Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Merwan Mehta, East Carolina University; Richard Monroe, East Carolina University

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Manufacturing

consulting companies have also developed products of their own. One popular program4developed by the National Institute of Standards (NIST) consists of using two different circuitboard assemblies to simulate two different lines of products as shown in Figure 1. Test A B C E A B C D E D 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

, manufacturing engineers design processes. However, the purpose of these processesis the production of product. Following the logic of manufacturing traced in the previousparagraph, ‘design’ in manufacturing engineering spans the product realization spectrum. Alogical extension to the fundamental definition of manufacturing is to identify sub-disciplines inmanufacturing engineering. Product Engineering Process Engineering Quality Engineering Production Engineering Figure 1: Four Sub-disciplines in Manufacturing Engineering These sub-disciplines can be defined a bit more

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert LeMaster, University of Tennessee-Martin; David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin

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Manufacturing

upgraded course inAutomated Production Systems. The objective of the Automation Laboratory is to provideexperiential learning opportunities, while at the same time providing exposure to real worldindustrial automation equipment and tools. Included in the paper is a description of the contentand objectives of each laboratory session and a description of the hardware platforms used toaccomplish the laboratory exercises.IntroductionThe University of Tennessee at Martin offers an ABET-accredited Bachelor of Science inEngineering degree with concentrations in civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical disciplines.A three course sequence involving various aspects of control technology is offered (Table 1).Some of the courses are required of all

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

1. Page 11.193.2 Students Instructor and Course Content Community ABET Parents Prospective Employers University Administration Figure 1: Stakeholders in the teaching – learning environment. As shown in Figure 1, there are many stakeholders in the modern teaching –learning environment. As a consequence, the expected quality of teaching is determinednot only by the course content and delivery, but also the need to meet the

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Val Hawks, Brigham Young University; Michael Miles, Brigham Young University

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Manufacturing

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

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Falkowski, University of Dayton; Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College; Monica Pfarr, Sinclair Community College

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Manufacturing

. In the context of looming workforce shortages, the US manufacturers facetwo significant challenges: (1) the poor images and misperceptions that leave parents,counselors, and students unwilling to pursue technical degree programs that serve themanufacturing sector, and (2) the urgent need for highly skilled workers who canfunction effectively in the current advanced and technologically sophisticatedmanufacturing environment.Manufacturing suffers from a negative—and outdated—view of its role in the nationaleconomy. There is a common misperception that the importance of manufacturing to the Page 11.1069.2US economy is diminishing. This perception is

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Carlisle, Sinclair Community College; Charles Winarchick, Sinclair Community College

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Manufacturing

”1 state: “It is said that there is nothing so practical as goodtheory. It may also be said that there’s nothing so theoretically interesting as goodpractice.” Marquardt2 in his “Harnessing the Power of Action Learning” states “...allforms of action learning share the elements of real people resolving and taking action onreal problems in real time and learning while doing so.” This is what our educational approach to engineering technology education has been allabout. To address these issues, we create laboratory problems, institute engineering coopprograms, and do capstone projects, all to get students exposed to “real world problems”.These are all excellent approaches and should be applied wherever practical. There areproblems associated

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Qualters, Northeastern University; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Thomas Cullinane, Northeastern University; Ann McDonald, Northeastern University; Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios

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Manufacturing

supply chain. The projectexplores the hypothesis that millennial engineering students approach learning in a communal,active manner using trial and error approaches. Results of this pilot exploratory project suggestthat engineering students are able to learn new information in a collaborative game approach,which impacts their confidence and self-awareness of their knowledge base.1. IntroductionThe goal and challenge of the board game entitled Shortfall is for students to learn to maximizeprofit with an increased awareness of environmental impact. The objectives of the game are tofoster better understanding of these issues and to encourage potential future industry leaders tomake these practices part of every day planning. The auto industry

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Miles, Brigham Young University; Val Hawks, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

would have allowed us to implement some of the changes we proposed. We will presenta discussion of the efforts of our students to gather and analyze data, which will be followed by asummary of the recommendations for improvement that they provided to these companies. Page 11.1457.21. Case #1 - Motorcycle Inner Tube ManufacturingBackgroundThis family-owned business has been operating for about 6 years and is led by a father and twosons. They produce inner tubes for motorcycles and sell them to wholesale suppliers in PhnomPenh, who then distribute their products to the rest of the country. At one time they did have alocal competitor, but they

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Hye Jeong Kim, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

