IMechE UNITEN Student Chapter: Workshop

09 September 2010

Advance Crash Course - Feedbacks and Suggestions

In IMechE UNITEN Student Chapter it is all about how we can help you or in other terms the mechanical engineering students of UNITEN. To start off with, we would like to hear more feedback from you students on the type of activities that you would like us to organize. Among our next planned events would be a crash course on a certain engineering-design based software. Thus, we would like to get feedback from the students on which engineering-design based software, they would like to learn about. This would be a good opportunity for students to learn about a new software and to brush up knowledge of students who have already learned a particular software in the past. We have listed a few choices of software’s and would like your feedback as on which software would be the most beneficial to you.

1) Pro-E
2) AutoCAD
3) CFD
4) Working Model
5) Pro-M

Then again, these are only suggestions from us as we are open to any other suggestion. You can contact us at imeche.uniten@gmail.com or send us a message on our facebook group.

Thank you

01 September 2009

Pro Engineer Wildfire Workshop

Venue: BL-2-002 (CFD Lab), College of Engineering

Date: 22nd August 2009 (Saturday)

Time: 10.00 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.

By: Tilibban Vasu

On the 22nd of August, the IMechE Student Chapter organized its first ever workshop on creating mechanisms using Pro/E software. The workshop was held in BL-2-002, the CAD lab in College of Engineering. This workshop was conducted by none other than Mr. Hafiz Hassan from the Mechanical Department. The main purpose of this workshop was to introduce participants to creating animations using Pro Engineer Wildfire 4.0 software.

There were a total of 16 people who attended the workshop despite having 25 participants registering for the event. This was totally unexpected and disappointing as no prior notice was given by the participants who were absent. Attendance was taken and all those who were present signed on the attendance.

The workshop started at 10am. The workshop was kick-started by Mr. Hafiz briefing participants on what to expect from the workshop. In this session, he explained that this was just an introduction to modeling spatial mechanisms. After the briefing, he proceeded by giving some explanation on the degree of freedoms for spatial mechanisms. This part was very much tied to the Theory of Machines class which was a pre-requisite for the workshop.

Once we were done with the introductions, Mr. Hafiz showed a demo on how to assemble a mole gripper and to make it animate/move. He then provided the participants with some handouts. After completing the mole gripper mechanism, participants were encouraged to try assembling and animating a trench hoe mechanism. This proved to be a challenge as no tutorial was given for this exercise.

Participant continued to try assembling the mechanisms until around 1pm. As everyone had completed their mechanisms, it was decided to end the workshop. The workshop came to an end with the participants given some briefing on the future programs of IMechE UNITEN Student Chapter and the presenting of a souvenir to Mr. Hafiz for his time and effort.

The workshop came to an end at 1.15 pm. Overall; the workshop was a great success. The feedback given by the participants were overwhelming. They said that they have gained a lot from this workshop and were very much looking forward to applying it in their machine design process. Credit should be given to Mr. Hafiz for all his time and guidance as the workshop would have never been a success without his tutoring. Despite the attendance being poor, the event was a success and it is hoped that this would be an annual event.