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2 Revising the Undergraduate Engineering Program
2 Revising the Undergraduate Engineering Program
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Thus, several engineering disciplines are developing and using advanced manufacturing techniques. For this study and report, the committee focused on mechanical engineering and manufacturing engineering programs leading to 4-year undergraduate degrees, and the advanced manufacturing technologies that apply to mechanical engineering.
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Undergraduate mechanical engineering has, in part, been allowed to pay scant attention to manufacturing because for the past several decades most changes to basic manufacturing processes for mechanical objects have not 1 M Klawe, 2015, "Why Manufacturing Is Vital to Engineering Education," Forbes, June 8, https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariaklawe/2015/06/08/why-manufacturing-is-vital-toengineering-education.
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While the details of additive technologies and the materials they can handle may change rapidly, the principles of the technologies, especially additive manufacturing, are sufficiently stable and likely to endure to be included in undergraduate engineering education. Therefore, all undergraduate engineering students, and especially those in mechanical engineering, need to learn about manufacturing and advanced manufacturing.
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(See Appendix B comments by Kyle Squires on Arizona State University's overhaul of its engineering program.) Undergraduate engineering programs, though already busy, can be modified to include mandatory coverage of manufacturing and advanced manufacturing.
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, and other topics that are in demand by rapid advances in industry, faculties and professional societies can advocate for emphasizing these topics in the engineering program evaluations that lead to ABET accreditation. Recommendation 2.2: Professional engineering societies such as the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and SME (previously known as the Society for Manufacturing Engineering)
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Advanced manufacturing will evolve, perhaps rapidly, and increase in breadth. Additive manufacturing already allows new materials to be fabricated easily, for example using blown powder directed energy deposition.
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• Frustrated that required engineering courses preclude other offer ings at a university, take an extra year and some engineering electives • Continue after bachelor's degree for master's 7 See also NASEM, 2021, "Preferred Approaches to Curriculum and Program Design" and "Preferred Approaches for Program Content," in DoD Engagement with Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes: Phase 2 Study Final Report, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, https://doi.org/10.17226/26329. 8 For example, see "Iron Range Engineering Program" in Appendix B
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Students get excited at different times for different reasons, to pursue different directions. Recommendation 2.3: Undergraduate engineering program leaders should expand flexible options that augment advanced manufactur ing education or experience.
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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN ACADEMIA Few engineering faculty members have extensive industrial experience, even fewer manufacturing experience, and fewer yet advanced manufacturing experience. But manufacturing experience is extremely valuable for teaching advanced manufacturing courses, supervising or critiquing hands-on labs and projects, mentoring or supervising independent study, leading a research project in collaboration with an industrial partner, setting up and running advanced manufacturing equipment such as industrial-quality 3D printers, developing or codeveloping teaching materials and curricula, and simply being available to students as role models and authorities on manufacturing.
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The role of academia in undergraduate engineering education is further explored in the next chapter, which covers practical experiences–experiential education. And the support and collaboration required from industry and government are treated in Chapter 4.
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