technology reinvestment project 922 1 · this project are chrysler corporation/acustar, hughes...

922 1 TECHNOLOGY REINVESTMENT PROJECT

MANUFACTURING EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Undergraduate Manufacturing Teaching/Learning Laboratory

The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama A&M University, and Alabama Industrial Development Training have teamed up to integrate an existing state-owned advanced manufacturing technology training facility into the undergraduate engineering and engineering technology curricula at the schools. of the art facility, partially outfitted to train engineers for NASA's Space Station Program, will add a strong hands-on design and manufacturing element to the education of up to 400 students a year. this project are Chrysler Corporation/Acustar, Hughes Electro-Optical and Data Systems Group, MagneTek, Motorola/UDS, Alabama Society of Professional Engineers, Accreditation Board of Engineering, and Boeing Defense & Space Group. The total estimated cost of this program is around $850,000, at least half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

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Accelerated MS in Manufacturing for Practicing Engineers

Boston University has the only Manufacturing Engineering Department in the country that grants manufacturing degrees at all levels. It offers a part-time 17-month Master of Science in Manufacturing program to train experienced engineers for dual-use manufacturing careers. TRP funds will create fellowships for unemployed engineers and partial fellowships for engineers employed by small businesses affected by defense conversion. Industry involvement in this program will include guest lectures, sponsorship of student capstone projects, and tuition support for engineers. Ten companies have already expressed interest in sending students to the program. The total estimated cost for this three year project is around $2 million, at least half of which will provided by the proposal team.

Microfabrication Manufacturing Training and Education

The University of California has teamed with DQ University, Irvine Valley Community College, California Manufacturing Technology Center, Orange County Small Business Development Center, ACCELERATE, County of Orange, State of California with support from 30 local companies to create a Regional Manufacturing Education and Training Center for improving the skills of the industrial work force in microfabrication technology. This market-driven program will retrain displaced workers for manufacturing jobs in the area's microelectronics, computer, biomedical, telecommunications, and entertainment industries-working with industry to see that each individual is trained in skills needed by potential employers. Instructional methods will include both formal courses and hands-on product prototyping at the Microfabrication Laboratory under construction

at UCI. Total expected cost of this project is approximately $6.2 million over three years, with over half paid by the proposal team.

Integrated Manufacturing Engineering Program for Advanced Transportation Systems

The University of California, along with the Aerospace Corporation, Ciba Composites, W. Brandt Goldsworthy & Associates, Hughes Aircraft, Northrop, Rockwell International, Structural Dynamics Research, CALSTART, and the State of California will create a one-year master's program in manufacturing focused on advanced transportation systems-an area often cited as an opportunity for Southern California in the dawning era of electric vehicles. Eventually some 50 students a year will take new courses using computer aided instruction, work on year-long projects with industry, and attend seminars given by industrial personnel-all aimed to produce leaders in manufacturing and advanced transportation. The entire nation will benefit from this program as the demand for agile manufacturing skills and advanced transportation systems meets the supply of defense engineers and technology in Southern California. The total estimated cost for this three-year startup is around $9.7 million, most of which will be paid for by the proposal team.

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National Alliance for Photonics Education in Manufacturing (NAPEM)

The University of Central Florida, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Industrial Technology Institute, and University of Texas at Austin will establish a new regionally-based program to train displaced defense workers in the use of photonic technologies, tools, and systems in the manufacturing workplace. ''subject matter glue" to integrate the efforts of all the schools and ensure the program meets the needs of industry and the workers. Total expected cost of this project is around $4 million over three years, with the proposal team paying at least half.

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Engineering Academy of Southern New England: Core Programs

The University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Lowell, University of Rhode Island and Central Connecticut State University have joined United Technologies, and Hamilton Standard), IBM, Raytheon and others to develop innovative curricula that integrate product and process development into BS, MS, and work force education programs. This comprehensive curriculum development program will rely heavily on industrial input. Industry personnel will provide realistic manufacturing challenges for student projects, mentor students,

(including subsidiaries Pratt & Whitney Aircraft

and provide internship opportunities in local manufacturing firms. This coalition will build on the strong precision manufacturing capability in the participating universities, technical schools, and firms. It will provide curricula for innovative manufacturing programs that will be integrated into the curricula of the participating schools and serve as models. The coalition will develop innovative programs to attract women and minorities to manufacturing and will target defense workers for the new degree programs through an instructional telenetwork.

