Student Expertise
CDME employs a growing cadre of undergraduate and graduate students across the spectrum of majors. These students bring different focus areas and passions to projects executed by CDME. The cross section currently includes students from multiple engineering disciplines, business and finance, visual communications, marketing and industrial design. CDME works to ensure they get out to customer sites and see what engineering and manufacturing actually looks like. CDME strives to ensure that students learn the business of manufacturing. This includes:
Business Development
Students at CDME learn how to identify and develop new business opportunities for CDME and its partner companies.
Industrial Design
Students are involved in ideation and creation sessions with customers, which lead to novel solutions for industry.
Project Scope and Definition
Students learn how to effectively define and scope projects. An understanding of performance based milestones is introduced very early.
Project Management
Once a project has been funded, students are actively involved with the management of the project. PMP principles are taught and utilized.
Product Lifecycle
Students work with industry partners to ensure that technology insertion and product development follow existing lifecycle plans.
Business Analysis
Students participate in programs such as ICorps @ Ohio, business plan competitions, entrepreneurship programs and other initiatives where they learn how to create intelligible business analysis.
Partner and Supply Chain
Collaboration is a cornerstone of CDME, and students actively participate in projects that involve multiple partners from a manufacturing supply chain or from non-competitive industries. Students learn how to identify and manage partner relationships.
Prototyping
Students create CAD and/or software prototypes of industrial design projects.
My Perspective
"I assisted on many projects through the center, including everything from finding grants and writing proposals to hands on engineering design...Throughout my experience at CDME, I learned what the business/manufacturing world really looks like." Click to read about Hannah's experience at CDME.