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Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Creese, West Virginia University; Deepak Gupta, Southeast Missouri State University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-429: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM PROJECT WITH SOFTWARERobert Creese, West Virginia University Robert C. Creese is Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He obtained his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University(1963), The University of California-Berkeley(1964), and The Pennsylvania State University(1972). He is a life member of ASEE, AACE-International and AFS as well as a member of ASM, AWS, AIST, ISPA, SCEA and SME.Deepak Gupta, Southeast Missouri State University Deepak Gupta is an Assistant

Conference Session

CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atin Sinha, Albany State University

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Manufacturing

resizing orredesigning the part in a CAD environment before constructing the prototype. In order tointroduce students to this emerging technology, the procedural steps are currently being workedout to introduce one or more undergraduate projects at a sophomore level engineering coursewith a new system consisting of 3D scanner, software, CAD tools and 3D printer.IntroductionDuring the last two decades, a collection of technologies known as Rapid Prototyping1 (RP) hasevolved into a mature alternative form of manufacturing that has made significant inroad intovarious fields. In RP a physical part is created by an additive process driven by solid modeldefinition created by CAD software. The RP technologies, Stereolithography, Selective LaserSintering

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-1165: A PROJECT-BASED ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURINGLABORATORY COURSE FOR LOWER-DIVISION ENGINEERING STUDENTSJianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Jianbiao (John) Pan is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. After completing a PhD at Lehigh University in Industrial Engineering in 2000, he joined the optoelectronics center at Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems as a member of technical staff. He received a M.E degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and a B.E. degree in Mechatronics from Xidian University, Xian, China. Dr. Pan's research interests include

Conference Session

CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

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Manufacturing

). Page 13.437.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Digital Manufacturing and Simulation CurriculumIntroductionOhio Northern University is in the tenth year of a curriculum utilizing advanced industrialcomputer simulation software. The virtual simulation classes are offered in a sequence of threequarters, earning four credits per quarter. Students learn specific simulation applications fromtutorials and online course materials. Teams of students then work with local companies to createsimulation models of actual manufacturing operations. Each student team prepares PowerPointmaterials which are presented to representatives of the company. Recent projects included workwith major automotive original equipment

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Chen, Iowa State University; Ronald Cox, Iowa State University

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Manufacturing

manufacturing sectors.This three-credit lean course, which is comprised of a weekly two-hour lecture and two-hour lab(considering holidays and exam days), will be restructured into two major sessions: (1) 32 hours of lecture and lab activities for learning lean tools and principles, such as visual management, 5S, standardized work, quick changeover, pull system using kanban and poyayoke, and how to cost justify a lean project. (2) 22 hours working as a lean team at a local manufacturing company located less than 50 miles of campus, thus enabling students to conduct onsite a full- or half-day project.The final result is a lean presentation from the team to industrial mentors at the end of the semester. Itis

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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida

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Manufacturing

through the virtual assembly of LEGO blocks. Thesecond laboratory experiment uses LEGO Mindstorms NXT systems to provide students withhands-on team projects to design and build an automated system while applying concepts learnedin the classroom. Data from students’ projects and surveys is presented to evaluate the efficacyof the designed laboratory experiments on student engagement and conceptual understanding.1. IntroductionConcepts in manufacturing can be very challenging for engineering students to understand inclassroom lectures alone. This paper focuses on two particular areas of manufacturing:micromanufacturing and industrial automation. In micromanufacturing, the layer-by-layermanufacturing process for microdevices becomes a challenge for

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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Leduc, Ball State University

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Manufacturing

Page 13.1082.2organization would not be competitive. Dupont realized that they must optimize both customerand stakeholder value and Six Sigma evolved to what is known as the Third Generation. Animportant part of Six Sigma Generation III, was tying Six Sigma projects to the organization’sstrategic objectives.While working with industry, it is clear that many know Six Sigma simply as a quality programand think that it is nothing new. It is true that many of the tools in the Six Sigma toolkit can betraced back to AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1920’s where Shewhart introduced his revolutionson variation. Components from Deming, Juran, Feigenbaum and others are prevalent throughoutSix Sigma as well. However, Six Sigma has evolved far beyond a

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University; Daniel Ewert, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

prompted a conscious migration of the ‘scholar’ focus towards an ‘innovation’orientation, with explicit acknowledgement that useful invention is a purposeful goal and that thelaunching of new enterprises from the platform of scholar/innovation teams would be cause forcelebration. During the Autumn of 2006, the notion of a campus-wide Bison Ventures programemerged. [2] Bison Ventures is a collaborative between the College of Engineering and Architecture, theCollege of Business Administration and the Research and Technology Park. It is a multi-disciplinary, academic, economic development plan. At the core is the long-established practiceof the senior design or capstone project. Every academic year, approximately one hundred teamsof engineering

