A Curriculum Innovation Framework to Integrate Manufacturing-related Materials and Quality Control Standards into Different Level Engineering Education

摘要

The importance of standards and standardization is that they provide product manufacturers clear material, mechanical and dimensional requirements coupled with specific quality assurance and test methods to use to assure they are meeting specific standards. Manufacturing related materials standards provide a consensus regarding desired properties between both manufacturers and customers. Moreover, these standards provide analysis methods to measure the properties and lead to standard manufacturing procedures that ensure the quality. The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems standards is designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or program. For large manufacturer, the goal is to produce the same products with as little variation as possible among any of its factories. Standards and standardization make this possible and ensure products quality. However, this consensus and the skills of utilizing standards are not well established among students. A survey carried out in an US engineering school, found that: 1) Standards education is not a priority issue among schools of engineering in the United States; 2) Schools of Engineering in the United States do yet not accept the critical nature of standards in the new 21st century global economy. Standards and Standardization are becoming more and more important in the manufacturing industries. Many jobs in manufacturing industries require using knowledge related to different standards, including Industrial Production Manager, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Control Analysts, and Industrial Engineers (especially Process Design Engineers and System Design Engineers). Based on data from onetonline.org, · Industrial Production Manager: 10% increase in projected employment in Texas from 2014 to 2024. · Manufacturing Engineers: 18% increase in projected employment in Texas from 2014 to 2024. · Quality Control Analysts: 5%-8% increase in projected employment in U.S. from 2014 to 2024 (no Texas data available). · Industrial Engineers: 13% increase in projected employment in Texas from 2014 to 2024.