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New Graduate Courses Designed to Promote Future Engineers to Face the Modern Challenging Industry

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Today’s strong global industrial competition requires our future engineers to have the ability to work in challenging and new industrial environment. It requires our students and future engineers to have the solid technical knowledge, strong leadership and better communication skills. Because a number of advanced industrial knowledge has not been included in the current engineering classes, some necessary curriculum and teaching reforms are needed. A new course titled “Manufacturing Strategy and Lean Manufacturing” has been developed at University of Bridgeport to provide our graduate students with the knowledge to face today’s challenges. The instructor brings the extensive US industrial and engineering experiences to the class and all the advanced technology procedures introduced and discussed in the class can be applied to the industries to improve the plant performance in manufacturing flow, organizational functions, process control, metrics and logistics. Although this course was taught at the mechanical and manufacturing engineering majors, it can also be applied to the most areas of US industrial and engineering practices. In addition to several real industrial case studies, two advanced projects have been assigned in the course to help students to apply the skills learnt from this lecture.

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Some students enrolling into the engineering major might have some difficulties to select appropriate engineering disciplines1-2. One of the best ways is to cover the disciplines through multidisciplinary engineering study to provide students with the real industrial case study and potential solution3-4. The explanation of how engineers in different disciplines resolve the engineering issues could become the feasible way of educating the students on their future duty of engineering in each discipline5-6. The real engineering examples from industry are good resources for the students which can help them to understand the real engineering issues and show them how the technical concept can be used in real cases. Several examples from real engineering practices have been discussed in the class to help students to understand how the feasible engineering solutions improve the quality of industrial product. Some class case studies, which can help students understand more real and challenging industrial issues, are shown as follows:

Case study 1: One small company has the business in an industry dominated by some famous companies including General Electric. In order to make this company more competitive in this industry, please make the proper strategies on following products with your opinion: 1st priority, 2nd priority, and 3rd priority: A. Large products B. Small products (normal delivery) C. Small products (fast delivery)

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Li, J. (2009, June), New Graduate Courses Designed To Produce Engineers To Face The Challenging Modern Industry Paper presented at 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--4702