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From page 114... ... However, he added, there is little done at the undergraduate level that is aimed at integrating robotics into manufacturing education. Howe followed up by saying that there are no formal courses in robotics at Smith, but there have been a couple of capstone projects with a robotics focus. Read the entire page →
From page 115... ... BREAKOUT SESSIONS In the breakout sessions held during the afternoon of the workshop's second day, a number of speakers described various efforts at engineering and technical education with application to advanced manufacturing. These comments and the discussions they triggered offered a variety of insights into ways to improve the future of the nation's advanced manufacturing. Read the entire page →
From page 116... ... The students also work remotely on courses from the engineering program, typically carrying a 15- to 20-hour workload in addition to their co-op jobs. "So," Schroeder said, "they leave our program with two-and-ahalf years of engineering experience, a bachelor's in integrated engineering with whatever focus they want to obtain, and two-and-a-half years' experience in an ABET-accredited program." As an example of the sorts of education students receive that would be relevant to advanced manufacturing, Schroeder mentioned the school's CIOPS (Creative Innovative Open-Ended Problem Solving) Read the entire page →
From page 117... ... In the past year they have hired three new PhD-level faculty members, and they are also working to maintain the current ratio between students and support staff and to pull in more subject-matter experts from industry. The program is also putting a greater focus on preparing students for advanced manufacturing with such things as an increased implementation of automation, efforts to incorporate more data processing, and teaching their students about the new ways that engineers are looking at problems. Read the entire page →
From page 118... ... "They have to be comfortable interacting in a substantive way with the mechanics and technicians on the floor and with customers, beyond just engineers." Engineering students will generally have a decent amount of experience working on teams of engineers from their capstone projects and their co-ops, but they generally do not get experience working with the other sorts of people that are found in a manufacturing setting. "A lot of engineers that are just simply not comfortable going down to the floor and talking to a mechanic or a toolmaker or a technician before they start to put something together," Packer said, and with today's digital tools it is easy to believe that because a computer-aided design exists, the product can be build. Read the entire page →

From page 114...

... However, he added, there is little done at the undergraduate level that is aimed at integrating robotics into manufacturing education. Howe followed up by saying that there are no formal courses in robotics at Smith, but there have been a couple of capstone projects with a robotics focus.

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From page 115...

... BREAKOUT SESSIONS In the breakout sessions held during the afternoon of the workshop's second day, a number of speakers described various efforts at engineering and technical education with application to advanced manufacturing. These comments and the discussions they triggered offered a variety of insights into ways to improve the future of the nation's advanced manufacturing.

Read the entire page →

From page 116...

... The students also work remotely on courses from the engineering program, typically carrying a 15- to 20-hour workload in addition to their co-op jobs. "So," Schroeder said, "they leave our program with two-and-ahalf years of engineering experience, a bachelor's in integrated engineering with whatever focus they want to obtain, and two-and-a-half years' experience in an ABET-accredited program." As an example of the sorts of education students receive that would be relevant to advanced manufacturing, Schroeder mentioned the school's CIOPS (Creative Innovative Open-Ended Problem Solving)

Read the entire page →

From page 117...

... In the past year they have hired three new PhD-level faculty members, and they are also working to maintain the current ratio between students and support staff and to pull in more subject-matter experts from industry. The program is also putting a greater focus on preparing students for advanced manufacturing with such things as an increased implementation of automation, efforts to incorporate more data processing, and teaching their students about the new ways that engineers are looking at problems.

Read the entire page →

From page 118...

... "They have to be comfortable interacting in a substantive way with the mechanics and technicians on the floor and with customers, beyond just engineers." Engineering students will generally have a decent amount of experience working on teams of engineers from their capstone projects and their co-ops, but they generally do not get experience working with the other sorts of people that are found in a manufacturing setting. "A lot of engineers that are just simply not comfortable going down to the floor and talking to a mechanic or a toolmaker or a technician before they start to put something together," Packer said, and with today's digital tools it is easy to believe that because a computer-aided design exists, the product can be build.

Read the entire page →

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