The total estimated cost for the first two years of this effort is around $12.7 million, with more than half paid by the proposal team.

Semester in Manufacturing

Cornel1 University and Corning will develop an innovative, practice-oriented, full-semester course in modern manufacturing to be offered to master's students in Engineering, Management, and Labor Relations. This 15-credit course will be the student's only class for an entire semester. Its innovative, total immersion approach to improving manufacturing education could serve as model for use by other universities. The total estimated cost for this three year project is around $450,000, with the proposers paying over half the cost.

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Drexel University, in partnership with Camden County College, Delaware County Community College, and the Community College of Philadelphia will create a "Ship Yard" community college to retrain displaced defense industry personnel at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yard (PNSY) and the Philadelphia Naval Station. A full spectrum of educational opportunities, from GED and certificate courses through continuing professional education and B . S . and M.S. degree programs, will be offered to an estimated target population of over 5,000 workers. Workers will be trained for careers in manufacturing in one of a number of areas identified as important to the Greater Philadelphia Area: e.g., biotechnology, environmental controls and remediation, and telecommunications. Industry involvement will include participation on an advisory board, curriculum development, and adjunct teaching. Resources at the PNSY, including manufacturing equipment and facilities and the Career Transition Center, will be available to this program. The total cost of this project is estimated to be around $4.1 million, at least half of which will be contributed by the proposal team.

Establishment of Northwestern Pennsylvania Technical College

The Erie County Technical Institute together with Pennsylvania

State University Dubois and Shenango, West Virginia Institute of Technology, National Institute of Flexible Manufacturing and 26 other organizations and eight local metal products and tool and die firms will develop a technical college without walls. The llCollegell will expand the programs of the Erie County Technical Institute to serve 14 counties in Pennsylvania. It will use the faculty and facilities of local colleges in the Penn State system, local work force counselling services, and will develop a distance learning network for the participating rural counties. Industry personnel from local firms will serve as trainers. Short courses for workers as well as two- and four-year degree programs in manufacturing will be available in an area serving 10,000 workers and 500 firms. This three year effort is expected to cost around $5.5 million, with over half the costs paid by the proposal team.

Palm Beach Regional Educational and Training Alliance for Changing Industrial Needs (Palm Beach RETRAIN)

-- The University of Florida, School Board of Palm Beach County, Florida Atlantic University, Indian River Community College, Palm Beach Community College, Treasure Coast Private Industry Council, Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, Private Industry Council of Palm Beach County and Pratt & Whitney have formed an Alliance to meet the educational and retraining needs of displaced defense workers in the Palm Beach area. the Alliance is to increase high quality employment in Florida by retraining the workforce for commercial manufacturing industries.

Sophisticated delivery systems, such as compressed video for interactive distance learning, and educational clearinghouse services will help achieve the Alliance goals. Resources available to the Alliance include the Florida Information Resource Network and the Florida Engineering Educational Delivery System. Industry will provide on-site classrooms, equipment, and support systems. estimated to be around $2.1 million, at least half of which will be provided by the proposal team

Multimedia in Manufacturing Education

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Georgia Tech Research Institute, and Clark Atlanta University will create a Multimedia in Manufacturing Education program dedicated to rapidly producing multimedia courseware suitable for manufacturing education programs. The proposers will tap into the recent investment in educational technology infrastructure at Georgia Tech to deliver world-class instruction. By coupling this infrastructure with evaluation programs and research into how to teach with these new media, this program could help revolutionize manufacturing education. Emerging information superhighways such as the Internet will allow rapid distribution of these materials

nationwide. The total estimated cost of this three year project is around $1.2 million, with the proposers paying over half that amount.

