Abstract
Traditional manufacturing-oriented education in the field of mechanical engineering includes topics like moulding, casting, metallurgy, special materials and machining. For a mechanical engineering graduate to be prepared to face the modern computerized assembly line or to design a microprocessor based product, microprocessor education is essential. This paper presents a brief summary of the microprocessor graduate and undergraduate laboratories and lectures as taught at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The approach taken emphasizes an integrated approach in which hardware design, software design, and traditional mechanical engineering topics are combined in the instructional program. Four final projects drawn from the class archives illustrate this integrated approach to engineering design and manufacturing education.Â
