Official NUC CCMAS syllabus
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Start studying MTE 409 free →Historical development of foundry technology. Situating casting as an important manufacturing process. Distinguishing foundry as an establishment and casting as both as process and product. Bases for classification of foundries: ferrous and non-ferrous, captive and jobbing. Application of scientific principles such as law of continuity, Bernoulli equation, and Torricelli equation in the design of gating and rise-ring system in a casting. Directional solidification. Casting methods: sand, investment, pressure, vacuum and permanent mould casting. Various departments in foundry and their functions, process selection, design and specification. Determination of casting techniques, mould and core making, pattern making, furnace charge, casting and finishing; charge calculation, casting defects: design and operation defects, definitions, preventive and curative measure to casting defects.
Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MTE 409.