Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Yearwood, University of North Dakota; Alex Johnson, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

second research questionFor the second research question, faculty and industry acceptance of smaller lathes as viablealternatives to their industrial size cousins was explored. The ability of the smaller bench-toplathes to perform accurate work was explored in the pilot study. It would appear, based on theresults from this limited pilot study, that both the bench-top and the industrial lathes are capableof producing test bushings within the specified .005” tolerance range. It should be noted,however, that this pilot study was the result of tests done by only two graduate students, and anexpanded study utilizing a much larger cross section of technology students would be necessaryto determine whether the initial findings could be replicated