{"71803":{"#nid":"71803","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Start High School Manufacturing Programs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide manufacturing education programs to high school students. \u0026nbsp;The base development contract includes about $1 million for the first year, with the potential of $10 million over four years to expand the projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will provide prize-based educational challenges for high school students, encouraging them to use the latest technology to design and build items such as wind-turbine blades, mobile air and ground robots and electric car bodies\u2013hopefully inspiring the next generation of manufacturers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project is part of DARPA\u2019s Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program.\u0026nbsp; MENTOR is aimed at bolstering the U.S. manufacturing industry by sparking teens\u2019 interest in engineering, design manufacturing, math and science-related university programs.\u0026nbsp; Georgia Tech is one of several organizations awarded a contract from DARPA to help with the initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to change the mindset out there about manufacturing,\u201d said David Rosen, Georgia Tech professor of mechanical engineering and co-principal investigator on the contract.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019re trying to use the latest technologies to attract a new generation into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas and the manufacturing career field.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s program will focus on introducing students to design and manufacturing processes by using 3-D printers and additive manufacturing.\u0026nbsp; Social media will also play a role.\u0026nbsp; Students will be able to connect via social networking sites and form teams that will compete to showcase their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the first two years of the project, Georgia Tech will work to get ten high schools in Georgia involved in the program.\u0026nbsp; The goal is to expand the program to 100 high schools across the country by year three and 1,000 high schools globally within four years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will be working with key partners to make the program a reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDassault Systemes, a global company specializing in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, is providing the Georgia Tech project team with its PLM V6 academic software and its expertise in designing educational projects It is also providing user-friendly tools that will allow thousands of students across multiple sites to collaborate in a crowdsourcing fashion in design and manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is also partnering with two leading U.S. rapid prototyping providers, 3D Systems and Stratasys, which will help equip the high school teams with the latest manufacturing tools, including 3-D printers. The Boeing Learning, Training and Development (LTD) Group is also a GT MENTOR Partner and will participate in the evaluation assessment of the GT MENTOR Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program will add onto the Engineering Design Summer Camp that has been conducted for the past four years in Georgia Tech\u2019s Integrated Product Lifecycle Engineering (IPLE) Laboratory in the School of Aerospace Engineering. During the 2011 camp, Georgia Tech partnered with the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). The Ford Foundation sponsored approximately 25 students and\u0026nbsp;teachers at the UDM camp that was led by graduate and undergraduate students from the IPLE Laboratory. Georgia Tech and UDM plan to continue this partnership and expand the camp next summer to include GT MENTOR activitities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExpanding the program to hundreds of high schools could help create a resurgence of manufacturing in the U.S., researchers said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we\u2019re trying to do is make manufacturing an attractive career path,\u201d said Daniel Schrage, professor and director of the IPLE Laboratory and co-principal investigator on the contract.\u0026nbsp; \u201cA lot of students in college don\u2019t look at manufacturing as the best choice of jobs; they would rather go into design or analysis.\u0026nbsp; You can have the most beautiful design, but if you cannot build it and you can\u2019t operate it, it\u2019s not successful. So we\u2019re trying to change the culture from that perspective.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWritten by Liz Klipp\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide manufacturing education programs to high school students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech has been awarded a contract from DARPA to provide manufacturing education programs to high school students."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2011-10-25 13:48:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:34","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71435":{"id":"71435","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177376","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:16","changed":"1475894637","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:57"}},"media_ids":["71435"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/","title":"Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13253","name":"DARPA grant"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"167487","name":"STEM education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}