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Enhancing Lean Manufacturing Learning Experience through Hands-on Simulation

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: badawi5{at}purdue.edu.

	Abstract

Finding appropriate interactive exercises to increase students’ learning in technical topic courses is always challenging to educators. In this study, several paper plane hands-on simulation exercises were developed, used, and tested in a lean manufacturing course for beginning college students. a pretest and posttest was used to assess the effectiveness of students learning of lean manufacturing concepts by means of participating in the hands-on simulation exercises. Furthermore, the procedures used for an efficient integration of the hands-on simulation exercises into a teaching environment were evaluated. The results showed that students’ knowledge of lean manufacturing concepts increased significantly compared with lecture-based learning only.

First published on July 14, 2009
Simulation & Gaming 2009, doi:10.1177/1046878109334333


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