Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati; Muthar Al-Ubaidi, University of Cincinnati; Richard Kegg, Tech Solve Inc.

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Manufacturing

AC 2007-2829: PROBLEM-SOLVING AND PROJECT-PLANNING BASEDCURRICULAR ENHANCEMENT IN MANUFACTURING ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONJanet Dong, University of Cincinnati Janet Dong, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department at the University of Cincinnati. She received her PhD and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in New York City, and her MS and BS in Manufacturing Engineering from China. Dr Dong’s research and educational interests include manufacturing technology, CAD/CAM, computer aided process planning and optimization, numerical control and automation, machine and instrument design, robotics, computer modeling, and mechanical

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

control, process planning. A short summary of planning, implementation, and managingof a CIM environment will also be covered. The students will conduct experiments on creating aCIM environment using computer supervisory control. By conducting a hands-on CIM labproject, students have access to the relatively new technologies associated with computerintegrated manufacturing, which enable them to participate in tomorrow’s rapidly changingtechnologies and become creative problem-solvers and designers. In this project, students designa product that starts with raw materials and continue with fabricating parts, inspecting,assembling, and storing. This paper emphasizes on the technical contents as well as educationalvalues of the

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education - I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Beverly Cronin, DeVry University; Maneesh Kumar, DeVry University; Aateef Mustafa, DeVry University; Pankti Patel, DeVry Univeristy; Joey Socorro, DeVry University

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Manufacturing

sequence in whichstudents synthesize knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. In the first course(EET-400, Project Management), students research, plan and develop a project proposal. In thesecond course (EET-410L, Senior Project Laboratory) students implement the project plan bybuilding and testing a prototype. A typical project involves a solution to a software/hardware-based engineering problem. The process of developing and implementing a solution to theproblem offers a learning opportunity for students to gain new insights and competencies as aresult of “constructivist” and “deep learning” teaching/learning approaches. According to the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors,3 constructivism is a "viewpoint inlearning theory which

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University; Cathleen Jones, Robert Morris University; Jon Radermacher, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Marketing Marketing students. design due. Concept students. description, sampling plan & test due. Pretest completed. Page 12.503.3 Table 1. Concurrent Syllabi for the Interdisciplinary Design Study Project (contd.). Date ENGR 3650 ARTM 3307 MARK 3700Week 4 Conduct product Engr / Art groups share Meeting #2 Finalize the teardown analysis. Engr / refined design ideas concept, verbiage and visual Art groups share

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education - I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben Zoghi, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

RFID hardware and should control the efficient data flow. Data might also need tobe stored into a database. When the system is designed, comprehensive testing shall takeplace to validate that all the requirements are being met. This testing includes componentlevel (hardware, software) testing and system level testing. Upon satisfactory testingcompletion, an integrated system implementation starts. After final system testing, acomprehensive documentation with proper training plans will be prepared for thecustomer. The teaching/learning philosophy is to start with the end in mind, work on areal-world industry sponsored problem, brainstorm different solutions, work in team,design, process map, implement, test, implement, document, present the

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Manufacturing

State University Vancouver. His research interests are robotics, automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality. Page 12.464.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Design Panel: A Tool for Assessment in Design CoursesAbstract - In this paper, we first present the fundamental framework of our ABETassessment plan for our program and explain how an assessment tool called Design Panelfits. The Design Panel tool is used to assess courses with substantial project components.Then, we explain the details of organizing and managing

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

necessary for cost-effective selection of machine tools and measuring apparatus for production of micro-machined parts;4. … design complete processing solutions for production of metal micro-parts;5. … develop and deliver effective engineering written and oral reports that explain a micro- machining process design. Prerequisite skills for a course with the orientation indicated are those of manufacturingprocess engineering. Students should enter a micro-machining course with well-establishedabilities in quantitative modeling of conventional manufacturing processes, process planning,and tooling and fixture design and selection. These skills should be based on the foundation ofstrong understanding of the engineering science underlying

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Truc Ngo, San Diego City College; Armando Abina, San Diego City College; Gene Lyons, Kyocera America Corporation

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Manufacturing

of industry advisory boards, career fairs, apprenticeship and student work experience programs. As a Dean, Mr. Abina manages multiple academic programs including Math, Engineering, Mecomtronics, Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Machine Technology, Electronics Technology, Electricity, Engineering Drafting, Air Conditioning, Heating and Environmental Control and Office of Vocational Educational. His responsibilities include but not limited to program development and planning, capital and instructional budget review, evaluation of facilities and equipment, preparation of class schedules, supervision of organization and operation of vocational advisory committees, coordination of curriculum

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Rumpf, Ferris State University

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Manufacturing

programs, projects are written to fit into the students’ various majors and randomly-assigned homogeneous teams are formed so that the students can use their developed software in later classes in their home programs.Junior year, winter semester • Tool engineering project – a project across three courses (tool engineering, SPC, and metrology), all students are from the MFGE program and all have, by this time, at least rudimentary design- and machining skills. True random selection is typically used here to provide a change from previous and upcoming projects.Senior year, fall semester • Process planning project – a two-part project that requires students to first design a production process, then swap

