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4 Support for Undergraduate Engineering Education
4 Support for Undergraduate Engineering Education
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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
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Industry support of undergraduate education includes student scholarships, fellowships, and summer internship employment; sponsorship of experiential activities such as capstone course projects; competitive design and construction projects, such as solar-powered vehicles; donation of equipment and software for laboratories; and contribution of the time of company engineers to serve as mentors or advisors to undergraduate programs. Industry builds undergraduate awareness and excitement in engineering through talks, videos, and site visits.1 Companies often engage in collaborative research projects in which academic faculty and students work on a problem whose solution may directly benefit the sponsor.
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NSF also supports manufacturing curriculum development, for example, in the Division of Undergraduate Education, often supporting collaborations among educational institutions and industry. DoD, through its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs)
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Each institute focuses on a different advanced manufacturing technology, offering technical materials, training, assistance to companies building advanced manufacturing capacity, and applied research projects. Summary of Current and Augmented Support The support mechanisms summarized above all contribute to undergraduate engineering education.
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findings and suggestions for curriculum design and for scaling up education delivery that apply equally to undergraduate education.5 DOE and NIST institutes have similar opportunities. Specific ways in which the manufacturing institutes can augment support include engaging undergraduates to participate in applied research projects undertaken by the institutes; adapting advanced training materials and courses to serve undergraduate engineering students, including offering online options; using institute-developed training materials to contribute 5 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
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Internships, fellowships SBIR and STTR grants NIST MEP DOE Advanced IACs Manufacturing Office NOTE: DoD, Department of Defense; DOE, Department of Energy; ERC, Engineering Research Center; GOALI, Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry; IAC, industrial assessment center; IUCRC, Industry-University Cooperative Research Center; MEP, Manufacturing Extension Partnership; NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology; NSF, National Science Foundation; REU, Research Experiences for Undergraduates; SBIR, Small Business Innovation Research; STTR, Small Business Technology Transfer. TABLE 4-4 State and Local Governments Actors Contributions to Undergraduate Education Economic development Economic development initiatives that bring industrial offices support for local educational institutions
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to curriculum development for undergraduate engineering programs; and contributing experience and services of in-house advanced manufacturing equipment and laboratories to "remote factories" (see Recommendation 4.8)
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support focused R&D programs to enhance manufacturing in small and medium manufacturers. Their programs are opportunities to expand topics into advanced manufacturing, and to reach increased numbers of undergraduate engineering students and faculty.
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Support from industry or government for capstone projects, especially those that involve direct exposure to advanced manufacturing, is a prime example of an existing support path that can be strengthened. New Opportunities for Industrial Support Adjunct Roles for Industry Engineers in Academia Many academic engineering programs would benefit from more manufacturing experience among their faculty, instructors, and advisors.
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Develop Capstone Project Portfolios for Advanced Manufacturing Capstone projects -- or other project courses -- are an ideal way to introduce advanced manufacturing, usually as three-dimensional (3D) printing.
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Recommendation 4.4: The manufacturing institutes, in conjunction with industry and academic collaborators, should develop a portfolio of "capstone projects" that present students with a range of problems in real advanced manufacturing. The projects should span a range of difficulty and of advanced manufacturing services (and/or equip ment)
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program, which will fund RIE centers with up to $16 million annually over 10 years.14 The RIE program supports collaboration between industry and the academic community and provides industry participants the opportunity to help set the agenda and focus applied research efforts on issues that are important to them for economic growth. It is anticipated that the NSF effort will complement other ongoing efforts, such as those in other NSF directorates, federal programs at mission agencies such as DoD, DOE, and NASA, and state and private-sector programs.
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ARPA-E has successfully used both approaches.16 Focused programs would have industry and academia identify specific technologies and education components appropriate for applied research. Open solicitations could be for potentially disruptive technologies along a broad path of applied research.
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The new TIP directorate with the planned funding levels offers a major opportunity for academia and the private sector to jointly plan and implement applied research programs that will accelerate development of new technologies and products, involve undergraduate engineering students in applied research programs, and provide industry an opportunity to engage more actively in NSF program management, for example as peer reviewers and through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA)
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The participants should include at least one major defense company in the region, small and medium sized defense supply companies, educational insti tutions that offer advanced manufacturing courses at the bachelor's level, and community colleges. Focusing MEP and IAC on Advanced Manufacturing for the Defense Industrial Base There are several government programs that provide technical assistance to small and medium manufacturers and an opportunity for undergraduate engineering students to obtain practical experience in an industrial setting.
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Some of the new funding is for expansion to community colleges, union apprenticeships, and other activities to encourage more diverse workforce participation. Both MEPs and IACs support undergraduate engineering students and are expanding.
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DoD should provide funding for eight MEP centers hosted by universities for the pilots. Criteria should include advanced manufacturing operations or technologies in the participating small and medium-sized businesses they are working with, and coverage for undergraduate engineering majors and faculty.
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The military laborato ries, national laboratories at the Department of Energy and NASA, and the Manufacturing Innovation Institutes should invite these stu dents to participate. If successful, the program should be expanded to all undergraduate engineering students.
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(See Recommendation 4.2.) Recommendation 4.8: The National Science Foundation should facili tate network access by undergraduate engineering students and fac ulty to industrial-quality advanced manufacturing services.
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But capstone courses may offer a promising approach, due to the following several properties: • Capstone and other hands-on courses are widely implemented in undergraduate engineering programs. • Course projects often build prototypes, often using desktop additive manufacturing equipment.
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