Vertical and Horizontal Integration of Manufacturing Courses in Engineering Curricula

工程课程中制造课程的纵向和横向整合目标是定义一个独特的、新颖的模式，包括策略、流程和教学工具和材料，垂直整合制造课程，水平整合机械工程和工业工程课程，并将这种模式推广到全国其他大学。建议活动的智力价值建议项目将制定一个精简的过程，使学生能够流畅地从一门课程转移到另一门课程，并能够将上游课程的知识和技能带在身上，并设想下游课程的期望。学生能够在制造学位，机械工程和工业工程学位中相互交流。这种全面的学习形成了坚实的多学科教育的基础。这个项目将形成一个跨部门合作的策略，定义一个整合的过程，并开发教学工具，实践和基于网络，以简化课程进度，整合讲座和实验室材料，以进行beta测试和稍后的传播。拟议活动产生的更广泛影响该项目将确定和建立制造、工业工程和机械工程学科之间的合作，以及凯特林大学和其他beta站点大学以及行业合作伙伴之间的合作。整合概念、新设备和实验室实验以及产品实现项目将用于凯特林大学预科女性（21世纪女性）和少数族裔（学术倾向少数族裔计划）的暑期讲习班，以鼓励和指导代表性不足的群体学习工程。该项目的成果将通过开发的实验室项目、讲习班和研讨会，直接影响凯特林的学生和教师、女性和少数族裔项目、beta站点大学和行业合作伙伴，并将在互联网网站、cd - rom、会议报告、论文、实验室手册和书籍等多种媒体上发布，以便向更广泛的受众传播。

Vertical and Horizontal Integration of Manufacturing Courses in Engineering CuriculaThe goal is to define a unique, novel model with strategies, processes and teaching tools and materials, to vertically integrate manufacturing courses and horizontally integrate mechanical engineering and industrial engineering courses, and to extend this model to other universities nationally. Intellectual Merit of the Proposed ActivityThe proposed project will develop a streamlining process where students move fluidly from one course to another with continuity, are able to carry with them the knowledge and skills from upstream courses and visualize what is expected in the downstream classes. Students are able to interact with each other within manufacturing degree and with mechanical engineering and industrial engineering degrees. This holistic learning forms the foundation of a solid multi-disciplinary education. This project will form a strategy for inter-departmental collaboration, define a process for integration, and develop teaching tools, hands-on and web-based, for streamlining course progression and consolidating lecture and laboratory material for beta testing and later, dissemination.Broader Impacts Resulting from the Proposed ActivityThe project will identify and establish collaboration between manufacturing, industrial engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines and between Kettering University and other beta-site universities as well as industry partners. The integration concept, new equipment and laboratory experiments, and product realization projects will be used in Kettering summer workshops for pre-college women (21st Century Women) and minority (Academically Inclined Minorities Program) to encourage and mentor underrepresented groups to study engineering. The outcomes of the project will directly impact Kettering's students and faculty, female and minority programs, beta-site universities and industry partners through developed laboratory projects, workshops and seminars, and will be published in diverse media such as Internet websites, CD-ROMs, conferences presentations, papers, laboratory manuals, and books for dissemination to broader audiences.