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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Haws, Boise State University

2006-46: WOMEN ON THE MARGIN OF ENGINEERING: ACCEPTABLE ANDUNACCEPTABLE THESESDavid Haws, Boise State University Page 11.1455.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Women on the Margin of Engineering: Acceptable and Unacceptable ThesesAbstractWhat demographics should an engineering faculty reflect, and how might it acceptably differ inappearance from its students, the broader community, or the narrower complex of professionalsand research consumers it purports to serve? Of course, we are horribly partial to our own DNA,but we can also reason through to the needs of society and put aside our personal bias. Similarly,our

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Student Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Thomas Burrows, University of Wyoming; Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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Student

Science Foundation GK-12 fellow – teaching and bringing real- world STEM applications in two urban high schools. Since then, he has worked with university faculty to promote and extend K20 STEM outreach in Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. He has authored peer-reviewed articles and papers, presented at national and international conferences, and taught under- graduate/graduate courses in Computer Security, Data Mining, VLSI and pedagogy in STEM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Novel STEM Research Programs Could Minimize Attrition in Undergraduate EngineeringAbstractMany institutions across the country suffer from high attrition rates in their

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Epicenter Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janna Rodriguez, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University; Qu Jin, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Material Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 2007. Her research interests focus on educational studies that can help improve teaching, learning, and educational policy decision makings using both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict engineering students’ success outcomes, such as retention, academic performance, and grad- uation

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Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey D Beddoes, Oregon State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

research has been doneto characterize what and how a large group of engineering faculty members thinks about genderin undergraduate engineering education. There is a critical need to identify what and how facultymembers think about gender at the undergraduate level so that effective interventions can bedesigned to target those ways of thinking, and, ultimately, increase gender equity in engineeringeducation.This paper begins to address that gap in research by presenting findings on how a group of 32engineering faculty members from three different institutions discuss policy in interviews aimedat understanding what and how engineering faculty members think about gender and women’sunderrepresentation in engineering. The central questions addressed

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Jatana Vathje , University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada. She teaches graphical, written and oral communi- cation in their first Engineering Design and Communication course taught to all 650 incoming engineering students. With co-editors Tom McKeag (San Francisco) and Norbert Hoeller (Toronto) she co-founded and designs ZQ, an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news and articles (zqjournal.org). As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005, she was one of the recipients of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Robotics, Automation, and Product Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Zhili Hao, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

teaching robotic kinematics, moststudents were not enthusiastic about this topic mainly because of matrices wereheavily involved in calculating final answers. As a result, less than 50% of thestudents passed this topic. After math software and the visualized robot wereintroduced in the class, students were able to use math software to formulate theirkinematic equations and verify their answers using the robot. The test performancewas significantly improved with approximately 80% passing rate in this topic. Thesample size involved in the test performance assessment is forty eight students.5. SummaryCombination of the visualized robot and math script provide an effective tool forengineering technology students to study robot kinematic transformation

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Riley S. Booth, University of Calgary; Peter Goldsmith P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Manufacturing

(e.g. 90 degrees) must be distributed over a long horizontaldistance. Hence, the fundamental principle behind hinge bending is that it transforms the modeof deformation from bending into torsion.Besides avoiding permanent deformation or failure, another effect of the hinge is that it reducesthe required force or bending moment required to bend the part. This makes it easier to fasten thepart to itself or another part when in its bent position. For example, the display case wefabricated is assembled using only plastic tabs that were laser cut into the material, avoiding theneed for screws or other external parts. However, a potential drawback of the flexibility createdby hinges is that it not only lowers the strength of the parts in the

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Track: Learning Spaces, Pedagogy & Curriculum Design Technical Session 9

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Adrienne Ann Smith, Cynosure Consulting; Rebecca A. Zulli, Cynosure Consulting

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Diversity, Learning Spaces, Pedagogy & Curriculum Design

analytic designs that are tailored to the unique needs of each program context. She has published in scholarly and practitioner-focused jour- nals on topics including evaluation design, instrument validation, and the effectiveness of policy change. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Psychology Adrienne completed a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at UNC Greensboro. She taught third grade before returning to UNC Chapel Hill to complete a PhD in Education. In addition to her evaluation work Adrienne has worked on multiple research projects, taught doctoral- level research methods and statistic courses, and mentored undergraduate and graduate students.Dr

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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Amanda Abrew; Melanie Villatoro P.E.

