mandatory course (core curriculum) – MET 421, 422 and 423. The syllabus foreach sequence is attached. The course involves developing a comprehensive project during these3 quarters; including a demonstration of a working prototype (a physical product rather than acomputer based model or data from experiments/process/procedure). Students must develop anew or improved product or technology during their senior design sequence. Each project will bedeveloped by a team of 3 to 4 students. Usually teams are a mix of both mechanical andelectrical engineering technology concentrations.This course is an excellent capstone experience, which requires both teamwork and individualskills to solve a modern industrial problem. Senior design project seminars in fall
State University, The Behrend College, Erie, PA. He has worked in the foundry industry for 20 years as a toolmaker, and has managed several departments including the tool shop, R&D, production, product, quality and sales. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Industry Projects into a Manufacturing Systems CourseAbstractIn order to fill the existing skills gap in U.S. manufacturing, effective teaching techniques ofmanufacturing courses should be considered by academic institutions. Hands-on experiments andreal life projects can be incorporated into the curriculums in order to produce new graduates withadequate knowledge of manufacturing skills. In this paper, we discuss
hook to a depth of atleast an inch again ensuring the strength of the mold.Once the slurry is poured around the hook and it hardens, the mold is ready to be fired in anatural gas kiln used by the ceramics classes in the art department Though students prepared,mixed, and poured their own molds, the ABS burn-out process was done for them. The kiln wasmanually adjusted to hold a temperature of 1000⁰ F-1500⁰ F for at least 5 hours. Thissuccessfully vaporizes the plastic hook and foam sprues. Too high of a firing temperature or toolong of an exposure can begin to degrade the integrity of the plaster-of-paris mold, causingcracks and fragility.Casting can begin after the molds cool or while still hot if care is taken to handle the hot moldssafely. If
tobiomedical engineering research. Figure 3. Fab@Home (left) and RepRap Prusa i3 (right)In this paper, a modified RepRap 3D printer with dual extruders performing DIW (robocasting)for course and student project development is demonstrated. The project is an application ofinstrumentation, mechatronics and CAD design that integrate a mount, actuators (stepper motorsof the extruders) and the control unit (Arduino RUMBA). An undergraduate student (now in the 4master program) was assigned to work part time (10 hours a week) on the hardwaremodification, coding, and testing. The working procedure and the time frame are recorded andevaluated for the development of curriculum. The project
is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 INTEGRATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY IN CURRICULA TO ENHANCE CONCEPT BASED LEARNINGAbstract
, amenability to visualdemonstrations, remotely operated laboratory activities integrated with well-developed lecturesoffers excellent means for attracting students to engineering and engineering technology[2].Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer course is a three hour-credit junior to senior undergraduatecore curriculum course designed for all ET students.This course was developed as being writing intensive but also one of the main precursors ofCapstone project, having embedded in its curricula a final student-led team project that has itsmain outcome a working prototype of a thermo-fluid system. While the pre-requisites for thiscourse do not include traditional senior courses for mechanical engineering technology such asfluid mechanics (only Fluid Power
Paper ID #20635Non-Contact Capacitance-Probe System for Part InspectionDr. Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University Michael Mauk is Assistant Professor in Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of
Paper ID #19458A Senior Design Project in Prototyping Roadway Energy Harvesting withPiezoelectric CrystalDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at
collaboration will have a breakthrough due in part because compactand easy-to-use CoBots will drive the market (Executive Summary World Robotics, 2016). WithCoBots expected impact on productivity and workers’ safety (Ding et al., 2013; Akella et al.,1999), it is imperative that higher education institutions incorporate this technology into learningprograms for a career-ready workforce.This paper describes an advanced, industry-driven, hands-on learning environment andeducational curriculum focused on collaborative robotics and the integration of the technologyinto advanced manufacturing systems. A hand-on CoBot learning environment has been and iscurrently being created, which will be incorporated into three different courses at Wayne StateUniversity
Paper ID #19478A Workshop for Integration of Internet of Things into Green Energy Manu-facturingDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and
student thus far haveseemed out-of-proportion to our application needs. An example is for the mechanical detailingcourse. Tooling U provides modules on GD&T which would make sense with this class. In thesesituations, we can point out the modules as a resource available to those who have thesubscription, but the lack of affordable availability to all students forces us to look elsewhere fora resource available to all students.Implementation IssuesCourse implementation issues for the instructor included: • Identification of modules and Knowledge Edge Library resources (such as videos, support text, etc.) to best support the curriculum. • Integration of Tooling U and Knowledge Edge assignments into the course activity
Paper ID #19069Teaching Lean Principles through Simulation GamesDr. Faisal Aqlan, Penn State Behrend Dr. Faisal Aqlan is an assistant professor of industrial engineering at Penn State Behrend. He earned the B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2007 and 2010, respectively and the Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2013. Prior to joining the faculty at Behrend, Dr. Aqlan was a faculty member in industrial and system engineering at the University of New Haven where he taught undergraduate and graduate
Engineer in Florida.Dr. Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering . Richard is the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Education in Florida, FLATE. FLATE, now in its 13 year of op- eration, addresses curriculum, professional development, and outreach issues to support the creation of Florida’s technical workforce. Richard has over 30 years of experience working with the K-14 education community. Other funded efforts include projects for the NIH and the US Department of Education. The latter was for the development of an
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Additive Manufacturing in Manufacturing Education: A New Course Development and ImplementationAbstractIn this paper, the importance of incorporating Additive Manufacturing (AM) as part ofmanufacturing curriculum in engineering education is emphasized. A new senior level electivecourse on Additive Manufacturing has been developed and offered as part of the manufacturingsequence to students of all engineering discipline at Mercer University School of Engineering.To provide hands-on experience to students taking this course, a low-cost rapid prototyping (RP)lab has also been developed consisting of CAD software, 3D scanners, 3D printers, CNC mill,and digital
