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M. Ali Montazer

Helping Connecticut Aerospace Parts Manufacturers Become Lean M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D. University of New Haven – Tagliatela College of Engineering West Haven, Connecticut 06516 AbstractWith funding support from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) /National Aerospace Leadership Initiatives (NALI), a Center for Simulation Modeling andAnalysis has been established at the University of New Haven. The objectives of theCenter are (1) to bring modeling and simulation techniques and tools, through faculty andstudent teams, to the Connecticut aerospace parts manufacturers to support their efforts inimplementing Lean / Six

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Jennifer Zirnheld; Adam Halstead

studies and projects. For each discipline, a representative of that discipline (often the chair of that department or an industrial contact) came to class to speak to the students about his or her experiences. In addition, he or she tried to enlighten the students on the other possibilities of the field. This was then followed up by a case study or project that related to the field. In this way, each of the main disciplines of engineering (chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical/aerospace) was covered. Computer engineering was not covered because students declared as computer engineers do not take Engineering Solutions. Table 1 shows a breakdown of each project and its

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impact on the performance of the student design teams is analyzed through studentdesign team feedback survey results. Overall, the implemented course changes more effectively preparedstudents to execute the detailed analysis necessary for a successful design.Background Like engineering students at most universities, senior students in the USMA MechanicalEngineering program complete a capstone design as the culminating experience in engineering education.In the case of the aerospace and automotive sub-disciplines, these capstone projects are normallyintercollegiate design competitions, and therefore very discipline specific. Consequently, the students arehighly dependant on the senior level course in their sub-discipline to provide them

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Andrew Grossfield

M.S. degreein mathematics at night while designing circuitry full time for aerospace/avionics companies. He is amember of ASEE, IEEE, and MAA. The slides can be obtained by contacting him at: ai207@bfn.org Page 4

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Roger Chapman Burk

teaching engineering to non-engineers, so that hecould try out this idea. He received support from both the CIEE and from Princeton’s Department ofMechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) to work on it, as well as from his home department atUSMA. He outlined the course in cooperation with a member of the MAE faculty, who however leftPrinceton before the course was delivered. The core idea of the course was to use the natural fascinationof space travel as a vehicle to help non-engineering students learn basic engineering principles and havefun doing it. It was based on the idea that a non-specialist can get a lot of insight from basic quantitativerelationships without having to go into all the details that a professionally-trained engineer would

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

middle and high schoolcurricula.The genesis of the current efforts at Stevens Institute of Technology to inculcate systems into theundergraduate engineering curriculum and into K-12 pre-engineering outreach is associated with therecognition some years ago of the growing importance of systems engineering concepts to a broadspectrum of industry and government, particularly associated with the design and management ofcomplex systems. Companies and agencies responsible for defense and aerospace systems have been aparticularly strong constituency in this regard. This led in 2001 to the creation of a graduate-levelprogram in Systems Design & Operational Effectiveness (SDOE) taught by a faculty with significantexperience and reputation in the field

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Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

% 24% 26% Table 1: Student gender in Great Problems SeminarsThe students enrolled in the seminars represented 21 different majors. For Power the World,about 40% could be categorized as “traditional engineering” (Aerospace Engineering, ChemicalEngineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering).For Feed the World, only about 13% came from these majors. On the other hand, about 40% ofthe students in Feed the World had declared a major in the Life Sciences (Biology, BiomedicalEngineering, and Chemistry) while only about 3% of the Power the World students had declaredone of these majors.The largest number for a single major in the Feed the World seminar was Biology