To get you all excited for the IME activities, we wanted you to meet this year’s IME team. Luis, Mohammed, and Pawarit made a video to introduce themselves and the profession of industrial engineering. Here they are to help clarify what the job entails:
During this winter and summer teacher’s workshop, our industrial engineering team made several fun LEGO activities for your students. They have created even more activities that they wanted to share. All of the activities from the other team is posted below:
1. Just-in-Time Manufacturing
2. Facility Design Activity
3. Design for Manufacturability Lesson
4. Culminating Activity
During this winter and summer teacher’s workshop, our industrial engineering team made several fun LEGO activities for your students. They have created even more activities that they wanted to share. All of the activities from one of our teams is posted below:
1. Production Methods Lesson
2. Bottleneck Analysis Lesson
3. Standardized Work Lesson
4. Culminating Activity
Hydraulic systems are an important mechanical component of a lot of our daily lives! In this activity, students will brainstorm and build a functional mechanical arm that uses hydraulic systems to perform different tasks. Click here for the lesson plan. Happy inventing!
Teachers, the Middle School Challenge is just around the corner! Last term we learned some important lessons from our Mechanical Engineering Team that has hopefully helped your students construct a cable car. We hope that you pass these lessons along to your students so that we can have a successful Middle School Challenge. Here is a list of what you need to do before the challenge.
1) Make sure your students check out the videos we have been posting and do some research on cable car designs.
2) Make sure they have read and understand the requirements for the cable car. Feel free to post any questions.
3) Have your students make at least one club cable car to share at the Middle School Challenge. This car will need to be completed before the challenge as we will be doing a LEGO based industrial and manufacturing engineering challenge.
4) Come to the Middle School Challenge ready share and test your cable car! We look forward to seeing you at Eastern Oregon University on April 26th, or Portland Community College on May 3rd, or Southern Oregon University on May 10th.
Again if you have any questions please post them in the comments or contact us directly through email.
At this year’s teacher workshop we introduced two new teams of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering students. These seniors at Oregon State University have created several new amazing lesson plans for middle school teachers. We hope these lesson plans make their way into your classroom and help with the Middle School Challenge!
Our Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering team was thrilled to showcase these lessons at the Teacher Workshop and are excited to share more lessons on this blog. Check back soon to see additional engineering lesson plans.
In this activity, students will learn about lean manufacturing and how efficiency plays into manufacturing processes through sorting Lego bricks. They will discover how specificity of categorization can aid efficiency and why efficiency is important to sustainable industry. Click the title below to check out this fun and engaging activity! Organizing and Sorting Activity This activity is part one of a four part series of Legos and Industrial Engineering activities.