2008 the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded inengineering in the United States reached 74,170. Of this number, 18% were awarded towomen (Lurkin, 2010). This number is 0.1% lower than in 2007. The disciplines granting thelargest number of degrees to women were environmental (43.2%), biomedical (38.6%), andchemical (34.9%). Computer engineering ranked the lowest with 9.2% of its bachelor’s degreesgranted to women (Lurkin, 2010). Despite considerable recent increases in the representationof women at all levels of STEM education, in 2006 only 26% of individuals employed in scienceand engineering occupations were female (Szelényi, 2013). Studies show that retention can be improved by building students’ interest in STEMcareers, creating

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Sustainability in AEC and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

slow start and a fast finish. The students will get the job done, but it could have been better with a more organized start. • Our students are uniformly weak at performing literature reviews. This can be improved Page 13.624.6 by a formal research methods course, but other suggestions will be offered in the following section.Suggestions for Best PracticesHaving mentored these projects the following suggestions for best practices are offered. • It is beneficial to have at least a loose coalition between projects. Student projects tend to immediately form into “silos.” The faculty mentor can facilitate “breaking

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Engineering Technology

asignificantly undersized sized fan.Recommendations for Improvements to this Exercise:This exercise is usually very effective in teaching students about fan sizing because theycan see first hand what is happening in a real, common application. The potential forexcellent results is helpful in teaching the concepts to the students. However, there aresome problems with the current set-up that will be resolved in the future making it likelythat even more accurate results will be obtained: • Currently analog gauges are used for measuring the differential pressure. Students tend to prefer digital gauges because of their ease of use. Replacing the analog gauges with digital gauges will help the students get more accurate differential

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Sarah Leach

A STUDY OF THE SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION REVIEW PROCESS Nancy L. Denton, Sarah E. Leach Purdue UniversityAbstractPublication of reviewed or refereed articles is a common method of disseminating scholarlywork. This paper explores the review processes in place for American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) publications, including conference proceedings, papers, journal articles, andPrism magazine. The effect of the peer review process on conference proceedings papers isconsidered, and suggestions for future actions to strengthen the process are included.IntroductionHistorically, the ASEE Annual Conference offered a venue for faculty

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Batta; Ron Zuckerman

are then subsequently developed by thestudent(s) that submitted the idea. The most common occurrence of this is a group ofstudents that are seeking funding for their senior design project. In this case, the studentsare overseen by faculty, although they still report to Engenius Solutions and must fulfillrequirements that Engenius Solutions has above those of the student’s course. In the casethat the accepted idea was proposed by an inventor outside of Rose-Hulman, the BusinessManager will begin by soliciting applications from students to work on a specific project.Interviews will be conducted with students who apply and the team will be selected at thecompletion of interviews. After project teams are established, development begins.The

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

the program.2Finkelstein and Libarkin summarize other research on the quantity and quality of post-doctoralexperience in technical fields. There are a few messages that echo through the literature studyingthe post-doctoral experience: o post-doctoral scholars add significant value to critical research areas o supporting post-doctoral scholars is particularly important in developing areas of research in which they are not likely to find other mentors o the conditions of post-doctoral employment should improve to make such positions more attractive to doctoral graduates Page 10.1261.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wronecki

also asked to self assessestheir chosen performance criteria as well as those of their peers.Student OutcomesUpon completion of the course students hopefully reach the 8th Design Stage: Realization.Operating from this higher level of thinking students know and can demonstrate the clearthinking and creative behavior of a design professional. At the 8th level students demonstratecritical thinking skills, are better able to solve visual problems, have improved drawing abilityand are able to design winning solutions. By providing both teachers and students with a meansto practice a professional design approach the IdeasAlive System hopes to elevate the successfuluse of design based education practices in 21st century learning environments.Design

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

theory with improved results for deflection than for strain. Variations instrain gage mounting and instrumentation drift could have contributed to this result. The FEAresults correlated extremely well to theory with less than a 5% difference.This project also gave the students an open-ended design experience as they designed a supportstructure for the beam that would not crush the strain gage mounted at the center of the beam.Students modeled, fabricated, and put their design into action during the course of thisexperiment.Future work will entail developing a support structure that mounts the beam at the neutral planein an attempt to minimize the experimental error with respect to theoretical expectations. Futurework will also involve utilizing

