The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership programoutcomes assessment results

摘要

Formal assessment of project outcomes and deliverables is usuallyrequired by granting organizations. This paper describes theManufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP) project'soutcomes assessment results. This curriculum innovation and facilitiesdevelopment program was implemented by a team of institutions acrossfour time zones, partnering with a national research laboratory andindustry and was sponsored by the Department of Defense's TechnologyReinvestment Program (TRP). This paper highlights some of the project'sassessment results and reviews some of the elements that made thispartnership a success. Several project assessment tools used show thatall constituents involved in the program: students, faculty andindustrial partners, consider this program a success. Resultsdemonstrate that the product of this program-The Learning Factory-whichintegrates design and manufacturing into the engineering curriculum, isa worthwhile effort and responds successfully to industry needs. MEEPcourseware is available on the WWW as well as printed and CD-ROM