c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Improving student lab report writing performances in materials and manufacturing laboratory courses by implementing a rhetorical approach to writing Abstract The act of writing is proven to enhance students’ engagement in learning. At WashingtonState University (WSU), writing skills are identified as an instructional priority. The institutionhas three writing proficiency requirements for graduation: a first-year composition course, ajunior writing portfolio (JWP), and two writing-in-the-major courses. Based upon the scores ofJWP (n = 233), we find that our engineering students still struggle to learn the
Paper ID #32761Scaling Hands-On Learning Principles in Manufacturing through AugmentedReality Disassembly and Inspection of a Consumer ProductMs. Emily Welsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ms. Welsh works as an educational technologist at MIT. Her work includes the development and running of MOOCs and the development of digital education tools. Prior to joining MIT, she worked in industry at an original equipment manufacturer.Dan Li, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProf. A. John Hart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Hart is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing
Energy Manufacturing curriculum development. Currently, he is involved in the evaluation and research of two federal grants regarding student success. One of the grants aims at providing undergraduate engineering minority students opportunities for acquiring 21st century knowledge and skills required to compete with a technology-rich workforce environment. The second grant aims at providing educational and administrative support to undergraduate student in areas of career and financial management planning. He has been selected as Research Fellow at the Educational Test- ing Service at Princeton for two consecutive summer terms. He has been program chair and president of the regional association (Southwest Educational
AC 2009-244: HANDS-ON PLASTIC PROCESSING FOR ALEAN-MANUFACTURING PROJECTDave Kim, Washington State University, VancouverYongha Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Page 14.664.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Hands-on Plastic Processing for a Lean Manufacturing ProjectLean manufacturing has proven to be an effective strategy to increase productivity andcost competiveness in the manufacturing industry. Lean manufacturing has beenintegrated into the existing manufacturing curriculum. In a senior-level manufacturingcourse, hands-on plastic manufacturing experiments were implemented to allow thestudents to conduct small scale manufacturing, use value streaming
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
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
something instead to follow the instructions. • Very informative slide shows. • The final project was a huge learning experience. This was real world experience that can't be learned from a book. • For me having to learn solid works, and doing the team project, those were two very hard assignments but well worth the time and effort. I will never look at manufacturing the same!Conclusion and Future WorkStudents in Engineering Technology program take a newly developed course in 3D printing and RapidPrototyping course as an elective. Students’ survey comments indicate that term project involvingdeveloping a new product and obtaining a physical prototype enhances their understanding of theconcepts that are covered
AC 2010-804: CAREERME: ENCOURAGING AN ADVANCEDMANUFACTURING WORKER PIPELINESandy Feola, Sinclair Community College Sandy Feola is the Customer Relations Manager for the NCME (National Center for Manufacturing Education) at Sinclair Community College and a part time instructor for the University of Dayton’s Engineering Technology Department (since 2007) and Sinclair Community College’s Operations Technology Department (since 1995), teaching industrial engineering and quality engineering curriculum. As an independent quality professional in Dayton, Ohio since 2004, She provides consultation and training to manufacturing and service organizations for performance improvement initiatives in the
supplier development engi- neer working with companies in North America, Europe and Asia. I am a registered Professional Engineer (Indiana) and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. I have also taught at Purdue University in their Mechan- ical Engineering Technology program and Auburn University in their Industrial and Civil Engineering departments. BSME (Manufacturing Engineering) Utah State University, MIE (Occupational Safety & Ergonomics) Auburn University and PhD (Ergonomics) Auburn University. Page 22.162.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Application
instrumentation.Mr. CHARLES ZHENG GUAN, MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Charles Guan is a fabrication shop instructor at the MIT International Design Center, part of the MIT- SUTD Collaboration. He holds a Mechanical Engineering B.S. from MIT (2011) and has been involved in teaching design and manufacturing to the MIT community since. Page 26.12.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2.00GoKart Using Electric GoKarts to Teach Introductory Design and Manufacturing at MIT Abstract This paper introduces an
