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ENME Undergraduate Course Description: ENME 371

For more information about the Undergraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, contact: Dr. Sami Ainane Director of Undergraduate Programs ainane@umd.edu

ENME 371- Product Engineering and Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering

Designation: Required

Course Description:

Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENES 221, ENME 392, or STAT 400. For ENME majors only. Business aspects of engineering product development. Relationship of design and manufacturing. Product specification. Statistical process control. Design team development. The development process.

Prerequisite(s): ENME 392 or STAT 400

Textbooks

• Schmidt, Zhang, Herrmann, Dieter, and Cunniff, Product Engineering and Manufacturing 2nd Ed., College House Enterprises, LLC, Knoxville, TN.

Course Objectives

In this course, the student will develop and/or refine the following areas of knowledge:

• Product Development Process
  
• Functioning Effectively in Teams
  
• Technical Presentation and Report Writing
  
• Benchmarking of Products
  
• Design for "X"
  
• Quality Function Deployment
  
• Functional Decomposition, Concept Generation, and Selection
  
• Product Architectures
  
• Failure Modes, Effects and Analysis
  
• Product Economics
  
• Probability and Statistics and Application to Process Capability
  
• Reliability of Products
  
• Supplier Development
  
• Geometric Tolerancing

Topics Covered

• Product development process (PDP)
  
• PDP Teams
  
• Benchmarking
  
• Materials and Manufacturing Overview
  
• Design for "X" Strategies
  
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  
• Concept Generation Techniques
  
• Concept Selection Techniques
  
• Product Architectures
  
• Functional Decomposition Methods
  
• Failure Modes, Effects and Analysis (FMEA)
  
• Cost Estimation
  
• Designing for Quality
  
• Probability and Statistics Overview
  
• Reliability of Products
  
• Process Capability Indexes
  
• Supplier Development
  
• Geometric Tolerancing
  
• Strategies for Setting Dimensions and Tolerances

Class/Laboratory Schedule

• Two 50-minute lecture sessions per week.
  
• One hour and 50-minute lab session per week
  
• Several in-class presentations, reports, and a final examination.

Contribution to professional component

• Does this course contain design experience? Yes, 3.0 (units)

Relationship to program outcomes

ENME 371 contributes directly to the following specific Mechanical Engineering Program Outcomes of the ME Department:

1. The ability to work in teams effectively to address practical engineering problems.
   
2. The ability to use the product development process to design a product that meets customer needs and addresses contemporary social issues.
   
3. The ability to communicate effectively in presentations and in writing.
   

Additionally, it also contributes to the following other program outcomes, in smaller amounts:

1. The ability to apply mathematics, science, and engineering knowledge to solve mechanical engineering problems.
   
2. The ability to use state-of-the-art engineering software, computers, and instrumentation as tools to solve engineering problems.
   
3. The ability to design and conduct experiments and to interpret and generalize from the results.
   
4. The recognition of the contemporary social issues that motivate engineering activities and the societal impact of engineering practice.
   
5. The recognition that engineers must maintain ethical and professional standards and an appreciation of these standards.

Prepared by: Chandra Thamire

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