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Senior Design Class in Mechanical Engineering
Posted 3:33PM - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Abstract:
During 2005/6 two ME 662 senior design classes have learned about intercultural communication and the application of cage painting to its improvement. During the spring 2006 semester a team of students at WSU worked on a project that was sponsored by Progresstech and the Moscow Boeing Design Center, while a team from the Moscow Aviation Technology Institute worked on a project sponsored by Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita. During each project, students had the additional challenge of communicating between cultures to negotiate design parameters for the projects. Plans are underway to increase the number of opportunities for projects in the Fall and to have a joint WSU/MATI team work on a project sponsored by a company in a third country, possibly the UK or India. By 2007, this project will expand to include sister classes in India, the UK and possibly Australia.
All students in the Mechanical Engineering program are required to complete the senior design class ME 662. This class presents them with the challenge of working with an industry “client” to formulate a design. By adding a global learning dimension, the challenge will include dealing with cross-cultural communication. This project, led by Dr Kurt Soschinske, will prepare ME students for the realities of working in international design teams for companies like Boeing, Raytheon, Bombardier, Cessna or Airbus, who must continually shorten the time to market with new, competing products. Dr Soschinske’s development team comprises Dr Mara Alagic (COE), Dr Andrey Pouhkov (MATI), Bob Waner (VP Spirit), Shelly Belles (Spirit), Gary Cassatt (Spirit), Farhard Tadyon (Spirit), Alexander Vasiliev (MBDC), Stansilav Pogrebnyak (MBDC), Igor Gungkin (Progresstech), Anton Zhiganov (Progresstech), Vladimir Kulchinsky (CEO, Progresstech), Alex Yermonsky (MBDC), and Alexey Gurevich (VP MBDC).
The Boeing Design Center in Moscow and Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita are an important partners in this project. Participants take advantage of collaborative wireless computing, desktop and room-based videoconferencing to allow video, audio and data exchange between design sites. With Internet2, they can simultaneously see and hear each other, while viewing and manipulating computer-based designs. Cage-painting with their clients from another culture is proving important for the success of the project.
Posted 3:33PM - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
| Year : | 2006 |
| Status : | In Development |
| Seed Grant Amount : | TBA |
| External Grant(s) : | - |
| Number of Local Students : | 0 |
| Number of Overseas Students : | 0 |
| Faculty : | TBA |
| Team : | TBA |
| College(s) : | TBA |
| Department(s) : | TBA |
| Program(s) : | TBA |
| Course(s) : | TBA |
| Institution(s) : | TBA |
| Publication(s) : | - |
Abstract:
During 2005/6 two ME 662 senior design classes have learned about intercultural communication and the application of cage painting to its improvement. During the spring 2006 semester a team of students at WSU worked on a project that was sponsored by Progresstech and the Moscow Boeing Design Center, while a team from the Moscow Aviation Technology Institute worked on a project sponsored by Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita. During each project, students had the additional challenge of communicating between cultures to negotiate design parameters for the projects. Plans are underway to increase the number of opportunities for projects in the Fall and to have a joint WSU/MATI team work on a project sponsored by a company in a third country, possibly the UK or India. By 2007, this project will expand to include sister classes in India, the UK and possibly Australia.
All students in the Mechanical Engineering program are required to complete the senior design class ME 662. This class presents them with the challenge of working with an industry “client” to formulate a design. By adding a global learning dimension, the challenge will include dealing with cross-cultural communication. This project, led by Dr Kurt Soschinske, will prepare ME students for the realities of working in international design teams for companies like Boeing, Raytheon, Bombardier, Cessna or Airbus, who must continually shorten the time to market with new, competing products. Dr Soschinske’s development team comprises Dr Mara Alagic (COE), Dr Andrey Pouhkov (MATI), Bob Waner (VP Spirit), Shelly Belles (Spirit), Gary Cassatt (Spirit), Farhard Tadyon (Spirit), Alexander Vasiliev (MBDC), Stansilav Pogrebnyak (MBDC), Igor Gungkin (Progresstech), Anton Zhiganov (Progresstech), Vladimir Kulchinsky (CEO, Progresstech), Alex Yermonsky (MBDC), and Alexey Gurevich (VP MBDC).
The Boeing Design Center in Moscow and Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita are an important partners in this project. Participants take advantage of collaborative wireless computing, desktop and room-based videoconferencing to allow video, audio and data exchange between design sites. With Internet2, they can simultaneously see and hear each other, while viewing and manipulating computer-based designs. Cage-painting with their clients from another culture is proving important for the success of the project.
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