Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Creese, West Virginia University; Deepak Gupta, Southeast Missouri State University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-429: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM PROJECT WITH SOFTWARERobert Creese, West Virginia University Robert C. Creese is Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He obtained his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University(1963), The University of California-Berkeley(1964), and The Pennsylvania State University(1972). He is a life member of ASEE, AACE-International and AFS as well as a member of ASM, AWS, AIST, ISPA, SCEA and SME.Deepak Gupta, Southeast Missouri State University Deepak Gupta is an Assistant

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Myers, Ohio University; Peter Klein, Ohio University

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Manufacturing

for growth. Deweydemonstrated that students gain a deeper understanding, and skills of scientific analysis buydoing or activity based or project based learning as we know it today. The design is based onvarious constructionist instructional design approaches and is reiterative in nature and takes in toaccount the stakeholders’ (current students, alumni, and employers) feedback in to the revisions.This is feedback is achieved through interviews, surveys. 1,2,3,6In this capstone course sequence the students face technical, business, and personnel challengesand issues from the workplace such as technical problems, cost management, team dynamics,and time pressures. Nearly all aspects of manufacturing are addressed, including product designand

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Capstone Experiences in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ejiwale, Jackson State University

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Manufacturing

arenas,as shown by feedback from various internship sponsors. Similarly, topics in nanoscale scienceand other cutting edge research are presented in a weekly seminar series and each semester theseminar features a number of presentations by outside speakers, and a forum where studentspresent their research projects. Through this media, students from the Department of Technologytaking ITMF 420 are required to participate in the lectures and seminars series to enhance thehands-on application of the AFM and STM tools as a partial fulfillment of the course.Utilization of the core laboratories and facilities at JSUThe core laboratories and facilities at JSU provide researchers with adequate resources such asequipment, technologies, and support

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danny Bee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Richard Rothaupt, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Linards Stradins, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Manufacturing

capstone projects Figure 4. UW-Stout’s comprehensive recruiting and retention strategies.Marketing StrategiesWhen listed together, the programs that University of Wisconsin-Stout either directly runs orsupports looks like an amazing array of direct manufacturing engineering programs to ones thatare more generically recruiting engineers at very early ages. Programs like STEPS2, FIRSTLEGO League, Skills USA, and Science Olympiad, target students as young as elementaryschool to interest them in engineering and help them realize they can be involved in a fun andexciting career such as engineering and most importantly, help them realize they personally cansucceed in this career pursuits. For example, FIRST LEGO League (FLL) promotes a

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Stephen S. Tompkins, Virgina State University; Keith Williamson, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing

450, MANE 315, MANE 400, ENGL Skills 110, ENGL 111, ENGL 342 Teamwork in Courses and MANE 450, MANE 415 Projects Graphical Communication ENGR 200, MANE 310 Skills Computer Experience ENGR 101, ENGR 102, ENGR 203, ENGR 200, MANE 310, MANE 315, MANE 420 Senior Capstone Experience MANE 450 General Education Basic Science and Mathematics MATH 201, MATH 200, MATH 300, MATH350, MATH 392, PHYS 112, PHYS 113, CHEM 101, ENGR 301 Page 13.957.4 Professional Experience

Conference Session

CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

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Manufacturing

UniversityA grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 1997 permitted the initial offering ofvirtual simulation (VS) as a senior capstone project for technology majors. By the summer of1999, simulation internships had placed 12 of 17 students after running full-scale simulationclasses 5. 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

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University; Daniel Ewert, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

prompted a conscious migration of the ‘scholar’ focus towards an ‘innovation’orientation, with explicit acknowledgement that useful invention is a purposeful goal and that thelaunching of new enterprises from the platform of scholar/innovation teams would be cause forcelebration. During the Autumn of 2006, the notion of a campus-wide Bison Ventures programemerged. [2] Bison Ventures is a collaborative between the College of Engineering and Architecture, theCollege of Business Administration and the Research and Technology Park. It is a multi-disciplinary, academic, economic development plan. At the core is the long-established practiceof the senior design or capstone project. Every academic year, approximately one hundred teamsof engineering

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlie Hall, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

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Manufacturing

also reasons for teams to beused in a course: Teams are able to accomplish more than individuals, there is learning betweenmembers on a team, and teams are a way of developing and disseminating a culture. In theclassroom, the culture that should be developed among the students through the use of teams is aculture of collaboration and problem-solving. No amount of lecturing on the value of teams orthe value of collaborative problem solving can replace the learning or experiencing of actuallybeing a part of a team. It should be noted that teams can be formal or informal; for a largesemester project, teams may work together for weeks, but informal teams may develop duringsmall class discussions or class exercises.A potential hazard of using teams

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 1

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios; Seth Sivak, Carnegie Mellon University; Mark Sivak, Northeastern University

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Manufacturing

achieve the highest profit and to achieve thelowest environmental detriment. A new interdisciplinary project funded by NSF has extendedthe development of the board game to create and assess a networked computer game.The game is played using stakeholders in the manufacturing supply chain in the automotiveindustry. In its current non-networked version, six students create a team of three suppliers:materials, parts, and cars. Within this team, two students take on roles for each of the threecompanies in the supply chain. During each round in the game, each company within the supplychain takes its turn to invest and select among different technologies in three areas for eachcompany: production, storage and waste disposal. There are tradeoffs in