The Engineering Learning Center: a model for mentored product innovation

Author

Kramer, Bradley A. ; Tucker, Jeff ; Jones, Taylor ; Beikmann, Mel ; Windholz, Richard

Author_Institution

Adv. Manuf. Inst., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

Engineering students are employed to work on product innovation projects at the Kansas State University (KSU) Engineering Learning Center (ELC). The ELC was designed to accomplish a two-fold mission: to enhance the education of engineering students and to promote economic development in the state. A primary means to accomplish this mission is to hire engineering students to work on real product innovation projects for client companies under the tutelage of experienced engineers. Projects have resulted in new products that are now being produced and sold and machines that have been designed and built to improve the manufacturing operations for AMI clients. This paper details the KSU AMI model for using product innovation projects to simultaneously enhance the education of engineering students and to develop the state´s economy.

Keywords

engineering education; product development; Advanced Manufacturing Institute clients; Engineering Learning Center; Kansas State University; client companies; economic development promotion; engineering students; engineering students education enhancement; experienced engineers tutelage; manufacturing operations; mentored engineering experience; product innovation projects; Ambient intelligence; Biomedical engineering; Companies; Design engineering; Education; Educational products; Engineering students; Machinery production industries; Manufacturing industries; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002. 32nd Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7444-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2002.1158146

Filename

1158146