ET Forum Tech Talks
Tech Talk # 8
What’s Coming to Smart Manufacturing
Speakers: Drs. Gloria Wiens (UF), Nancy Diaz-Elsayed (USF), and Dazhong Wu (UCF)
Recorded Friday, April 15, 2022
The Florida Forum on Engineering Technology (E.T. Forum) is an important vehicle to bring together the diverse and geographically dispersed colleges with common issues and challenges. The Forum is a semiannual 2-day meeting of community college engineering technologies faculty in Florida. FLATE utilizes the Forum to strengthen its Technology Consortium; share its activities and projects; provide professional development; bring industry and academics together; engage faculty and administrators in statewide curriculum reform; and keep in touch with new and ongoing college program issues and concerns.
E.T. Forum Impacts
- Led curriculum reform for statewide associate degree programs
- Provided a foundation for strong partnerships between colleges
- Started reform and reorganization of common course numbering for relevant courses
- Unified input to Perkins IV state implementation plan
- Supported CAPE and other CTE legislation
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As of Spring 2022, the ET Forum has met forty-eight times since 1996 at 24 different colleges around the state. You can find ET Forum presentations and resource files on FLATE’s Wiki, filed by year.
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Previous E.T. Forum Meetings:
Date: October 26, 2021 – Hybrid (Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando FL & Virtual)
Date: March 19 and March 26, 2021 – Location: Virtual
Date: April 2-3, 2020- Eastern Florida State College
Date: October 17-18, 2019 – Seminole State College, Central Florida
Date: March 28-29, 2019 – Suncoast Technical College, Sarasota, FL
Date: November 1-2, 2018 – St Petersburg College, St Petersburg, FL
April 12-13, 2018 – South Florida State College, Avon Park, FL
September 21-22, 2017 – College of Central Florida (www.cf.edu)
March 30-31, 2017 – Chipola College
Sept 22-23, 2016 – Daytona State College
Mar 31-April 1, 2016 – Lake Sumter State College
More information, presentations files, handouts, etc can be found on FLATE’s wiki filed by year behind the presentation button.
Dr. Gloria Wiens is an associate professor and director of the Space, Automation and Manufacturing Mechanisms (SAMM) Laboratory at the University of Florida. She has held key leadership roles as the FloridaMakes Director of Advanced Manufacturing at BRIDG, Bridging the Innovation Development Gap; Assistant Director for Research Partnerships and ASME Foundation Swanson Fellow at the NIST/Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office; and as a National Research Council – Senior Research Associate at AFRL/RVSV-Kirtland. She serves on a number of ASME manufacturing and robotics committees and task forces, and chairs the ASME Robotics Technology Group. For the past 35 years, Professor Wiens has been conducting research in the areas of intelligent and autonomous robotic systems, innovative mechanisms and controls for automation, space robotics/small satellites, manufacturing and micro-electro-mechanical systems. Her research has been supported by Lockheed Martin Corporation, DARPA, NSF, NASA, SNL, Hammond Machinery, Inc., Harris Corporation, PhaseSpace Corp., and others.
Dr. Nancy Diaz-Elsayed is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME). She holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Her projects have spanned discrete and continuous processes, including the development of a building intelligence application that combined real-time data with Building Information Models to improve the performance of factories and commercial buildings, and the sustainable design of integrated wastewater management systems. Her research interests include system and process modeling, technology development for smart and sustainable systems, and the role of industrial symbiosis in the design and growth of urban environments. Prior to joining USF, she was the Sustainable Manufacturing Specialist at Autodesk. Dr. Diaz-Elsayed is currently a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and leads the Women in Advanced Manufacturing committee for ASME’s Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED).
Dr. Dazhong Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. His research is focused on data-driven smart manufacturing, additive manufacturing, prognostics and health management. He has published over 40 journal articles. He is one of the highly cited researchers in the field of smart manufacturing. He was selected as one of the Most Influential Professors in Smart Manufacturing by the Smart Manufacturing Magazine. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Manufacturing Systems and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.