Conference Session

Program and Curriculum Design Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Ann Hill, Numeritics

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Paper ID #10246Lessons in Manufacturing Education for the U.S. from Austria’s Dual-TrackEducation SystemDr. Victoria Ann Hill, Numeritics Dr. Victoria Hill is a Founder and Research Scientist of Numeritics, a research and consulting firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. She was recently a part of a delegation of U.S. experts on Advanced Manufacturing and the STEM Talent Pipeline that traveled to Vienna, Austria as a part of the George C. Marshall Foundation’s efforts to increase cooperation between the U.S. and Austria in the area of Advanced Manufacturing. Dr. Hill has worked on STEM talent issues for many years, and recently

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Manveer Mann; Petros J Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Daniel L. Dickerson, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

24.479.5 Figure 2: Mass customization in the fashion industry17 This kind of perspective is very well known to fashion students, but in engineeringcurriculum it is not emphasized in a great extent. . Considering that mass customization andpersonalization is becoming a norm in several industries, for example the automotive industry asas shown in Figure 3 Mini Cooper customers can chose design of their roofs with an onlinedesign tool19. Therefore, it would be beneficial to develop a course which would include thesetopics and would deal with engineering design theory embedded in fashion topics. In engineeringterms, the project would include topics such as House of Quality, Group Technology, ParametricDesign, Product Family