As part of the program of the Board meeting Professor Miryam Barad, Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management was given the opportunity to highlight an important aspect of engineering studies.
"The rapid changes in the technological and computer-aided aspects of industry require Shenkar College to constantly adjust its curriculum in order to be in the forefront of the engineering academic world." said Professor Barad.
She emphasized that "the department urgently needs a Computer Integrated Manufacturing laboratory".
Such a laboratory would enable the students to get hands on experience on how modern manufacturing systems work. It would enable students to see the real outcome of their programs instead of just practicing programming for generating virtual systems. The students would see how a CNC machine manufactures a real part whose shape has been determined by their own program; and how, when finished, the part is picked up by a robot and placed in the storage space designated for it; how a robot, programmed to assemble a product, retrieves the necessary parts from the storage spaces before proceeding to assemble them; how the assembled product is checked for correct dimensions and the good units are automatically separated from the bad ones.
Barad concluded by saying that Industrial Engineering & Management surely deserves the acquisition of such a laboratory. Professor Barad's enthusiastic presentation generated much interest in the subject from those present.
