Manufacturing Education Leadership Forum:

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• Manufacturing Education Leadership Forum
• Vision for Progress

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My Questions

• What should I do next ?
• Preparing the manufacturing engineers of 2018 ?
• More manufacturing engineering students ?
• What will I be able to do when I leave here ?

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The Pipeline
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What the Pipeline Provides
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Pipeline
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The Curriculum

• Wired or Tired?
• Replace 'What' with 'What'?

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Curriculum Revision
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Manufacturing for Everybody

• Reaching other technical disciplines
• Reaching beyond

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Our Problem....

• When asked to describe the images that they
  associate with a career in manufacturing, student
  respondents quickly and consistently offered
  phrases such as "production or assembly line
  work" work in a "factory" or "plant" that is
  "repetitious," "boring," "tedious," "dangerous,"
  "dark" and "dirty." They felt that manufacturing
  required "hard work" and "long hours" but
  provided only "low pay," with "no chance for
  promotion" or "benefits." Others equated a career
  in manufacturing to "serving a life sentence" and
  being "on a chain gang," "slave to the line" or
  even a "robot." National Association of
  Manufacturers

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Appealing to Students

• empowered, free individuals
• - flexible time, not punching clocks
• - not tied to a desk or a production line
• - managing large budgets and many people
• - more dynamic career choices
• - important roles in companies including
  management
• active
• - designing and building
• - using new high-technologies, computers and
  methods

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more....

• people oriented
• - work with a diverse group of people in multiple
  disciplines
• - travel to many interesting places and cultures
• rewarding
• - helping society and making a difference
• - good salaries, benefits and bonuses
• - determining the best ways to satisfy customers

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Defining The Discipline

• Many other disciplines claim manufacturing topics
  as their own.
• e.g. Mechanical and Manufacturing
• Stress analysis - mechanical
• Fluid/thermal sciences - mechanical
• Drafting - mechanical / manufacturing?
• GDT - manufacturing
• Processes - manufacturing

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Recognition

• Most disciplines are identified with products
• Consider an automobile
• Manufacturing describes a process
• What we really engineer is products
• Other engineers often stumble into product design
• Product engineers require high skill levels

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Product Design

• Not to be confused with other types of design --
  Mechanical Design, Electrical Design, etc.
• Design is a recognized strength of US industry.
• Product design has a high level of appeal.
• We are the discipline of Products.
• We have expanded our product design content.

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Our Plan

• 1. Recognize Products as the driving force behind
  our discipline, and change the program name.
• 2. Promote the positive image of the discipline
  to the general public (industry, students,
  parents).
• 3. Attract academically strong, high achieving
  students.
• 4. Revise the curriculum to address the new needs
  of globalization.
• 5. Clarify the definition of Manufacturing
  Engineering.
• 6. Encourage a recognition of the differences
  between Manufacturing and other disciplines.
• 7. Differentiate between 'Product Design' and
  others such as 'Mechanical Design".

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ABET for PDM

• The program must demonstrate that graduates have
  proficiency in materials and manufacturing
  processes understanding the behavior and
  properties of materials as they are altered and
  influenced by processing in manufacturing
  process, assembly and product engineering
  understanding the design of products and the
  equipment, tooling, and environment necessary for
  their manufacture manufacturing competitiveness
  understanding the creation of competitive
  advantage through manufacturing planning,
  strategy, and control manufacturing systems
  design understanding the analysis, synthesis,
  and control of manufacturing operations using
  statistical and calculus based methods,
  simulation and information technology laboratory
  experience graduates must be able to measure
  manufacturing process variables in a
  manufacturing laboratory and make technical
  inferences about the process.

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Who Are We?

• ME / MFE / MFGEManufacturing Engineers
• PE-Product/Production Engineers

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Moving Forward What Next

• Conference CIMEC Government
• Report ASEE MFG Div. NSF
• Committees Web Site/Wiki/NCME Certification
• Meetings Education Foundation Credentials
• Groups SME Societies
• Outreach Corporate Outreach Others ????

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Following Steps

• Today
• Submit survey
• Submit any outstanding notes or materials
• Meeting tonight to move forward
• Later
• Proceedings at www.MERConline.net

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Thanks Our Hosts

• Robert Morris University
• Arif and Winston

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Thanks - Sponsors

• SME
• Mark and Pam

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Thanks to You

• Attendees
• Panelists
• Session Leaders
• Speakers
• Organizing Committee