first is materials and processes which includes traditional machining,materials science, CNC machining and processes, and additive manufacturing. The second thrustarea is plant floor operations and includes statistical process control, lean manufacturing, PLCs,sensors, and actuators. An additional advanced manufacturing thrust includes robotics andautomation, automated inspection systems, and MES. These three thrust areas are correlated tothe four pillars of manufacturing knowledge in the following sections.The manufacturing engineering curriculum consists of traditional pre-engineering courses suchas calculus, physics, chemistry, and other core requirements. Fundamental engineering and mathcourses include graphics and 3D modeling, statistics
class that is inhigh demand from the first-year engineering student body and that greatly enhances students’understanding of manufacturing.Tags: manufacturing, education, engineering, first-year, volunteerismIntroductionToday’s engineering curricula provide adequate design and analysis experience for students, yetprovide little or no formal education related to manufacturing tools and processes (Todd, Red,Magleby, & Coe, 2001), despite calls from industry to provide more focus on manufacturing inthe engineering curriculum (Mason, 1998). At the same time, many engineering programs in theU.S. now provide students with access to high-tech “maker spaces” to manufacture their designsfor student projects (Wilczynski, 2015). This provides an
, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso Aditya Akundi is currently affiliated to Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering department, and Research Institute for Manufacturing and Engineering Systems at University of Texas, ElPaso. He earned a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. He earned a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer En- gineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Intrigued by Systems Engineering , he earned a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a concentration
intriguing was the fact that even students that were awarded competitive academic scholarships (top grades and very high SAT scores) left their respective engineering programs after their first year, expressing anxiety with core engineering course (calculus) affecting their ability to maintain their required GPA and thus result in loss of their scholarship [4]. Consequently, there is a need to develop a first-year engineering curriculum that takes into consideration the diverse academic, social, cultural, and economic backgrounds of an incoming class of students. Although academically well prepared, today’s student lack the discipline to be individually responsible for the largely self-directed study required in college [5
-creditAdvanced Technology Manufacturing Academy (ATMA) as our core curriculum for this project.ATMA Robotics and IST Course OverviewIn this course, we applied an innovative Integrated Systems Training (IST) approach whichprovides instruction encompassing the entire integrated system in our curriculum core. Itincluded robotics, electrical and electronic, pneumatic, mechanical, PLC, and control systemsand devices. Students gained an understanding of how these components and subsystems workindependently and also how they interact with the other related sub-systems of an automatedmanufacturing system, including PLCs.In addition to providing this instruction and hands-on learning experience to the ATMA students,a web-accessible automated system was developed
, implementation of Autodesk MoldflowTM as an instructional tool forpromoting a dynamic interactive classroom environment and providing seamless integration ofclassroom activities such as traditional classroom teaching, computer simulation ofmanufacturing process, and actual physical laboratory experience related with the process. In thatregard, Autodesk MoldflowTM is used as one of the tools that would be used for promotingpositive outcomes associated with the student learning. Autodesk MoldflowTM is used formodeling and simulating of the plastic injection molding process. During computer simulationlaboratories, specific examples of Autodesk MoldflowTM is introduced for providing ideas tostudents on how the manufacturing process would be improved by
- ing design thinking on the secondary level. Nathan was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. After graduation he completed a one year appointment with the Center as a postdoctoral researcher.Dr. Hugh Jack P.E., Western Carolina University Not an author. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Taking Soft Robotics from the Laboratory to the ClassroomAbstractSoft robots are an emerging technology which causes us to rethink the design and fabrication ofrobots
Paper ID #17731MAKER: Smart Packaging Machine Simulator for Teaching Ladder LogicProgrammingMr. Robert Barham, New Caney ISD Robert Barham has been teaching secondary math and technology courses for twenty years. Currently, he teaches engineering courses at Porter High School in Porter, Texas, some forty miles northeast of Houston. He is working with the local community college to articulate acceptance of high school robotics and au- tomation courses toward the requirements of an A.A.S. degree in mechatronics. Email: rbarham@newcaneyisd.orgDr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is
Paper ID #18596Development of Automatic Reconfigurable Robotic Arms using Vision-basedControlDr. Mingshao Zhang , Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Mingshao Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (2016). Prior to this, He also holds a M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (2012) and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from University of Science and Technology of China (2010). His research interests include Vision-based Control for Industrial
De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 MAKER: A Study of Multi-Robot Systems Recreated for High School StudentsAbstractThis paper describes the engineering design approach to be applied in an
University develop their skills for thevarious elements of the design process throughout the curriculum, culminating in their seniordesign project I and II courses during their senior year.The program offers at least six core courses in which engineering design is included. Thesecourses are: Engineering Graphics, CAD/CAM, Manufacturing Automation, Simulation, QualityControl, and Manufacturing Design Implementation. These six major courses and some othercourses distributed throughout the curriculum include elements of design that adequately definean integrated design experience for the students in the program. During their senior year,students also may gain additional design experience in their chosen ENGR/MANE electivecourses such as Special Topics
6% of STEM workers and Hispanics representing 7% ofSTEM workers [7].Traditional efforts to increase participation in STEM fields have been largely focused on improving themath and science curriculum through better recruitment and training of teachers with scholarships, loan-forgiveness, and higher pay. However, “not enough STEM graduates means not enough STEM teachers,regardless of incentives [8].” An alternative is to expose students to STEM fields early and induce them tochoose STEM careers. For example, 65% of scientists with advanced degrees developed their scienceinterest before middle school [9]. However, in underserved populations, it is not necessarily lack of theawareness of STEM fields but the socio-economic barriers that prevent
&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 MAKER: Smart Lighting Module for Teaching High School Science and Engineering