Preparing Engineers for Manufacturing in the 21st Century

The University of Maryland will introduce manufacturing education across its undergraduate curriculum by folding its long-established relationships with industry, its large manufacturing research program, and its advanced research facilities into its undergraduate engineering programs. This new curriculum will give every student the experience of working in product development teams through industrially-sponsored multi-disciplinary design and prototyping projects. this curriculum will broaden the student's perspective by teaching the manufacturing enterprise as the integration of engineering, business, and management challenges. This new curriculum will link course content directly to faculty research while creating a group of faculty who can teach a wide variety of

manufacturing subjects at any academic level. The total expected cost of this project is approximately $4.2 million over three years, at least half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

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Retrain the Manufacturing Workforce for the Biotechnology and Biomedical Industry

This partnership of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and the is focused on meeting the manufacturing engineering needs of Massachusetts' growing biotechnology and biomedical industries by retraining displaced defense engineers. quick "retooling" in biology and chemistry, a two-track certificate path, a four- to six-month paid practicum at a biotechnology or biomedical company, and the use of intelligent computer tutoring systems. "retrainees1' can earn a master's degree. The total estimated cost of this three-year project is around $2.8 million, more than half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

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Education and Training Program in Composite Materials for DoD and Durable Goods Industries

Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Delaware (UD) will develop new courseware and software to advance the dual-use potential of low-cost composite manufacturing. Education delivery mechanisms to be used include computer-based simulations and interactive learning, broadcasting of classes over satellite networks, and workshops on design and processing of composites. Resources available to the universities include

the National Science Foundation's Center for Polymer Processing at MSU and the Center for Composite Materials at UD, sponsored by the Army Research Office. These centers are also supported by large industrial consortia, and have excellent research and manufacturing facilities. Industry involvement in this effort will include guest lectures and planning workshops. The estimated total cost of this three-year project is around $10 million, at least half of which will be provided by the proposal team.

Manufacturing Practice in Engineering Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will change its engineering curriculum to provide each engineering undergraduate with an understanding of manufacturing processes. course on product design and manufacturing will be developed using a simulated factory floor facility. An elective senior year design course will be offered to give students experience in design for manufacturing under the supervision of faculty and

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Apprenticeship-Oriented Education and Extension Training for Semiconductor/Electronics Manufacturing

University of New Mexico, Luna Vocational-Institute, Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute, BDM International, Digital Equipment Corporation, Phillips Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, Adelante Industries, and DOE/Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories and 29 other organizations will work together to improve apprenticeships for students and small vendors in the Albuquerque area. The team's goal is to broaden manufacturing education at all levels with a special emphasis on curriculum development. New educational methods will be developed including interactive video courses, models of the environmental effects of manufacturing, and hands-on teaching using state-of-the-art equipment. rural communities and Native Americans. The total estimated cost of this project is around $4.1 million over two years with the proposers paying over half. (This project is associated with two other projects: "Semiconductors/Electronks Manufacturing in the Classroom" and New Mexico State's "Manufacturing Engineering Education Program. 'I)

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Semiconductors/Electronics Manufacturing Experts in the Classroom

The University of New Mexico, Luna Vocational-Technical Institute, DOE/Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, Phillips Semiconductors, Motorola, Intel, Adelante Industries and 37 other organizations have joined forces to upgrade manufacturing education in the semiconductor industry.

This team will focus on modern manufacturing techniques and design for manufacturing while emphasizing the management of people and businesses. teach 19 courses in the classroom. Besides helping to teach courses, the national laboratories and corporations will provide on-site tours and training sessions, student mentoring, and curriculum advice. This project is estimated to cost around $1.2 million over two years, over half of which will be provided by the proposers. (This project is associated with two other

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Manufacturing Engineering Education Program.

New Mexico State University, DOE/Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories have joined together to impart manufacturing engineering knowledge to students from industry and from New Mexico Statels schools of Engineering and Business. This project will create a cross-disciplinary center by building learning bridges between industry, colleges, and the national laboratories. Innovative use is made of an integrated systems manufacturing laboratory, laboratory simulations, a teaching factory, and new manufacturing education facilities. The resources committed by the state, national laboratories, industry and the university are enormous. The total cost of this three-year program is estimated to be over $20 million, with the TRP paying only a fraction of that amount. associated with two other projects led by the University of New Mexico-- IlSemiconductors/Electronics Manufacturing in the Classroomw1 and IIApprenticeship-Oriented Education and Extension Training for Semiconductor/Electronics")

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A Consortium for Electromagnetic Research Applications

To supplement an existing National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, Northeastern University has teamed with the Bay State Skills Corporation and M/A-COM to provide Transition Engineering Fellowships to train change agents who will bring new business to their companies. These fellowships will provide mid-level defense engineers with the opportunity to work with university faculty and similarly

situated engineers in other companies, forming teams to move new technology to prototype fabrication and products. Total expected cost of this three-year project is approximately $2.6 million, over half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

