title: Machine Design Experience in a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program
abstract: Programming an industrial robot by using a teach pendent is a tedious and time-consuming task that requires a considerable amount of work-related skills, robotics knowledge and experience. Robot applications design also requires a tremendous amount of programming skills and input/output controls to make them useful. Obviously, a good robot programmer is a key factor of successful robot applications. In order to teach manufacturing engineering technology (MET) students to program industrial robot