Development Prototype Jig and Fixture for Teaching Aids

Abstract

Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyse, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering branches. Nowadays, welding education is important in a career as a welder and an engineering student as well. Without the proper study of welding, they could not produce many buildings, gates, fences, small kitchen appliances, vehicles and even space travel would not exist. This made us think of creating a project/product which can help to improve the students’ knowledge, skills, and teaching method for the lecturer. Thus, we will make a jig and fixture as a learning kit. However, our polytechnic does not own a jig and fixtures, the DTP students may find difficulties to understand the concept of jigs and fixtures while the lecturer who teaches “DJF51072 Jig and Fixture Design” subject cannot explain briefly of jigs and fixtures without having an appropriate tool as a reference. Our project will be an ideal solution for our polytechnic which can help in teaching and learning process. For this project 1, we did some research in google scholar to get more information of jigs and fixtures. We manage to do Chapter 1 until 3 of our projects. In FYP 2, we successfully completed our project which is to make jig and fixture as a learning kit. We can demonstrate how jig and fixture works and explain everything more detail to the students. In conclusion, our project meets our objective of helping the lecturers and students to practical understanding of jigs and fixture’s purpose in “DJF51072 JIG AND FIXTURE” subject. We believe that this project can contribute a lot of things for semester 5 DTP’ students at Polytechnic Banting Selangor.