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24-682: Computer-Aided Engineering

Schedule   
  Spring 2011   

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Please check this page regularly because the coverage and the schedule are subject to change based on
students' needs.   Download handout files, print them, and bring them to class.  

 
Problem-set due dates and Quiz dates at a glance      2010-2011 Carnegie Mellon Academic Calendar
 

# Date Topics

Reading
Assignments

Handouts PS & Due Dates
1.1 1/10
M
Introduction
Goal, Schedule,  Assignments, and Grading
lecture_0101    
1.2 1/12
W
1. ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
  Engineering problems
    Textbook engineering problems
    Real-world engineering problems
    Mathematical modeling
lecture_1002 ps1.pdf
bracket.SLDPRT
PS1 Out
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
2.1 1/17
M

No class - MLK Day

     
2.2 1/19
W
  Basic concept of FEM
    Finite elements
    Solution accuracy & convergence
    FEM formulation procedure
summary_fem_spring ps2.pdf
ps1-solutions.pdf
ps1-solution-files.zip
PS1 Due
PS2 Out
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
3.1 1/24
M
  Spar elements
    
Linear spring element
    Elastic bar element
    Energy-based methods
     
3.2 1/26
W
  Truss elements
    2D truss elements
summary_fem_truss ps3.pdf
2d_truss_1.in
ps2-solutions.pdf
ps2-2.m
PS2 Due
PS3 Out
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
4.1 1/31
M
    3D truss elements
    Practical issues in FEM
sw-simulation-tutorial.pdf
3d-truss-examples.pdf
fem-practical-issues2.pdf
   
4.2 2/2
W
Invited speakers from Algor/Autodesk summary_fem_beam ps4.pdf
pressure_plate.sldprt
ps3-solutions.pdf
ps3-3-code.zip
PS3 Due
PS4 Out
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
5.1 2/7
M
  Beam elements
    Review of beam theory
    2D flexure element
derivation of 2D curvature ia2_beam_theory.pdf  
5.2 2/9
W
Invited speakers from P&G   ps5.pdf
ps4-solutions.pdf
PS4 Due
PS5 Out
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
6.1 2/14
M
     Derivation of stiffness matrix of beam bending
  Optimization formulation
     
Exhaustive search
     Random search
     
6.2 2/16
W
No class   ps5-1-solutions.pdf
ps5-2-solutions.pdf
PS5-1,2 Due
 
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
7.1 2/21
M
    Distributed transverse loading
    3D beam element with axial loading
    General beam element
  1D and 2D optimization
    1D optimization
    2D optimization
fem-beam.pdf ps2-solutions-updated.pdf PS5-3 Due
PS6 Out
7.2 2/23
W

QUIZ 1
(Read Me)

  q1-solutions.pdf  
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
8.1 2/28
M
2. ROBOT PATH GENERATION
  Homogeneous transformation
    Translation and rotation
    General rotation
  ps6.pdf  
8.2 3/2
W
    Coordinate system transformation robot_videos.zip    
Mid-Term Break    
9.1 3/7
M

Spring Break

 
9.2 3/9
W
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
 
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
10.1 3/14
M
  Forward and Inverse Kinematics
    Planar two-link manipulator
    Three sub-problems of IK
summary_transformation
6DOF robot video 1 / video 2
4DOF robot video 1 / video 2
ps6-solutions.pdf
ps6-matlab.zip
PS6 Due
 
10.2 3/16
W
    - Rot about a single axis
    - Rot about two subsequent axes
    - Rot to a given distance
IA05 solution
three sub-problems of inverse kinematics
ps7.pdf PS7 Out
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
11.1 3/21
M
  Medical Application
    Optimization in computer-aided orthopedics
 

 

 
11.2 3/23
W
  Homogeneous Coordinate Transformation
    Composition of transformation matrices
    General rotation matrices
vector operations
homogeneous transformation

general rotation
derivation of general rotation
derivation of general rotation 2

ps8.pdf
ps7-solutions.pdf

PS7 Due
PS8 Out
Project Grouping
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
12.1 3/28
M
Invited speakers (Rahul Bhat and Iacopo Gentilini)  

ps9.pdf
ps9-hint.pdf
ps8-solutions.pdf

PS8 Due
PS9 Out
12.2 3/30
W

QUIZ 2
(Read Me)

     
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
13.1 4/4
M
3. MANUFACTURING PLANNING
  Nesting
    1D / 2D nesting
    Nesting for shear cutting
    General rectangular nesting
2d_nesting
shoe_making
  Project Proposal Due
13.2 4/6
W
Invited speakers from Autodesk
(Nabil Sater and John Helfen)
 

ps9-solutions.pdf

PS9 Due (Fri)
    Friday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
2:30 - 4PM @ HH B127/HH C101
Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
   
14.1 4/11
M
No lecture - Project meeting      
14.2 4/13
W
Project interim report meeting with the instructor     Project Interim Report Due
Spring Carnival Monday: TA Office/Cluster Hours
4:30 - 6PM @ HH B127/HH C101
15.1 4/18
M
PS9 Review
    3D nesting
    Trunk packing
3d_nesting
pattern_search_for_3d_nesting

ps10.pdf
dead_man.dat

PS10 out
15.2 4/20
W
 Software development
    Software engineering
    Software failures
software engineering
software failures

 

 
           
16.1 4/25
M
Project presentations     Project Presentation Files Due
16.2 4/27
W
Project presentations  

ps10-solutions.pdf

PS10 Due
          Project Final Report Due
   

QUIZ 3
(Read Me)

     
           

  

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