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Digital Additive Manufacturing for Engineering Education: A Virtual Rapid Prototyping Simulator Approach

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Conference

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Vancouver, BC

Publication Date

June 26, 2011

Start Date

June 26, 2011

End Date

June 29, 2011

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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NSF Grantees

Page Count

15

Page Numbers

22.501.1 - 22.501.15

DOI

10.18260/1-2--17782

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https://peer.asee.org/17782

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409

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Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng University of Texas, El Paso

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Dr. Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng is Associate Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at University of Taxes at El Paso. He received his M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1995 and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City in 1999. Dr. Tseng delivered research results to many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and International Journal of Management Science, OMEGA and others (over 100 refereed publications). He has been serving as a principle investigator of several research projects funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.

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Rong Pan Arizona State University

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Dr. Rong Pan is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University in 2002. His research interests include failure time data analysis, design of experiments, multivariate statistical quality control, time series analysis and control. He is a senior member of ASQ and a member of SRE, IIE, and INFORMS.

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Jun Zheng University of Texas, El Paso

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2007-present
The University of Texas at El Paso

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Carolyn Joy Awalt University of Texas, El Paso, College of Education

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I am the Online Masters Program Advisor for the College of Education, University of Texas at El Paso. My educational background is in instructional technology and social studies. My doctorate is in Instructional Technology from the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. My other degrees include a bachelor’s in history, two Master’s degrees (one in the Masters of Arts of Teaching social studies, a second in cultural anthropology).
I have built three online graduate programs for the College of Education. As a result, I have received recognition from my peers in distance learning: The Texas Distance Learning Association gave me the Outstanding Commitment to Excellence and Innovation in Distance Learning by an Individual, March 2010; The Innovations in Online Learning Conference gave me an award for being an Outstanding Visionary in the field of Distance Education, May, 2009.

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Maria Veronica Gonzalez University of Texas, El Paso

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Francisco Medina

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Abstract

Digital Additive Manufacturing for Engineering Education: A Virtual Rapid Prototyping Simulator Approach AbstractThe objective of this paper is to introduce, implement, and further enhance engineeringeducation in digital additive manufacturing using a virtual Rapid Prototyping (RP) simulatorwithin the established programs of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering andMechanical Engineering at the University of Texas as El Paso (UTEP). This paper describes astate-of-the-art virtual rapid prototyping simulator in 3D environment using XNA framework.The purposes of the virtual RP simulator are allowing the users to get familiar with the basiccommands and functions of the real Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3000 facility andlearning how to operate the FDM 3000 machine. The paper also aims at developing an effectivelearning model to facilitate student’s learning in digital additive manufacturing. The students areseparated to the control group and the experimental group to validate the use of the virtual RapidPrototyping (RP) simulator. Student learning from both virtual and real environment areevaluated and discussed in this paper.

Tseng, T. B., & Pan, R., & Zheng, J., & Awalt, C. J., & Gonzalez, M. V., & Medina, F. (2011, June), Digital Additive Manufacturing for Engineering Education: A Virtual Rapid Prototyping Simulator Approach Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--17782

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