From the Tool Room to the Class Room

Lilly, Blaine W.

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From the Tool Room to the Class Room

Blaine W. Lilly⁵

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In this brief memoir, the author re-visits his undergraduate and graduate years in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University, as well as his years as a tool and die maker apprentice at the General Motors Fisher Body plant in Columbus, Ohio. The author’s experience as an apprentice and as a young engineer confronted by the task of building a trotting quadruped have had a clear effect on his later work in helping to create a totally new course for second-year students in mechanical engineering.

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, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Fitzpatrick Hall 365, Notre Dame, 46556, Indiana, USA
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, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, E. Dean Keeton St. C2100 301, Austin, 78712, Texas, USA
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, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, West 19th Ave. 201, Columbus, 43220, Ohio, USA
Hai-Jun Su

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Lilly, B.W. (2013). From the Tool Room to the Class Room. In: Kumar, V., Schmiedeler, J., Sreenivasan, S., Su, HJ. (eds) Advances in Mechanisms, Robotics and Design Education and Research. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 14. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00398-6_28

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