Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra Elrod, University of Missouri-Rolla; William Daughton, University of Missouri-Rolla (ENG)

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Engineering Management

Management to High School StudentsIntroductionAttracting students to Engineering Management as a major and as a career field hasalways been challenging. One aspect of the problem is the difficulty in explaining tostudents in simple and clear terms just what Engineering Management is. Despite its wellknown reputation, including its place as the founding department in the field and beingABET accredited, it is unusual for an incoming freshman student at the University ofMissouri – Rolla (UMR) to have much understanding of the Engineering Managementand Systems Engineering (EMSE) Department or its Engineering Managementundergraduate major. The other key aspect of the problem is the general decline ininterest in Engineering. Yankelovich1 reports that in

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Plemmons

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Engineering Management

proposed to provide a framework for structuring the knowledge areas and learning processesfor undergraduate engineering students. This model responds to needs identified from majorconstituents, applicable references, and educational requirements from various engineeringdisciplines.The Impetus for ChangeEngineers in all stages of career and professional development want to be successful in thiscompetitive world, where global outsourcing is just one the many challenges facing them. Inresponse, ASEE President, Ron Barr, summarizes the opinions of many academic and industryprofessionals: “We have to produce American engineers who are not only obviously technically well- grounded but more talented at things like creativity, leadership

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron Foster, University of Arkansas; Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Management

, the devices that could be made fromthese materials and the high performance subsystems that could be made through a combinationof these materials and devices.This research was by its very nature interdisciplinary, with the separation between science andengineering blurring at the micro scale and disappearing at the nanoscale. This created naturalpartnerships across departmental boundaries between individual faculty members and smallresearch groups. What was lacking to the faculty working in these turbulent boundaries betweentraditional departmental emphases was a method by which their students could optimize theircurriculum in support of their career preparation. Their students had no method to take career-based coursework from different

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Geiger, University of Arizona

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Engineering Management

their career, tosenior management at later career stages. For instance, in 1985 a major study wasundertaken by the National Research Council (1) which found that 44.6% of thosesurveyed, who described themselves as engineers, said that their primary activities weremanagement (28%) or production (16.6%). In 1995, a similar survey by NSF(2) found that only 38% of those in the U.S. workforcewith a B.S. in engineering actually work as engineers. An additional 48% say that theirwork is related to engineering, but that they are managers, patent attorneys, CEO’s,financial analysts, and entrepreneurs. In 1998, NSF published the results of its Engineering Workforce Project,(3) an ongoingeffort. It showed that in 1993 32% of respondents said their

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Parden, Santa Clara University

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Engineering Management

2006-629: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCYRobert Parden, Santa Clara University Chair and Professor Department of Engineering Management and Leadership Santa Clara University Page 11.975.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 2006-629: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCYAbstractThe motivation of engineers, and other technical professionals, includes two significant factors:enhanced, personal career development, and, expanded responsibility in their firms. Leadershipof continuous improvement, in the search for productivity and organizational efficiency, cansupport these two ambitions. Organizational Efficiency is

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Brown, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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Engineering Management

resultsof these efforts and lessons learned over several years of recruiting engineers to becomeengineering managers.2. Benefits of Engineering Management Education for Engineering StudentsIt has been recognized for a number of years that every engineering graduate should possesssome knowledge about the world of business, and that those competencies can serve to help themadvance their careers.1-2 The benefits of learning about the fundamentals of engineeringmanagement are numerous, including developing skills in leadership and teamwork that arevaluable to the student even in other undergraduate courses.3,4 Furthermore, developing skills inthis area can promote entrepreneurship, which is a natural complement to engineeringmanagement skills.5

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Peterson, Old Dominion University; Morgan Henrie, University of Alaska Anchorage; Shannon Bowling, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Management

