MEEG 3202: Mechanical Engineering Lab I

(Spring 2007)

Lecture: MEEG 3202-01 2 hours credit Thursday 2:00-3:20 MEEG 212

Lab Sec 1: MEEG 3200-L 0 hours credit Monday 2:30-6:30 MEEG 109

Lab Sec 2: MEEG 3200-L 0 hours credit Tuesday 3:30-6:30 MEEG 109

Drill: MEEG 3200-D No Drill

Instructor: Dr. Sulin Zhang

Office: Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 106

Office Hrs: Set up appointment by emails

Email: szhang1@uark.edu

Phone: (479) 575-6701

TA: Mark Center (17 hours) Chris Deal (10 hours)

Email: mcenter@centurytel.net cdeal@uark.edu

Office: MEEG, Room 227

Phone: (479) 462-4458 (501) 733-4354

Prerequisite: MEEG 2303 (Introduction to Materials), MEEG 1103 (Intro to ME) and GNEG

1122 (Introduction CAD)

Co-requisite: Lab components.

Textbook: Anthony J. Wheeler, Ahmad R. Ganji, Introduction to Engineering Experimentation,

Second Edition, PEARSON Prentice Hall, 2004.

Course Information

· Syllabus

· Schedule

· Check your score

· Announcement

§ Lectures

· Lecture 1 – Introduction

o Writing lab notebook

o Safety

o Appropriate lab conduct

o Basic length measurement

· Lecture 2 – Guide to planning and document experiments; Fundamentals of tensile testing

o Notes (Ch12)

o Lab report form

1. Long

2. Short

o Lab report grading

1. Long

2. Short

· Lecture 3– Basic concepts of measurement methods

o Notes (Ch2)

· Lecture 4– Statistical analysis of experimental data

o Notes (Ch6)

· Lecture 5– Heat treatment

o Notes

o Supplement

· Lecture 6– Uncertainty analysis

o Notes

· Lecture 7– Correlations of experimental data

o Notes

o Supplement

· Lecture 8– Thermocouples/DAQ systems

o Notes

· Lecture 9-10 – Strain Gages

o Notes

o Homework 4

§ Experiments

· Lab 1 – Tensile testing

o Tensile test procedures

o Questions to be answered in the report

· Lab 2 – Heat treatment

o Procedures

· Lab 3 – Thermocouple measurement

o Labview basis

o Melting point measurement

· Lab 4 – Strain gage measurement

o Procedures

§ Project

· Guidelines