Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danny Bee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Richard Rothaupt, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Linards Stradins, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

integratedactivities, the program has been brought back to 183 students. Figure 1 depicts the enrollmentdata for the manufacturing engineering program. It clearly shows a precipitous decline after theinitial startup spike and highlights a period of growth as a result of the recruiting strategies used.Since there has been a steady enrollment increase since 2004, it is unclear whether a true steady-state enrollment has been found. At the time of writing, the Fall 2007 applications are exceedingany prior year application rates. Historically, the manufacturing engineering program has aaccepted application fall show rate of roughly 70 percent, thus indicating Stout’s program is afirst choice program for students. This show rate is significantly higher than most

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University; Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

an electronic device;• exercise project management skills and use the Gantt chart;• exercise communication skills through preparing a proposal, writing a final report, and presenting in class. Page 13.90.4Details of ProjectIME 157 Electronics Manufacturing is a lower-division engineering course and has no pre-requisite. The lecture meets twice per week for fifty minutes each and the lab meets twice perweek for three hours each over the ten weeks of a quarter. We believe that laboratory work isvery important component in engineering education and Cal Poly’s teaching philosophy is“learning-by-doing”.Each student will work on two projects

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

experience, and one engineer from at an airconditioning manufacturing company with two years of experience. The four applicationengineers all have 15 or more years of system integration experience and are considered to beexperts by their peers. The latter two engineers work with automated manufacturing systems, buthave little system design experience; we consider them to be novices for the purposes of thisinvestigation.Procedure. The interviews were conducted as follows. The interviewer would:1. Introduce himself and describe the purpose of the interview (to gain a better understanding of system integration)2. Show the engineer a cell phone assembly consisting of eight parts (see Figure 1).3. Ask the engineer to think aloud about

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Brian Thomas, Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

” units. This freed time on the CNC, andpermitted the operator to assist in folding airplanes later in the round. It also sped up the cuttingoperation for the “A” airplanes significantly. As a result, Lean Machine was able to lead thelabor-per-unit performance metric by a wide margin. Page 13.834.9 Figure 4. Lean Machine’s Paper Cutter.Other “best practices” implemented by students in the IE 606 laboratory include: • Implementation of single-piece flow and “pull” production through the re-writing of the work rules. • Physical rearrangement of work stations to minimize travel and encourage single-piece