MAE 205 Visualization and Graphics

Spring Semester, 2003
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Course Coordinator: Dr. Jack Mahaney, Room 105E, 301-2255

Course Texts: Graphics for Engineers, 6^th ed, by Earle (ISBN 0-13-008172-8)

Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to do the following:

- Prepare isometric and multiview sketches which will communicate your ideas to others.

- Prepare engineering drawings using drawing instruments.

- Correctly visualize three dimensional shapes from two dimensional drawings.

- Prepare working drawings that present a design concept in a form necessary to support production.

- Use a commercial quality drawing package to draw two dimensional figures and drawings including orthographic projections with auxiliary views.

- Use a commercial quality solid modeler to create solid models, and appropriate working and assembly drawings.

Grading: Your final grade will be determined as follows:

· Homework ..... 40%

· Projects (3)...20% each

Honor Code: Graded work is administered under the Honor Code provisions outlined in the Bulletin and in the student handbook, The Lair. Your exams will be closed book and closed notes.

Homework is due no later than the beginning of the class following that in which the work was assigned. Often, there will be sufficient time during the regularly scheduled lab period to do assigned work. Late homework will not be accepted.

Your computer based homework will typically be submitted on student purchased DS/HD 3 1/2" floppy disks or Zip disks. For each homework assignment you will use the filename ‘myname lesson n’ (e.g., shlabotnik lesson 13) to name the saved file. In addition, portions of some examinations will be submitted on floppy disks. In these cases, your instructor will specify the name under which these files are to be saved. You are responsible for the creation of your own backup copies of all computer based work.

Projects: There will be a project at the end of each unit of instruction. Students will form into two-person teams to work on the project. Each student on the team will receive the same grade on the project, and that grade will form 20% of the total grade for the course.

Tentative Class Schedule

Date	Class	Subject
8 Jan (W)	1	Tools and Sketching
13 Jan (M)	2	Oblique Sketching
15 Jan (W)	3	Isometric Sketching
22 Jan (W)	4	Orthographic Projections I
27 Jan (M)	5	Orthographic Projections II
29 Jan	6	Sections
3 Feb	7	Dimensioning
5 Feb	8	Dimensioning
10 Feb	9	Working and Assembly Drawings
12 Feb	10	Drawing Project
17 Feb	11	Intro to AutoCAD
19 Feb	12	Editing in AutoCAD
24 Feb	13	Orthographic Projections
26 Feb	14	Isometric Pictorials
3 Mar	15	Oblique Pictorials
5 Mar	16	Sections
10-14 Mar		Spring Break
17 Mar	17	Dimensioning I
19 Mar	18	Dimensioning II
24 Mar	19	Working and Assembly Drawings
26 Mar	20	Drawing Project
31 Mar	21	Begin solids modeling
2 Apr	22
7 Apr	23
9 Apr	24
14 Apr	25
16 Apr	26
21 Apr	27
23 Apr	28
28 Apr	29