rankings for the last 10 years, WSU’s writing inthe disciplines program functions as a national leader for prioritizing writing across courses, andfor emphasizing a rhetorical approach to writing support wherein students are asked to produce avariety of genres for different audiences and disciplines. The writing program at WSU is representative of the kinds institutional writing programsthat have developed in response to the Writing in the Disciplines (WID) movement. The WIDmovement, too, has contributed to pedagogical research on lab report writing. The research inengineering education mostly addresses pedagogical strategies and best practices for promotingwriting to learn principles. Often, these studies tend to focus on the efficacies of
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
Review, Summer 2006.10 Entrepreneurship in American Education, Kaufman Foundation, 2006. Available from: http://entrepreneurship.asu.edu/files/entrep_high_ed_report.pdf11 M. Nakkula, C. Pineda and Amy Dray, “Expanded Explorations into the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” Harvard Graduate School of Education,September 2003.12 W. J. Baurol, R. E. Litan, and C. J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism. Yale University Press, 2007.13 I. Shidhu, B. Tenderich, and S. Broadrick, Engineering Entrepreneurship Education: Best Practices and Next Steps, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, 2010.14 Advancing Entrepreneurship Education: A Report of the Youth Entrepreneurship
size from 500 to small threshold(s) that actually reflect current demographics of small companies to include 5, 10-25 and 50 Maintain funding level for NSF-ATE programs and target additional funding for innovative Regional and National Centers in advanced manufacturing, to include significant funding for advanced manufacturing equipment and faculty training Sponsor a joint research project on the state of manufacturing education in coordination with the National Governors Association Adopt the metric systemState and Local Levels Encourage a deeper understanding of the role and economic impact of advanced manufacturing programs in K-12 education, especially with guidance counselors and
exists, as a quick literature search caneasily verify. However, assorted internal and external factors of a practical nature such as thesize of the class versus complexity of the project, strengths versus weaknesses of class members,and many other dynamics can play a role in the formation of project teams for specific tasks. Page 12.1373.2Balancing all concerns for each set of constituents is an increasingly difficult task for instructorsto carry out.Ferris’ Manufacturing ProgramThe Bachelor of Science - Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MFGE) program at FerrisState University has been supplying graduates to manufacturing facilities in the
MAKE Lab (http://themakelab.wp.txstate.edu), she is currently researching how recurring experiences within these design-based technologies impact self-efficacy and positive attitudes toward failure.Dr. Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Assistant Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technological. Dr. Linsey received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. Her research area is design cognition including systematic methods and tools for innovative design with a particular focus on concept generation and design-by-analogy. Her research seeks to understand designers’ cognitive processes with the goal
criteria for qualification and enrollmentprocedure, format of the course, three forms of the engineering practice; industrial internships,in-house engineering and research projects, and off-campus research work. A variety of positionsand projects will be covered in the paper that are focused on the furthering of the active learningexperience for the engineering students through in-house projects, where it is important to allowstudents to formulate their own ideas about the subject matter using hands-on experiences andengineering knowledge. 3 The impact on student preparation through faculty course assessmentreports (FCARs), student feedback, and work supervisor feedback will also be included in thispaper. The additional benefits to the program
survey of industry needs, researchers conclude that systems thinking is one of themost important characteristics sought in university graduates hired by manufacturing firms.2Systems thinkers are adept at understanding dynamic interdependence.3 Manufacturing processesare linked and intertwined and changes in one part of a system have effects and consequencesthat cascade through the entire system. As one factor changes, there are interactions across thesystem the leads to dynamic complexity.In order to facilitate the development of systems thinking in students, educational practice mustinclude activities that allow students to explore system dynamics and develop skills in theassessment of dynamic complexity. Traditional teaching methods that
across a broad swath of American manufacturing industriesincluding the machine tool and auto industries. Many of those that remained are reaching the ageof retirement and will take valuable expertise with them when they leave their companies. Forthis reason the education of new engineers remains a critical need for many states across the US.As important as this need is, budgetary constraints occurring simultaneously with the economicdownturn, have resulted in challenges to four-year schools graduating engineers in sufficientnumbers. In particular manufacturing engineers, whose expertise is best matched to theproduction of goods, only graduate from fewer than 20 programs here in the United States.Part of the need for manufacturing engineers is
covered concisely in this section. The students are asked to prepare and conduct a presentation on Workers Compensation law for a U.S. State chosen by the author.≠ Product Safety and Liability: Next step is to associate the product design and development process, ethics and legal implications of engineering practice through product safety and liability. The students first learn technical concepts like fail-safe and fool-proof designs, and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) through case studies, videos, and computer programs. They are then loaned copies of the movie based on a class action lawsuit, and expected write a report on this product safety and liability case utilizing the law terms they have learned.≠ Stress
