Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Innovation and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

thoroughly. There is a logical path to befollowed in the realization of the product. The rubric can be most readily illustrated through thefollowing instructions that are issued to students undertaking a project to design a manufacturingsystem for a given product.9 The context is that student teams in a ‘production engineering’class fulfill the learning objectives for the course through a semester-long project. Student teamsdesign a production system for an existing product. The products have been as varied as caststeel flow control valves, printed circuit boards and fishing reels. Integrated into the fabric of theproject, students are challenged to critique the product design to improve manufacturability andreduce cost. The first three stages of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Course Description and ObjectivesWhile PLC’s remained as the major component, the course modification allowedinclusion of various technologies, connections and contrasts between them, and their past,current, and future roles in industrial controls area. The added content and their detailsare presented in Table 2. Since a few new components were introduced to the curriculum,main hands-on additions were limited to the hardwired ralay-logic and integrated-circuitbased controls areas. These components were critical in teaching PLC basics and logic to Page 11.455.2the students. Besides having hands-on laboratories, demos and review discussions werealso

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

simulation modelsof actual manufacturing operations. Each student team prepares PowerPoint materials which arepresented to representatives of the company. Recent projects included work with majorautomotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers, along with a major defenseindustry company. This paper and presentation includes examples of simulations and the resultsof the students’ analysis of the operations.The simulation applications used in these industrial projects include robotic workcell processing,ergonomics analysis, and discrete event materials/process flow studies. This curriculum has alsoprovided an opportunity for integration of several technologies and manufacturing managementaspects into application-based environments

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

Collection

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

participants to come up with hundreds of ideas for improvement. Ideas were generatedto address the future of manufacturing education as it relates to: • what new technologies or systems need to be covered in the curriculum, • what changes should be incorporated at both the course and program levels, • how programs should interact with industrial and professional organizations, and • what can be done to improve recruiting of new students into the field.The brainstorming was essentially an open-ended survey that functioned with the advantages of afocus group. The ideas were recorded by the participants and collected from the session. Thispaper discusses the data collection (i.e., brainstorming) method used and then summarizes andcategorizes

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

essential role in the manufacturingindustry. Engineers constantly design, maintain, reconfigure, and upgrade these systems toaccommodate shifts in product design or manufacturing priorities. Often engineers require yearsof experience to become expert in this area. Needed are systematic procedures and acomprehensive curriculum for education on automated system integration tasks such as roboticsystem design. This paper describes the design and evaluation of a web-based robotic workcelldesign tool kit created to help students learn how to design an automated robotic workcell in asystematic way. The design of the toolkit is based on interviews with engineers about typicalapplication engineer job tasks at system integration companies. The toolkit was

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

industrial controls course in an engineering curriculum issomewhat surprising, since many processes and products use the methods taught in such acourse. As pointed out by Clough3, discrete and batch process control is often a missing link inan undergraduate engineering student’s controls education. In fact, the first technical skill listedin the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s list of educational competency gaps isManufacturing Process Control4. Members of the UT Martin Industrial Advisory Committee,who come principally from manufacturing backgrounds, have consistently emphasized theimportance of this course. Although industrial controls courses are not common in engineeringcurriculum, they do exist, and Bachnak5 describes a similar three course

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricio Torres, Purdue University; Matthew Stephens, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

2006-1708: EDUCATING THE BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGERS OF THEFUTURE: THE SIX SIGMA TECHNIQUESPatricio Torres, Purdue University Mr. PATRICIO TORRES, M.B.A. earned a double major: Business Administration and Law in his native country, Ecuador, S.A. In 2003, he obtained an M.B.A. degree with a major in Operations in Purdue University, Indiana. His professional experience includes Finance, Marketing and Operations. He was a Mathematics teacher in the Catholic University of Ecuador (1991-1995). He published an article in the journal "The Progressive," (Ecuador, 1998) and in the "American Society of Engineering Education," where he also presented a conference (U.S.A. 2005). A

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

the most ingeniousdevices ever invented to advance the field of manufacturing automation1. Thousands of PLCshave been used for such applications as monitoring security, managing energy consumption, andcontrolling machines and automatic production lines. As an essential part of manufacturingautomation, PLCs are covered in many automation and control-related courses, such asComputer-Aided Manufacturing, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Industrial Control, andManufacturing Automation and Robotics. Students from other disciplines are also exposed toPLC technology. Research by Frost & Sullivan indicates that the world market forprogrammable logic controller will continue to grow as units become smaller, more functional,and more able to work

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

Abstract This paper presents a collaborative manufacturing project between theManufacturing Engineering (MfgE) program and the Child Development program (CDP)– a preschool program – at Washington State University Vancouver. In the MfgEProgram, a two credit course named “Advanced Manufacturing Processes Lab” allowsthe students to integrate course materials from the entire MfgE curriculum into open-ended, student-designed and fabricated projects. The MfgE program assisted the CDP tofabricate a “learning center” or station that encourages children to work in a variety ofways with water. This station would allow children to investigate ways to make watermove and to observe and study the ways that water moves naturally. The students in