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Strategies for Improving the Quality and Effectiveness of Education Courses

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Publication Date

March 22, 2024

Start Date

March 22, 2024

End Date

March 23, 2024

Page Count

21

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45635

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Omar Ahmed Al-Shebeeb West Virginia University

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Dr. Omar Al-Shebeeb is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering (IMSE), WVU since January 2020. He finished his Ph.D. in the IMSE Department at WVU (2019). Then, he started his job as an Academic Program Director at Greenville Technical College. While Dr. Al-Shebeeb was pursuing his Ph.D. degree at West Virginia University, he was working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the IMSE Department for four years. Dr. Al-Shebeeb obtained his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Production (Manufacturing) Engineering from the Production and Metallurgy Engineering Department at the University of Technology, Iraq. Dr. Al-Shebeeb was working as an Assistant Professor (2011-2013) and Instructor (2007-2009) at the University of Diyala, Iraq. He had taught several courses in the mechanical, production, and manufacturing engineering fields. His areas of research interest are Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) and Design Efficiency, productivity improvement, advanced manufacturing, and technologies, Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing, and CAD/CAM/CIM/CIE systems and applications. Dr. Al-Shebeeb has been teaching more several graduate and undergraduate courses at WVU. He has several publications in journals, conferences, and book chapters. He is an active member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) International, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), and WVU IE Leaders.

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Thomas Guy Azinger West Virginia University

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Abstract

The Manufacturing processes Lab is one of the courses that I have been teaching in my Industrial Engineering Department. The students are designing for performing several manufacturing processes in this course and for everyone from these manufacturing processes, they need to submit a project report. One from these manufacturing processes is a CNC turning process. As an instructor for this course, I was looking for a way to improve the quality of turning project. I am teaching an Industrial Quality Control course as well in the same department and I decided to utilize the quality tools in this course to evaluate the initial performance of the turning project. An executive activities sheet has been developed in this project to collect data about the time required to finish this project and to check if that was meeting the expectation or not. The turning projects of spring 2021 and fall 20121 have been evaluated by using several analysis techniques, such as Shewhart’s control chart, the DMAIC process, check sheets, scatter diagrams, pareto charts, and fishbone diagrams. several quality control tools the length of time for the in-lab turning process and overall project completion. Several assignable causes were found and applied to improve this project in the spring 2022 semester. Then, the project has been reevaluated by using quality control. Significant improvements were obtained from this evaluation represented by reducing the time to finish the turning machining process by 50%, reducing the errors and needed troubleshooting in the process, and reducing the scrap material in the process which they all led to improve the quality of the turning project.

Al-Shebeeb, O. A., & Azinger, T. G. (2024, March), Strategies for Improving the Quality and Effectiveness of Education Courses Paper presented at 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 10.18260/1-2--45635

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