MENG 353 — INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS and INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS LAB
Learning Objectives & Matches
1. Understand the basic chemistry and nature of the atomic bonding.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, and chemical separation.
Clean, strip, prime, and sand structural surfaces and materials to prepare them for bonding.
Perform experiments and computer modeling to study the nature, structure, and physical and chemical properties of metals and their alloys, and their responses to applied forces.
Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications.
Analyze organic or inorganic compounds to determine chemical or physical properties, composition, structure, relationships, or reactions, using chromatography, spectroscopy, or spectrophotometry techniques.
Measure or mix chemicals or compounds in accordance with detailed instructions or formulas.
Study the chemistry of living processes, such as cell development, breathing and digestion, or living energy changes, such as growth, aging, or death.
Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.
Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.
Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
2. Explain crystalline structures with perfection and crystal defects with imperfection.
Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
Examine completed workpieces for defects, such as chipped edges or marred surfaces and sort defective pieces according to types of flaws.
Correct surface imperfections or fill chipped, cracked, or broken bricks or tiles, using fillers, adhesives, or grouting materials.
Clean and smooth molds, cores, and core boxes, and repair surface imperfections.
Correct patterns to compensate for defects in castings.
Arrange for typing, duplication, and distribution of material.
Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
Identify defects in solid materials, using ultrasonic testing techniques.
Inspect materials and products for defects, and to ensure conformance to specifications.
Inspect finished dies for smoothness, contour conformity, and defects.
3. Explain diffusion process related to heat treatment of engineering materials.
Modify properties of metal alloys, using thermal and mechanical treatments.
Read production schedules and work orders to determine processing sequences, furnace temperatures, and heat cycle requirements for objects to be heat-treated.
Determine most effective arrangement of operations such as mixing, crushing, heat transfer, distillation, and drying.
Induce changes in composition of substances by introducing heat, light, energy, or chemical catalysts for quantitative or qualitative analysis.
Plan laboratory experiments to confirm feasibility of processes and techniques used in the production of materials with special characteristics.
Select metals to be used from a range of metals and alloys, based on properties such as hardness or heat tolerance.
Pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds and forms to produce ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand-controlled mechanisms.
Soften metal to be used in designs by heating it with a gas torch and shape it, using hammers and dies.
Conduct research on the structures and properties of materials, such as metals, alloys, polymers, and ceramics, to obtain information that could be used to develop new products or enhance existing ones.
Replicate the characteristics of materials and their components, using computers.
7. Explain phase diagrams and the corresponding micro-structure development.
Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.
Study spatial configurations of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-rays or electron microscopes.
Read blueprints, schematics, diagrams, or technical orders to determine methods and sequences of assembly.
Develop system interaction or sequence diagrams.
Develop system interaction or sequence diagrams.
Lay out and draw schematic, orthographic, or angle views to depict functional relationships of components, assemblies, systems, and machines.
Draw sketches to illustrate specified materials or assembly sequence.
Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
Align, fit, or assemble component parts, using hand or power tools, fixtures, templates, or microscopes.
Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.
8. Discussion of stainless steel and aluminum with their metallurgical states.
Test metals to determine conformance to specifications of mechanical strength, strength-weight ratio, ductility, magnetic and electrical properties, and resistance to abrasion, corrosion, heat, and cold.
Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
Select metals to be used from a range of metals and alloys, based on properties such as hardness or heat tolerance.
Perform experiments and computer modeling to study the nature, structure, and physical and chemical properties of metals and their alloys, and their responses to applied forces.
Select gauges or types of sheet metal or nonmetallic material, according to product specifications.
Modify properties of metal alloys, using thermal and mechanical treatments.
Test material samples for tolerance under tension, compression, and shear to determine the cause of metal failures.
Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces.
Write or modify design specifications such as the metal contents and weights of items.
Requisition parts or materials.
9. Discussion of polymer materials, and list different properties of polymer families.
Select materials for use based on strength, color, texture, balance, weight, size, malleability and other characteristics.
Conduct research on the structures and properties of materials, such as metals, alloys, polymers, and ceramics, to obtain information that could be used to develop new products or enhance existing ones.
Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications.
Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.
Replicate the characteristics of materials and their components, using computers.
Arrange for typing, duplication, and distribution of material.
Set up, operate, or tend machines that extrude and form filaments from synthetic materials such as rayon, fiberglass, or liquid polymers.
Identify materials appropriate for mechatronic system designs.
Determine quality, cost, strength, and quantity of required materials, and enter figures on materials lists.
Laminate teaching materials to increase their durability under repeated use.