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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20832Laser Music - Authentic Engineering Product Development for a Real Cus-tomerDr. Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College Peter Stupak enjoyed a 22 year career in the optical-fiber manufacturing industry living and working in 7 countries where he held a variety of hands-on technical and business-management positions. Starting as a R&D Engineer, Peter became fascinated by how a manufacturing business operates and made successive steps into engineering and manufacturing management culminating in

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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first was that theRVCC student Engineering Team delivered a fully-functioning product that met or exceeded theCustomer specifications and expectations. This was a significant achievement given thechallenging and open-ended problem, the Team’s initial knowledge level, and the brief executionperiod. The second was that the responsibility of designing and delivering a real product to areal customer, and under authentic engineering conditions, was effective in accelerating studentlearning of important skills that are often acquired later when employed in Industry. Theconcepts of focusing on the Customer, doing what you say you will do, aggressive prototyping,and determination and grit, became real.The result was a mature, cohesive, open-minded, and