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Richardson; Carl White

/Agilent Technologies • Hughes Electronics Corporation/The Boeing Company • Northrop Grumman • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics LaboratoryTogether, these agencies have provided well over $2 Million in financial support andequipment/software donations. Funds have been directed toward the purchase of equipment, andthe payment of associates’ tuition, fees and stipends. Following are the key factors that havecontributed to the successful establishment of these relationships:• performing immediate-impact and traditional research and development initiatives,• providing cost-effective contractual services,• providing expeditious technology transfer, and• sharing highly-skilled technical talentIII. COMSARE Recruitment and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Merrill; Nick Safai

. Page 6.15.1 1I. Background InformationSalt Lake Community College (SLCC) is a large metropolitan community college, surroundedby rural communities, with an overall budget of nearly $70,000,000 per year. SLCC consists offour campuses, and five teaching centers, for a total of nine locations within the Salt Lake City,Utah area. There are approximately 12,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) students, and 25,000actual student head count. This number includes approximately 3,200 skill center students.Students attending SLCC take credit courses as well as non-credit courses. Students completeAssociate of Engineering Degrees, Associate of Science Degrees, Associate of Applied ScienceDegrees, diplomas, and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

. More effort is needed to raise women’sskills in mathematics, science, and technology if women are to be able to compete.This paper describes a pre-college science and engineering education program conducted everyyear at Penn State Altoona for middle school (7th and 8th grades) girls and their teachers. Theprogram is designed to address each one of the above mentioned skills. The objective of theprogram is to expose middle school girls to careers in science and engineering. In addition toproviding a detailed description of the program, the paper analyzes the outcomes of this program.Recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of the program are also given.I. IntroductionVarious research literature shows that women face numerous

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

bedifficult for faculty to swallow it all at once. A more flexible approach, now being implemented under NSFsponsorship, includes rewriting the MIT/DMSE Mechanics topics as discrete web-available modules (seehttp://web.mit.edu/course/3/3.11/www/modules.html). This would permit an instructor to use only those portionsshe finds effective for the current term, without being locked into a new book. Such a modular approach might beuseful in many subjects beyond Mechanics or even engineering. Almost no one finds a text perfectly matched totheir particular needs, and this would allow each instructor to tailor-make a text for her own desires. Problems withcopyrights and payments arise, but if the value and demand are there these could certainly be

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Guillorn; Joshua Sachar; Brian Hall; Antony Arciuolo

movement functions would notwork as expected. Often the cause of these incorrect behaviors would remain unseen for days.While the software development group scrutinized the control code for the robot’s main CPU,the electrical systems group would examine Phoenix to determine if the problem was related tohardware. While they did not always uncover problems that pertained to the situation at hand, Page 3.94.3this approach allowed the electrical systems team opportunities to identify potential hardwareproblems. The cooperation between the software development group and the electrical systemsgroup always led to effective and expedient solutions to the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

design and implement reform model for undergraduate engineering education To provide tested alternative curricula to improve undergraduate engineering education quality To create exchange and resource linkage among institutions To increase diversity and the number of women and under represented minorities and people with disabilities The coalition’s home page must be specifically indexed for each aspect of undergraduate Page 2.123.1 curricula relevant to areas specific needs Solving the logistic of curricula and need of each state or region and offering of service through Internet and home page. A sound mechanism to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Jacqueline O'Connor, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Improvementsin thermal efficiencies continue to be a driver for research because of the significant impact that increasedefficiencies have on the reduction of CO2. Improvements by one point in efficiency for turbines in the USadds $7 billion of economic benefit and is the CO2 equivalent to removing two million cars from the road[3]. Additionally, the use of gas turbines to replace coal power in the US could result in over a 50% reductionin CO2 output with no loss in generation level or reliability [4], [5]. In addition, it is more critical than everto develop a diverse workforce for this field. The Department of Defense is increasing the requirements ofsuppliers, such as gas turbine manufacturers, to diversify their workforce. As such, our proposal aims

