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Session 3263 Ã Teaching Manufacturing Using The Golden Key – Reverse Engineering Harry L. Hess The College of New Jersey

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The United States will be able to continue its unprecedented economic growth and maintain its lead as one of the greatest manufacturing countries only if it finds ways to stimulate the minds of its young engineers - manufacturing’s future. The engineering program is the vehicle to teach the students how to convert their brightest ideas into manufacturing realities by introducing them to the importance and fundamentals of manufacturing processes, systems and organization. When engineering students thoroughly understand and can freely employ these methods, will they then be better able to positively contribute to world class manufacturing for the United States.

In the Engineering Department at the College of New Jersey, the aforementioned concepts and ideas are being taught by way of laboratory experiences involving hands-on learning activities. The department is committed to engaging the students in practical learning experiences where possible. It believes that this approach positively helps students better understand theoretical concepts. In the Engineering Department’s Manufacturing Processes course, all mechanical and management engineering students are introduced to manufacturing concepts during their sophomore year using the practical learning experiences approach. This course provides students the opportunity to: • Work in teams • Develop communication skills • Study design principles • Practice critical and creative thinking • Operate processing equipment • Participate in hands-on learning The Manufacturing Processes course goes one step further to stimulate the creative thinking process and will be detailed in the following paragraphs.

In a standard manufacturing process course, a class assignment might be the engineering of a product and the manufacturing design it requires. The real problem is how to elevate this course from a routine let’s-make-a-product type assignment to one that fans the flames of creativity and inquisitiveness that separates the engineering mind from all others. In the Manufacturing Processes course at The College of New Jersey, we have hit upon a method that stimulates the desire found within every successful engineering student to learn – what makes it tick? The answer is reverse engineering. Using the student’s natural curiosity, we use mass produced commercial products and ask the student to do, in essence, thinking in reverse to learn what the manufacturing process sequence is and what systems of production are used leading up to the

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Hess, H. L. (2000, June), Teaching Manufacturing Using The Golden Key Reverse Engineering Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8751