Designs, the user canreview different layouts in terms of operation time and cost of each step, overall cycle time andtotal cost.The toolkit was evaluated by 27 undergraduate students who took a manufacturing automationand robotics course in Fall 2005. Students’ comments and opinions were mostly positive andincluded suggestions for further improvement. Future directions include (1) adding aninteractive tutorial component including a case study of designing an automated system; (2)testing the prototype with a larger student population; (3) soliciting input from industry experts;and (4) comparing and contrasting how similar problems are solved by experts and novices

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Landon Gray, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

studies are being developed. These case studies includeanimations of automated systems to help students to visualize how processes work and thesequence of events. They also illustrate steps in the programming process from identifying thesequence of events and input and outputs to developing code to implement each event. Althoughthe idea of case studies itself is not new, the combination of case study methodologies andinstructional technology to teach PLC programming is relatively novel. This paper will describethe case studies that have been developed so far, how they are being used, results from studentevaluations of these case studies, and future directions.1. IntroductionThe programmable logic controller (PLC) has been described as one of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Manufacturing

. Page 11.909.3CAD/CAM/CMM ModuleThe objective of this module is to train the students to design, fabricate, and measure a simplepart using the knowledge they gained in the manufacturing processes course (ISE 370). Thiscourse is offered in the Fall Semester of the junior year.The design sub-module consists of: 1. Brainstorm ideas of possible parts to design and make.2. Determine the part which would be challenging yet attainable to complete. 3. Draw the partdrawing using correct dimensions on engineering paper. 4. Provide appropriate tolerances, ifnecessary, to certain dimensions in the drawing. 5. Draw the part drawing in Pro-Engineer/AutoCAD. Label all end points and points of interest to tool path. 6. Decide whether to useabsolute or

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Luntz, University of Michigan; E. Emanuel Almeida, University of Michigan; Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan; James Moyne, University of Michigan; Keith Hargrove, Morgan State University

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Manufacturing

(DRFT) has been devel-oped as part of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) on Reconfigurable Manufacturing.The testbed combines hardware and simulation components at both universities operating undercommon control using secure channels over the Internet, and is designed in such a way as to easethe addition and modification of its various components The original UM RFT comprises 1) aserial-parallel manufacturing line, 2) a Virtual Factory software component, 3) factory-wide opensoftware integration platform and data warehouse, 5) modular logic control developed at the celllevel, and 6) a multi-teir networked control and diagnostic structure. To this system, the MSUportion was added comprising an Automated Storage and Retrieval system and a

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Z.J. Pei, Kansas State University

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Manufacturing

. Page 11.1388.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using Hollywood Movies as a Supplementary Tool to Teach Manufacturing ProcessesAbstractIntroductory courses on manufacturing processes are difficult to teach and it is challenging todeliver the information in an interesting or entertaining way. As one of the attempts to promotestudents’ learning, Hollywood movies have been used as a supplementary tool to teach such acourse at Kansas State University. This paper presents the experience of such attempt. Examplesof using Hollywood movies are presented and discussed. Students’ feedback and comments arealso provided.1. IntroductionAt Kansas State University, “Introduction to Manufacturing Processes

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

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Manufacturing

senior capstone project for technology majors. By the summer of1999, simulation internships had placed 12 of 17 students after running full-scale simulationclasses [1]. Internship placements included NASA-Johnson Space Center, a Navistar truck plant,Deneb Robotics, DaimlerChrysler, and General Motors. By 2000 graduates with these skillsreceived the following successful job placements: Applied Manufacturing Technologies (SystemsEngineer); Argus & Associates (Simulation Engineer); Delphi Corp. (Simulation Engineer);Delmia (7 Interns); Detroit Central Tool (Robotics Simulator); General Motors (SimulationEngineer); and HRU Corp. (Project/Simulation Engineer). Based on these successes, and demandby students, virtual simulation is now a principle

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

was recently modified by the author who is the new instructor. During theplanning stage, the author studied the existing literature 1,2,3,4,5,6 and came up with hisconcept. His initial objective was to present a variety of different control technologies asoptions to prospective manufacturing engineers without contradicting the current coursedescription and the objectives as presented below in Table 1 This course provides an in-depth treatment of the methods and techniques used for the implementation of automated device control, both digital and Course analog. The student will achieve a mastery of both open and closed loop Description control methods and algorithms including

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Leduc, Ball State University