Introduction to Computer Integrated Manufacturing into Freshman Engineering Curriculum

Northern Arizona University (NAU) will acquire CNC desktop milling machines to use in its freshman engineering curriculum with Autodesk providing software for the machines. NAU is a minority institution, located near several large Indian reservations, whose undergraduates include large numbers of American Indian and Hispanic students. The NAU will use this project as one way to create student interest in manufacturing and increase the retention rate of engineering students by providing an opportunity to use a modern CNC system. The milling machines and associated hardware and software will also be used in advanced design courses. one-year project is around $126,000, more than half of which will be provided by the proposal team.

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Oregon Institute of Technology/Industry/Community College Partnership for Retraining the Workforce in Microelectronics Manufacturing in Oregon

Oregon Institute of Technology has teamed with Linn Benton Community College, Portland Community College, Mount Hood Community College, Chemekta Community College, Intel, Tektronix, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu Microelectronics, Siltec Silicon, and OK1 Semiconductor to retrain Oregon's displaced defense workforce for productive careers in microelectronics manufacturing. This innovative statewide program will help provide a path to both associates' and bachelors' degrees shaped by industrial needs. Total expected cost of this project is approximately $1.3 million over three years, with at least half paid by the proposal team.

A Program for Manufacturing Management in Support of the TRP

The University of Pennsylvania will extend its existing Executive Master of Science in Engineering program to meet the specific retraining needs of defense industry managers. help create partial fellowships for defense sector technology managers and new courses on applying modern business practices to manufacturing. This program will be offered through weekend classes. A number of firms and organizations have expressed strong support for the program, including General Motors, Air Products and Chemicals, Martin Marietta, Andersen Consulting, DOE/Sandia National Laboratory, the Naval Air Warfare Center, The West Company, and Chrysler. Industry participation will include an advisory board, helping with curriculum development, and tuition support for industry managers. The estimated total cost

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of this three year program is around $1.3 million, at least half of which will be provided by the proposal team.

Master of Science in Quality and Manufacturing

TRP funding will help launch Pennsylvania State University's new Masters of Science in Quality and Manufacturing Program-a joint venture of Penn State's Colleges of Business and Engineering. This innovative program will integrate the perspectives of engineering, business, industry, and academia for 45 students a year to study real world manufacturing problems. has been in the design stages for the past two years and benchmarked against other leading programs in the U.S. Penn State's industrial partners include IBM, Ford Motor Company, Murata Erie, Atotech, and Gilbarco. The estimated total cost for this three-year startup is around $1.2 million, over half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

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The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership

Pennsylvania State University, University of Washington, University of Puerto Rico, and DOE/Sandia National Laboratories have teamed up to create an alternative core curriculum in undergraduate engineering focused on manufacturing. curriculum, which may start as early as the student's freshman year, will feature practice-based courses, building prototypes in a "Learning Factory," and student teams that compete for internal funding to build a new "product'' on time and within budget-just as they would in a firm. The schools anticipate this new curriculum will eventually attract one third of their undergraduate engineering students. alone graduate 4% of the nation's engineers each year, including 4.2% of the women and 11.7% of the minority engineers.

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The estimated total cost of this two-year startup program is around $7.1 million, over half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

Expanding Polytechnic University's M.S. Program in Manufacturing Education

Polytechnic University has teamed with New York City Technical College, New York City Industrial Technology Assistance Corporation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, KEPCO, Medical Laboratory Automation, Loral Electronic Systems, IBM, Symbol Technologies, Mini-Circuits, Avon Products, and Steinway 61 Sons to expand Polytechnic University's innovative, practice-oriented M.S. Program in Manufacturing Engineering. The program concentrates on improving the productivity of small manufacturers in the community. The program relies heavily on adjunct faculty from local manufacturing firms and its course projects require solving real manufacturing problems. Many of the students are

members of minorities employed at small firms. The programls approach will allow some students to complete a masterls degree in manufacturing education in one year. for this three year project is around $4.7 million with the proposers paying over half that

Integrative, Experientially Focused Instruction in Manufacturing Systems Engineering through Manufacturing Expert Support

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has teamed with Digital Equipment Corporation, Martin Marrietta, Shuttleworth, and Thomson Publishing to enhance an existing master's program in Manufacturing Systems Engineering. software-based teaching factory emulation facility using manufacturing experts and RPI faculty, create a case library of actual industry problems, and have students work in project teams for laboratory and case projects. RPI is a pioneer in linking management, engineering, and industry to work on manufacturing problems. The total cost of this three-year project is estimated to be around $850,000, with the proposers paying over half the cost.