, and others (more than 100 refereed publications). He has been serving as a principle investigator of several research projects funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an Editor of the Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso Noe Vargas Hernandez researches creativity and innovation in engineering design. He studies ideation methods, journaling, smartpens, and other methods and technology to aid designers improve their creativ- ity levels. He also applies his research to the design of rehabilitation devices (in which he has various patents under process) and design for sustainability.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel UniversityProf. Paras
internalconsistency for the evaluation scale. Page 26.655.8In order to assess the utility or immediate impact of each workshop, five content-based or“knowledge-based” tests of simple recall and understanding were developed for each workshoppresentation addressing major concepts delivered by the workshop’s presenters. A pre-test and apost-test research design were implemented to assess the amount of information acquired by theworkshops’ participants. Evaluators are keenly aware of the potential for inflated gain scoresdue to practice effects by participants but the results are still valuable to ascertain students’ability to maintain their attention on what is
knowledge concepts, and skills from each of the workshop presentations?MethodParticipants. The targeted program participants were undergraduate and graduate master’sstudents at various stages of their program with major emphasis on upperclassman.Research Design. The design used to address the research questions was a cross-sectional designwhich allows for the gathering of individual’s perceptions and opinions about fundamentalaspects of a program, issue, or intervention. This type of design is very effective since itprovides a quick “snapshop” of current behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs in a particularpopulation.Instruments. As a means of assessing the quality of the individual workshop presentations, aworkshop evaluation scale was developed. This
engineering, and design and development functions for automotive parts manufacturers in North Carolina and Germany.Heidi Blackburn, Kansas State University, Salina Heidi Blackburn is the Undergraduate Services Librarian for Kansas State University, Salina. She received her M.L.S. from Emporia State University’s School of Library and Information Management in 2008. She is a member of the Kansas Library Association (KLA), American College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and American Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She is published in Library Hi Tech, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research, Journal of Library Administration, and International Federation of Library
-graduation education, developing a specialized degree program, internships/cooperative educa-tion/apprenticeships, project work, graduate studies, or other related changes. The author is notsuggesting any approach over another. Variations in curriculum demands are typically related toregional manufacturing emphasis, state of the economy, demands for emerging knowledge, per-ceived needs, academic research interests, etc. The average of the results have been calculatedusing a value of 0 for ‘eliminate’ and ‘4 for major addition’. Table 1: Education Questions by Topic no major eliminate decrease
, Biomedical Device Design and Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing Processes fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Mapping Professional Performance Metrics into ABET Outcomes Assessment ProcessAbstractIn this manufacturing engineering program, the internship course is mandatory. The benefit ofsuch course is that the permanent placement rates of this program are higher when compared tosimilar institutions. Many of the students are staying in their internship companies as engineersafter graduation. On the contrary, it is becoming harder to place all of the students into industrialinternships due to increasing enrollments in both the domestic
Paper ID #12662Development of an Online Master’s Degree Program in Manufacturing Sys-tems EngineeringDr. Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky Fazleena Badurdeen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and also affiliated to the In- stitute for Sustainable Manufacturing at University of Kentucky where she leads the Sustainable Manu- facturing Systems and Supply Chains Research Group. She is also the Director for Graduate Studies in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, a multidisciplinary program in the College of Engineering. With backgrounds in Engineering and Business, Dr. Badurdeen is particularly
always been the source ofAmerica’s innovation and our standard of living.” [1] The crisis is the increasing penetration ofglobal competition on the economic output of the United States, now an issue to whichengineering education is paying serious attention. However, it is not a crisis of just technicalissues. What is needed with respect to global learning and experience is more than just technicalcompetence and expertise. Bill Wulf said “…engineering is now practiced in a global, holisticbusiness context, and engineers must design under constraints that reflect that context. In thefuture, understanding other cultures, speaking other languages, and communicating with peoplefrom marketing and finance will be just as fundamental to the practice of
encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr. Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement
theShewhart concept of continuous learning to Japanese leaders on June 16, 1950.Toyota’s leaders first began to apply the Deming “learning cycle” as their basis for designing acontinuous learning system in the early 1950s 4. Their continuous learning philosophy is nowwell articulated as: “Find the problem, fix the problem, and keep the problem from comingback.” Their organization learning strategy is known around the world by the Japanese wordkaizen; kaizen (continuous improvement) activities are practiced at every Toyota facility as anongoing, never ending way of doing business. Kaizen, in a Toyota sense, means small step-by-step, incremental improvements as the normal part of doing work. Their concept of small,incremental steps of learning more
