Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Research Projects and Lessons Learned from Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Automated System DesignAbstractAutomated systems affect the way we do things and impact our daily lives. Designing andbuilding automated systems is complex and requires an integrated skill set. The knowledgeneeded cuts across multiple disciplines of mechanical engineering, control/electrical engineering,and manufacturing engineering. U.S. manufacturers are
stakeholders have supported and implementededucational initiatives in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in thestate of Connecticut and the New England region. The focus of the COT’s Regional Center is topromote manufacturing education through pathway programs, student recruitment and retention,as well as faculty and curriculum development.One of the major goals of the COT- RCNGM is student recruitment and retention. The COT-RCNGM Center has created a robust marketing outreach initiative that presents manufacturingcareer pathways using innovative and immersive experiences for high school students and theirteachers. The objective of the COT-RCNGM marketing initiatives is to provide information tohigh school students on
, Biomedical Device Design and Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing Processes fields.Mr. Keith G Moran JrMr. Christopher Steven Kremer , Robert Morris University Graduated with magna cum laude honors from Robert Morris University in 2014 with a B.S. in Me- chanical Engineering and a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering. Participated in numerous engineering projects and achieved several academic accolades during my time at Robert Morris. Currently employed for Westinghouse Electric Company, as an engineer, working primarily in the pumps and motors field.Mr. Bruce Allen Barnes Jr, Robert Morris University Projected completed as a senior undergraduate student at RMU.Justin CosgroveSamuel A Colosimo III
. Participants will explore a new technical field in such a way to stimulate further study.3) To prepare students with soft skills for successful researching. Participants will work with others to develop a productive teamwork attitude and improve their communication skills.4) To motivate participants for research career. Participants will be given information about graduate schools and expose to research environment in industry.5) To promote diversity. Participants will be selected in such a way to enhance diversity and maximize the program impact.6) To continue improvement. Participants will provide continuous feedback to improve current and future program.7) To complement other institutions. This program provides research experiences to
Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of manufacturing processes and materials engineering.Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University Mr. Mainul Kader Faruque is a graduate student researcher at the Engineering Research Center (ERC) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He is conducting his research in the field of material science. Currently he is working on growth mechanism of TiN nanowires and studying the biological properties of these nanowires.Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa, North Carolina A&T State University Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa is a graduate student of Mechanical Engineering at
States. Universities chosen were the top 100 as ranked in the 2014 edition of U.S. Newsand World Report’s Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs Rankings.19 It should be notedthat this list of top 100 is actually 127 since some schools were tied in rankings. For example,three schools are ranked #10: Cornell University, Princeton University, and University ofTexas—Austin.19Using the list of colleges and universities as a starting point, the research team visited eachcollege and university website. Using the search feature on the website, the team performedkeyword searches to potential maker spaces. The keyword list used was: makerspace, makerspace, design lab, maker bot, hacker space, innovation space, and solution space. “Makerspace”and “maker
Mechanical Engineering Technology Program. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering Technol- ogy, focus on Digital Manufacturing. Her research is focused on mechatronics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, cyber physical systems, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Co-Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specializa- tion Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufacturing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented
AC 2007-645: SUSTAINING MANUFACTURING WITH INNOVATIVERECRUITMENT STRATEGIESTruc Ngo, San Diego City College Dr. Truc Ngo holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering, earned at Georgia Tech in 2001. During her time at Georgia Tech, she has published multiple research papers in major professional journals, including American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Journal, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Supercritical Fluids and Green Chemistry. She was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow, President’s Fellow and the Recipient of Waldemar Ziegler Best Paper Award. Dr. Ngo has also spoken at many national and international conferences in the past ten years. For her
, wedecided to step up to the challenge of shaping courses and key experiences that would develophighly competent technical leaders.We created and delivered a series of leadership courses for graduate students in our School ofEngineering with excellent results, and have reported on these in several previous articles(Millam and Bennett 2004, 2011c,d), (Bennett and Millam 2011a,b) and a book (Bennett andMillam 2012). In the course of this work, we felt a strong need to find out what otherengineering schools and universities were doing to ensure their graduates were fluent in theirunderstanding and practice of leadership. Our research, utilizing a simple survey of deans ofengineering schools, was designed to determine how widespread the interest was in
expertise from programs at a variety of institutions to best address the career and professional development needs of students.Best PracticesOver the short years of operation, a spectrum of ideas were considered and implemented in aneffort to improve and grow the MSPM degree program and its TPM and SEM graduatecertificates. Some ideas did not produce the desired results and were quickly discarded. Forexample, advertising in narrowly read trade publication and using stock photos were notconsidered beneficial. The ideas that were beneficial survived and constitute a body of bestpractices. Some of these best practices are summarized below: A graduation dinner is held each May and December for the MSPM, TPM, and SEM graduates. The dinner
