Title :
Providing manufacturing experiences to industrial engineering students through an extension program
Author :
Ram, Bala ; Sarin, Sanjiv ; Park, Eui ; Mintz, Philip
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA
Abstract :
Industrial engineering students at the undergraduate and graduate levels can benefit from participating in industry projects. Capabilities of faculty student teams to complete such projects have been marketed to local industry by an industrial extension program. Several such projects have been completed. The impact of these projects on both the learning of industrial engineering topics by students, and the development of "soft skills" such as communication and teamwork is reported. The model used to solicit and complete such projects is reported, and the lessons learned are presented.
Keywords :
engineering education; manufacturing industries; communication; faculty student teams; graduate students; industrial engineering students; industrial engineering topics learning; industrial extension program; manufacturing experience provision; projects; soft skills development; teamwork; undergraduate students; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Educational products; Educational programs; Engineering education; Humans; Industrial engineering; Manufacturing industries; Refining; Teamwork;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5643-8
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1999.841662