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University; Chandrashekar Subbareddy, Texas State University

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Manufacturing

offer the most relevant and timely topics in the real world business. In addition,our new graduates have benefited from the fact that the recovery of the manufacturing sector inTexas has started sooner and exceeded than the nation average. In 2005, “Texas added roughly7,500 manufacturing jobs, a 0.8 percent increase, compared with a U.S. loss of 72,500 jobs, a 0.5percent decline” [5].The goal for the capstone design course in manufacturing engineering program at Texas StateUniversity was to provide teams of students the opportunity to work with open-ended designproblems wherein most aspects of the product development cycle, including product design,prototyping/verification, manufacturability analysis, and business plan of the product

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

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Manufacturing

Project Report and Portfolio is also examined in detail andgraded by the instructor. The instructor assigns different weights for eachcomponent of the project (Group Dynamics, Member participation, Maintenance ofLog Book, Mathematical rigor, Conforming to the principles of Liberal Education,Miami Plan Component, Technical expertise, English composition, etc.) anddetermines the overall grade based on these data.This capstone course is taken by the student groups in their senior year. They areexpected to incorporate their four-year college learning experience in a productivemanner. As such, the senior design project provides the instructors with variousassessment data. Over a period of time, it is possible to consolidate these in a systematicmanner

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

this a nationalproblem. This project brings together United States aerospace companies representing over 85%of the workers employed in this segment, four of the leading academic institutions involved intraining and education of manufacturing technologists, and one of the leading professionalsocieties serving this segment of industry. In addition, many leading international suppliers ofequipment and services to the industry have pledged their support.A proposal to fund this project was submitted to NSF under the Advanced TechnologicalEducation program. The proposal was not funded, but the project team was encouraged toimmediately submit a planning grant to further develop the proposal. A planning grant wasawarded under the same proposal number

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Lauren Kaufman, CT Business and Industry Association; Mary deManbey, CT Business and Industry Association; Kerry Simoneau, CT College of Technology's Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturng

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Manufacturing

transportthe manufacturing equipment from the participating manufacturing companies to the CTConvention Center.The symposium had an extensive pre and post evaluation plan that was completed by over 1800students and their teachers. The results of these surveys will be presented and discussed as wellas a suggested operational plan for adapting and implementing a similar event in another regionor state.Introduction: The Connecticut College of Technology (COT) is a virtual college thatencompasses the entire state and includes the 12 community colleges that make up the publiccommunity college system, six private and public universities and secondary schools throughoutConnecticut. (see Diagram 1) The COT was created by the State legislature, Public Law 95

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Salil Desai, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

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Manufacturing

specifically towards Page 12.970.2nanotechnology applications. The authors believe that instead of offering standalone nano andmicro technology modules, it was best to integrate them as addendum to existing courses. This isbecause many Industrial engineering students are unfamiliar with these state-of-the-art fields.The approach is to gradually introduce students to nano/micro technology as extensions toexisting advanced manufacturing courses. Further, after sufficient awareness is generated, theauthor plans to introduce standalone courses at both senior (undergraduate) and graduate levels.INEN 324: Computer Aided Design and ManufacturingStudent

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mulchand Rathod, Wayne State University

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Manufacturing

. Angus, R.B., Gundersen, N.A., “Planning, Performing, and Controlling Projects: Principlesand Applications,” Prentice Hall, 1997.16. “CQI 101: A First Reader for Higher Education,” AAHE Publication, 1994.17. “Process Improvement Reference Guide,” Ford Motor Company, 1993.18. Brassard, M., Ritter, D., “The Memory Jogger II: A Pocket Guide of Tools for ContinuousImprovement & Effective Planning,” GOAL/QPC, 1994.19. “Partners in Quality Manual,” Ford/WSU Continuous Quality Improvement Symposium,1995.20. Roberts, H.V., “Academic Initiatives in Total Quality for Higher Education,” ASQC QualityPress, 1995.21. Miles, L.D., “Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering,” McGraw-Hill, 1972

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Falkowski, University of Dayton

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Manufacturing

were given to the students and they wereasked in teams to develop the plan. A presentation was given on their results.Use of the Machinery’s HandbookNot usually used as a textbook the Machinery’s Handbook presented some challengesincorporating it in the classroom. The book was written for informational and referencepurposes, rather than teaching. So the language was difficult. The book was written with manycharts and calculations for a wide variety of different conditions. So the quantity of informationwas almost too much. For this course only certain sections were relevant. Therefore time wasalso spent on how to use the book as a reference.There were three sections in the 27th edition that were relevant for this class. These were thesections