, and then advance quickly with the use of programming andsimulation tools. Hands-on milling and turning practices are the essential part of this course.Student teams design and fabricate a number of real-world machining projects at the end of thesemester.This course is one of the best engineering courses in order to implement the innovation,leadership, and entrepreneurship concepts in the entire curriculum, and it challenges students tograsp a number of industrial soft skills such as problem solving, team work, and analyticalthinking.Although some of the course students find jobs as programmers, machine operators, tooldesigners, and manufacturing engineers, the number of students with a mindset in creating jobswith the latest trends supports
their experience to lead.The Master of Engineering in Manufacturing (MEngM) at MIT was developed over a period of10 years, and has more than 200 alumni. It is based on the notion of a need for graduate leveleducation in the profession of engineering that is not fulfilled by the conventional research-oriented Master of Science degree. We have learned that there is a large pool of outstandingstudents who will seek out this degree once it is offered, and who have as alumni drawn stronglypositive reviews from their employers.Students in the program, a cross-section of the best and the brightest, are drawn to the notion thatmanufacturing is how technological advances and innovations become rooted in a nation'seconomy. They want to understand the
seeking highly skilled workersto hire for industrial automation and control jobs [1]. To help cultivate a future workforce, it isimportant to expose students to automation and control concepts at an early age. Encouragingactive participation of secondary school teachers and two-year college faculty in universityresearch allows them to learn about recent discoveries and innovations, share about them in theclassroom, and thereby encourage and stimulate students to pursue engineering and computerscience careers such as industrial automation.Recent research has studied the characteristics of professional development that effect change insecondary science teachers' classroom practices. Results suggest that the number of teachersproviding opportunities
and energy is at the center of what manufacturing engineers do, since acentral theme of manufacturing engineering is to take cost out of products and processes. This isdone by identifying the most appropriate and cost-efficient materials that will satisfy the designrequirements, and to make processes lean to reduce their cost. Both of these requirements makeit incumbent on the manufacturing engineer to lead in considering and evaluating alternativematerials and processes for any given application, and for manufacturing leadership to create theculture that fosters innovation and a positive change in the perception of manufacturing.The manufacturing engineer has an additional obligation, and that is to help design products thatare compelling to
Paper ID #32961What’s Next? The Future of Work for Manufacturing TechniciansDr. Marilyn Barger P.E., FLATE, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center Dr. Marilyn Barger is the Director of FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center a part of the FloridaMakes Network, and previously funded by the National Science Foundation. FLATE serves the state of Florida as its region and is involved in outreach and recruitment of students into techni- cal career pathways; has produced award-winning curriculum design and reform for secondary and post- secondary Career and Technical Education programs; and
restructuring thetraditional courses in design and manufacturing is an emphasis on life cycle assessment simulationexperience for enhancing student learning on green manufacturing. To provide online simulationexperience with network protocols, experiments with an industry-standard modeling tool GABI isused. Hence the teaching of green and sustainable manufacturing is an excellent opportunity toteach about research and innovations in industrial settings4-10.With increased societal and industrial interest in reducing the environmental impact of humanactivity, the need for environmentally conscious manufacturing has become more pronounced.While there have been considerable national and international efforts in recent years, includingISO 14000
undergraduate and graduate levels. His tremendous re- search experience in manufacturing includes environmentally conscious manufacturing, Internet based robotics, and Web based quality. In the past years, he has been involved in sustainable manufacturing for maximizing energy and material recovery while minimizing environmental impact. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project to Develop a Teaching Tool: Extruder Tutor Plastic InjectionMolding MachineIn recent years there has been a big push to get students into the STEM fields. However, what seems to be lackingin this academic push is the hands on side of it. Engineering simply just isn’t about equations, but
exam outcomesprove the success of this approach.I. IntroductionThe available funding for manufacturing research and national strategic directions have inspiredresearchers and produced a surge in manufacturing education and research among educationalinstitutes including high schools, community colleges, vocational training centers, anduniversities. Although there are more students interested in manufacturing, some institutes haveto balance between the steep increment of student enrollment and available resources. Aproportional increasing of resource to the student population growth would solve the problem ifthere is unlimited resource; however, when resource is limited then creative ideas are sought tomodify the current teaching practice for
this study is a viable pathway toestablish a profitable business for any STEM graduate.10. AcknowledgementsThe authors greatly appreciate the NSF Award #1461179-REU Site: Summer ResearchInternships in Manufacturing and Techno-Entrepreneurship Preparation. The support providedby Dr. Joseph Rencis - Dean of Engineering, Dr. Vahid Motevalli - Associate Dean for Researchand Innovation, Mr. Kemal Fidan - Summer Research Assistant from Cookeville High School,and Michelle Davis - Outreach Coordinator of the Center for Manufacturing Research is alsogreatly appreciated.11. Bibliography1 Center for Manufacturing Research, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU),https://www.tntech.edu/engineering/research/cmr/research
2006-1537: PLOTTING A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR MANUFACTURINGEDUCATION: RESULTS OF A BRAINSTORMING SESSIONDaniel Waldorf, Cal Poly State University Dr. Daniel Waldorf is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo. Dr. Waldorf teaches mainly in the manufacturing processes area, including courses in manufacturing process design, tool engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, and quality engineering. His research interests are with machining process modeling and monitoring, especially related to cutting tool wear, vibrations, and advanced tool design. Prior to coming to Cal Poly Dr. Waldorf worked in Chicago as a quality
. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 1996 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where, as a graduate student, he taught quality and applied statistics and researched machining models for monitoring and control. At Cal Poly, Dr. Waldorf has taught and developed courses in manufacturing process design, computer-aided manufacturing, tool en- gineering, quality engineering, and reliability. He has participated in numerous activities related to the improvement of teaching methods, teaching assessment, and curriculum design. He is currently the fac- ulty advisor for Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). His research interests are in metal cutting process modeling, tool wear, cutting tool
students towards Additive Manufacturing technologies for improving their interest inScience, Technology, and Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The instructional set upinvolved using of Solid Works® software by high school students to develop computer aideddesign models which were then visualized and printed using 3D Printers. Design of Experiments(DOE) based statistical techniques were then used to identify the best-built conditions for theparts developed by the students. The approach for creating an effective learning environment forhigh school students in a university setting along with the course structure used and projectfindings are presented in this paper. It is found that the students involved showed a basic level ofunderstanding
efficient the design.In recent years, there is a constantly growing need for manufacturing engineers possessing bothdesign and manufacturing knowledge [1,2,3]. Shortages of design expertise and manufacturingexperience often result in an unacceptable level of assemblability and manufacturability ofproduct design [6,7]. Unfortunately, best manufacturing practices and design expertise are hardto disseminate to designers. In order to effectively disseminate and reuse this valuableknowledge, design and manufacturing departments need quantitative feedback mechanisms toimprove communication between these two departments. Design for assembly (DFA) provides aquantitative method for evaluating the cost and assemblability of the design during the designstage
Engineer in Florida.Dr. Marie A. Boyette, FLATE Dr. Marie Boyette is the Associate Director for the FLATE Center, a NSF Center of Excellence located at Hillsborough Community College. Dr. Boyette’s research centers around data structure and analy- sis which deliver meaningful impact for projects and programs. She earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Florida with a triple emphasis in Measurement and Research, Adult Education, and Communication. Her practice includes development of experiential learning strate- gies providing measurable instructional outcomes for educators, traditional, and non-traditional students. ”Summer Camp Style” professional development workshops for teachers
, Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education, 20072. Sang M. Lee, Daesung Chang, Seong-Bae Lim, Impact of Entrepreneurship Education: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Korea, 20053. K. Allen, P.K. Wong, Technology spin-offs from Pacific Rim Universities: entrepreneurial context and economic impact, 20034. University of Arizona, Karl Eller Center – Berger Entrepreneurship Program, Graduate Entrepreneurs Prospoer, Innovate, 2000 Page 15.712.14
AC 2012-4210: THE FOUR PILLARS OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEER-ING: WHAT ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES SHOULDKNOW ABOUT MANUFACTURINGProf. Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton Robert L. Mott is Professor Emeritus of engineering technology at the University of Dayton, member of the Steering Committee of the SME Manufacturing Education & Research Community, Senior Staff of the NSF-sponsored National Center for Manufacturing Education, author of four textbooks in the mechanical engineering technology field, and a Fellow of ASEE.Prof. Ronald J. Bennett Ph.D., Univeristy of Saint Thomas Ronald J. Bennett holds the Honeywell Chair in Global Technology Management in the School of Engi- neering at the University of St
, Northeastern University ANN McDONALD is an Associate Academic Specialist in Graphic Design and Multimedia Studies. Her research focuses on creating and studying educational interactive projects that can best be achieved through interdisciplinary collaboration. Her exhibit and interactive design work for clients such as The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The New England Aquarium, and The National Health Sciences Consortium have offered wide audiences access to complex topics.Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios JAY T. LAIRD is a full-time Lecturer in the undergraduate and graduate Multimedia Studies programs at Northeastern University. He is also the founder and Lead Game Designer of Metaversal Studios, a
Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best Paper Award by the Manufacturing Division of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), three review papers and three book chapters. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, ACerS, AIST, ASEE, IMEA, and a registered Chartered Professional Engineer. Dr. Manohar’s research inter- ests include
contrarian point of viewwould note that the increase of more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs since 2010 pales incomparison to the over 5 million factory jobs that vanished between 2000 and 2009, according tothe Bureau of Labor Statistics, a loss of 31.2% of U.S. manufacturing jobs. There are manycontributing factors for this, but it indicates deep concerns that there are negative impacts to ourdomestic innovation and manufacturing capabilities as a result of decreased investments in theseareas.There are those who argue that the decline of manufacturing is the inevitable result of economicprogress, and that efforts to support domestic manufacturing are supporting inefficiencies. TheMIT Task Force on Production and Innovation, or Production in the
eco-friendly sources of electricity on a large scale. In addition to researching thesubject, a prototype of greenhouse has been built for future students to learn green energymanufacturing as part of engineering and technology programs. Through this project, studentslearned how to provide a green design method for evaluating the characteristics of clean energymanufacturing. The students incorporated real-world experience with innovative design with thereduction of energy waste and use of renewable energy, as well as incorporating greenmanufacturing. For the sake of comparisons for green energy manufacturing, experiments wereconducted, including sensor monitoring and process control. A concluding section discusses thestudent learning