(2025, June), BOARD # 11: MAKER: Supporting Education of Smart Manufacturing and STEP AP242 using a Concept Framework and Showcased through Hands-On Students Projects  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/55517

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   (2025, June), \emph{BOARD \# 11: MAKER: Supporting Education of Smart Manufacturing and STEP AP242 using a Concept Framework and Showcased through Hands-On Students Projects}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/55517

.  "BOARD # 11: MAKER: Supporting Education of Smart Manufacturing and STEP AP242 using a Concept Framework and Showcased through Hands-On Students Projects".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/55517 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

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  "BOARD \# 11: MAKER: Supporting Education of Smart Manufacturing and STEP AP242 using a Concept Framework and Showcased through Hands-On Students Projects".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/55517 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

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AB  - Through the use of smart manufacturing and the digital thread, formats such as STEP AP242 have been implemented into our MFG342 CAM and digital manufacturing course. Students taking this course used these smart manufacturing tools to develop parts through design, manufacturing, and inspection. These processes and skills are directly correlated to what engineering students will experience and be expected to do in industry, where companies are shifting toward the concept of a Model Based Enterprise (MBE). This MakeIt! project focuses on exhibiting physical parts and a poster that explains how students applied these tools to complete the assignment.  This work complements the ASEE Manufacturing Division paper that will be presented in a technical session at the upcoming conference. Students designed, manufactured, and inspected their own parts, providing them with hands-on learning that exposed them to all aspects of a part's lifecycle. In addition, these students learned how to use concepts such as CAD/CAM/CAI software and how they are linked together with the STEP AP242 protocol, and how this mirrors the trends currently prevalent in industry. Through this innovative project, students developed skills that will allow them to become leaders in this quickly moving field.

Through the MakeIt! session, the work that students have done will be showcased, from their designs, digital manufacturing with the use of CAM, and CMM inspection and how each one of these steps is tied back to model-based definitions using the STEP AP242 protocol. Aspects of the planning, machining, prototyping, and measuring will be on display, including 3D printed parts, machined parts (mill/lathe) and parts/reports related to the work on a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). This MakeIt! project aims to help other educators from around the world reproduce and implement similar projects within their own courses. It also provides a guide on how to best incorporate new technologies into an existing course, thereby enhancing a student’s education and marketability.

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