Manufacturing Summer Training Program
The manufacturing summer training program is a six week program held at the beginning of June. The class is held for six hours, five days a week. The first to weeks is devoted to provide the students a fundamental understanding of composite materials and composite manufacturing processes.
Below you will find the six week breakdown and the projects involved during the summer of '98:
Week #1
Composite Material and Manufacturing
Process Lectures and Demonstrations
Industry Lecture - Larry Nunes, "Composite Manufacturing Institute"
Week #2
Advanced Composite Fabrication
Lectures and Class projects
Project #1 - Demonstration Wing Box
Project #2 - Demonstration Resin Film
Infusion Aircraft Part
Industry Lecture - Wayne Hogarth "Lynco Grinding"
Week #3-6
Four separate group projects will be completed each week. Nine students will be placed in each of the four groups. At the end of every week, each group of students will rotate to another project.
Group #1
Eleven Foot Boat - one entire
fiberglass boat will be built each week
Group #2
Bicycle Frame - one bicycle frame
will be built each week
Group #3
Surfboards - three surfboards will be
built each week
Group #4
Shafts - nine golf shafts, four
fishing poles, and one lacrosse stick will be
built
At the completion of the program, the following parts will have been made:
(4) 11' Boats
(4) Bicycle Frames
(12) Surfboards
(36) Golf Shafts
(16) Fishing Poles
(4) Lacrosse Sticks
And finally as a method to gauge the student's progress, Fridays will be devoted to student presentations. Each student will give a short presentation on the project they completed. These presentations will offer the students presentation skills and allow the staff to gauge the effort each student has placed on the manufacturing method and material used in the process.
To give you an idea of the program, below are some pictures and reports of the Manufacturing Summer Training Program '98.
Eleven Foot Boat:
Bicycle Frame:
Surfboards:
Golf Shafts: