AE370 Manufacturing and Assembly for Aerospace Systems

This is an elective course in the Aerospace Engineering curriculum. This course is intended for Aerospace Engineering majors to provide them with a perspective on a variety of issues related to the manufacturing and assembly of aerospace systems. The course has two primary goals. The first is to provide background and terminology related to materials, material processing and manufacturing processes and this is done through readings, discussion and site visits. The second is to allow the students to develop some expertise with the use of "industrial strength" CAD/CAM systems. This is done with a semester project which involves the development of complete digital definition of a wind tunnel support system and model, and then the fabrication, assembly and validation of this model in the wind tunnel. This year the students will also fabricate a mold in order to cast the nose section of the missile model and develop a process to mold this thin-walled component. Rapid prototyping using the FDM system will be used to fabricate the model's fins. The software system ProEngineer is used throughout this course and the some of the student's work is presented below.

This page was last updated April 28, 1997.

• Course Policy and Guidelines
• Semester Project

Samples of Student Work:

• This is a shaded assembly drawing of the 3-DOF wind tunnel support developed by Mr. Corey Bourassa.
• The wind tunnel model support has numerous machined components as illustrated in the detail drawing prepared by Mr. Kevin Fallon.
• Each engineer in the class has designed a finned missile model as shown by these drawings prepared by Mr. Nestor Ojeda.
• The missile configuration can vary as illustrated by these drawings prepared by Mr. James Gallagher.
• Each student in the class was allowed to design and fabricate a "token" part using the FDM rapid prototyping capabilities in the Design Automation Laboratory. A sample of some of these parts indicates the flexibility of this process.

Course Personnel

• Instructors:

  Stephen M. Batill, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Rm. 101 Hessert Center, 631-5591, batill.1@nd.edu

  John E. Renaud, Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Rm. 381 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering, 631-8616, renaud.2@nd.edu