Conference Session

Practical Teaching in Manufacturing - 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Harris, Red Ball Oxygen, Co., Inc.; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

industry and the benefits received by educationalinvestments is limited and therefore the samples for this research are taken from industrialalliances, the case study of one company and current graduate students.This paper provides insight from members of the Buying and Information Group (BIG), astrategic alliance of twelve independent welding gas and supply companies located throughoutthe United States. The BIG group meets on a regular basis to discuss best practices within theindustry. While all of the companies within the BIG group provided information regarding theirviews on educational support, only half of the companies financially support education of theiremployees. Only Red Ball Oxygen provided us with permission to name its company in