2007 Capstone Projects! Click on each caption to link to a project poster!
Flow Bench demo New age heat pump demo
Package terminal heat pump demo Adaptive canoe seat demo
All-terrain vehicle improvements demo
Fabrication Projects
Vise fabricated by MET student Trevor.
In the
fifth term each student independently completes a fabrication
project using computer-aided design, machining skills, and
possibly computer numerical control programming. Most students
have no background in any of these areas when they enter the
program. The MET program teaches all these skills right from
the beginning.
Students begin developing the necessary skills
for the project beginning in the first semester:
- computer-aided
design through three-dimensional modeling (semesters
1 and 2)
- developing fabrication drawings (semesters
1 and 2)
- designing the project (semester 2)
- basic machine
tool skills (semester 2)
- computer-numerical control programming
of machine tools (semester 4)
- fabricating the project (semester
5)
Computer-aided design of a bistro table and chairs.
Computer-aided
design can be used for art, architecture, interior design, surveying,
and a wide range of other applications in addition to its creative
application to designing parts to fabricate. The skills are the
same no matter what you’re
designing. Once a part has to be specified to be fabricated,
it must be accurately modeled so that dimensioned fabrication
drawings can be extracted from the model. This artistic rendering
was created using computer-aided design software by a high
school student at Creative Design at CAD Camp.
Wing emblem designed
and machined from wax by MET student Keith.
MET students can complete
an elective course that lets them model a design on the computer,
then fabricate it using a computer-numerical controlled machine
tool. It's a complicated process, but well within the grasp of
anyone in our program who can imagine something they’d
like to create! The best part is that by using the computer to
design and specify how to machine the part, and by using a computer-controlled
machine, students can create parts that would be difficult to
impossible to machine using traditional methods.
