Fed 101 Fundamentals of Engineering Design     Dr McDermott

Group Laboratory Experiments

1                    Robotic material handling workcell

2                    Robotic assembly workcell

3                    Programmable Logic Controller(PLC) workcell                                                                                  

Students will work in teams to design and develop various robotic and PLC experiments. Each team will program the devices and develop the related workcell and peripherals necessary to implement the experiment.

Individual Automation Project

          Each student will design and develop an automated workcell, using the NJIT laboratory robots & PLCs, which will provide for some of the robotic and PLC functions of welding, painting, assembly, material handling and processing etc.

 The Project will be presented to the class at the end of the semester.

 A Project Report will be developed by each student.

Individual Research Presentation

Each student will investigate an industrial robot, PLC or other computer driven automated device to determine its functions and specifications. The NJIT library, industry documentation and the Internet, including Dr McDermott’s webpage http://web.njit.edu/~mcdermot/ can be used as resources. The results of this research will be presented to the class. Handouts can be used in the presentation. Power Point software is required.

References: Internet Wikipedia Industrial Robotics/PLCs and related links

Grading

Group Laboratory Experiments           30%

Individual Automation Project             35%

Individual Research Presentations       35%