2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Integrating Engineering Standards into Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum

Presented at Technology Integration in Manufacturing Curriculum

Standards cover a huge range of manufacturing activities, from making a product, managing a process, to delivering a service or supplying materials. Standards ensure the safety, quality, and reliability of these products, processes, and services. It is critical that students are educated to establish a consensus on standards and develop the skills of locating and applying engineering standards. To fulfill this need, education about standards has been integrated into the manufacturing engineering (MfgE) curriculum at Georgia Southern University. Selected standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) were introduced to undergraduate and graduate level students. This paper discusses the design of the curriculum and how standards are incorporated into additive manufacturing and robotics courses. The authors also introduce how to adopt and replicate these course materials at other Institute of Higher Education (IHE).

Authors

Dr. Yue Zhang Georgia Southern University [biography]

Yue Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering at Georgia Southern University. He is a program evaluator for and member of the EAC of ABET. He received his B.S. (2008) in Polymer Materials and Engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology and his M.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2013) in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University.
Haijun Gong http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6381-7566 Georgia Southern University [biography]

Haijun Gong is an Associate Professor in the Manufacturing Engineering department at the Georgia Southern University, where he seeks to bring additive manufacturing standards to the undergraduate/graduate curriculum. He received her B.S. (2004) and M.S. (2006) in Mechanical Engineering in China and his Ph.D. (2013) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY).
Lianjun Wu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1371-7866 Georgia Southern University

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