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Manufacturing

no practical reason why the broadeneddefinition cannot be applied to B4.1 as well, the B4.1 standard is intended for cylindrical partsonly.When utilizing the metric system it is important to provide students with an understanding of thepreferred numbering system. The preferred numbering system in the inch system is a bitconvoluted. The inch system actually has two preferred numbering systems: • Fractional based: We prefer whole numbers to fractions. We prefer 1/2’s to 1/4’s; 1/4’s to 1/8’s; 1/8’s to 1/16’s, etc. • Decimal based: We prefer whole numbers to decimal increments. We prefer .1’s to .01’s; .01’s to .001’s; .001’s to .0001’s, etc.Knut O. Kveneland is the chair of the ANSI B4.2 standard and the author of Metric

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Waldorf, Cal Poly State University; Sema Alptekin, Cal Poly State University; Robert Bjurman, General Motors Global Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, the process involved the following steps: 1) Define Goals: Broad objectives of the session were specified. 2) Collect Ideas: During this phase, the participants were asked to come up with ideas while deferring judgment. 3) Group Ideas: Ideas were grouped according to the objectives that they addressed. 4) Rank Ideas: Participants were asked to review and rank ideas according to perceived value and to vote for the best ideas in each topic area.Ideas addressing the future of manufacturing education generated from this process aresummarized and categorized in the following sections of this paper.MethodsSessions at the SME/CIRP international conference in San Luis Obispo were designed topromote discussion and idea-generation

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianmei Zhang, Kansas State University; Z.J. Pei, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

interactive teaching methodsTTYP In-class DiscussionAccording to the article “How the brain learns” authored by D.A. Sousa [1], differentinstructional methods generate different retention rates in brains. Compared with lecturegenerating 5%, group discussion generates 50%, and teaching others/immediate use of learning90%, which can be achieved by TTYP effectively.TTYP (Turn-To-Your-Partner) is the most often used interactive teaching method by the authors.It can be adjusted a little bit based on different manufacturing courses applied. In IMSE 250,most of students are freshmen and sophomores, and TTYP is given to reinforce students’understanding on the most important concepts for each lesson, and normally TTYP is given nearthe end of class. The

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricio Torres, Purdue University; Matthew Stephens, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

://www.asq.org/pub/qualityprogress/past/0403/qp0403alukal.pdf) 1 (two sessions) • Steps for a change: Specify the value, identify the value stream, flow, pull and perfection (Womack, 2003) (two sessions) MASTER BLACK BELTS The Master Black Belt has the highest level of knowledge in Six Sigma techniques.He/she is a professional with skills and expertise not only in technical issues, but also inleadership. Master Black Belts are Six Sigma Quality experts that are responsible for the strategic implementations within an organization. Master Black Belt main responsibilities include training and mentoring of Black Belts and Green Belts; helping to prioritize, select and charter high

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Jan Jewett, Washington State University-Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

theAdvanced Manufacturing Processes Lab course worked closely with faculty and staff inthe CDP to design and fabricate the stations. This paper presents details of organizing andmanaging such a collaborative activity between two different programs. Overall studentexperience and lessons learned in organizing such a project are also discussed.1. Introduction The preparation of skilled engineers requires a comprehensive andmultidimensional approach. “The men and women who will be 21st Century engineerswill exhibit leadership and multi-disciplinary teamwork…. (They) must communicatemore to support and advance their ideas and proposals. To emerge from the “back-rooms”, engineers must be brought-up in a culture of teamwork, collaboration

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Mountain, University of Texas-Tyler; David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

uncoated copper is tinned using a liquid-tinning solution. Figure 1 is a flow diagram of thecircuit board prototyping process using the laser. Details of the process elements follow. 1. Develop circuit board 2. Create mirror image of artwork using laser enabled artwork. Locate board 3. Place board in drill fixture CAD library; placing entities images in the CAD and pre-drill locating holes. on appropriate layers. workspace. 5. Clean both sides of 4. Place board in fixture, 6. Apply acrylic clear coat board with soap, water and insulation side up; laser with air brush

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

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Manufacturing

. Page 11.305.2Exhibit GoalsThe main purpose of the exhibit is to educate visitors about the processes in three fields essentialto industrial production – product design, manufacturing, and marketing – and how these fieldsare intertwined in development of manufactured goods. A secondary goal of the exhibit is tointroduce children, especially girls, to the types of professions found in these areas so they mayconsider them as future career choices.3 For either of these goals to be attained, the proposedexhibit must accomplish three tasks: (1) attract visitors, (2) motivate them to become engagedwith the exhibit, and (3) facilitate the acquisition of the knowledge, understanding, and attitudesthe exhibit is designed to convey.Exhibit OverviewThe