, researchskills, integration skills and knowledge of the design process. Students in this course will choosemajors from four different engineering disciplines – mechanical, electrical, computer, productdesign/manufacturing, and therefore, an introduction to as many disciplines as is practical isdesired. Students participating in the design project also learn that solutions are rarely achievedutilizing only the knowledge base from a single engineering discipline.Finally, no program of study can teach an individual everything they will possibly need to knowduring their professional careers. Therefore, it is crucial for students to develop research skillsthat will allow them to find solutions to problems for which they have little
isspecifically designed to guide the hazard evaluation for a particular machine has been shown tobe effective, 1, 2 but the underlying problem of compliance seems to be a lack of adequateunderstanding of the applicable laws and standards. The apparent lack of understanding of thesesafety requirements seems to suggest a deficiency in relevant education and training.The role of the manufacturing engineer in machine safety practices is somewhat unclear. Mostmanufacturing engineers, from a variety of manufacturing backgrounds (manufacturing,mechanical, industrial, etc.), will have some direct interaction with manufacturing equipment intheir professional careers. In many cases, the manufacturing engineer is given some level ofresponsibility for the safe
, numerical modeling, electromagnetic com- patibility and engineering education. During his career Dr. Belu published eight book chapters, several papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or Co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy, microgrids, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation, atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education.Mr. Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso
: Throughout the project, I have learned plenty of skills. Some skills that I strengthened during this project were problem solving, designing of new parts, and integrating creative ideas to simulate something in the real world. Problem solving skills are essential to everyday life and especially in the field of engineering. These skills within this project showed through the process of designing the modular pieces to become something truly relevant in the real world and it proved to be difficult at some times. Throughout my high school and college career, I’ve loved designing new parts by using applications such as SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. By designing the new parts such as spur gears, rack
course presented in this paper has the designation of upper-divisionrequirement/elective and is supported with a traditional, required, and separate materials sciencecourse and lab. Implementation of this manufacturing processes course at UT Martin is a smallstep in the direction of calls for increases in manufacturing curricula and programs, and it givesstudents of the UT Martin engineering program an opportunity to learn about manufacturing Page 12.511.3processes and how important manufacturing is to their careers and to the global economy.Course Description and DesignThe philosophy of the course is to expose upper division mechanical and
. However, automated manufacturing system integration is acomplex cognitive skill that typically takes years to master. To better prepare engineers andmanufacturers to compete in a rapidly changing world, needed is a better understanding of thenature of system integration skill and how to acquire it.This study reports preliminary observations from a verbal protocol analysis study of expert andnovice system integration engineers. Subjects included four application engineers from anengineering services firm (all with 15 or more years of system integration experience) and twoearly career engineers with four or fewer years of experience. All were asked to design anautomated cell phone assembly line given a set of seven parts, a $1M budget, a six-second
locations ≠ the attraction of industry to capture “hit the ground running” students ready to move seamlessly into career positions based on more rigorous internship exposure30% of this award was to also develop online customized training to meet the growing needs ofLean curriculum demand for the incumbent workforce. While only 12% of the funds wouldeventually be expended to the incumbent workforce e-curriculum, the remainder was directed tosupport related online infrastructure with the system’s approval. This paper attempts to deal withthe credit based experience only. The grant formative life was 18 months for the conversion of15 credits or 79% of the senior year face-to-face course work and 11 credits of graduate 500level coursework
general engineering technology for Bachelor degrees as well as mechanical,electrical, and bio-engineering technologies. In addition, students will benefit from hands-onpractice and strategy analysis, and most important of all, prepare for a potential career in thefuture advanced manufacturing industry.AcknowledgementsReferences1. John N. Stuecker ,* James E. Miller , Robert E. Ferrizz , Jason E. Mudd , and Joseph Cesarano , III, “Advanced Support Structures for Enhanced Catalytic Activity”. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 43 (1): 51– 55.2. Smay, James E.; Cesarano, Joseph; Lewis, Jennifer A. (2002). “Colloidal Inks for Directed Assembly of 3-D Periodic Structures”. Langmuir. 18 (14): 5429–5437.3. Lewis, Jennifer
