Teaching Tolerances: A Comparison between the Conventional and Reverse Engineering Approaches (original) (raw)

Geometric Design Tolerancing: Theories, Standards and Applications, 1998

Abstract

Over the last decade Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) has gone from black art to the forefront of computer aided design research. Despite a prominent position in industrial and academic research, GD&T is seldom taught at university level. This paper offers a glimpse at two of those courses, and compares the pedagogy adopted to introduce the fundamental concepts. The conventional approach taken to tolerance education at the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal is integrated through the curriculum in a two course sequence, respectively as required sophomore and elective senior courses. An elective senior design course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute introduces GD&T by way of reverse engineering of existing mechanical systems. Both approaches are presented and a comparison is drawn from the point of view of course contents and integration within a Mechanical Engineering curriculum. To illustrate the two different approaches, concrete examples taken from the course contents are included.

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