Award Abstract #9413880
TRP: The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership

NSF Org:	CMMI Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Initial Amendment Date:	August 1, 1994
Latest Amendment Date:	August 4, 1997
Award Number:	9413880
Award Instrument:	Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager:	George A. Hazelrigg CMMI Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation ENG Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	July 15, 1994
Expires:	November 30, 1997 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$2799953
Investigator(s):	John Lamancusa jslme@engr.psu.edu(Principal Investigator) Allen Soyster (Former Principal Investigator) John Lamancusa (Former Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Pennsylvania State Univ University Park 110 Technology Center Building UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 814/865-1372
NSF Program(s):	GRANT OPP FOR ACAD LIA W/INDUS, INTEGRATION ENGINEERING
Field Application(s):	0308000 Industrial Technology, 59 Engineering NEC
Program Reference Code(s):	MANU, 9148, 9146, 1504, 1467, 1049
Program Element Code(s):	6446, 1504, 1463

ABSTRACT

9413880 Soyster Pennsylvania State University, University of Washington, University of Puerto Rico, and the Department of Energy/Sandia National Laboratories have teamed up to create an alternative core curriculum in undergraduate engineering focused on manufacturing. This new 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. These three universities 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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