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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-1978: MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE SIMULATION AS THEFOUNDATION COURSE AND SYNERGISTIC FOCUS OF ADVANCED COURSEHANDS-ON APPLICATIONPhil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University Dr. Phil Waldrop earned his Ph.D. from the Purdue University School of Technology. His industrial experiences range from turret lathe operator to Director of Advanced Process Development. His 11 years of aerospace R&D work included metal matrix composites and high speed machining, and responsibilities as Manager of Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Modernization technology development projects management for the B-2 aircraft program. He has performed invited service in an endowed chair as Stocker Visiting

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Lobaugh, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Manufacturing

thatend, the lean manufacturing course taught at our college has each group of students (typically 4to a team) assigned to a local plant facility for their project. The production facility is selectedbased on their need, ability to work with the students, and their willingness to participate. Theplant tour gives the students the ability to see first-hand, why and how lean manufacturing isused, if at all, and the benefits derived from it. They are given the opportunity to ask questionsthat may not have been fully explored during class. The students are required to develop theVSM for the process selected by the company. The students create the current map and thendiscuss it with the company representative and a suitable metric is asked for. The

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

cycletime, and nine months to complete the project. The subjects were asked to think aloud as theycame up with design alternatives.BackgroundOver the past few years, we have interviewed system integration engineers from 17 companiesthroughout the U.S. These interviews were conducted in two rounds. The goal of the first roundof interviews was to get the “lay of the land” in terms of: • What is a typical project like? • What types of projects come up most frequently? • What is your role? • What are some of the constraints that you typically face? • What tools or resources do you use to solve problems?One observation from the first round of interviews was that system integration engineersgenerally work in teams

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Manufacturing

in anational dialogue on capturing students for manufacturing engineering careers.Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering at University of Wisconsin-StoutUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout developed the Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineeringprogram during the early 1990s and subsequently began enrolling students into the program in1994. The first graduating class was in December of 1996, due in part to the fact of earlyenrollment and advisement of existing and transfer students into courses aligned with the newcurriculum prior to its “official” availability. The curriculum development process wasintensively industry based and heavily relied upon the Curriculum 2000 project work of theSociety of Manufacturing Engineers.The curriculum is

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Steve Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Shep Anderson, Sinclair Community College; Sean Falkowski, University of Dayton; Robert Wolff, University of Dayton; Jack Waintraub, Middlesex County College

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Manufacturing

Society of Chemical Engineers (ASChE) • Others of similar size and scopeAlso in support of expanding and improving the pipeline of new students into STEM fields—more specifically, engineering technology careers—MERC is partnering with an establishedinitiative in Ohio called EdVention, whose mission is to rapidly develop new schools focused onSTEM education and to assist other schools to enhance their programs in STEM disciplines.MERC also seeks to build on the many other existing national and regional initiatives in STEMeducation and workforce development, including: • Project Lead the Way • Manufacturing Institute of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Dream It! Do It! advertising campaign • SME’s Manufacturing is

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Stephen S. Tompkins, Virgina State University; Keith Williamson, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

sciences. Spent a number of years as a research engineer at the NASA Langley Research Center conducting research on the development and application of composite materials to aerospace applications.Keith Williamson, Virginia State University Keith Williamson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering & Technology at Virginia State University. He received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Williamson served as the Principal Investigator for the Graduate Students in K12 (GK12) project at Old Dominion University. In addition to research involving University/K12 partnerships, his

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuqiu You, Morehead State University

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Manufacturing

lectures mainly focus on the concepts, terminology, andprinciples of control systems, sensors, electric motors, and other components of industrial robots.Students attending both lectures and labs will obtain better understanding of control systems,transfer functions, sensors and electric motors, and gain the skills in system integration byinterfacing with sensors and electric motors, and designing human-machine interface. There arenine lab activities and one term project developed for this course using the LabVIEW motioncontrol module, the data acquisition module, sensors, electronic motors, and other components.This paper describes the lab activities with student feedback. The main goals of the lab activitiesare: (1) to understand the concepts of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Myers, Ohio University; Peter Klein, Ohio University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-100: MANUFACTURING CENTRIC UNDERGRADUATE CAPSTONEEXPERIENCETodd Myers, Ohio University Todd D. Myers Ph.D, M.B.A. is a researcher in Center for Automatic Identification and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Technology at Ohio University. Dr. Myers has ten years of manufacturing experience in the supply side of the automotive industry. His responsibilities have included multi-plant materials management, ERP implementation, project management, and engineering management. His funded research has included RFID OEM capability studies, Barcode robustness studies, and Manufacturing Operations Studies. Dr. Myers is a certified GlobeRanger trainer and three-time recipient of the

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlie Hall, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

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Manufacturing

also reasons for teams to beused in a course: Teams are able to accomplish more than individuals, there is learning betweenmembers on a team, and teams are a way of developing and disseminating a culture. In theclassroom, the culture that should be developed among the students through the use of teams is aculture of collaboration and problem-solving. No amount of lecturing on the value of teams orthe value of collaborative problem solving can replace the learning or experiencing of actuallybeing a part of a team. It should be noted that teams can be formal or informal; for a largesemester project, teams may work together for weeks, but informal teams may develop duringsmall class discussions or class exercises.A potential hazard of using teams

