvement in environmental assurance? Use advanced materials in production to reduce waste? Reprocess materials by recycling and reuse This course is equivalent to WKO 135. Students completing this course will receive an MSSC certificate in green production.