In honor of National Manufacturing Week, the Engineering Pathway highlights Manufacturing Engineering Education in September. Check out our Manufacturing Engineering Education Disciplinary Community and related manufacturing engineering educational resources, such as NIST’s Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) or the Manufacturing Video Library.
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Find out How Everyday Things are Made with courseware hosted by Stanford’s Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing. This interactive courseware includes images, online tours and videos, as well as quizzes. Cases include airplanes, motorcycles, engines, cars, candy, glass bottles, plastic bottles, plastic caps, food ontainers, candy packaging, bottling drinks and clothing. Check out how “jelly beans” are made.
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The People, Products and Strategies courseware was designed to assist engineering and business students in visualizing and understanding the fundamental concepts that govern today’s new product development and manufacturing strategies within successful industry companies - new product development, various functional roles of people and the principles, and practice and strategies that drive today’s businesses. The strategies emphasized include the use of crossfunctional teams, concurrent engineering, design for manufacturing and design for environment, DFM, DFA, green design.
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Interested readers may want to also check our or Green Manufacturing resources as well. Go to:
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/hEd/search/search_link.jhtml?keyword=(manufacturing%20AND%20sustainable)
In honor of Manufacturing Week, let your friends and family know about the Stanford manufacturing videos website (manufacturing.stanford.edu). It’s a great way to introduce people to the complexities (and fun) of manufacturing.
We’ve received a lot of feedback - and what we’ve discovered is that there’s content that’s interesting to everyone, K-Gray (we’ve had parents of 5-year olds write in, and the CyberSeniors.org featured the site); including high-school teachers and college engineering professors using the videos in their classrooms.
NSDL readers may be interested in our Green Manufacturing resources as well. Looks like the long URL in my previous message got cut off.
To see these one can also just go to the Engineering Pathway (http://www.engineeringpathway.com) and search over: sustainable AND manufacturing (note upper case AND) to see our Green Manufacturing resources.
I have a myriad of videos of manufacuting processes on my website. I use them in my undergraduate and graduate courses on manufacturing. I show some of them in class to motivate the theory in lecture. As we can’t take field trips to see all of these processes, videos are the next best thing. I assign home work that includes watching select videos, such as the ones on metal cutting, and answering questions on them. In addition, students will watch the videos on their own, to help them understand the processes.
I have been collecting them for many years now. I found most of them by surfing the web. Former students send me videos that they come across to add to the collection. Other faculty also contribute.
Videos really help bring the processes to life!
The website for the previous comment is:
http://www.me.gatech.edu/jonathan.colton/me4210/mfgvideos.html
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Learning Factory is another high quality resource for manufacturing engineering education. It won the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Prize in 2006 for innovation in engineering and technology education. “The Learning Factory is an internationally recognized leader in interdisciplinary, industry-partnered, active learning,” says Lamancusa. “The Learning Factory is based on the belief that students learn better from immersion than from passive listening.
The project was initially funded as part of the multi-campus
Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP).
If you are interested in Manufactuing and Automation Engineering at the K-12 level, visit the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) Pre-Engineering Times e-newsletter. The PE Times has a different topic each month, and each month includes a hands-on activity from the Engineering Pathway.
http://www.jets.org/newsletter/0907/index.htm