focused on developing software applications to assist manufacturers design and plan operations on advanced machining lines that could be rapidly reconfigured to meet changes to a product’s design or production volume. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia as junior chair of the NSERC sponsored research program in Virtual Machining. His work at this time focused on the modeling of cutter/workpiece engagement geometry to support process modeling for aerospace machining applica- tions. He is currently on the faculty of the Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington University where he is director of the Manufacturing Engineering program
Paper ID #28748A Simple Method Allowing Students to Improve Their 3-D VisualizationSkillsDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years at various institutions. In 2001, he joined San Antonio College full-time as the Coordinator of its Engineering program. He has been involved with several engineering societies and became a member of the Two-year College Division of ASEE in 2002. His research interests are in engineering graphics, 3-D Visualization, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education. He
important sources of data for identifying areas for improvement. When several options present themselves, time constraints forces a choice, and it is not always an easy matter to decide which. The Lean Manufacturing framework presented here can be used to develop a mechanism for instructors to use to weigh options and point them towards the ones that have the highest potential to positively impact Just-In-Time delivery, use of available brainpower and building-in quality. This can be motivational for the instructor by giving them a priori a degree of confidence that the changes they are considering will have benefit, as opposed to just hoping for the best.3. Promotes collaboration, ownership and teamwork: Teamwork and collaboration
Paper ID #16321Mr. Atiq Islam, Prairie View A&M University I was born and raised in Houston Texas. I have worked in the professional field for five years as a environmental technician at Southern Union. I am also currently attending Prairie View A&M University to pursue a Mechanical Engineering degreeT Fulya Eyupoglu, North Carolina State University T. Fulya Eyupoglu is a graduate research assistant in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Counselor Education with a specialization in Digital Learning and Teaching. Besides being enrolled in an NSF Project as a researcher, she is also serving as a teaching assistant in the Instructional Design Course.Miss Tianyun Yuan, Prairie View A&M University
InstituteMiss Andrea M. Ukleja 2016 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Design, Innovation and Society & Me- chanical Engineering. Currently employed by Hasbro, Inc. as an Associate Reliability Engineer.Timothy Andrews, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Timothy Andrews is an undergraduate student at Rensselaer studying Mechanical Engineering and Pro- grams in Design and Innovation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 From Learning to CAD to CADing to Learn: Teaching the Command, Strategic, and Epistemic Dimensions of CAD SoftwareIntroductionComputer Aided Design (CAD) instruction, required for most engineering students at RensselaerPolytechnic Institute
, University of Limerick Diarmaid is a Lecturer in Technology Teacher Education at the University of Limerick. His research interests are in the areas of freehand sketching, cognition and spatial visualization. He is currently Director of Membership of the Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD).Dr. Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University Aaron C. Clark is a Professor of Technology, Design, and Engineering Education within the College of Education and is the Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Department Head for the Depart- ment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education. He has worked in both industry and education. Dr. Clark’s teaching specialties are in visual theory, 3-D modeling
technology graduate students to think morecreatively in a visual analytics system-design competition by collaborating with designers. In thesummer of 2013, two faculty members led a team organized by technology and design graduatestudents to work on a visual analytics system design and won the only two awards of“Outstanding Creative Design.” To investigate and learn from this interdisciplinary collaborationexperience, we purposely tracked and collected the design process information such as meetingminutes, white-board discussion photos, and development files at different stages from the verybeginning of the collaboration for analysis and review. The paper reviews this 7-week designprocess and specifically focuses on observing how the technology
and 23.7, respectively. By the time of graduation, the gap hasnarrowed slightly, such that average test scores for graduating male and female engineeringstudents are 25.1 and 24.5, respectively. Gender differences in entrance exam scores(F(1,118)=2.055, p=0.154) and in exit exam scores (F(1,118)=0.724, p=0.396) were not found tobe statistically significant. It is interesting however that women still lag behind their malecolleagues in measures of spatial ability, a result that is also commonly observed in the literature.In order to examine the impact of spatial skills on success in the course of their studies, thecumulative GPA of the graduating students (n=120) is compared with their exit test scores inFigure 9. There is no observable
and CNC. MFGE majors also have the option to take an injection molding tooling design class offered by the department’s Plastics and Composites program as a technical elective. Figure 1 clearly demonstrates the breadth of impact of adopting a cloud- based platform on the program’s curriculum. Though faculty have the option to choose the CAx tools that best suit the learning outcomes of their courses, practicality often dictates that it is easier to work with the system that students are already familiar with from earlier CAD instruction. Adopting 3DExperience would require each of the classes illustrated to re- structure experiences using the new platform. For example, MFGE 333 and 463 utilize Model-Based Definition