AC 2008-439: ASEE ABSTRACT 08 CHEN & COX - MANUFACTURING DIVISIONJoseph Chen, Iowa State University Joseph C. Chen, Ph.D., PE, is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering at Auburn University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. His teaching interests include: Lean manufacturing system design, automated manufacturing processes, facility design, Taguchi design in quality, etc. His research interests include: manufacturing system control, manufacturing system design, design for manufacturing education, smart CNC machining, simulation as a design tool, simulation
Training: The hands- are also available at a website maintained by the on training takes place on the Center for Manufacturing Research [16]. second day of the workshop and AM-WATCH participants designed and printed includes training the participants innovative/entrepreneurial work pieces during the on using Arduino or Python second day of the studio workshops and rated their coding for advanced learning practices tied to ABET Student Outcomes manufacturing applications. at the end of the programs [17]. Educational Modules: Six educational Two-day, on-ground, train-the-trainer studios modules were developed on
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
students to experience different ways of design and operation. 9. Have recognition of the need for and ability to engage in life-long learning. The BAJA students will be engaged in the automotive field even they do not work in it. The overall experience has improved practical ability of some of the best theoretical students, also making them more interested in automotive engineering. This will encourage them to stay engaged in the area and continue to learn, especially with the help of being more practical and confident. 10. Have knowledge of contemporary issues. The BAJA team members receive two periodicals, one in Automotive and the other in Aerospace Engineering
taught various engineering courses including Engineering Graphics, Solid Modeling, CAD/CAM, and Civil Engineering Drawing for industrial, mechanical, and civil engineering students. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant at the mechanical engineering department of Tennessee Tech University. His research areas are in design for additive manufacturing, composite 3D printing, and functionally graded materials. Seymur is a member and active participant of SME and ASME engineering societies.Dr. Allen Munyaradzi Mathende, Tennessee Technological University Dr. Mathende is a recent graduate from the College of Education at Tennessee Tech University. His research interests are in the use of
graduates.From Others: ● Teaching should be project based; allowing students to create, design (draft), and manufacture a worthwhile idea into a practical finished project. Increasing the level of difficulty with each year of education ● emphasis on team-projects with effective individual accountability for contribution, co-op experiences that are coordinated with the student's current educational coursework. ● The most important and relevant skill that the industry needs but is completely absent in virtually every graduate is the ability to THINK! System thinking, complex problem solving, change management, robust engineering are highly recommended. ● Communication (incl. presentation, public
increaseprofit in production. Modern operations managers recognize the tremendous advantage ofapplying innovative and advanced techniques that would increase productivity and customersatisfaction. Tomorrow’s managers are being educated at universities today. Implementingbusiness processes analysis and improvement methodologies should be considered an importantcomponent of this education. Six Sigma methodology offers a comprehensive body ofknowledge to aid with such process improvements. This paper suggests a road map for implementation of a graduate course in Six Sigma.Students would start by acquiring the basic cognitive skills and mastering the necessaryunderlying concepts and theories. These theories are then put into practice through a
possible and may be used to improve the existing braking systems. However, thissystem, as built, cannot achieve the performance required by the current braking standards. Besides the major milestones and project design, we will describe the lessons learned and assessmentof this project throughout the academic year. The educational impact of such project is assessed as well,focusing on the interdisciplinary nature of the approach.1. Introduction 1.1. Educational Context Capstone projects are a graduation requirement for our Engineering Technology program at DrexelUniversity. The capstone course sequence consists of 3 quarter-based courses, 3 credits each course, thatstudent need to complete during their senior year. During these
there isn't existing knowledge within the company. Graduates should also be familiar with basic measurement practices. Engineers that cannot operate a caliper or micrometer correctly as basic engineering tools degrade confidence.• Validation processes are a critical knowledge gap. Most manufacturing processes require validation for new installations. Statistical evidence of machine capability is required for this process. In the growing technical manufacturing of our state this is critical for manufacturing engineers (all medical, lithium-ion battery, most automotive, etc). It is generally a best practice of manufacturing engineering as a means of documenting your process as being ready for production.• Basic and
Paper ID #23752MAKER: Simple Making Activities to Expose Middle School Girls to STEMCareersDr. Lunal Khuon, Drexel University Dr. Lunal Khuon is an Associate Clinical Professor at Drexel University in the Engineering Technology (ET) Department. He also serves as the Assistant Department Head for Graduate Studies and the Director of Research for the ET Department as well as oversees the Biomedical Engineering Technology concen- tration. Prior to Drexel, Dr. Khuon had previously held design and system positions at Texas Instruments, Motorola, Hughes, and IBM and faculty positions as an Assistant Professor at Villanova