SGER: Development of a Multi-Scale Manufacturing Teaching Laboratory

SGER：多规模制造教学实验室的发展

• 批准号: 0344047
• 负责人: Timothy Fisher
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0344047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Development; Multi; Scale; Manufacturing

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) project will introduce multi-scale manufacturing education into the mechanical engineering curriculum at Purdue to address critical current and future needs of research and industrial enterprise. Traditional manufacturing occurs at macroscopic length scales using mills, lathes, and rapid prototyping (layered manufacturing) tools. In the future, mechanical components will be increasingly created at the micrometer and eventually nanometer length scales. Thus, mechanical engineers of the 21st century must gain additional experience in microfabrication and nanofabrication of silicon and non-silicon materials. To accomplish this objective, a combined teaching lab - student shop will be established to support small-scale fabrication in conjunction with a well-established student machine shop, where instruction in traditional manufacturing methods will continue. The new laboratory facility, the Multi-scale Manufacturing Center (MMC) Pilot Facility, will address all major microfabrication processes, with a focus on "soft lithography," and will be affiliated with Purdue's ME Student Machine Shop, which already supports service-learning initiatives, national student car projects, and numerous other student activities. As such, it will support dual use for education and research, because both graduate and undergraduate students will routinely use these facilities for research projects in addition to scheduled classes. The effort will have tremendously broad impact, both at Purdue and throughout the country. This seed effort will begin the initial phase of a planned reformation of the ME curriculum in manufacturing at Purdue. Ultimately, a new MMC facility will be established in a building expansion project scheduled for initiation in 2005. When implemented, this facility will enable each ME undergraduate (approximately 250/class) to use the facility more than a dozen times during their studies. At the national scale, we expect that the proposed work will serve as a model for establishment of multi-scale manufacturing educational laboratories throughout the country. Recognizing a common inertia among engineering departments in implementing lab-based curriculum reforms, we anticipate that the free dissemination of laboratory manuals, guides, and brochures, presentations at prominent workshops and conferences, and future opportunities for federal funding of such reforms will facilitate adoption, either fully or partially, of the products of the proposed research.

这个探索性研究（SGER）项目的小额补助金将在普渡大学的机械工程课程中引入多规模制造教育，以满足研究和工业企业当前和未来的关键需求。传统的制造使用米尔斯、车床和快速原型（分层制造）工具在宏观长度尺度上发生。 在未来，机械部件将越来越多地产生在微米和最终纳米长度尺度。因此，世纪的机械工程师必须在硅和非硅材料的微加工和纳米加工方面获得额外的经验。 为了实现这一目标，将建立一个综合教学实验室-学生车间，以支持小规模的制造与一个完善的学生机械车间，在传统的制造方法的指令将继续结合。 新的实验室设施，多规模制造中心（MMC）试点设施，将解决所有主要的微细加工工艺，重点是“软光刻”，并将隶属于普渡大学的ME学生机器车间，该车间已经支持服务学习计划，国家学生汽车项目和许多其他学生活动。因此，它将支持教育和研究的双重用途，因为研究生和本科生除了预定的课程外，还将经常使用这些设施进行研究项目。 这一努力将在普渡大学和全国范围内产生巨大的广泛影响。这一种子努力将开始的初步阶段，计划改革的ME课程在普渡大学制造业。最终，一个新的MMC设施将在定于2005年启动的建筑扩建项目中建立。当实施时，该设施将使每个ME本科生（约250/类）在学习期间使用该设施十几次。在全国范围内，我们希望拟议的工作将作为在全国建立多规模制造教育实验室的典范。认识到一个共同的惯性工程部门在实施实验室为基础的课程改革，我们预计，免费传播的实验室手册，指南和小册子，在著名的研讨会和会议上的演讲，以及未来的机会，联邦资助这种改革将促进通过，无论是全部或部分，拟议的研究的产品。