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ejiwale, Jackson State University

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Manufacturing

arenas,as shown by feedback from various internship sponsors. Similarly, topics in nanoscale scienceand other cutting edge research are presented in a weekly seminar series and each semester theseminar features a number of presentations by outside speakers, and a forum where studentspresent their research projects. Through this media, students from the Department of Technologytaking ITMF 420 are required to participate in the lectures and seminars series to enhance thehands-on application of the AFM and STM tools as a partial fulfillment of the course.Utilization of the core laboratories and facilities at JSUThe core laboratories and facilities at JSU provide researchers with adequate resources such asequipment, technologies, and support

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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Brian Thomas, Cleveland State University

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Manufacturing

State experience isplaced in the context of similar laboratory exercises conducted at other universities. Guidelinesfor initiating similar projects at other institutions will be presented.Background and Relevant WorksThe purpose of a laboratory exercise is to engage students in hands-on learning activities.Previous studies have found that active and collaborative participation in learning enhancesstudents’ problem-solving and design skills3, and improves retention of skills and knowledge4.The author’s own experience as a student supports this philosophy. In particular, hisparticipation in a Lean Manufacturing exercise during his graduate education5 inspired him todevelop a laboratory exercise when he first taught IME 663, Lean Enterprise, at

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Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Falkowski, University of Dayton

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-1815: ANALYSIS OF THE CURRICULUM OF MANUFACTURINGENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMSSean Falkowski, University of Dayton Sean Falkowski is an assistant professor of Manufacturing Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton. He recently worked for Delphi Automotive as a manufacturing engineering supervisor and project engineer. He earned a MS in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton and a BSME from Kettering University. Of interest are the topics of recruiting and retention of manufacturing engineering students. Also he is interested in various manufacturing technical subjects such as machining and tooling design, design for producibility, and automotive

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

provided on the instructor’s resources compact disk (IRCD) for Callister’s textbook were shown and discussed. • Accessing the Internet to obtain freely-available materials information and simulation programs; e.g., MATTER project in UK (www.matter.org.uk). The web site contains information, property data, application notes, on-line experiments, and case studies on a number of industrially-significant aluminum and ferrous alloys. The students were asked to explore this website and subsequently take a quiz (also available on the same website) during one of the laboratory sessions. • Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford University: How Everyday Things Are Made? (http

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CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Manufacturing

network via standardfile transfer protocols.Modern CNC controls come with block look ahead where the controller loads in multiple lines(typically 30 or more lines) of CNC code ahead of the current code block being executed. Thepre-loaded blocks are preprocessed by the CNC controller, allowing it to adjust the optimumfeedrate for the projected toolpath, and eliminate inherent delays in the servo system, whichincrease with higher feedrates.Modern CNC controllers are able to automatically maintain a constant surface feedrate for atoolpath. This feature helps HPM by maintaining a constant cutting load, improving surfacefinish, tool life, and reduces the probability of tool chatter.At high cutting rates, abrupt direction changes can cause a loss of

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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios; Seth Sivak, Carnegie Mellon University; Mark Sivak, Northeastern University

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Manufacturing

achieve the highest profit and to achieve thelowest environmental detriment. A new interdisciplinary project funded by NSF has extendedthe development of the board game to create and assess a networked computer game.The game is played using stakeholders in the manufacturing supply chain in the automotiveindustry. In its current non-networked version, six students create a team of three suppliers:materials, parts, and cars. Within this team, two students take on roles for each of the threecompanies in the supply chain. During each round in the game, each company within the supplychain takes its turn to invest and select among different technologies in three areas for eachcompany: production, storage and waste disposal. There are tradeoffs in

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuqiu You, Morehead State University; Xiaolong Li, Morehead State University; Gabriel Alungbe, Morehead State University; Sam Mason, Morehead State University

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Manufacturing

. Page 13.424.9 • Hands-on experience with online control and monitoring. • Broader view on the future of industrial networking in implementing computer-integrated manufacturing.The online laboratory currently is not available 24/7 for online students due to the securityconcern. However, it does provide convenient access for online students. They can schedule theirlab activities in evenings and weekend days while the instructor can monitor the process throughthe Internet camera.VI. ConclusionRemote virtual laboratories over the Internet are feasible for long-distance applications.Experiences from this project show that multiple aspects must be taken into consideration toobtain adequate performance of the online laboratory. It

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Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Merwan Mehta, East Carolina University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-767: DEVELOPING A MANUFACTURING PLANT LAYOUT UTILIZINGBEST-IN-CLASS CONCEPTS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING AND THEORY OFCONSTRAINTS OF OPTIMAL MACRO-FLOWMerwan Mehta, East Carolina University Page 13.386.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Developing a Manufacturing Plant Layout Utilizing Best-in-class Concepts of Lean Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints of Optimal Macro-FlowAbstractDeveloping a plant layout for a manufacturing facility is a project that utilizes a combination ofart and science. Although creating plant layouts has been an activity that has been performed bymanufacturing and industrial engineers