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Heading Off the Dilbert Effect
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TitleHeading Off the Dilbert Effect
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TranscriptSDSM& T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701- 3995 Phone: ( 605) 394- 6082/ 2554 Fax: ( 605) 394- 6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 6, 2001 Contact: Steve Buchholz, Public Information Manager, 394- 6082 Heading Off The Dilbert Effect In the cartoon " Dilbert, " management and workers constantly disagree and consider each other a bunch of dolts. A project between the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and Western Dakota Technical Institute aims to stop those misunderstandings before they start. Students from the two schools are cooperating on a design and manufacturing project that links designers from South Dakota Tech with manufacturers from WDTI. " In industry, engineers are often regarded as ignorant and without common sense or arrogant by the people on the manufacturing side, and engineers often believe that manufacturers don't have good ideas and knowledge, " Chenoa Jensen, a Tech mechanical engineering instructor, said. " Communication doesn't always happen." " I think the real world scenario of technical people working with engineers in designing parts is a realistic way of designing, " Jerry Gossard, a WDTI instructor, said. " The technicians know what the equipment is capable of designing and the engineers then become aware of the capabilities. If a design is not manufactureable, then the design defeated the purpose. It helps engineers make functional and useable designs." Tech students are leading the design of the product a key chain and WDTI students are leading the manufacturing. Students will inscribe " Tech" on one side of each key chain, and they will personalize the other side. All 120 students involved in the project will receive a key chain. The students will work together at the following times in WDTI's Mickelson Building. Wednesday, Nov. 14: 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. Thursday, Nov. 15: 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. # 30#
CreatorSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations
SubjectSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology;
Local SubjectSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Digital PublisherSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
ContributorsBuchholz, Steve;
Date2001-11-06
TypeText
Formatapplication/pdf
Languageeng
RelationIs part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection
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