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Improvement of Students’ Performance in Manufacturing Processes Laboratory by Applying Spaced Practice Strategy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

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June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Learning Strategies

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Manufacturing

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8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34789

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https://strategy.asee.org/34789

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Yareni P. Lara-Rodríguez University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Yareni holds a Manufacturing Engineer degree from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), Mexico. She has worked in the Applied Optimization Group at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) as part of her research internship during 2009 in the Department of Industrial Engineering. Afterward, she earned a master's degree from the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering of the UANL in 2010, and her second master’s degree in Materials and Manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (INME) in the UPRM (2013). Yareni has worked as an Instructor of engineering courses as Graphics Engineering and Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, in the Department of General Engineering of the UPRM (2013-2014). Her professional career includes the position as a Quality Engineer in the manufacturing processes of biodevices at Zimmer Biomet Inc. in Puerto Rico (2014-2015). During 2016, she worked as an instructor of the Biosensors and Biological Geometric Design courses, and as a research assistant in the Biocompatible Materials Research Group at UANL. Since 2017, Yareni is a doctoral student at INME and her research focuses on bioengineering.

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Rafael Jose Baez University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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I graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in 2015. I continue studying my master's degree in materials and manufacturing at the "Colegio" (UPR Mayaguez). I am currently investigating phase changing materials of low melting point and offering manufacturing courses.

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Pedro O. Quintero University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Pedro Quintero earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and an M.S .from that same institution. After spending nine years in the electronics industry, he joined the University of Maryland, College Park, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, in 2008 as an Assistant Professor.

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Abstract

In the traditional laboratory sessions of the Manufacturing Processes Laboratory (INME 4056) in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Puerto Rico campus Mayagüez, the experimental practices with lathe and milling machines lack pre-exposure to the processes before the session when the students work with the final project part. This leads to significant errors in the targeted dimensions in the final project part, which also can affect the geometrical tolerances process learning, one of the important assessments to evaluate at the final of the laboratory class. This paper examines how pretraining sessions, following the philosophy of spaced practice, helps to improve the geometrical tolerance in the final part, and the corresponding learning process. The comparison was carried out between two different laboratory sections, one section experimented with the extra training session and the other one only performed the regular training. This paper presents the results from Spring 2019, including qualitative measures, particularly in tolerance gap reduction. The statistical analysis used was a two-sample T-test, and the p-value was 0.443 which indicates the differences between all the % errors of the featured between control and experimental section are not significant.

Lara-Rodríguez, Y. P., & Baez, R. J., & Quintero, P. O. (2020, June), Improvement of Students’ Performance in Manufacturing Processes Laboratory by Applying Spaced Practice Strategy Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34789

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