Engineering/Ergonomics and Human Factors and PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering/Design and Manufacturing and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Dr. Ashour is the first recipient of William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professorships in Industrial Engineering at Penn State Behrend. His research interest mainly includes process improvement, modeling and simulation, and decision making modeling of manufacturing and healthcare systems. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Jordanian
Mathematics (STEM) careers. It is estimated that by 2018, STEMbased job opportunities would be among the top 10 rapidly growing careers1. Developingevidence based solutions, Identifying underlying factors for a given problem, Holistic thinking,Understanding problem dependencies, are a few but not an exhaustive list of industry ready skillsacquired by STEM students. However, educational environment plays a very significant role inshaping the understanding of a given concept among the students. Current research trend isobserved on identifying effective teaching methodologies and developing innovative ways tokeep students engaged in a classroom. With different classroom structural settings in place, it isobserved that traditional teaching approach is
theirunderstanding of the class topic. Also, more than 62% of students are willing to use the simulationtools in their future work in the industry in addition to 35% that may use it. The post-lecture resultsshow that introducing new simulation tools are very appreciated for their future career as engineersand this is a good outcome compared with the pre-lecture survey which shows that about 80% ofstudents in this class do not know the simulation tool Tolanalyst© in SolidWorks. Also, about 80%mentioned that working on the in-class project enriches their understanding of the topics. It isinteresting to note that adding simulation tools to the project assignment does not require aconsiderable amount of time from the students. According to the post-lecture
Paper ID #26140Project Based Learning for a Computer Integrated Manufacturing CourseDr. Zareena Gani, Higher Colleges of Technology Dr. Zareena Gani started her career in Engineering with a degree in Mechanical engineering from MK University, India. She has over 20 years of experience in both academia and industry. She has worked as a Design and Manufacturing engineer in Singapore before joining National University of Singapore from which she obtained her M.Eng degree. She also has worked in Singapore Institute of Manufactur- ing Technology (A*STAR) as a Research Fellow before moving to Canada. She gained exposure with
London, both in the UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior Research Assistant at the SERC Engineering Design Centre. He joined Brunel University in 1995 where he worked for 18 years before joining United Arab Emirates University in August 2011. During his stay at Brunel he has worked with many British industries. Dr Sivaloganathan is a keen researcher in Design and was the Convenor for the Engineering Design Conferences in 1998 and 2000. He has published more than 75 papers in reputed journals and conferences.Mr. Hayder Zulafqar Ali, University Instructor Hayder Ali is working as an ’instructor’ in mechanical engineering department, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Before joining UAEU, he has been
basedapproach and the kinesthetic learning style has been adopted throughout all laboratory sections.From students’ comments, the teaching approach was very successful. By the end of theacademic year, students have developed their own various projects using the knowledge theylearned from PLC Programming and Industrial Automation courses. Some of the projects havebeen further advanced as a student research paper published at the college technology dayconference, ASEE regional conferences or the Latin American Caribbean Conference forEngineering and Technology. Moreover, these courses are intended to enhance careeropportunities for the students in Mechatronics Engineering program. Currently some of ourgraduates have chosen their careers in the area of
pursue manufacturing careers. Table 1 Students' scorings on the course outcome S1 S2 S3 S4 Ave.1a. This course improved my mathematical skills in solvingengineering problems. 2 3 4 3 31b. This course enhanced my understanding in physics and/orchemistry. 2 3 2 3 2.51c. This course improved my engineering skills in solvingproblems. 3 4 4 5 42. This course improved my ability to analyze problems bydesigning and conducting experiments. 5 4
