scholarly journals Global Engineering Projects from the Young African Leaders Initiative

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Lacksonen ◽  
Scott Springer ◽  
Devin R. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Process Selection ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Humanitarian Engineering

In this paper several projects that integrate globalization issues into undergraduate engineering and technology coursework are discussed.The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders brings African entrepreneurs to United States campuses for six weeks every summer, providing an excellent opportunity to identify potential clients for global engineering class projects. Many of the fellows could benefit from having access to engineering skills to grow their businesses. The university’s engineering faculty partnered with fellows on projects in freshman Impacts of Engineering, junior Lean Manufacturing, and senior Capstone Design classes. Projects have included conceptual product design, detailed product design, process selection, manufacturing equipment design, and facilities design. Several engineering and technology majors have participated in the projects. The highlight is a micro-hydroelectric generator design project spanning several classes and semesters.The projects are similar to traditional class projects and cover all existing course objectives. Students are also required to research and apply international standards, including product, safety and facility standards. Students also must consider the appropriate level of technology, humanitarian engineering aspects, and societal impact of the design. Assessment of the international component of one project allows programs to evaluate performance indicators on the global and societal impact of designs as part of ABET Outcome H assessment. The projects are also part of a larger humanitarian engineering initiative at the institution, and are assessed through surveys for that initiative.Submitted to the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference

COOL™ Hose Qualification Process of the First EN1474-2 LNG Floating Hose

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Pierre F. Queau ◽  
Giorgio E. Torre
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Key Enabling Technologies ◽  
Guidelines And Recommendations ◽  
Design And Testing ◽  
Tandem Offloading

In 2005, SBM Offshore recognized that in future offshore Floating LNG Production Units, key enabling technologies would be required to ensure the safe and reliable tandem offloading to LNG Carriers. The foundation was thus laid down for the development of the COOL™ Hose: A cryogenic marine floating hose that would enable the tandem offloading between two vessels offshore. This paper presents, after an introduction to the COOL™ Hose design (Hose in Hose concept-HiH), the different steps in the qualification process following the EN1474-2 [1] guidelines and recommendations for design and testing of LNG transfer hoses. This qualification process has been endorsed by two Classification Societies ABS and DNV and has resulted in a Certificate of Fitness for Service from DNV and a Product Design Assessment Certificate from ABS making the SBM COOL™ Hose, the first EN1474-2 qualified LNG floating hose.

Design for Manufacturability

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Azam ◽  
William P. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Concept Design ◽  
Process Selection ◽  
Cad System ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Industrial Designers

Abstract Research has been carried out at Coventry University Centre for Integrated Design on the concept design process and it is funded by the Coventry University Research Fund. An experiment, simulating product design in industry, was conducted by concept designers which were, in turn, acted by student industrial designers and student engineering designers. In general the product design process is a sequential process. The first part of the process is the conceptual phase. This is followed by the engineering design phases which include all the manufacturing information. In this case the downstream engineering design focuses on designs for manufacture and process selection. Information on the requirements of conceptual designers in these areas was collected from these experiments. The information is ultimately to be incorporated into rules in a knowledge base which can be readily accessed by the industrial designer during concept development via a CAD system.

scholarly journals Insights from a Global Engineering Outreach Course

2014 ◽  
pp. 256-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy S Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Technology Students ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
Developing Communities ◽  
Engineering Outreach ◽  
Key Aspects

A two-semester multi-disciplinary Global Engineering Outreach (GEO) course was initiated in 2007 to provide an opportunity for junior and senior-level engineering and technology students to design and implement humanitarian-based engineering projects in developing communities. Recently, the course was integrated with a sociology course to enhance the educational opportunities between social scientists and engineers. During the GEO course, students work on small-scale projects that are selected in conjunction with members of the developing communities. Students regularly interact with community members during project development. Following the GEO course, students participate in a two-week implementation trip. Learning outcomes associated with the course are described and assessment results show that many aspects of the learning outcomes are being met but there is room for improvement. In addition, following years of experience, several insights have been identified to help improve the course, community engagement, and implementation trip. Finally, several key aspects that are noteworthy for involving students in designing and implementing projects in developing communities are described.

scholarly journals A decision-making methodology integrated in product design for additive manufacturing process selection

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-909
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Zicheng Zhu ◽  
Songhe Ye
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Process Selection ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Given ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Am Processes

Purpose The decision-making for additive manufacturing (AM) process selection is typically applied in the end of the product design stages based upon an already finished design. However, due to unique characteristics of AM processes, the part needs to be designed for the specific AM process. This requires potentially feasible AM techniques to be identified in early design stages. This paper aims to develop such a decision-making methodology that can seamlessly be integrated in the product design stages to facilitate AM process selection and assist product/part design. Design/methodology/approach The decision-making methodology consists of four elements, namely, initial screening, technical evaluation and selection of feasible AM processes, re-evaluation of the feasible process and production machine selection. Prior to the design phase, the methodology determines whether AM production is suitable based on the given design requirements. As the design progresses, a more accurate process selection in terms of technical and economic viability is performed using the analytic hierarchy process technique. Features that would cause potential manufacturability issues and increased production costs will be identified and modified. Finally, a production machine that is best suited for the finished product design is identified. Findings The methodology was found to be able to facilitate the design process by enabling designers to identify appropriate AM technique and production machine, which was demonstrated in the case study. Originality/value This study addresses the gap between the isolated product design and process selection stages by developing the decision-making methodology that can be integrated in product design stages.

Web-Based Collaborative Concurrent Engineering for Product Design and Manufacturing

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled A. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Team Members ◽  
3D Cad ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Engineering Information ◽  
International Standards Organization ◽  
Java Server Page

We present a developed Web-based product design and manufacturing system that supports collaborative Concurrent Engineering. It models distributed systems and databases using Web technologies, so that these distributed system and databases can be accessed anywhere in the world. In such system, product developers can exchange and share product data, communicate with other team members, modify geometry data on particular aspects of the design and maintain operations consistency in all the distributed cooperative sites on a wide variety of platforms. The new system is a Client/Server architecture. The server manages the sharing of the common model, as well as the coordination among multiple users, in which different users can modify different parts of the shared model. In addition, the server supports many client through the Internet, and it also allows peer to peer negotiation, sharing different databases located in different machines, establishing relations between them at run time. A group of users can work together in a common single write mode, which continuously synchronized with the master copy on the central server. The proposal model is producing a new manner and has many algorithms for viewing, editing, synchronizing, and collaboration coordination. It utilizes Java 3D to view 3D CAD files in interactive manner. It introduces an intelligent user interface for editing and modification. STEP, which is international standard introduced by the International Standards Organization (ISO), is used to exchange engineering information. Java Server Page (JSP) is used for Collaboration coordination and semantic-based coordination.

scholarly journals A review on quality from the perspective of industrial product design assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
Alexandra Elena Craciun
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrial Product ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
The Common ◽  
Design Dimension

The design assessment of an industrial product implies the objective approach of the product from both technical and aesthetic perspective, considering the market segment and its relation to the product through ergonomic and also signification associations, all of this taking into account functionality and the perceived quality of a product. The presented paper represents a review on quality in its relation to product design by analysing in turn the relations between quality, product, design and user and establishing the common concepts associated to quality related to each design dimension. The research contributes to the understanding of quality when is addressed from the point of view of industrial design assessment.

Framework of Competencies for Internationalizing Engineering Curriculum

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Fola Michael Ayokanmbi
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
International Assignments ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The Impact

The globalization of corporate activities requires corporations to function through their international network of subsidiaries and has major implications for engineering education. Hence, it is imperative that engineering students have a global view of engineering practice because engineering solutions have impact across geographical borders. The cultural, geographic, social, and economic realities of the global economy require that modern engineers be competent in foreign language and culture in order to succeed in the global business environment. Equipping engineering students with social and cultural competencies would provide students, who may potentially work on international assignments, with the ability to collaborate with foreign nationals and successfully function in a global engineering environment. This paper examines the impact of globalization on engineering and technology education and discusses the competencies required to ensure that engineering and technology students are adequately prepared to make them more effective in foreign environments.

Application of KPI in HR management in the transition to lean manufacturing

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
N.P. Ezdina ◽  
E.B. Kazarinova ◽  
O.I. Kazarinova
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Management ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Enterprise ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
Multi Level

The article presents an approach to determining key performance indicators (KPIs) as an element of the personnel management system of an industrial enterprise during the transition to lean manufacturing. The need for a multi-level complex of performance indicators, determined taking into account the hierarchy of enterprise management levels and the specifics of the transition to lean production as a complex step-by-step process, is substantiated. In accordance with international standards, a set of KPIs, differentiated by management levels and refl ecting the role of industrial enterprise personnel in the transition to lean manufacturing, is proposed.

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