Bailey, B. D. (2013, June), Leveraging Scarce Resources to Preserve an Important,  Low Enrollment Manufacturing Program  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19879

\bibitem{asee_peer_19879}
  Bailey, B. D. (2013, June), \emph{Leveraging Scarce Resources to Preserve an Important,  Low Enrollment Manufacturing Program}
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19879

Bill D. Bailey.  "Leveraging Scarce Resources to Preserve an Important,  Low Enrollment Manufacturing Program".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19879 Internet.  11 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_19879}
  Bill D. Bailey.
  "Leveraging Scarce Resources to Preserve an Important,  Low Enrollment Manufacturing Program".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19879 Internet.  11 Apr, 2024

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AB  -               Leveraging Scarce Resources to Preserve an Important,                    Low Enrollment Manufacturing ProgramMany manufacturing programs are resource intensive. They require considerable laboratoryspace, expensive equipment, and instructors for both day and evening courses. Although theseprograms are often very important to the institution and to local business and industry, theysometimes have low enrollment. This paper will describe strategies for leveraging existingresources to preserve important but low enrollment programs.These strategies will be described in the context of a case study. The subject of the case study isa two year Tool, Die and Mold Making program. This program was very important to localindustry, and as such was important to the community college which offered it. Although theneed for Tool, Die and Mold Makers was a critical one, they were not needed in large numbers.Additionally, most students were full time employees, and could be on any shift. There was aresulting need to offer both day and evening courses.In order to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of the program, the course offeringswere rearranged, combined labs and flexible lab spaces and hours were used, online learning wasutilized for the classroom portion, and as a supplement to lab portions of the program. Thesestrategies enabled the program to serve the all of its students with a minimum of resources.For example: The program was able to better utilize its physical resources by combining first andsecond year lab spaces. This also led to better utilization of instructor resources. A singleinstructor was able to supervise lab session for multiple courses at the same time. Open lab timesalso provided more flexibility for students. On-line resources were used to provide furtherflexibility and utilization.
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