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Infusing Advanced Manufacturing into Undergraduate Engineering Education (2023) / Chapter Skim
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... engineering schools do not do a particularly effective job of preparing their students to work in advanced manufacturing. Too few undergraduate engineering students are being exposed to or taught about the use of advanced manufacturing technologies (or manufacturing technologies in general)
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... More generally, DoD is eager to have a wide array of advanced manufacturing technologies, not just 3D printing, widely adopted by the defense industrial base and supply chain. The defense industrial base has a history of being innovative -- introducing approaches such as the use of composites for aircraft and custom production on major contracts -- but its adoption of advanced manufacturing will depend on a number of factors.
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... DoD, which has a history of addressing workforce issues for the defense industrial base, has recognized this as a problem and is interested in finding ways to improve undergraduate engineering education so that graduates of U.S. engineering schools can make a more immediate contribution to advanced manufacturing.
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  • advanced manufacturing
  • engineering students
  • undergraduate engineering
  • manufacturing technologies
  • fourth industrial

  • supply chain
  • experiential learning
  • industrial base
  • defense industrial
  • manufacturing topics

  • advanced technologies
  • ing education


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