The following papers have been published by the Manufacturing Engineering Education partnership in an effort to demonstrate the merits of the Learning Factory concept and to encourage similar developments at other universities.

  1. Russell R. Barton, "A Laboratory-Based Course in Process Quality Engineering", Proceedings of the 1994 ASEE Annual Meeting, June 1994. pdf file
  2. Lueny Morell de Ramírez, Gerson Beauchamp, "Integration of Skills Development Across the Engineering Curriculum", Proceedings of ASEE Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 1995 pdf file
  3. Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas-Castro, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho, "The Design of a Skill-based Course Focused on Student Outcomes: a Partnership Template" Proceedings ofASEE Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 1995 pdf file
  4. John S. Lamancusa, Jens E. Jorgensen, and Jose L. Zayas - Castro, "The Learning Factory -- A New approach to integrating design and manufacturing into engineering curricula". Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 1995. pdf file
  5. Jens E. Jorgensen, John S. Lamancusa, and Jose L. Zayas-Castro, "The Learning Factory - Curriculum Integration of Design and Manufacturing", Proceedings of the World Conference on Engineering Education, October 1995, Minneapolis-St.. Paul., pp 258-262. pdf file
  6. DeMeter, Edward C., Jens E. Jorgensen and Augustine Rullan, "The Learning Factory of the Manufacturing Educuational Program",Proc. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century, Vol. III, pp 377 - 380, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, March 1997.pdf file
  7. John S. Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, Vipin Kumar, and Miguel Torres, "Learning Engineering by Product Dissection", Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Annual Meeting, Washington DC, June 1996. pdf file
  8. Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José A. Colucci, Leo F. Carter, Federico Padrón, Guillermo Colón, L. Antonio Estévez , "n Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering Option for Chemical Engineering", Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Annual Meeting, Washington DC, June 1996. pdf file
  9. Robert P. Smith, Russell Barton, Craig Nowack, Jose L. Zayas-Castro, "Concurrent Engineering: A Partnership Approach", Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Annual Meeting, Washington DC, June 1996. pdf file
  10. John S. Lamancusa, Jens E. Jorgensen, and Jose L. Zayas-Castro. "Putting design and manufacturing back into the engineering curriculum", Proceedings of 1996 ABET Conference, San Diego, CA, November 1996 pdf file)
  11. Jens E. Jorgensen, James Fridley, and John S. Lamancusa, "Product Dissection - A Tool for Benchmarking in the Process of Teaching Design", Proceedings of 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake city, UT, November, 1996 pdf file and Appendix pdf file
  12. Lueny Morell de Ramirez, Jose Zayas-Castro, John S. Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, "A Summative Assessment Strategy for a Multi-institutional, Multi-Task Project: the Case of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership", Proceedings of 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, November, 1996 pdf file
  13. John S. Lamancusa, Jens E. Jorgensen, and Jose L. Zayas - Castro, "The Learning Factory -- A New approach to integrating design and manufacturing into engineering Curricula", ASEE, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 103-112, April 1997. pdf file
  14. Michelle Griffith, John S. Lamancusa, Renata Engel, Jens Jorgensen, and Jorge Velez-Arocho, "The Success of Multimedia Courseware in the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP) Program", Proceedings of the NSF TRP/MET Annual Conference, Washington DC, April, 1997. pdf file
  15. A. L. Soyster, "Experiences in Organizing and Managing Engineering Education Coalitions", Proceedings of the NSF TRP/MET Annual Conference, Washington DC, April 1997. pdf file
  16. Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas, John Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, "Making a Partnership Work: Outcomes Assessment of a Multi-Task, Multi-Institutional Project", Proceedings of the NSF TRP/MET Annual Conference, Washington DC, April, 1997. pdf file
  17. Lueny Morell de Ramirez, Jose Zayas-Castro, John Lamancusa, and J. E. Jorgensen, "Outcomes Assessment of a Multi-Institutional, Multi-Task NSF Partnership Project: Tools, Process, and Results", Proceedings of the 37th Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Orlando, FL. May, 1997. pdf file
  18. John S. Lamancusa, Robert T. George, A. L. Soyster, "Industry-Based Projects in Academia - What Works and What Doesn't", Proceedings of 1997 ASEE Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 1997. pdf file
  19. Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas, John Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, "Making a Partnership Work: Outcomes Assessment of a Multi-Task, Multi-Institutional Project", Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, June 1997 pdf file
  20. Jens Jorgensen, Paul Cohen, John Lamancusa, and Jose Zayas-Castro " An Educational Program in Products and Processes Realization", Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997. pdf file
  21. James Fridley, Jens Jorgensen, and John Lamancusa "Benchmarking: A Process for Teaching Design", Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997. pdf file
  22. Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas , John Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, "Outcomes Assessment Results of a Multi-Institutional Curriculum Development Project", Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997. pdf file
  23. Lueny Morell de Ramirez, Jose Zayas-Castro, John Lamancusa, and J. E. Jorgensen, "Making a Partnership Work; Outcome Assessment of a Multi-task, Multi-Institutional Project", Proceedings of 1997 ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education, August 14-15, Chicago, Ill.
  24. Russell R. Barton and Craig A. Nowack, "A Laboratory-Based Statistics Course for Engineering Students", accepted for publication in The American Statistician, 1997.
  25. Jorge Ivan Velez-Arocho, Miguel Torres-Febus, and Jaime Pabon, "A New Paradigm in Engineering Education: Technology Based Entrepreneurship", submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Panamerican Congress of Mechanical Engineers and Related Fields in Santiago, Chile, September, 1997. Presented at the Congress of Engineering and Related Fields, April, 18, 1997, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  26. Jorge Ivan Velez-Arocho, Miguel Torres-Febus, and Jaime Pabon, "Creativity and Innovation to Acquire, Keep and Improve the Competitive Advantage in a Global Market", XI Entrepreneurship Latin American Congress, Cali, Colombia, September 17-19, 1997.
  27. Robert P. Smith, "Teaching Design for Assembly using Product Disassembly," IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 41, No.1, pp. 50-53, 1998.
  28. Michelle Griffith, John Lamancusa, Jens Jorgensen, and Jose Zayas, "The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership: A Successful Multi-task Project for Curriculum Development", Proceedings of ICTE 1998, Sante Fe, New Mexico, March 8-11, 1998.
  29. Lueny Morell, Jose Zayas-Castro and Jorge Velz-Arocho, "Some Assessment Tools for Evaluating Curricular Innovations Outcomes", Proceedings of 1998 ASEE Conference, Seattle WA, June 1998.pdf file
  30. Lueny Morell, John Lamancusa, Jose Zayas-Castro, Jens Jorgensen, "Making a Partnership work: Outcomes Assessment of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership", Journal of Engineering Education, 1998.pdf file
  31. Lueny Morell, Jose Zayas-Castro, Jorge Velz-Arocho and Miguel Torres, "Curricular Innovations Outcomes Assessment and ABET 2000", International Conference on Engineering Education, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, August 1998 pdf file
  32. Lueny Morell, Jose Zayas-Castro and Jorge Velz-Arocho, "Curricular Innovations Outcomes Assessment", Symposium on Best Assessment Procedures in Engineering Education II, Rose-Hulman Institute, October 1998. pdf file
  33. Lueny Morell, Jose Zayas-Castro, Jorge Velz-Arocho and Miguel Torres, "Developing and Assessing Teamwork Skills in a Multi-Disciplinary Course", Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, Tempe Arizona, November 1998. pdf file

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