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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho

Interdisciplinarycoalition of institutions who in response to Design Projectindustry needs, has developed an innovative Entrepreneurship PARTNERING WITH INDUSTRY Concurrent Engineeringmanufacturing engineering curriculum and Manufacturing Processesphysical facilities for product realization (See Product Dissection skillsFigure 1). This program offers a new paradigm Graphics & Design

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho

Interdisciplinarycoalition of institutions who in response to Design Projectindustry needs, has developed an innovative Entrepreneurship PARTNERING WITH INDUSTRY Concurrent Engineeringmanufacturing engineering curriculum and Manufacturing Processesphysical facilities for product realization (See Product Dissection skillsFigure 1). This program offers a new paradigm Graphics & Design

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Halvard E. Nystrom

1.3 Scope 3.7 0.8 Method 4.0 0.8 Physical 1.6 0.8 Instructor 3.9 1.4 Table 2.The other classes were grouped together since no other obvious common course was found.Their characteristics as shown in Table 3, have less focus as should be expected since they Page 3.179.3include a wide variety of courses including entrepreneurship, R&D management, project

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard E. Pfile; William R. Conrad

incorporated into the laboratories. The laboratories are very popular withstudents and the technology taught has applications in many different areas of industrial control.While presenting the material, stories are related to students about the consulting project; thedevelopment process, design tradeoffs made, component selection and the overall developmentand support process. This livens up the class and provides a change-of-pace in the classroom. Italso gives students an appreciation of the environment in the workplace. Another project involved writing control software for a welding robot using a real-timeoperating system. The project provided a good background in the benefits of using real-timeoperating systems in complex systems 2. After

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Safoutin; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim; Dale E. Calkins

HP Vectra PC workstation hosting avariety of software for use in the design, manufacturing, and report production process. Outputcapability includes a laser printer, plotter, and a 3-D rapid prototyper. Figure 6: The Design Lab provides computer workstations to support student team design collaboration as well as in-class teaching.Product Dissection Lab The Product Dissection Lab area, Figure 7, was designed to support dissection activitiesof eight groups of four students at a time. There are eight workbenches, each equipped with a setof common tools. Certain special tools are also available.Manufacturing Systems Integration Lab The Manufacturing Integration Center, Figure 8, provides

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mel I. Mendelson

, realistic and timely. The following performance criteria were established for our 6quality characteristics: (1) flexible curriculum - number of courses that integrate engineering andbusiness, semester-hours of elective options, establishing a graduate certificate program, andforming a joint MBA/EAPM master's degree; (2) critical enrollment - having 36 full-timestudents enrolled in the EAPM program; (3) industry partnership - number of class projects withprivate industry and company endorsements; (4) relevant skills - applying lessons learned (e.g.,improved quality, reduced cost and reduced development time) to optimize products andprocesses, and number of courses with concurrent engineering and entrepreneurship; (5) life-longlearning - number of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine L. Craft

workshops are required to submit reflections and summariesof their activities on the general listserv. Discipline listservs were established at faculty requestto promote the sharing of ideas among faculty working in the same academic discipline at thedifferent colleges. Faculty appreciate having a forum for the free exchange of ideas, andmoderated listservs are serving this purpose well.The compressed video television network is used by participants both for ATE work and forteaching classes. ATE meetings are routinely held over the network with many being scheduledby ATE faculty. It is important that all faculty receive training on effectively using a compressedvideo network, and practice is necessary. Providing "how to" information is only a first