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Challenges And Responses Over A Quarter Century Of Manufacturing Education

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Conference

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Louisville, Kentucky

Publication Date

June 20, 2010

Start Date

June 20, 2010

End Date

June 23, 2010

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

Tagged Division

Manufacturing

Page Count

12

Page Numbers

15.272.1 - 15.272.12

DOI

10.18260/1-2--15653

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https://peer.asee.org/15653

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David Wells North Dakota State University

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-- Be aggressive and imaginative in curricular innovation. Decide from your own personal growth what new technologies to introduce into your courses and curriculum. Create new program titles and course names to convey the sense of excitement ion your corner of the campus. Invent your own ways to invigorate your courses and your program. -- Communicate. To all of your constituencies -- prospective students and their parents, secondary schools, individual companies and industry groups, community leaders, and peers.

Perhaps, just perhaps, a combination of these actions will revitalize university-level manufacturing education -- and with it the influx of bright and able new manufacturing engineers into the economy. The absolutely vital core to any such transformation is the concerned individual. Do not wait for someone to point the way and tell you how. As the commercial slogan goes, “just do it”.

  Bibliography: 1. David Wells, Laura M. Caldwell and A. Allen Arthur; Technical Education for Advanced Manufacturing; Manufacturing Engineering Education Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; June 1986 2. Ideal Models in Manufacturing Education: Proceedings of the Curricula 2000 Workshop; A. Allen Arthur, David Wells and Paul J. Demers, editors; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; February 1990 3. International Perspectives on Manufacturing Education; David L. Wells, A. Allen Arthur and Michael Cunningham, editors; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1988 4. Detlef K. Koska and Joseph D. Romano; Countdown to the Future: The Manufacturing Engineer in the 21st Century; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1988 5. “Program Criteria for Manufacturing and Similarly Named Engineering Technology Programs”; 2007 Accreditation Yearbook; ABET, Inc.; 2008 6. “Program Criteria for Manufacturing and Similarly Named Engineering Programs”; 2007 Accreditation Yearbook; ABET, Inc.; 2008 7. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century; Volume I, Curricula 2002 Report; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1995 8. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century; Volume II, Compendium of International Models for Manufacturing Education; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1995 9. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century; Volume III, Preparing World Class Manufacturing Professionals; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1996 10. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century; Volume IV, Manufacturing Education Plan, Phase I Report; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1997 11. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century; Volume V, Manufacturing Education for Excellence in the Global Economy; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; 1998 12. David L. Wells; “SME and Accreditation”; White Paper; Society of Manufacturing Engineers; September 2007 13. Beverly J. Davis and Hugh Jack; “Reinventing Manufacturing Engineering: Refocusing and Exploring Future Opportunities for Students”; Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education; Portland; June 2005 14. Hugh Jack; “A Reborn Product Design and Manufacturing Program”; Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education; Portland; June 2005 15. “Engineering – Product Design and Manufacturing”; Grand Valley State University, www.gvsu.edu; accessed January 2010 16. David L. Wells; “A Framework for Student Learning in Manufacturing Engineering”: Annual Conference, American Society for Engineering Education; Chicago; June 2006 17. David L. Wells; “Revisiting Core Competencies of Manufacturing Engineering in an Era of Technological Revolution”; Manufacturing Education Transformation Summit, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; Austin, June 2009

Wells, D. (2010, June), Challenges And Responses Over A Quarter Century Of Manufacturing Education Paper presented at 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky. 10.18260/1-2--15653

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