Comments on: Engineering Pathway Highlights National Manufacturing Week

By: Paul Klenk

Paul Klenk — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:36:32 +0000

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

By: Alice Agogino

Alice Agogino — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:22:39 +0000

The
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).

By: Jonathan Colton

Jonathan Colton — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:23:27 +0000

The website for the previous comment is:

http://www.me.gatech.edu/jonathan.colton/me4210/mfgvideos.html

By: Jonathan Colton

Jonathan Colton — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:22:42 +0000

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!

By: Alice Agogino

Alice Agogino — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:41:51 +0000

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.

By: Mark Martin

Mark Martin — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:05:09 +0000

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.

By: Alice Agogino

Alice Agogino — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:26:06 +0000

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)