Student Initiated Design And Implementation Of Supplemental Hands On Fabrication Training Curriculum In An Introduction To Engineering Design Course: A Tqm Approach

Abstract

Design and fabrication has been one of his main activities and hobbies his entire life while growing up on a farm in rural Wisconsin. He has been on the Intro to Engineering Design teaching team for two years and is currently the Lead Student Assistant in charge of planning and coordinating all fabrication training and seminars. He is also the TA for the Triathlon Training course on campus and tries to teach people at every chance he gets. His other activities include mountaineering, backpacking, traveling, and building medieval catapults. Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin-Madison Amit J Nimunkar is currently a doctoral student at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a part of Introduction to Engineering teaching team for more than a year and was a Lead SA responsible for the design and implementation of the Supplemental Curriculum/Training program. He is a teaching assistant with the Biomedical Engineering department and also pursuing the Delta Certificate in Teaching and Learning.

Industry–Student Partnerships In Development And Sharing Of Educational Content Involving Labview

“…We identified the need to implement a supplemental training curriculum with a "just-intime" approach to help the students with their design projects. The supplemental training curriculum was implemented in collaboration with the teaching team for "Introduction to Engineering Design" (InterEgr 160) course offered to prospective freshmen engineering students [4][5][6][7][8] .The goal of the supplemental training curriculum is to provide BME/InterEgr 160 students with hands-on training in areas such as electrical/electronics, programming (LabVIEW, CAD and microcontroller), machining and fabrication to help them succeed with their design projects 4, 7 .…”

“…Many of the SFs also took leadership roles to organize and teach these training sessions. The use of students as teachers resulted in promoting mentoring of inexperienced students by more advanced students, higher rate of acceptance of the material and also minimized the cost of providing the training [6][7][10][11] .…”