Transferring experience labs for production engineering students to universities in newly industrialized countries

8th TSME-International Conference on Mechanical Engineering

Leiden, A.^1 ; Posselt, G.^1 ; Bhakar, V.^2 ; Singh, R.^2 ; Sangwan, K.S.^2 ; Herrmann, C.^1

Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, Department of Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering, TU Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19b, Braunschweig

38106, Germany^1

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan, Pilani, India^2

关键词: Discrete manufacturing;    Education sectors;    Education systems;    Engineering graduates;    Industrialized countries;    Production system;    Resource efficiencies;    University environment;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/297/1/012053/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/297/1/012053

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The Indian economy is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and the demand for the skilled engineers is increasing. Subsequently the Indian education sector is growing to provide the necessary number of skilled engineers. Current Indian engineering graduates have broad theoretical background but lack in methodological, soft and practical skills. To bridge this gap, the experience lab ideas from the engineering education at "Die Lernfabrik" (learning factory) of the Technische Universitat Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig) is transferred to the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani (BITS Pilani), India. This Lernfabrik successfully strengthened the methodological, soft and practical skills of the TU Braunschweig production-engineering graduates. The target group is discrete manufacturing education with focusing on energy and resource efficiency as well as cyber physical production systems. As the requirements of industry and academia in India differs from Germany, the transfer of the experience lab to the Indian education system needs special attention to realize a successful transfer project. This publication provides a unique approach to systematically transfer the educational concept in Learning Factory from a specific university environment to a different environment in a newly industrialized country. The help of a bilateral university driven practice partnership between the two universities creates a lighthouse for the Indian university environment.