Part 1 of our course was related to the design elements and the two slide shows were prepared based on Chapter 1 of "Fundamentals of tool design" by SME and Unit 7 of "Jig and fixture design" by Hoffman. I also used "Jig and fixture handbook" by Carrlane for detailed description of the redesign analysis.
As I mentioned, I mainly choose the most important materials from various books. This week, we focus on cutting tool materials (Ch 2 of SME) and the related calculations (Ch 3 of SME and also the Manufacturing processes by Groover). After finishing the second section, you will have your first test.
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- Simin Nasseri is an Associate Professor at department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, the Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU).
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Then our test will be either the 13th or the 18th of this month. Or will this date be later?
I guess that the test will not be sooner than 20th. Since we need to spend at least 3 sessions on cutting tool design (forces, velocities, power, tool life, cost, machinability, etc). It is better that you review every section and get ready for the test gradually.... My plan is to have at least 3 tests for this course (one test every month).
On slides, so I can follow along better, would it be possible to add footers that include section titles and page numbers? I like to take notes on printouts of the slides and it would help a lot to keep in sync with your class presentation.
Sure! I have already taken care of that in the new section I am writing! Thanks for the suggestion....
While we are on the topic of slide show suggestions...
Do you think you might eliminate the inpertinent material, such as clip art, from the files?
It makes them larger(file size) and longer(more slides) than necessary.
Thanks
Jon, the clip arts do not make the PPT file large, the images that I scanned (also the pictures of clamps and locators) were very large and I did not have time to reduce the size of them. Also, some of my students already mentioned that they like the images I place in the ppt files, because the dry and sometimes boring materials become more interesting!
I apologize, i was not trying to be contentious. I too enjoy the images that pertain to the material. These are important for exemplary reasons. the clip art was what i was mostly referring to. Its not the file size that i was unhappy with. it was the number of slides each presentation contains. I want to print them and bring to class, but even when printed in handout format, the printouts require 10+ pages. all of this is aside from being difficult to read due to the small size of the text.
But i don't want to cause problems so i will not continue to push the issue, thanks.
One suggestion for having fewer pages: exclude the pages you do not want to print, so while printing, choose slides:
eg: 1-23, 25-30, 32-39
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