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Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Development

Sierra College, a community college near Sacramento, California, has teamed with Aerojet, Pasco Scientific, Utah State University, and the Auburn Electronics Group to create an innovative curriculum for technologists and engineering students centered around the design, manufacture, and launch of microsatellites and NASA Get-Away-Specials (GAS). This project will build on the excitement and experience generated by Sierra College's flight of a GAS this summer. Over 100 students worked on that project, some with so much enthusiasm they had to be told to go home and rest during the final stages of the effort. project will lead to four new courses in Space Technology and the development of standard hardware that can be used for many different projects. Microsatellites are a dual use technology of interest to both the Department of Defense and NASA, and a group of displaced aerospace engineers with an average of over 30

cost of this three year project is around $900,000, at least half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

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Washington State Manufacturing Technology Standards, Competencies and Curriculum Development

South Seattle Community College, Boeing Company, Eldec Corporation, Clover Park Technical College and 12 other organizations will develop a process for determining specific workplace standards for manufacturing education and training in Washington State. These standards will, in turn, lead to an

industry-guided manufacturing technology core curriculum. The curriculum will begin in high schools and feed into a 2+2 Tech Prep post-secondary community college program. internship will also be an integral part of the curriculum. comprehensive, innovative proposal has strong support from both labor unions and industry. It will help bridge the gap between secondary school technical education and the requirements of the industrial workforce. The total cost of this one year program is estimated to be around $1.5 million, with at least half paid by the proposal team

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Graduate Manufacturing Engineering Traineeships for Defense Workers

Syracuse University offers Master of Science programs in Manufacturing Engineering and in Engineering Management. TRP funds will provide traineeship stipends for 18 displaced defense industry engineers to participate in these programs along with tuition and health insurance. The M.S. programs will include student internships at manufacturing companies, which seven firms have already agreed to sponsor. The total cost of this three year project is estimated to be around $1.7 million, at least half of which will be provided by the proposal team.

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Texas Research and Technology Foundation/University of Texas Manufacturing Engineering and Management Program

Texas Research and Technology Foundation, University of Texas, Pan American and San Antonio, and Biomedical Enterprises have joined together to improve manufacturing engineering and management education in South Texas.

The proposed program includes new courses, new lab equipment, internships for both faculty and students at firms, and visiting lecturers from industry. UT Pan American offered the first B.S. in manufacturing education in Texas and about 85% of its students are Hispanic. The estimated total cost of this program is around $525,000, at least half of which will be paid by the proposal team.

A Retraining Program for Defense Industry Engineers in Mixed Signal VLSI Design and Manufacturing

Tufts University has teamed with Analog Devices, Raytheon Corporation, Sipex Corporation, Analogic Corporation, and Cadence Systems to retrain defense industry engineers in the design and manufacture of "Mixed Signal" VLSI circuits combining analog and digital technology into Ilsystems on a chip" for both commercial and defense applications. This project features an internship program combining in-class instruction and laboratory exercises,

industrial mentoring and classroom training given by industry representatives. In addition, the industrial partners will employ trainees during the program. Total expected cost of this project is approximately $3.7 million over three years, with the proposal team paying over half the cost.

Diversity and Cultural Change: Education for the Future

Manufacturing Engineering

The Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing at the University of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania State University have joined together to change the culture of engineering education by embedding manufacturing throughout the engineering curriculum, bringing manufacturing experts to the classroom, and broadening the ethnic and gender diversity of the engineering work force. providing realistic design and manufacturing problems. The team will build on the cross-disciplinary capability of the ERC and focus it on developing a manufacturing curriculum using real

c- . manufacturing situations, innovative teaching materials, and "bonding groupsv1 to improve retention of women and minority students. Students will be placed in summer intern programs in industry. The program will develop K - 1 2 llMicrofabrication Demonstration Kits1' to illustrate the rudiments of integrated circuit fabrication for pre-college students and their teachers. This three-year effort is expected to cost around $3.3 million, at least half or which will be paid by the proposal team.

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