Part 2—Machine Tools. Three hours a week for half a semester are devoted to a laboratory course in machine tool practice. Experiments are carried out in the machine shop and visits are made to industrial shops.
Text: Busse, “Surveying Notes”; “Shop Notes”, Turner, “Machine Tool Work”.
ME 10 Mechanisms. Prerequisites Math 21, Mech 20.
This course is essentially one of preparation for the succeeding work in machine design. It includes the study of links, bands and contact motion; of gears and gear teeth, epicyclic trains and cams. The recitations and lectures are supplemented by work in the drafting room where numerous problems are solved graphically.
Text: Schwamb, Merrill and James, “Elements of Mechanisms”.
ME 14 Machine Design. Prerequisites, ME 2, ME 10 and concurrent with Phys 30.
A course for senior mechanical engineering students. This course continues the work of the previous year in Mechanisms. It is outlined to place emphasis on the strength as well as the motion of machine elements and their final assembly into the complete machine. The theory of the graphic solutions of problems is developed and applied to the analysis of the stress in machines, including the effects of friction. Both theoretical and empirical methods are applied to the design of machines. Its purpose is to instruct students to attack problems in a direct and orderly manner. Three hours of lectures and recitations and three hours of drafting room work per week throughout the year.
Text: Faires, “Design of Machine Elements”, Fairman and Cutshall, “Graphic Statics”.
ME 16 Machine Design. Prerequisite, ME 2 and Concurrent with Phys 30.
A course in design for non-mechanical students. This course is subdivided into two parts. Part one deals with general design and is further divided into two sub-groups. The first part of this sub-group deals with what is commonly called Mechanisms and the second part deals with subject matter which is usually associated with Machine Design courses which should lead to the ability to proportion parts of machine elements. Part two is for the purpose of making the student acquainted with materials and their characteristics through microscopic examination. In this part of the work the student is required to examine not only steels but non-ferrous materials such as brasses and alloys of aluminum as well. This information coupled with that given in Course Phys 30 should acquaint the student with materials from any points of view and should make him conscious of the important part played by materials in design work.