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From page 43...
... For example, Georgia Tech's Flowers Invention Studio and UT Austin's InventionWorks makerspaces provide a variety of advanced manufacturing tools for students to use at will. There is effort at some universities to incorporate some extracurricular activities into the curriculum, or at least to credential them.
From page 44...
... For example, the firms select the students, rather than the U.S. approach, where the university selects students and then helps them find placements with firms.10 Recommendation 3.4: University engineering programs should provide opportunities for educational pathways that give students practical exposure to advanced manufacturing outside the formal undergraduate curriculum (e.g., through summer classes in machin ing or advanced manufacturing certificate programs)
From page 45...
... • Students should receive academic credit or credentials for cocur ricular and extracurricular advanced manufacturing activities, like internships, certificate training, and student club activities, given some degree of quality control and standardization. FACILITIES AND RESOURCES The practical aspects of engineering education depend on facilities -- hardware and software -- that are those of the contemporary professional engineer.
From page 46...
... For the academic institution, the ability to be exposed to, use, and test new software capabilities is of paramount importance in training next-generation manufacturing engineers. Designing for or operating new advanced manufacturing equipment may require device-specific software; again, the ability for the university to operate at the cutting edge of advanced manufacturing is important.
From page 47...
... Such a facility, even a modest beginning, would make true advanced manufacturing (as contrasted with desktop 3D printers) available to undergraduate engineering students.
From page 48...
... CURRENT GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR EDUCATION AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING Both government and industry have long recognized the value of manufacturing to the health of the economy and of the country as well as the value of undergraduate engineering education to the health of manufacturing, which is why both entities have a history of supporting and improving manufacturing-related engineering education. This section reviews that support in 48
From page 49...
... Capstone project support can be contingent on pursuing the project through its manufacturing phase, which might use advanced manufacturing technologies. Or a company could negotiate with a faculty member to do research on a new material for additive manufacturing, even involving undergraduates in the research.
From page 50...
... As with industry support, government support can target advanced manufacturing. NSF's Engineering Directorate supports advanced manufacturing research, and a new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP)


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