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Welding Engineering 2000 | |
"Joining Ohio State with Industry"
A campaign to prepare OSU to educate world class welding
engineers for the 21st century
The Challenge: Educate Welding Engineers for Tomorrow
- Well-grounded in fundamentals
- Educational experience with industrial relevance
- Able to apply computer-based engineering tools
- Prepared to integrate and apply a broad range of welding and manufacturing knowledge
- Opportunities for life-long learning
- Provide student involvement with industry through cooperative programs
- Equip teaching laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment and engineering tools
- Recruit "high-profile" faculty with commitment to education and ability to attract further resources
- Establish scholarships that attract high quality students
- New EJTC facility: collocation with Edison Welding Institute
- WE + ISE = IWSE: broader manufacturing curriculum
- College: thrusts in manufacturing and advanced materials
- New initiatives in materials joining education: NEMJET
- Process and manufacturing automation
- New advanced processes
- New materials
- Information and computer technologies
- Life cycle engineering
- College-wide materials joining/manufacturing courses to reach broader range of OSU engineering students
- Integration of manufacturing knowledge into welding engineering
- Computer aided instruction and tools
- Linkage of four WE areas: processes, materials, design and NDT
- EWI "engineering apprentice program"
- Scheduled co-op quarter
- Capstone design course with industry problems
- Engineering in industry course
- Project management
- Teamwork
- Professional preparation
- National visibility and recruiting of top students
- Faculty: Endowed Chairs
- Scholarships & fellowships
- Laboratory facilities
- Undergraduate scholarships
- Graduate fellowships
- Increase marketing and promotional activities
- Summer honor WE/manufacturing college for high school students
- Attract top students from two-year colleges
- Attract top engineering graduates from around the country
- Laser Materials Processing
- Plastics Joining
- Weldability, Physical Simulation and Characterization
- Design and Mechanical Testing
- CAD/CAM and Welding Robotics and Processes
- NDE and Sensors
- Simulation-based, virtual reality training
- Refinement of goals, strategies and needs
- Definition of sources of giving and approaches
- Organization of the effort
- Chair in Welding Engineering
- Undergraduate Scholarships
- Graduate Fellowships
- Recruiting
- Teaching Laboratories
- Relocation and Furnishing
| $1.5m | |
| $250,000 | |
| $250,000 | |
| $100,000 | |
| $4.1m | |
| $300,000 | |
| Total | $6.5m |
- Laser Material Processing
- Plastics Joining
- Weldability, Physical Simulation and Characterization
- Design and Mechanical Testing
- CAD/CAM and Welding Robotics and Processes
- NDE and Sensors
- Simulation-based, virtual reality training
| $500,000 | |
| $300,000 | |
| $750,000 | |
| $750,000 | |
| $550,000 | |
| $450,000 | |
| $800,000 | |
| Total | $4.1m |
- OSU Welding Engineering Program is a unique national asset. Chairholder will provide leadership in this critical manufacturing technology and be the focal point for leading future developments.
- Chairholder will demonstrate and promote excellence in teaching, advancements and innovation in the curriculum, and conduct leading-edge research in welding engineering. The chairholder will attract substantial funding from industrial and governmental sources in support of education and research initiatives.
- The endowment for the chair is $1.5 million. Earnings of the endowment, supplemented by the University, will provide the chairholder's salary and support for chairholder education and research initiatives.