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Manufacturing and Education: Reflections on a Symposium
Manufacturing and Education: Reflections on a Symposium
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While not a summary of the proceedings in a strict sense, these remarks attempt to capture the tone of the meeting that emerged in both formal and informal discussions among the participants, and highlight some of the major points expressed, suggested, and recommended by individual participants and working groups. From the outset, symposium participants appeared to be clearly frustrated about the state of manufacturing engineering and the status of manufacturing engineers.
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In the areas of engineering most closely connected to manufacturing-the structural and dynamics aspects of mechanical engineering, for example-there has been a tendency toward theoretical curricula little related to manufacturing processes. In the view of the participants, all this appears to have been exaggerated by the relatively little contact between the academic world and the world of manufacturing.
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Nonengineering problems concern the need to put the engineering side of manufacturing in an overall business context, so that engineering choices make economic sense and relate properly to social questions of health, environment, and the position and relationships of labor, management, and machines. Both speakers and discussants pointed out that a purely technical education in the traditional engineering sense is insufficient for a manufacturing engineer, since so much of his or her effort deals with the business and social systems making the manufacturing system work.
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For example, the time pressures and economic realities facing industry do not allow engineers to spend much time in academia, and their experience does not substitute for the criteria that would make them acceptable in academic circles. Conversely, the theoretical backgrounds of academics are not considered sufficient for them to play continual direct roles in the industrial context, and they too have time difficulties in arranging this.
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This new opportunity for many of the participants to discuss what turned out to be common subjects was the key value of the symposium. New and continuing opportunities for such interaction will be important to improve the currently inadequate arrangements for contacts between industry and academia related to this subject and to upgrade common contributions toward research and toward common understanding of suitable curricula.
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While little was said at this symposium about the roles of professional societies in this process, they could well ponder the results of the proposed cooperation between industry and academia in considering their programs in fields related to manufacturing. Clearly, this symposium produced results which, while not precise, suggest further activities and directions of work, and indeed, suggest actions that the National Academy of Engineering might take in planning its future program.
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