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Introducing Production Concepts – A Hands On Learning Experience

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Conference

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Publication Date

March 12, 2023

Start Date

March 12, 2023

End Date

March 14, 2023

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 1

Tagged Topics

Diversity and Professional Engineering Education Papers

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45021

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https://peer.asee.org/45021

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51

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Scott Schultz Mercer University

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Dr. Scott Schultz is the Associate Dean and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He also consults at the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins, Georgia. He comes from an Industrial background with thirteen years of experience with Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, MI and Windsor, Ontario and two years of experience at the North Carolina State University Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center. Ten of his years at Ford were as an Information Technology manager in areas of development, installation and support. His primary research and teaching interests are in scheduling, heuristics and process modeling.

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Abstract

Introducing production concepts to engineering students can be quite challenging. The high resource cost of setting up and maintaining a production environment results in universities tending to teach theoretical concepts and rarely providing a hands on production experience. In this paper we describe a unique hands on production learning experience provided to sophomore industrial engineering students at Mercer University. These students design and develop the process and participate as production workers and industrial engineers for producing 3D yearbooks for the Georgia Academy for the Blind. These student experience first-hand production concepts such as process planning, manpower allocation, assembly lines, cycle time, fixtures, bottlenecks, rework, quality, etc… This experience is the first time some of these students have been exposed to and/or participated in production of an actual product.

Schultz, S. (2023, March), Introducing Production Concepts – A Hands On Learning Experience Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45021

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