Improving A Manufacturing Class By Adding An Experimental Session

The author of this paper has been teaching a graduate-level manufacturing class: MMAE 546 Advanced Manufacturing Engineering. The author has made an effort to improve the class by adding an experimental session to this previously lecture-only class, and this effort will be presented in this paper. The effect of the experimental session on the students’ learning quality improvement and study interest stimulation will be discussed. Students’ comments and feedback are also provided.

本文作者一直在教授一门研究生水平的制造课程：MMAE 546高级制造工程。作者通过在这门之前只有授课的课程中增加一个实验环节，努力对课程进行改进，本文将介绍这一举措。将讨论实验环节对提高学生学习质量以及激发学习兴趣的影响。还提供了学生的评论和反馈。