Conference Session

Customizing Courses for Industry Training Needs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jody Pierce, Purdue University; Russell Aubrey, Purdue University; John Eddy, Purdue University; Charles Baker, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Behavior • OLS 274 Applied Leadership • IT 342 Introduction to Statistical Quality • IT 381 Total Productive Maintenance • IT 230* Elements of Industrial DistributionAgain, the selection of courses match the elements found in the company’s philosophyand guiding principles. These selected courses began to merge the “soft-skill” courses(organizational and leadership titles) with those “hard-skill” courses of problems solving,statistics, and productive maintenance. The inclusion of statistics and Englishcomposition at this time, were made because by now, the participating employees feltcomfortable in the educational environment, knew a bit more about what to expect from acollege level course, had experienced success, and were