Precision Machine Design 2.70
Creative Fields
Machine Design
Course or Client
2.70 Precision Machine Design
Taught by Prof Alex Slocum
Completion Date
Spring 2017
Skills
Error Budgeting
Linkage design
Power transmission
Challenge: Apply precision machine design process to create a table that transforms.
2.77 | Precision Machine Design Course at MIT
Documentation and Course Assignments | Link to course website | Professor Alex Slocum
What this course is about: Examines design, selection, and combination of machine elements to produce a robust precision machine or system. Introduces process, philosophy and physics based principles of design to improve and enable renewable power generation, energy efficiency, and manufacturing productivity. Topics include linkages, power transmission, screws and gears, actuators, structures, selection of materials, joints, bearings, error apportionment, and error budgeting. Considers each topic with respect to its physics of operation, mechanics (strength, deformation, thermal effects) and accuracy, repeatability, and resolution.
Final Report
Seek n' Geeks
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As a weekly exercise, I used these assignments to learn and practice using fundamental physics to analyze both futuristic and commonplace machines.
PUPS | Portable Uploadable Problem Sets
Check out my homework exercises with calculations, creativity, and cool ideas.