PhD Qualifying Exam

PhD Qualifying Exam

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Students must obtain a passing grade in 4 subject areas in order to successfully complete the written part of the qualifying exam. The students must take and pass the “1-Manufacturing Fundamentals” exam. At least one of the exams must be taken from the “2-Advanced Areas” Exams. The remaining two exams can be selected either from the Advanced Areas Exams or from the FENS Ph.D. Programs.

1) Manufacturing Fundamentals

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Fundamentals and Parameters of Manufacturing Processes: properties of Materials for manufacturing processes, fundamentals of casting, metal forming, material removal, welding, abrasive and non-conventional machining processes.

Computer-Aided Design: engineering drawing, tolerances, computer-aided technical drafting and design, geometric models and data structures, representation and manipulation of curves and surfaces and 3D solid modeling, and assembly modeling and analysis

  1. Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. Serope Kalpakjian. (Chs. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
  2. Technical Drawing with Engineering Graphics, 14/E by Giesecke, Hill, Spencer, Mitchell, Dygdon, Novak, Lockhart & Goodman
  3. Computer-Aided Manufacturing. Chang, T-C. Wysk, R.A. Wang, H-P, (Chs. 2, 3, 4, 5)
2) Advanced Areas
2.1) Solid Mechanics
2.2) Mechanics of Composites
2.3) Experimental Mechanics
2.4) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2.5) Numerical Processes
2.6) Transport Processes
2.7) Machining and Machine Tools
2.8) Additive Manufacturing
2.9) Computer Integrated Manufacturing
2.10) Polymer Processing
2.11) Robotics and Automation
2.12) Composite Manufacturing
3) Manufacturing Metrology

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      Categories and important issues in metrology; traceability chain in dimensional measurement
      Precision engineering issues for manufacturing metrology: Errors of motion mechanisms and calibration of machine tools and calculation of errors
      Dimensional/Displacement Sensors types and driving mechanisms for precise motions
  1. Fundamentals of Dimensional Metrology Paperback– November 21, 2006 by Connie L Dotson (Author).
  2. Yandayan T, “Recent Developments in Metrology for Design and Production", The 15th International Conference on Machine Design and Production, June 19-22, 2012, Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey, UMTIK 2012 Conference Proceedings, pages 95-111.
  3. METROLOGY IN SHORT, 3rd edition : https://www.euramet.org/publications-media-centre/documents/metrology-in-short/