Education

Courses

IE 101 Industrial Engineering Profession:

Introduces students to the industrial engineering profession, its scope, industrial engineering tools, and future trends. Students will understand the industrial engineering profession and the scope of its associated fields of study and practice. Students will understand the opportunities for enhancing their educational opportunities at Iowa State University in the context of industrial engineering.

IE 248 Engineering System Design, Manufacturing Processes and Specifications:

Introduction to metrology, engineering drawings and specifications. Engineering methods for designing and improving systems. Theory, applications, and quality issues related to machining processes.

IE 545 Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing:

Introduction to rapid prototyping processes and other rapid manufacturing methodologies. Operating principles and characteristics of current and developing rapid prototyping processes. Use of rapid prototypes in product design, development, and service. Selection of rapid prototyping systems based on required model accuracy. Rapid methodologies used in manufacturing processes and rapid tooling approaches.

IE 449/549 Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing:

Representation and interpretation of curves, surfaces and solids. Parametric curves and surfaces and solid modeling. Use of CAD software and graphics programming techniques for CAD/CAM integration. Application of computer technologies in planning and controlling manufacturing processes. Computer numerical control, CNC programming languages, and process planning.

Matt Frank

Associate Professor

Office: 3023 Black Engineering
Lab: 1210 Sweeney Building
Email: mfrank@iastate.edu
Tel: 515.294.0389
Fax: 515.294.3524

Research Description

My research focuses on creating new methods for rapid prototyping and more importantly, rapid manufacturing. The term rapid manufacturing implies that we wish to create functional parts, rather than just models. The primary goal of our work is to eliminate the pre-process engineering time and skill required to create a custom component. Therefore, the term rapid means fast and easy process planning, fixture planning and setup planning for making one, or a few functional parts. The goal of the Rapid Manufacturing and Prototyping Laboratory (RMPL) is to investigate rapid approaches for existing manufacturing methods and to explore new processes and equipment for development.

Working Papers

Boonsuk, W. and Frank, M.C., “Automated fixturing for a rapid machining system”

Frank, M.C., Hunt, C.V., Anderson, D.D., McKinley, T.O., Brown, T.D., “Maintenance of surface porosity when using subtractive rapid prototyping for bone replacement”

Luo, X., Frank, M.C., “A Layer Thickness Algorithm for Additive/Subtractive Rapid Manufacturing”

Makhe, A., Frank, M.C., “Polygon Subdivision for Pocket Machining Process Planning”

Li, Ye, Frank, M.C., “Computing Axes of Rotation for Setup Planning using Visibility of Polyhedral CAD Models”

Recent Publications

Frank, M.C., Hunt, C.V., Anderson, D.D., McKinley, T.O., Brown, T.D., “Rapid Manufacturing in Biomedical Materials: Using Subtractive Rapid Prototyping for Bone Replacement”, Proceedings of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August 2008, Austin TX.

Anderson, D.D., Frank, M.C., McKinley, T.O., Brown, T.D., “Fragment Substitutes for Anatomically-Interfaced Segmental Bone Defect Repair” 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2-5, 2008

LI, Y. and Frank, M.C., “Computing Non-Visibility of Convex Polygonal Facets on the Surface of a Polyhedral CAD Model”, Computer Aided Design, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 732-744, 2007

LI, Y. and Frank, M.C., “Machinability Analysis for 3-axis Flat End Milling”, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 454-464, 2006

Frank, M.C., Wysk, R.A., and Joshi, S.B., “Determining Setup Orientations from the Visibility of Slice Geometry for Rapid CNC Machining”, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 128, No. 1, pp. 228-238, 2006

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering