2009
Membership: 380 members.
Division
Purpose: The purpose of the Manufacturing Division of ASEE
shall be the promotion and development of higher education in manufacturing
consistent with the purpose of the society as stated in Article 1.
Section 2 of the Constitution of ASEE.
Division
Function: The Manufacturing Division of ASEE has as its principal
function the support of individual member interests related to manufacturing.
Its membership is composed of public and private two and four-year
educators who are involved in manufacturing education and representatives
from manufacturing industries and organizations. For the most part,
educational members represent the disciplines of manufacturing, mechanical
industrial, and electrical engineering and engineering technology
programs
Division
Officers: The officers of the division shall consist of a
Chair, Program Chair, Associate Program Chair, Assistant Program Chair,
Secretary/Treasurer/Newsletter Editor, Awards Chair, Webmaster, Membership
Chair, and three Members-at-Large.
Meetings
of the Division: The division holds three meetings during
the summer ASEE conference: a general orientation meeting on Sunday,
a Division Awards Banquet on Monday, and a business meeting on Wednesday.
Focus of the Division: The Manufacturing Division strives to advance
and coordinate the development of manufacturing engineering and technology
programs and research through dialogue between industry and engineering
and technology faculty. Annual Conference sessions, a manufacturing
education newsletter and other forums focus on curriculum developments
and trends, new manufacturing technologies, teaching techniques, laboratory
development, research and new resources for more effective manufacturing
education.
Activities
of the Division: The Manufacturing Division sponsors or co-sponsors
six or seven technical sessions as well as workshops and mini-plenary
sessions at the ASEE Annual Conference in June. These sessions are
coordinated to address pertinent educational issues associated with
manufacturing of interest to manufacturing, mechanical, industrial,
and electrical engineering and engineering technology educators. Special
efforts are made to provide industrial partners with the opportunity
to address their educational needs and to provide input and ideas
to the educators.
The division
has a close relationship with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME) with many members involved in joint activities of interest to
both organizations. Through this relationship, close liaison has also
been established with the Corporate Member Council (CMC) of ASEE.
Many members of the division actively participate annually in the
Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC) which is
structured to encourage interaction between industry and education
representatives and to meet professional development needs of the
participants.
The division’s
newly developed web site provides an outlet for information concerning
its activities within ASEE as well as for information of professional
interest to educators and manufacturers. It provides links to a wide
variety of related sites. A unique feature of the site is its virtual
library that provides resource links in support of the division's
mission to serve as a conduit for the development and promotion of
manufacturing education.
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