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education - I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Czajkiewicz, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Ozden Uslu, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

a senior student running the RP machine or a CNC a couple days beforetheir graduation since he/she wants to gain more experience.In the near future RMU - School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science plans to expandRapid Prototyping & Manufacturing capabilities by adding several other technologies to itsinventory. Students will have more hands-on-experience with diverse RP/RM technologies,such as Desktop Composite Printing, 3D Metal Printing, and possibly Rapid MoldFabrication.References 1. Marian Bozdoc http://mbinfo.mbdesign.net/CAD-History.htm 2. 3D Systems Corporation, Valencia, CA http://www.3dsystems.com 3. Advances in Metal Part Manufacturing with Rapid Prototyping, Brett Lyons, Prof. Suman Das, and Prof. Pravansu

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Trian Georgeou, Arizona State University

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Manufacturing

respondents, or 14%, offered a MET associates degreeonly.The second question in the 2005 MET survey asked if the programs planed on maintaining theirABET accreditation with all sixteen MET programs, 100%, indicating that they planned to do so.All of these programs indicated that ABET accreditation is a very important aspect of aManufacturing Engineering Technology degree. Therefore, ABET accreditation is an importantaspect of both two and four year MET degrees. Of course, this is a biased group as all currentlymaintain ABET accreditation. If surveys were completed of NAIT and un-accreditedmanufacturing programs, more general conclusions about accreditation could be drawn.Question three asked participants to complete a data table indicating their

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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jack danziger, Rochester Institute of Technology; David Street, Rochester Institute of Technology; William Leonard, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

m the b e a ring c a pUnderstanding RP process capabilities ensures the CPIC success in developing enterprise qualityparts. SPC methods provide users with a form of process audit allowing verification of requiredprocess conditions. To better understand the effects of noise on the production of robust qualityparts, students of a robust design course used the Z-Corp machine to perform a Taguchi analysis.Table 1 illustrates the factor and level settings used to plan the experiment. Figure 8 representsthe build orientation of experiments 1-3 in Table 2. The Optimal level settings were found usingcalculations in Minitabtm. An ANOVA was used to create main effect plots displaying the meanand S/N ratio. The level settings highlighted in Table 1

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas; Casey Radtke, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

; * creation of competitive advantage through manufacturing planning, strategy and control; * analysis, synthesis and control of manufacturing operations using statistical and calculus-based methods, simulation and information technology; * measurement of manufacturing variables and extraction of technical inferences about the process. Figure 1: Proficiencies Required from Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering and Similarly-named Programs [11]Manufacturing Education and Research Community: The most recent redirection of SMEhas been the alignment of technical interests into ‘communities’. These are mostly recognizableas the previous ‘association’ structure

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danny Bee, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Manufacturing

engineeringprogram, it was obvious, from the lack of depth in the product implementation plans, the studentswere not comfortable with researching a topic and making detailed decisions and developingmeaningful assumptions for all issues related to the implementation of these EU Directives.As the instructor for this course, I felt the lecture and project based approach was not developingthe engineering problem solving skills deemed important by the manufacturing engineeringprogram outcomes. Students did not appear motivated by this courses methods, assignments,and projects.Current OfferingDuring the Fall 2006 semester, a new approach to teaching the Manufacturing ProcessEngineering I course was implemented. The new course design broke the class into four

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Smith, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Stephen Elliott, Purdue University

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Manufacturing

/undergraduate students will learn.Visual Data and Performance ManagementPerformance is defined as the process of quantifying the effectiveness and efficiency of action1.Performance management is key to improving continuously and knowing where to applyresources. Performance management can be many different things such as an operational controltool, a strategic planning tool, a management reporting tool, and a change managementfacilitation tool2. Performance management can be used to control the operations of a productionline and at the same time can be used as a managing tool. Therefore, performance managementrequires performance measurement.From the operations viewpoint of performance management, a production line's employees canuse performance

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; Shreepud Rauniar, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Horacio Sosa, Drexel University

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Manufacturing

. 419 – 427, 2005. 3. Goldin, D., Venneri, S. and Noor, A., “New Frontiers in Engineering,” Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 120, No. 2, pp. 63-69, 1998. 4. Goldin, D., Venneri, S. and Noor, A., “Ready For the Future?” Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 121, No. 11, pp. 61-70, 1999. 5. Kwon, Y., Wu, T. and Ochoa, J., “SMWA: A CAD-based decision support system for the efficient design of welding,” Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 295-304, 2004. 6. Kwon, Y. and Fischer, G., The University of Iowa, College of Engineering Equipment Fund, “Three-Year Vision Plan for Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories: Simulation-Based, Reconfigurable Integrated Lean

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education - I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Pagliari, East Carolina University; David Batts, East Carolina University; Lawrence Behr, LBA Group; Kenneth Dingle, Allvac

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Manufacturing

inspectors. Today every inspector has a fourteen-point RF safety checklist to follow for every site that they visit. Current plans for inspectors include implementing a comprehensive training program and equipping them with survey instruments. At the same time that the FCC has been stepping up its enforcement of RF safety issues, there have been developments at the state level. Two states have passed legislation that requires any company operating antenna systems on towers to have an RF safety program. These new regulations are being challenged so their future is uncertain. While these new regulations may yet be rescinded, some authorities believe that these requirements will evolve into national