courses of 1) CAD/CAM, 2)Manufacturing Processes, and 3) Manufacturing Automation etc. Previously, CAD/CAM class atVSU was using Solidworks and Matercam for student training. Although Solidworks owns alarge portion of school users with its simplicity on CAD education and learning, it cannotsupport the integration of CAD/CAM/CAE, while NX has the capability. Solidworks is not thecurrent applications for many industries including Rolls-Royce, Alstom, and Newport News ShipBuilding. This project enriched the VSU’s curriculum of CAD/CAM on laboratory settings,experiments, and also better prepared the students’ readiness for job market. The processmonitoring part of this senior project tightly links the “Manufacturing Processes” and“Manufacturing
Engineering Technology Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Introducing Middle School Girls to Engineering Design and Manufacturing Activities at STEM Girls’ Summer CampIntroductionDuring the past decade, STEM-oriented education and activities have proved to enhance middleschool students’ interest in subjects usually perceived as difficult, such as mathematics andscience. Also, STEM fields tend to engage students in the learning process, giving them the skillsand competencies needed for future careers. Despite the overall efforts to include STEMsubjects, the engineering component is almost missing in most middle school curricula across thenation. Moreover, students from
engineeringdisciplines and the stakeholders in the success of the product design phase. Manufacturingengineers usually play a vital role in the conceptual design phase. In order to educate the nextgeneration of manufacturing engineers, we introduced and integrated the DFA methodology intoour Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) curricula at Minnesota State University-Mankato (MSU). A detailed description of this model, including advantages and disadvantages,future directions and recommendations, are included in this paper.Keywords: design for assembly, active learning, product development and designIntroductionDesign for assembly (DFA) is a systematic analysis process primarily intended to simplifyproduct structure and reduce the assembly costs of a
as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate
AC 2009-1978: THE STEM OUTREACH INITIATIVE AT ROBERT MORRISUNIVERSITYWinston Erevelles, Robert Morris University Winston F. Erevelles is a Professor of Engineering and the Dean of the School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science at Robert Morris University. He was also the founding Director of the PRIME coalition – a partnership delivering innovative manufacturing education and career development in Southwest Pennsylvania. Dr. Erevelles was responsible for the design and implementation of the RMU Learning Factory and has raised over $4 million at Robert Morris University (over $6 million in total funding to date) in external funding in the form of grants, gifts, and contracts from
classes.Learning a programming language is similar to learning a new spoken language, so studentsshould have interest learning it, and be motivated to practice. High school Career andTechnology education (CTE) and computer science classes should have extra hands on activitiesto gather more student attention. The best way to learn programming basics is to practice.In high school setting, most school curriculum has enough coding implementation . However,students may have some difficulty to understand the practices if they have lack of algorithmicand procedural understanding of computer science. I decided to add an extra hands on learningtool to my CS courses to show students to strength and power of computer science.MotivationComputer science has become a
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
-basedfactory simulator for manufacturing education. IIE transactions, 33(3), 167-180. [3] Todd, R. H., Red, W. E., Magleby, S. P., & Coe, S. (2001). Manufacturing: A strategic opportunity forengineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 90(3), 397-405. [4] Dutta, D., Geister, D., and Tryggvason, G. (2004). Introducing hands-on experiences in design andmanufacturing education. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20(5), 754-763. [5] Lamancusa, J. S., Jorgensen, J. E., & Zayas‐Castro, J. L. (1997). The learning factory—A new approach tointegrating design and manufacturing into the engineering curriculum. Journal of Engineering Education, 86(2),103-112. [6] Seemakula, M. E.. (2002). Introducing hands-on
One Week – Bucknell Fabrication Workshop (B-Fab)IntroductionWithin the past decade or more, the increased technological capacity of incoming students –accompanied by a diminished skill-set with regard to traditional hands-on, “tinkering” skills hasbeen discussed in both STEM education as well as mainstream media [1, 2]. Many studentschoose engineering because they want to learn how to design and build the solutions oftomorrow, yet they often do not have dedicated opportunities to expand their hands-on skill setwithin the engineering curriculum. Sadly, traditional curricular instruction in engineering is suchthat students spend the bulk of their first three years learning theory, and relatively little timecontextualizing
programmed for a specific task. These systems areexpensive, only effective in specific applications, and vulnerable to any changes in theworking environment or the task. However, mass customization has become the newfrontier in product manufacturing and marketing. In order to satisfy the changes in marketneeds, especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), it is desirable to have low-costindustrial robotic systems that can be automatically reconfigured for different applications.As a supplement to traditional robotic courses, students should be educated about how todesign a robust, flexible, reconfigurable and redeployable industrial robotic system.However, these contents are missing from most of current engineering curriculum due tothe lack
