Integrating Manufacturing-related Materials and Quality Control Standards into Master-level Engineering Education

Hua Li; Kai Jin

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Conference: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Location: Virtual On line
Publication Date: June 22, 2020
Start Date: June 22, 2020
End Date: June 26, 2021
Conference Session: Student Learning Assessment Methods
Tagged Division: Manufacturing
Page Count: 7
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--34845
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/34845
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Hua Li Texas A&M University, Kingsville orcid.org/0000-0002-7306-8298

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Dr. Hua Li, an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, totaling more than 2.5 million dollars.

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Kai Jin Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Co-PI of the MERIT project. Her research interests include Sustainable Energy, Green Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Multi Objective Decision Making and Optimization as well as Engineering Education. She has served as PI and Co-PI in several DoEd, DHS, NRC, and industry sponsored projects.

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Standards and Standardization are becoming more and more important in engineering education as ABET starts introducing standards into its engineering program evaluation criteria. In undergraduate engineering education, students most likely get to learn and apply different standards in their capstone design projects. In graduate engineering education, students get practical experiences with standards and standardization in their M.S. research projects or thesis projects. However, students may not be able to get enough training just through one course, which is most like to be their last course in their degree plan. It is needed to integrate standards and standardization training through a series of courses in engineering education to strengthen students’ understanding and knowledge. In this paper, the authors focus on integrating manufacturing related materials and quality control standards into master level engineering education. Hands-on activities based course modules were developed and implemented into three graduate level courses, including modifying two existing courses and developing one new course. For material standards related course modules, they are designed to polish students’ skills on the development of standards if there is no standard that deals with a specific project. These modules cover the topics on procedures of standard development, influence of materials selection on manufacturing process and system design. A practical course project is designed within the course module to allow students to develop the standards of material selection, preparation and testing to gain valuable hands-on experience. At the completion of this module, students are expected to be able to (a) develop standard procedures if there’s no available standards for a product; (b) identify one ASTM and/or ISO standard test procedure that correlate with the developed procedure; and (c) evaluate the developed standard procedure and give suggestions on manufacturing system design. For quality control standards related course modules, they cover the detail technique and processes of the internal and external audits. After completing the modules, students are expected to be able to (a) understand and discuss the aims of the audits which is to verify a system is working as it is supposed to, to find out where it can improve, and to correct or prevent problems identified; (b) lead or participate in a team to prepare for the internal and external audits; and (c) identify the opportunities and strategies of continuous improvement. Student surveys are conducted to collect their feedback on the effectiveness of the course modules, and their changes on the knowledge related to standards and standardization in manufacturing related materials and quality control fields. The survey results show that most students like these course modules, and they think these modules help them to improve their knowledge in standards and standardization.

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Li, H., & Jin, K. (2020, June), Integrating Manufacturing-related Materials and Quality Control Standards into Master-level Engineering Education Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34845

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