, the operations manager, thematerial control manager, the accounting manager, the sales manager). Engineering managementcould thus be the management of engineers (and other similar technical types) or what anengineer does when he/she advances in their career. Similarly, project management can beconsidered a sub-set of engineering management when engineering skills are required to managethe project (or when an engineer manages the project). Some1 define engineering management asthe skills, knowledge, abilities, and attitude needed to manage and problem-solve in a technologydriven organization. Kotnour and Farr2 give a description of engineering management fieldwhich places engineering management as the bridge between engineering and management

Conference Session

Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade Shaw, Florida Tech; Muzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech

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Engineering Management

and outsourcing, engineersneed to re-invent themselves as independent and entrepreneurial and market their creativity.31 Inmany large corporations, entrepreneurially thinking engineers have been observed to show moreentrepreneurial initiative and a higher level of productivity, efficiency and cost-consciousness. Itis a known fact that engineers who manage their engineering careers as entrepreneurs from thestart enjoy a higher probability of advancing within the company.32 The Systems Engineering Page 11.1189.5and Engineering Management degree programs at Florida Tech broaden the typical engineer’sperspectives considerably with the

Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Engineering Management

, and peer review and final selection are based solely on your application and accompanying materials. • Do your homework. A thoroughly researched, well-planned application for a carefully chosen award (the best match of applicant to award) will have a considerable advantage over its competitors. • Realize that collaborative projects between a U.S. and an overseas scholar are more compelling to reviewers • Have a clear strategy. Make sure all parts of your application work to form an integrated whole. • Your application should o Highlight the aspects about you and your career that will give reviewers a focused yet well-rounded view of your candidacy o Convince

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

Master’s Program wasfounded in Fall 2000 following the industry demand in the fast growing Charlotte area, as Tengand Shelnutt stated in their paper1. The program’s objective was to serve the industry’s needsaround the campus and its first student body included mostly full-time career individuals. Overthe past few years, the program grew, served full-time as well as part-time students, and addednew members to its faculty as well as a new variety of courses to its curriculum. Recently,UNCC decided to transform this program into a Systems Engineering and EngineeringManagement Department, starting with a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering. Theprogram faculty are in the process of identifying the objectives that are important for establishinga

Conference Session

Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Trainor, U.S. Military Academy; Heidi Hoyle, U.S. Military Academy

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Engineering Management

curriculum.Introduction The United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point has a unique role in oursociety among institutions of higher learning. Our mission is: “to educate, train and inspire theCorps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to thevalues of Duty, Honor, Country, and prepared for a career of professional excellence and serviceto the nation as an officer in the United States Army.”1 USMA fulfills this mission throughrigorous military, physical and academic programs. The Dean of Academics (Dean’s) vision isthat the academic program “educates cadets to be Army officers of character who anticipate andrespond effectively to the uncertainties of a changing technological, social, political, andeconomic

Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Divakar Rajamani, University of Texas-Dallas

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Engineering Management

systems, decision analysis and systems optimization. His current research interests are the modeling of supply chains and their applications in different industries.Divakar Rajamani, University of Texas-Dallas Divakar Rajamani, Ph.D., is a Professor and Managing Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks (C4iSN). He has had a ten-year career in the industry at such companies as i2 Technologies and General Motors, where he worked in a consulting capacity. He also served on the faculty of the University of Manitoba from 1990-1996. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has published in the operations management field and co-authored a book

Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Steve Lawson, Leeds Metropolitan University; Ian Robinson, Sheffield Hallam University

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Engineering Management

: Page 11.300.2‘...increasingly flexible and truncated careers. Hence graduates have to be more ‘flexible’ intheir attitudes towards work and more ‘adaptive’ in their behaviour in the labour market.They require a broader portfolio of technical, social and personal skills than...wereemphasised in the past.’ 3Therefore, the type of graduates we need to produce are those that are business-aware as wellas possessing the traditional engineering skills. However, the lack of fully efficient linksbetween university and industry means that we don’t always produce the type of graduatesthat industry really requires. And, in fact, we have been slow to respond to its changingrequirements.In many universities, course planning is largely an internally driven