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Appendix C: Requests for Information and Responses
Appendix C: Requests for Information and Responses
Pages 174-183
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• The responses highlighted a range of gaps and weaknesses, from a lack of exposure to advanced manufacturing technologies to lim ited hands-on experience in engineering programs, as well as an overall absence of manufacturing acumen in engineering graduates due to a lack of knowledge of the state of the art in manufacturing capabilities. • Only 14.7 percent of the respondents commented that there exist strong collaborations among colleges, universities, community col 174
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For example, Alan Schaffer, a board member of the Global Foundries and Potomac Institute for Policy Studies stated, "We wait too long to let people do hands-on work. Close the gap between what you make and how you make it." A report on the Future of Manufacturing conducted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Autodesk1 highlighted a quote from Professor Dandu of Kansas State University, Salina, stating that, "One of the major skills the mechanical engineering student is lacking is that manufacturing aspect, which has to be integrated into the design.
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Many universities, however, do not have the resources to provide hands-on manufacturing experience to their students outside of some capstone projects and clubs focused on car and rocket intramural competitions. In addition, a common comment from universities was that their undergraduate engineering curriculums do not have room for additional coursework in manufacturing without dropping some of the basics and cited safety concerns with allowing students unfettered access to manufacturing equipment without sufficient supervision and training.
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Industry responses tended to favor intramural rocket, aircraft, and car clubs as well as industry internships for undergraduates. Large DIB Tier 1 companies hire thousands of interns every year to support the supply chain of graduates to fill their requirements and encourage undergraduates to hire on after graduation.
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, which advanced manufacturing technologies are taught as part of your current undergraduate engineering education (UEE) curriculum?
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15. Do changes to your curriculum related to AM tend to focus on fundamental engineering concepts or on properties of specific advanced manufacturing technologies?
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address advanced manufacturing technologies? What are the goals of the advanced manufacturing components of these courses?
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30. How do we make the manufacturing innovations found in major firms (e.g., defense industrial base "prime contractors")
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(Industry Automation, Robotics/Mechatronics, Additive Manu facturing, Advanced Metrology, Automated Inspection, Automated Material Handling Systems, Advanced Materials Processing, Advanced Composites, Machining, etc., IoT Equipment Sensors, AR/VR applications, Integrated IT systems (ERP, MES, PLM, etc, Advanced PLM/CAM/MES systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Digital Twins, Modeling and Simulation, Other)
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11. If you have identified schools that produce UEE graduates best able to bring new advanced manufacturing technologies to your operations what features distinguished them?
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