a scale of 5.0. Also, 66% of the studentsfound 3D Printing and Design Of Experiments to be more appealing. Based on their hands-onexperience with Design of Experiments, SolidWorks and 3D printing and the comments receivedby the program participants it was found that: (a) All the students demonstrated basic level ofunderstanding (through their assigned project) on how to use basic engineering skills to tackle areal world problem based on the tools available to their disposal; (b) Educational environmentprovided to them in university setting motivated 45% of the participants with a positive impacton their career choices towards STEM.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe authors of this paper would like to thank the NSF (Grant No: NSF DUE-TUES-1246050)and the
human interfacing) in real-life problem solving. The experience enhances students’ hand-oncapability and prepares them for entering real world career in robotics and system automation[10]. Future plans include combining multiple robots to form a large robotic network systemwhich can collaborate in the large area surveillance and patrolling in multi-room scenario,exchange sensed data among them and stitch each piece of fragmental information into a bigpicture which reflects an overall view of the entire environment. This kind of data processing canbe sent to Cloud for further analysis for any response to be taken if necessary. Besides thedomestic service applications, the same idea can be applied to industrial environment as well,especially for
field in his first year as an employee of Academic Technologies. The cooperative en- vironment in Academic Technologies has improved Erik’s ethical, professional and personal involvement during the past years.Mr. Gil Paquian Jr., UTEP Academic Technologies Gilbert Paquian has always been fascinated with how things work. During his undergraduate career pur- suing a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, his project-oriented work with Academic Technologies and the completion of an internship with W. Silver Incorporated, a local steel mill, were able to satisfy his curiosity learning about the inner workings of various machines, electrical components and computer software. After
activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Kevin Frank, Drexel University Drexel University student studying Mechanical Engineering Technology. Currently on CO-OP and work- ing on the Unity3D implementation portion of this project.Ms. Ayanna Elise Gardner, Drexel University After graduating with her associate’s degree in Engineering Technology from Delaware County Commu- nity College in 2018, Ayanna transferred to Drexel University to continue her undergraduate career. Her interest in the hands-on applications of the Engineering Technology field was sparked during her time as an organizational-level helicopter mechanic for the United States
be and can be better designed through 3Dmodeling software to create a more effective and efficient wind turbine. Through an understandingof aerodynamics and air flow, it is possible to generate an airfoil design for the blade of the windturbine, which induces lift by creating a low pressure, high velocity flow of air over its curved topsurface and a high pressure, low velocity pocket under the curved top surface, which will reducethe amount of drag back into the fan, increasing efficiency of the fan. The overall length and widthof the new design is similar to the flat blade design, but because of its curvature it has less surfacearea for the wind to contact it [12-15].In preparing students for their future career, virtual reality experiences
follow this career path. Thevirtual simulation program is a distinctive component of the Department of TechnologicalStudies, and provides excellent opportunities for student field experiences and applications ofadvanced computer technologies. The curriculum provides the opportunity for real-worldprojects, internships and jobs for our students, and is providing modern industrial companies with Page 13.437.11effective management and manufacturing engineering professionals. The local industrialcompanies have been very receptive and supportive of the partnerships which improve the qualityof the students’ education and better prepares them for future
keeping them from doing more to ensurethat this happens at their institutions.Intentions for the futureSurvey participants articulated their intentions to ensure learners are exposed to understandingand applying leadership principles and practices. Here are some of their intentional statements: o Would like to co-create a leadership course for undergraduates o Motivation, awareness, pro-active career planning o Ensure that students are fully engaged with the resources and services available to them o Training, experiential learning and personal development are intertwined. o Give them opportunities integrated within existing curriculum without having a stand-along course o Multiple sessions of seminars and service learning o
the vast majority of cases, the manufacturing technologies in question will be well-beyond those that were central to initial faculty preparation. Few current faculty will have, for example, developed a level of expertise in medical device manufacture during their graduate study or earlier career; growth in expertise is essential. Introduction of new technologies requires background (from study of new technologies, as well as the fundamentals of the manufacturing engineering discipline), perception (from interaction with the program’s industrial constituencies and with trends in the broader national and international arena) and a well-developed program strategy (needed in any case).… Note that some of the new