AC 2009-576: DESIGN, BUILD, TEST, COMPETE: A BATTLEBOTJanet Dong, University of Cincinnati Janet Dong,Ph.D is an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at University of Cincinnati. She holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and a MS degree in Manufacturing Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in 2003. Her academic interests include CAD/CAM, manufacturing engineering technology, process planning, control and automation, robotics, engineering education and research, and manufacturing applications in the dental field.Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati Janak Dave PhD, PE is a Professor in the
Paper ID #11444An Integrated Teaching Methodology for Manufacturing ProcessesDr. Ergin Erdem, Robert Morris University Ergin Erdem is an assistant professor of Department of Engineering at Robert Morris University. Dr. Er- dem holds BS and MS degrees in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey and a PhD in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from North Dakota State University He has previ- ously worked as a lecturer and research associate at Atilim University and North Dakota State University. His research interests include; modeling for facility planning, genetic algorithms, education of
Cossette. 2007. "Core Competency Needs in Materials Technology." Journal of Materials Education 29 (3-4): 259-268.2. Rhodes, Lawrence, “The Transformation of Manufacturing in the 21st Century,” The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering, Spring 2005.3. Ashby, Michael F., Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, Elsevier 2011.4. Materials Research to Meet 21st Century Defense Needs, National Academy Press, 2003.5. Stoebe, Thomas and John M. Rusin, “Materials Science and Technology: A Curriculum That Works,” J. Materials Education 27, 203 – 210 (2005).6. Davidson, Cliff I.; Matthews, H. Scott; Hendrickson, Chris T.; Bridges, Michael W.; Allenby, Braden R.; Crittenden, John C.; Chen, Yongsheng; Williams, Eric
Engineering Education, 2019 A Unified and Collaborative Approach to Risk Classification for Fabrication and Library SpacesAbstractThis paper describes an effort to redesign risk assessment for tools and equipment across ourcampus. Existing classification schemas for assessing tool risk and safety are often restrictiveand intimidating. The previous risk classification framework at Olin College did not address theaddition of fabrication capabilities in learning spaces outside of the original machine shop,including the library, research labs, and studio classrooms. Furthermore, the old system waslimited to manufacturing equipment located in the machine shop and did not addressnon-powered tools. As a result of these
Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing Processes fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Open-Ended Design Projects in a Rapid Prototyping CourseAbstractIn this manufacturing engineering program, the Rapid prototyping and Reverse Engineeringcourse has become even more popular due to public interest and hype driven by both, the Makerand Rep-Rap movements. The course has been taught over the years with the challenge ofconstant update needs to its content. In addition to the major subject updates to the content, theinstructor is employing preparation of short papers on newest developments while channelingstudents to conduct research, in case they are not actively following
Paper ID #27584Vision-based Object Tracking Experiment for Students to Perform SimpleIndustrial Robotic AutomationDr. 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
accessible to all students, including students with visual impairments, through the use of art-infused curriculum and models. Prior to becoming focused on student success and retention, her research interests included regulation of intracranial pressure and transport across the blood-brain barrier in addition to various ocular-cellular responses to fluid forces and the resulting implications in ocular pathologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Utilizing 3D Printing of Nanotechnology Design Project Prototypes to Enhance Undergraduate LearningIntroductionThe first-year engineering program at The Ohio State University provides honors students withthe option to
Paper ID #23936Student Project: Instrumentation and Control of Solar-Powered Algae Biore-actorDr. 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
. Page 23.470.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Electrical Safety, the NFPA and PLC Safety William T. Evans, PhD, PE University of Toledo: Email:wevans@utnet.utoledo.eduAbstract:As a professor responsible for teaching the principles of PLC programming, the presenter hasalways considered it a responsibility to train students to be aware of the general rules forconstructing an electrical control panel. Both general practice and rules that have become part ofthe OSHA requirements have been taught. The present state of electrical control hasoutdistanced what was considered acceptable practice as little as 10 to 15 years ago
Paper ID #30477Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project to Develop a Personal Blind SpotInformation SystemDr. Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Ertekin received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He re- ceived MS degree in Production Management from Istanbul University. After working for Chrysler Truck Manufacturing Company in Turkey as a project engineer, he received dual MS degrees in engineering management and mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST), formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). He worked for