Recruiting Future Manufacturing Engineers: Team Effort in Texas.In June 2001, a two-week intensive workshop was conducted at Southwest Texas State Univ., San Marcos, Texas San Marcos is a city in Texas, USA. The population was 34,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hays County.GR6 Texas State University-San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University) is located in the city. , for 115 eighth grade students from Brownsville, Elsa, Laredo, Eagle Pass and El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. , Texas. The workshop was funded by the W.L. Kellogg Foundation Kellogg Foundation, philanthropic institution established (1930) at Battle Creek, Mich., by food manufacturer W. K. Kellogg (1860–1951). Kellogg eventually gave the institution a total of $47 million, and by 1990 its endowment had increased to more than $3. with additional funding and support for the engineering section by the AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System Texas Chapter, National Science Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers The Society of Manufacturing Engineers [1] (SME) is dedicated to bringing people and information together to advance manufacturing knowledge. SME is internationally recognized by manufacturing practitioners, companies and other organizations as a source for information, and the Foundry Educational Foundation. The purpose of this workshop was to expose participants to the university environment in hope of encouraging them to pursue a college education after graduating from high school, The students participated in programs and classes covering subjects such as manufacturing engineering, physics, writing, mathematics and leadership training. Students designed parts on CAD systems, built rapid prototype patterns and made castings in the lab. A few were chosen to pour castings, an experience they talked about throughout the entire workshop. The workshop focused on tying a number of technical areas together to show students how mathematics, science and engineering combine to advance society. The main goal was to interest the students in pursuing a college education with special emphasis on manufacturing engineering. |
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