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The second group of recommendations go beyond amplifying existing practices and suggest innovations aimed specifically at improving the presentation and teaching of advanced manufacturing in undergraduate engineering education. One recommendation, for instance, calls for engineering schools to develop and deploy advanced manufacturing curricula that are adaptable to different types of delivery, that are scalable, and that will be easy to update as advanced manufacturing evolves (which is happening rapidly; Recommendation 4.9)
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2.3 Expand optional paths through engineering education, especially for transfers from community colleges 2.4 Strengthen collaboration between academia and industry 3.1 Offer experiential learning, such as capstone courses, that empha sizes advanced manufacturing 3.2 Incorporate experiential learning throughout an engineering program 3.3 Engage undergraduates in applied research to obtain hands-on experience with advanced manufacturing 3.4 Expand extracurricular advanced manufacturing experiences Recommendations for industry and government: 4.1 Strengthen the many existing methods for supporting undergradu ate engineering education to emphasize manufacturing and ad vanced manufacturing 4.2 Encourage more industry engineers to contribute to education programs, perhaps using remote collaboration tools 4.3 DoD should pilot a Fraunhofer-like program that pairs a single university with a large defense contractor 4.4 The manufacturing institutes should develop a portfolio of "cap stone projects" that present students with a range of problems in advanced manufacturing 4.5 NSF's Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships should sponsor research programs that engage undergraduates in advanced manufacturing 4.6 Agencies in addition to DoD and NSF should provide opportunities for students and faculty to spend time in small and medium-sized manufacturing companies 4.7 DoD should initiate a pilot program in applied research fellowships for undergraduates 4.8 NSF should facilitate network access by undergraduates to indus trial-quality advanced manufacturing services 4.9 NSF should sponsor projects to develop advanced manufacturing curricula
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And it describes what an ideal future might look like, with engineering graduates having the skills and mindset necessary to take full advantage of advanced manufacturing technologies.
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The term "fourth industrial revolution" was coined by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, who argued that a number of new technologies are coming together to make possible a type of manufacturing and production that is fundamentally different from anything that has gone before.2 Most, if not all, of these technologies are dependent on and made possible by the exponential increases in computing power and memory over the past several decades. The technologies that Schwab identified as underpinning the fourth industrial revolution, including artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, gene editing, and additive manufacturing (three-dimen 1 K
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First, it consists of newly developed approaches that are improvements over traditional methods and are not yet widely adopted. Most advanced manufacturing technologies today are highly digitized, producing products designed using digital tools, often simulated and/or tested digitally, and manufactured with computer-controlled equipment that follows the digital design and incorporates digital feedback.
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For example, manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and integrated circuits use different technologies. Given that this report focuses on advanced manufacturing in the defense industrial base, it is useful to get a sense of some of the specific FIGURE 1-1 3D-printed rocket motor by Rocket Lab, produced in Long Beach, California.
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products, digital threads involve models that are created in the design process and then used in manufacturing as the digital targets for automation and metrology applications and also for sustainment functions during the product's period of use. The digital thread enables a variety of advanced manufacturing technologies, including robots and automation, additive manufacturing, advanced metrology, augmented reality, robotic application of coatings, equipment specialized for a product (e.g., drilling airframe components for fasteners)
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SOURCE: D.A. Kinard, 2019, "F-35 Digital Thread and Advanced Manufacturing," pp.
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It is possible, for instance, to create a part much faster and more directly because a digital design can be sent directly to a 3D printer, as opposed to traditional manufacturing, where creating a com plex piece may require multiple steps performed by separate machines or vendors. Furthermore, parts created with additive manufacturing can more easily be made out of different materials -- say, one material on the inside and another on the outside -- which is much more difficult to do with traditional approaches.
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And additive manufacturing opens the door to the rapid and cost-effective production of complex parts in small batches as well as making possible the creation of items that would not be feasible to build with traditional methods. But advanced manufacturing comes with a major challenge as well: Because the technologies are new and rapidly evolving, taking full advantage of them will require engineers with the proper training and mindset, but most U.S.
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undergraduate engineering education in terms of what is required for advanced manufacturing, particularly in the defense industrial base. CHALLENGES TO FULFILLING THE POTENTIAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING As Schwab observed in his 2015 article, the complex, rapidly evolving, and customizable nature of the technologies that the fourth industrial revolution is bringing creates great demands on the skills and adaptability of those developing and operating the technologies.
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