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2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Erin Marie Furtak; Caitlin Anderson; Shannon Boutwell; Sam Haven; Melinda Lopez; Samantha Duwe; Janet Green; Adam Kellerman; Linda Parker; Lauren Blum

school, this means building engineering into biology, chemistry, and physicsunits. This paper describes an in-progress curriculum design effort funded by the NationalScience Foundation with the goal of building an interdisciplinary, NGSS-aligned unit for highschool physics that features engineering design as one of its fundamental components. Workingaround the phenomenon of space weather affecting satellite function, our collaboration hascreated a new storyline unit that is currently being piloted in 9th grade physics courses. Wedescribe our ongoing partnership, our design commitments that are informing our work, and thedesign of the unit. We then pose questions for discussion and feedback

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Nahid Uzzaman; Dale Schinstock

be performed on the NERMLAB hardware. TheNERMLAB consists of some key hardware pieces, such as, STM32 Nucleo development board,motor driver, and a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor (Figure 1). STM32 Nucleo houses aSTM32F401RE Microprocessor Unit (MPU), which is a 32-bit processor with an 84 MHz clockspeed and up to 512 Kbytes of flash memory. -Nucleo-IHM07M1 (a three-phase brushless DCmotor driver) was selected as motor driver for the NERMLAB. The X-Nucleo has a nominaloperating voltage of 8V-48 VDC with a 2.8 A peak current output. Ipower GBM2804H-100TBrushless Gimbal is used as the primary motor. An on-axis magnetic hall-effect position sensoris used to do position feedback. The encoder consists of 14-bit on-axis magnetic rotary positionsensor

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Main Plenary 3 - Opportunities for collaboration with engineering educators in India (ISTE)

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

R. Natarajan, Indian Institute of Technology

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ASEE International Forum

Page 17.7.15A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS Page 17.7.16 ASYMMETRIES IN OUR TECHNICAL EDUCATION SYSTEM ] Asymmetry ] Disparity ] Divide ] Imbalances ] Diversity ] InequitiesCHARACTERISTIC A B Geographical Regions with high density of Regions with low density of Institutions Institutions (SR, SWR, WR) (ER, NER) Disciplines IT - related courses Conventional courses Level Degree

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Laura Lee Lang NBCT, Sauk Prairie High School

Paper ID #14324Teaching Creative Problem SolvingLaura Lee Lang NBCT, Sauk Prairie High School Laura Lang is a National Board Certified Teacher who began her career as a chemical engineer at Dow Chemical Company. She has used this valuable experience to teach and model engineering practices while problem solving or during labs with her physics students at Sauk Prairie High School where she has taught for the past 30 years. She is also currently teaching a University Physics course at Madison College. Page 18.28.1

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

James Holly Jr., Purdue University; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

a B.S. from Tuskegee University and a M.S. from Michigan State University, both inMechanical Engineering. His research interest is exploring formal and informal K-12engineering education learning contexts. Specifically, he is interested in how the engineeringdesign process can be used to emphasize the humanistic side of engineering and investigatinghow engineering habits of mind can enhance pre-college students’ learning abilities.2) Aran W. Glancy is a Ph.D. candidate in STEM education with an emphasis in mathematicseducation at the University of Minnesota. He is a former high school physics and mathematicsteacher and has also taught courses in mathematics for computer science. Aran’s researchinterests include STEM integration at the

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rong Li; Huabo Lu

, partially thanks to their familiarity with Visual Studio and .Netenvironment, which is the same tool/environment as their fundamental programming classes.Challenges exist, including the F# language’s syntax, FP paradigm thinking, number ofexercises, etc.We found comparisons between different paradigms, OOP vs. FP in our case, to be effective inhelping students learn new paradigms. Comparison can happen at all levels, such as at thestatement level, module level, and project level.Our class concluded the discussion of FP by completing a project using F# (learn by doing), andstudents presented an improved understanding of FP afterward.SummaryWe present our experience of teaching F# as a functional programming language toundergraduate students. The

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division (MFG) Technical Session 7

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oluwadamilola Daniel Afe, Virginia State University; Zhenhua Wu, Virginia State University

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

AbstractSmart manufacturing technologies improve the productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness forU.S. industries. Key enabling technologies in smart manufacturing are to 1) acquire real-timeheterogeneous data from IoTs, sensors, and machines tools, and 2) make decisions from the datausing analytics. This Maker project discusses the development of a prototype Application softwarefor a 3D printer based on MTConnect protocol. This Application is able to collect, visualize, andstore data from additive manufacturing processes. This project aims to train students about 1)MTConnnect on Adapter, Agent, and Application development, 2) additive manufacturing, 3)database, and 5) communication protocols, for manufacturing operations. The results