24-682: Computer-Aided Engineering -- Carnegie Mellon University

Lectures: Mon and Wed 12:30-2:20 PM (SH214)
Office/Computer Cluster Hours: Fri 2:30-4PM, Mon 4:30-6PM (HH-B127/HH-C101)

Scope of
Course

This course is the second section of the two-semester sequence on computational engineering. Students will learn how computation and information technologies are rapidly changing the way engineering design is practiced in industry. The course covers the theories and applications of the modeling, simulation, and optimization of the performance of a product and its manufacturing process. The three topics covered in this course are: (1) Engineering Analysis, (2) Engineering Optimization, (3) Factory Automation. Students taking this course are assumed to have knowledge of the first course in computer programming.
4 hrs lecture, 2 hrs computer cluster hours

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, students should be able to:

Engineering Analysis

- Describe the inner workings of FEM

- Formulate spar/truss/beam finite elements

- Write computer code to solve a 3D truss problem

- Be aware of the practical issues of engineering analysis

Robot Path Generation
- Solve forward/inverse kinematics problem

- Formulate the path planning problem for factory robot

- Write computer code to solve a path planning problem

- Be aware of the practical issues of factory robotics

Manufacturing Planning

- Formulate and solve 2D/3D nesting problems

- Write computer code to solve a nesting problems

- Be aware of the practical issues of manufacturing

Optimization

- Formulate optimization problem in engineering

- Solve 1D and multi-dimensional optimization

- Write computer code to solve an optimization problem

- Be aware of the limitations of optimization methods

Teaching
Staff

Professor Kenji Shimada (Instructor) Office: Room 314, Scaife Hall, Phone: 412.268.3614 Email: shimada @ cmu.edu Office Hours: by email appointment
SooHo Park (Teaching Assistant) Office: Room B127, Hamerschlag Hall, Phone: 412.268.8880 Email: soohop @ andrew.cmu.edu Office Hours: Fri 2:30-4PM, Mon 4:30-6PM
TBA (Grader/Tutor) Office: Room , Hamerschlag Hall, Phone: Email: @ andrew.cmu.edu Office Hours: Fri 2:30-4PM, Mon 4:30-6PM

Email Lists

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To send a message to all the students (this is mainly for teaching staff use only)
+dist+~shimada/dlists/cae11@andrew.cmu.edu