A Learning Center for Manufacturing Education and Training

建设综合制造学习中心（MLC）。正如教学医院是全方位服务的医疗设施，但也为医学生和其他卫生专业人员提供了一个研究和教育环境，让他们得到解决现实医疗问题的实践培训；该中心将具有完全实现的制造功能，并与制造工程教育能力相结合。该中心将利用现有的研究和技术转移设施，学生和学员可以在实际制造环境中实习，解决现实生产问题。MLC将加强制造工程教育，并提供研究/教育/技术转移模式供其他院校效仿。制造主题包含了广泛的工程活动。该主题允许对许多工程和其他支持学科的大量专业人员进行培训和教育。它还将解决在最近几年受到影响的经济活动领域开发人力资源的迫切需要。MLC将利用堪萨斯州立大学现有的全方位服务“制造过程原型”工厂。这个研究/教学/制造设施将在堪萨斯州立大学的研究和工程教育以及中小型工业的研究和开发需求之间架起桥梁。该MLC将由KSU先进制造研究所（AMI）、KSU工程学院和其他学院的教师和学生、该州的技术和职业学校、该地区的两个技术援助组织以及私营制造企业的管理人员和制造专家共同管理和运营。

9553345 Azadivar A comprehensive manufacturing learning center (the MLC) will be developed. Just as teaching hospitals are full service medical facilities yet provide a research and educational environment for medical students and other health professionals to get hands-on training solving real-life medical problems; this proposed center would have a fully actualized manufacturing function integrated into manufacturing engineering education capabilities. The center would utilize an existing research and technology transfer facility where students and trainees can intern in actual manufacturing situations solving real-life manufacturing problems. The MLC would enhance the manufacturing engineering education and provide a research/education/ technology transfer model for others to emulate. The manufacturing theme encompasses a wide range of engineering activities. The theme allows training and education for a large group of professionals in many engineering and other supporting disciplines. It would also addresses a critical need for development of human resources in an area of economic activity that has been suffering in recent years. The MLC will utilize the existing full service "manufacturing processes prototyping" plant at Kansas State University. This research/teaching/manufacturing facility would bridge research and engineering education at Kansas State University and the research and development needs of small to medium-sized industries. The MLC will be managed and run by a partnership of KSU' s Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI), faculty and students in the Engineering and other Colleges of the University, technical and vocational schools in the state, two technical assistance organizations in the region and managers and manufacturing experts from private manufacturing firms.