tremendously to new theories, applications and technologies that are still considered emergingtechnologies and are not in a textbook or course notes. In this way we stimulated students further toseek research activities based on their personal or career interests through open-ended problem solving,interdisciplinary projects, offering them a great opportunity to “try-out” at a smaller scale a “capstonetype” projects. Students enriched constantly their knowledge and they proved critical thinking andcreativity. Some of the main drawbacks pointed out by the students include the fact that since thedevices are extremely small it is difficult at times for all students to directly work hands-on with theexperiment and hence it may be better suited for an
graduation training in the Railway Workshops he joined the Cement industry where he worked for ten years. He got his M.Sc. from University of Aston in 1981 and Ph.D. from City University London in 1991. He joined Brunel universityin 1995 and worked there as a senior lecturer until he left Brunel in September 2011 to join UAEU. Dr Sivaloganathan was the founding Course Director for M.Sc. in Advanced Engineering Design at Brunel.Rajesh Ganithi, UAE University Mr Rajesh Ganithi started his career in engineering with a Diploma in Tool and Die Making from NTTF, India in 1995. In the next twenty years he has gathered enormous amount of experience and exposure while working in various companies in various capacities in
complete manufacturing knowledge with the idea that they will continuously be receivinghands-on manufacturing experience throughout their education opposed to a single semester. In addition to the preceding single-semester class, the SPIRAL manufacturing curriculum(SPIRAL-MC) will continue throughout their entire undergraduate career (from Freshman to Se-nior year). The basic layout of the SPRIAL-MC is portrayed in Figure 1. This figure metaphori-cally presents progression of the new manufacturing curriculum on a spiral path. The spiral pro-gression illustrates that as students proceed with their undergraduate education, they will be con-tinually be learning new things and revising old topics, all of which are within a similar
individuals with theknowledge and skills necessary to develop and sustain online learning community. A newgeneration of industry needs to be equipped to function in the interdisciplinary environment typicalof sustainable technologies and virtual reality (VR). Two universities are working together todevelop a green STEM that prepares participants for careers in the emerging manufacturingindustries by enhancing their knowledge in renewable resource development. In order to optimizeresources and to utilize expertise at multiple institutions, the program are delivered through onlinelearning community, making it accessible anywhere in the world. The multidisciplinary projectinvolves several different areas of study that directly support VR-based
unfortunate is the current manufacturing skills shortage and the legacy thesedownsizing efforts have toward recruiting the next generation of manufacturing personnel.Although the headlines are often portrayed as sensational the reality is stark for employees andtheir communities who are or have been laid off. Sadly, it would seem that some CEOs relish theprocess only adding to the reluctance of individuals to pursue a manufacturing career [37]. JackWelch, for example, former CEO of General Electric (GE) was known as “Neutron Jack”. Hewould annually purged 10% of his workforce [37]. Further fuel resentment is the 42% increase in Page 6 of 16pay for the CEO’s for the
AC 2008-1446: GREENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN: DEVELOPMENT OF ACOMPUTER GAME TO TEACH ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGNMANUFACTURINGJacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University JACQUELINE A. ISAACS is an Associate Director of the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Her research focuses on economic and environmental assessment of manufacturing. Initial development of Shortfall resulted from her CAREER grant funded by the National Science Foundation (DMI-9734054), and subsequent NSF funding (DMI-0537056) to continue its development.Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios JAY LAIRD is
comments about the project were not just limitedto student exit survey and course evaluations. The instructor kept receiving positive feedbackfrom those who somehow heard about this project. Some of the 215 students enrolled in springand fall 2016 lab sections chose to enroll selectively so that they can participate in this project.Here are some of student testimonials. “In the end the experience I garnered from this will be invaluable moving forward in my MET career. Having 20 years of manufacturing experience with 10 of those years spent as a machinist, I can absolutely see the value in this project. I will be holding on to these formulas and experiences for future use as I hope one day to run my own machine shop