University Of Oklahoma’s Hands-On Engineering Course Profiled

The Norman (OK) Transcript (5/22) reports that over the last 25 years, University of Oklahoma industrial and systems engineering (ISE) students “have supplemented courses they take at OU with ‘hands-on’ machining/design of manufacturing experience at Moore Norman Technology Center.” Most ISE students cannot operate “the machines that make the parts they are designing, an important step ISE Interim Director Shivakumar Raman thinks is necessary for engineering practice.” Raman believes the University of Oklahoma’s partnership with MNTC “is the first and only hands-on undergraduate engineering partnership like it in the country.” More than 90 engineering students are currently enrolled in Raman’s class, compared to 16 in Raman’s inaugural class.