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Educators: Externship Work-based Learning Projects
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CAD instructor Angelo Velez from Henry Abbott Tech learns about CNC programming at Goodrich Corporation in Danbury, CT during his summer externship. |
Work-based Learning Projects
Community College and technical high school educators participating in a four- week summer externship not only learned from their industry sponsors, but they had the advantage of these sponsors helping them develop work-based learning projects that they could bring back into the classroom. Through these practical learning experiences, students learn first-hand about current manufacturing workplace practices.
The Center's externship program is administered by the Connecticut Business and Industry Association. If you have any questions, please contact Mary deManbey at (860)-244-1900.
To learn about these projects, click on the following:
- Tool Design for Manufacturing of Aerospace Parts with Complex Geometry and Tight Geometric Tolerances (Wang, 2009)
- Quality Control Standard in Engineering-Building a Machine (Petersen, 2009)
- Manufacturing a Guitar Neck (Langdon, 2009)
- Mathematical Analyses of a Candy Lab (Minaya, 2009)
- Design a Coffee Mug (Ku, 2009)
- Design in a Lean Environment (English, 2009)
- Vibration Diagnostic of Rotating Machinery Malfunctions (Orabi, 2009)
- Parametric Study of High Temperature Springs for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (Gates, 2009)
- Drafting Desk Design Project (Velez, 2008)
- Determining Life-cycle Improvement when Material is Shot Peened (Smith, 2008)
- Building a Model Airplane using Lean Manufacturing Concepts (Salonia, 2008)
- Modeling and Documenting a Sheet Metal Component (Marra, 2008)
- Keychain Manufacturing Project (Petersen, 2008)
- Radioactive Rescue (Creating a Robot) - (Couture, 2008)
- Introduction to Lean Manufacturing (Brush, 2008)
- Engineering and Manufacturing 101 (Andrade, 2008)
- Application of Component Configuration Files (Marra, 2007)
- Creating Parametric Final Assemblies (Hoyle, 2007)
- Engineering Design Teams - Computer Workstation Design (Haynes, 2007)
- Optimal Robot Path Planning in Manufacturing (Orabi, 2007)
- The Basics of Process Improvement (Trapp, 2007)
- The Basics of Process Controls (Trapp, 2007)
- The Basics of Statistics (Trapp, 2007)
- Residential Design, Elevation Drawings (Bencivenga, 2007)
- Sheet Metal Design and Production (Salonia, 2007)
- BIT Operations - shifting and using a struct and union to create a bit-addressable field (D'Angelo, 2006)
- How Engineers Help Scientists (Seaver, 2006)
- The Process of Detection (Poulos, 2006)
- Special Ultrasonic Plastic Welding for Packaging (Weber, 2006)
- How does a photodetector work? (Tirfassa, 2006)
- Parametric Modeling of a Turbine Rotor Disk and Blade (Salonia, 2006)
- Modularity Design Using Cube-Puzzle and Lego Blocks (Hoyle, 2006)
- Ballistic Device/Manufacturing Engineering Project (Rice, 2006)
- Engineering a WiFi Presence in a Corporate Environment (Rubock, 2006)
- The Cold Glycol Project (Glenn, 2005)
- The Myth of Interference (Poulos, 2005)
- Autodesk Inventor Software (Salonia, 2005)
- Skills Analysis in Complex Manufacturing Processes (D'Angelo, 2005)
- Creating Operations Sheets through Case Studies (Hoyle, 2005)
- Ultrasonic Welding of Plastic Components (Weber, 2005)
To find out about how these projects impacted their students, go to summaries.
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