PTS Guided
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How Things Work Reports (Beta)
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- Learning how some basic devices/machines work
- Developing skills to help you determine how unfamiliar
devices/machines work
- Having fun!
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![ani_pump_medium.gif (17013 bytes)](images/ani_pump_medium.gif)
Solid Model of Pump
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![model_gear_pump.jpg (4831 bytes)](images/model_gear_pump.jpg)
Pump Made
From Solid Model
[Most parts Made on LMP Abrasive Waterjet] |
![what_you_will_doin_2972.gif (5835 bytes)](images/what_you_will_doin_2972.gif)
- Take apart cool machines
- Learn how they work ( behind their operation)
- Design, solid model, and build a gear pump
- You will write a (2 - 4 page) web based report on how
something works
- We will collate these reports and start an MIT Style How Things Work Web Site!!
Emphasis is placed on
"hands-on-learning." Approximately 20% of time will be spent
in lectures and 80% in lab/workshops taking apart machines.
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![teacher-student_running_drill_pump.jpg (11373 bytes)](images/teacher-student_running_drill_pump.jpg)
Instructor Martin Culpepper (right) runs pump designed
by: Tina Rosado (shown left,) Manuel Martinez, Michael Ramirez, and David Hu
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![katin_n_jen_studying_geared_machines.jpg (11424 bytes)](images/katin_n_jen_studying_geared_machines.jpg)
Katin Shields & Jennifer Blundo work on a tape
recorder and several gear boxes. |
![students_working_on_6_cylinder_block.jpg (11361 bytes)](images/students_working_on_6_cylinder_block.jpg)
Students disect a 6 cylinder engine.
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![explaining_on_lab_switch_day.jpg (11824 bytes)](images/explaining_on_lab_switch_day.jpg)
In lab, students take apart machines, learn how they
work, then explain how they work to others |
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Gaining skill and knowledge about how things work, specifically:
Skill / Knowledge |
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How Acquired |
Understanding of how many devices operate |
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Taking a multiplicity of machines apart and
using/running them |
Ability to learn/determine how things work |
![right_pointing_arrow.gif (1042 bytes)](images/right_pointing_arrow.gif) |
Lectures and lab exercises on using
geometry/structure, physics, and flow (material, information, energy, etc...) in
machines/devices to determine how machines work. |
Ability to explain how things work to others |
![right_pointing_arrow.gif (1042 bytes)](images/right_pointing_arrow.gif) |
Explaining operation of machines you take
apart in your lab write ups and to other students |
Ability to create, rotate, translate, and
otherwise visualize 3D objects |
![right_pointing_arrow.gif (1042 bytes)](images/right_pointing_arrow.gif) |
Sketching the machines/parts and solid
modeling some of them |
Understanding fo the limiting and dominant
physics of many machines |
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These will be covered in the workshops and you
will use them in lab |
Understanding of how geometry is linked to and
affects performance |
![right_pointing_arrow.gif (1042 bytes)](images/right_pointing_arrow.gif) |
Geometric modeling, mathematical modeling, and
by making working model(s) |
Knowledge of some machine elements and how
they are used |
![right_pointing_arrow.gif (1042 bytes)](images/right_pointing_arrow.gif) |
You will see a wide variety of machine
parts/elements in lab and on field trips |
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Special thanks to our sponsors and the following people for
their advice and support in making this class a reality:
Prof. Suh |
Prof.
Abeyaratne |
Prof.
Slocum |
Prof.
Trumper |
Prof.
Flowers |
Zafar
Shaikh |
David
Rodriguera |
Maureen
Lynch |
Lee Knight |
Richard
PerdichizzI |
William
Culpepper |
Donald
Weiner |
Peggy
Garlick |
Gerry
Wentworth |
Asha
Balakrishnan |
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