Conference Session

Incorporating Advanced Technologies into Curriculums

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; John Mativo, The University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

and rapid manufacturing content.IntroductionReverse engineering has been utilized in the engineering world to learn from competitors’product designs in order to maintain competitive advantage against them. It should be conductedwithin the boundaries of ethics and intellectual property laws. On the contrary, reverseengineering concepts and tools have been commonly used in applications other than productdevelopment or industrial needs. It is employed by medical technologists, historians,anthropologists, paleontologists, primatologists, and forensics scientists, just to name a fewprofessions.Following a literature review summarizing relevant educational cases, this paper presents the keyexamples of non-industrial reverse engineering applications

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

written.The focus of the following comments have an emphasis on the practical nature of engineeringeducation and a need to support the workplace. A number of respondents indicated specific topicsand methods. In general the comments suggest that education must be tied to the needs of manu-facturers. [Industry Comment] Patents and how to protect IP should be taught to US manu- facturing students Page 15.946.6 Addition of ethics and soft skills, such as emotional intelligence, work ethic, etc.[Industry Comment] Entrepreneurship must be coveredPolitically and Socially:safety: both worker and product - remain

Conference Session

Incorporating Advanced Technologies into Curriculums

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Hung, Texas A&M University; Jorge Leon, Texas A&M University; Luis San Andres, Texas A&M Univeristy

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

graduate students, attend a GRE preparation class, tour variouslabs/company/research centers (Fig. 2), and participate in weekly seminars with different topicslike research methodology, ethics, going to graduate school, etc. The participants learned to plantheir research activities, weigh alternatives, execute the tasks, document their work, and thenpresent the results as posters at the end of the program. In addition to gaining the technical hard-skills, the participants also practiced other soft-skills during the training: ethical commitment,effective teamwork, project management, and presentation skill.Post program surveys indicate that 88% of participants would recommend the program to theirfriends, and 94% think the program provided a good

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; John Mativo, The University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

(legal, safety,reliability, biocompatibility, and ethics) concerning the use of biomaterials.Prerequisites: ENGR1610, ENGR2180, and ENGR35103 CreditsENGR 4520 Design and Manufacturing of Biomedical Devices and SystemsThis course details the conception, modeling, analysis, design, manufacturing and assembly ofBiomedical devices and systems. Students select, formulate, and solve a design problem andmanufacture a prototype, as appropriate. Applications include, but are not limited to, diagnosticinstrumentation, prostheses, and cardiovascular devices against the background of ethicalconsiderations, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, and product-liability issues.Prerequisites: ENGR2180 and ENGR35104 Credits

Conference Session

Lean and Six Sigma Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Leduc, Ball State University; Gary Hadley, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis; Mark Ratzlaff, 3M

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

experiments and analyze and interpret experimental data d. Creatively design systems, components, and processes e. Function effectively on teams f. Identify, analyze, and solve technical problems g. Communicate effectively h. Recognize the need for and engage in life long learning i. Understand professional and ethical responsibilities j. Understand the impact of solutions in a professional, societal and global context k. Exhibit commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvementThis general criteria also serves well as criteria for evaluating the capstone experience.Lean Six Sigma Certification varies widely and there is no official certifying body. Historically,certification has been controlled by the consulting industry

Conference Session

Design Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin McCarthy, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

MethodologyThere has been some debate in the educational community about the fact that the results ofrandomized control trials (RCT's) seem to be having little beneficial flow-on effect toeducators' practices in the classroom 17. Scriven 18 has written that, "there are many issues ofgreat importance in education ...where it is ethically and/or practically impossible to useRCT's" whilst Wolfe and Crookall 19 maintain that classically acceptable experimentalresearch, as used in the physical sciences, is impossible to duplicate in realistic educationalsituations.A problem with randomized, control trial, experimental methods is that in many situations it isnot possible for some of the method's criteria to be met. For example, it may not be possibleto randomly