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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Scheller, Kettering University; Tony Lin, Kettering University

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Industrial Engineering

2006-1931: AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT COMBINING CNCMACHINING AND DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTSTony Lin, Kettering University TONY LIN, Ph.D. is a professor of Industrial Engineering at Kettering University. His special areas are in Reliability and Quality Engineering, Design of Experiments, and Applied Statistics. He has actively involved in research and consulting in these areas. Dr. Lin is a Certified Reliability Engineer and a member of ASEE and ASQ.William Scheller, Kettering University Page 11.199.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 An Inter-disciplinary Project combining

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New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricky Whittington, Morgan State University; Douglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

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Industrial Engineering

2006-449: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING APPLICATION IN SPACE MISSIONDouglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Douglas McLennan is the Project Manager of the Space Technology - 5 (ST-5) at the Goddard Space flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. McLennan received his B.Sc. in Physics in 1978 from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He received his M.S. in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1983 from Georgetown University, Washington D.C.Guangming Chen, Morgan State University Dr. Guangming Chen is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at Morgan State University. He joined Morgan State faculty in 1990 as an Assistant Professor. Since September 2002, he has worked with ST-5

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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)Senior Design courses. The tool was designed to help members of student project teamsanalyze their audience for their project-related communications.To enhance our understanding of the students’ analyses, in this study we investigatedhow the students’ perceptions of characteristics of audience members compare with theself-descriptions of the audience members. During a recent ISyE Senior Design class, weobtained self-descriptions from clients who played significant roles in the projects. Inaddition, we obtained student perceptions of these same clients at three different stages ofthe project. In this report we compare the student perceptions with the client self-descriptions. We examine similarities

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New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamie Workman-Germann, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Heather Woodward-Hagg, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Industrial Engineering

, increase the capacity to perform CT/MR services, and regain a portion of the referralbase lost to outpatient diagnostic centers. To address these issues, Lean/Six Sigmamethodologies were implemented. Considerable success has been documented in themanufacturing industry using these models, but little has been done in the service-based industryof healthcare so an uncharted area was being entered.Specially organized teams were created for the project within the hospital organization. Facultyexperts provide education and training to these individuals in Lean/Six Sigma methodologiesmodified to fit healthcare services. The radiology project has been initiated and current resultspositively support the successful transferability of these manufacturing

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New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

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Industrial Engineering

prepared for its ABET visitin the fall 2005, it became apparent that its IE 1035 – Engineering Management course was aprimary course for satisfying ABET outcomes (h) the broad education necessary to understandthe impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context;(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning; and (j) aknowledge of contemporary issues.4 IE 1035 is a semester-long, 3-credit, required course forIndustrial Engineers taken in their senior year. Specifically this course discusses modernengineering management theory as it applies to technical organizations. Topics include: themanagement process; project management; managing technical people; communications

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Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Jessica Jenness, University of Central Florida; Jessica Steinberg, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida

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Industrial Engineering

multi-year effort to reengineer the undergraduate IndustrialEngineering program. With the onset of more service industries and Information Technologyfirms, Industrial Engineering programs need to revise their curriculum to educate and preparestudents to meet the expected workforce demands resulting from the shift of traditionalmanufacturing industries to non-traditional industrial sectors, and to incorporate additionalemerging topics in the field. A critical part of this research project was to obtain the voice of thecustomers, industry and academia, that employ and receive our graduates once they successfullycomplete our undergraduate IE curriculum. The customers, through a series of surveys appliedwithin a multi-round Delphi study, defined

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Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shantha Daniel, Iowa State University; Devna Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Leslie Potter, Iowa State University

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Industrial Engineering

, eleven of which are mandated by ABET [1] and five ofwhich are additionally required by the department [2]. Employing the process outlined inFigure 1, various continuous improvement efforts are being made for the outcome items.For example, to improve outcome item (o) [the ability to have a global enterprise Page 11.149.2“Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ASEE 2006, American Society for Engineering Education”perspective], students in IE 341, a required Production Systems course, collaborate withstudents from foreign universities in a global supply chain team project via

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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Kundrat, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University

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Industrial Engineering

. “Manufacturing WorkEnvironments”, a graduate course at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) addresses the issuesrelated to work measurement, method improvement, safety, and ergonomic aspects in workdesign. As a practice oriented teaching school, GVSU highly emphasizes the culmination of thelearning process by the realistic execution of the principles and techniques taught in a course. Inthat tradition, this course employed a semester ending project as an important tool to develop theproper understanding of the course materials.This particular project idea involved improving the efficiency, performance and workenvironment at the Science, Technology, and Engineering Preview Summer (STEPS) camp heldat Grand Valley State University. The STEPS camp at the

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Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Ferreras, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; Pamela McCauley-Bell, University of Central Florida; Edward Hampton, University of Central Florida

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and management topics in Engineering Education, curriculum reform isneeded to adequately prepare students. Thus, this paper discusses the development of a minorprogram of specialty in Engineering Leadership & Management that can be pursued by allengineering and computer science majors while completing a BS degree.Keywords: Leadership, Management, Engineering Education, and Curriculum Reform.IntroductionEngineering education in the United States is currently undergoing a crucial period of awarenesswhere the necessity to reform academic program curriculum is becoming more evident in orderto maintain technological leadership and competitiveness of the US in a global economy. Thefollowing table shows the "Occupational employment projections

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Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Industrial Engineering

three steps used were to perform SIPOC (supplier, inputs,process, outputs, and customers) to flow chart the process, generate data on the output of theprocess and quality problems, and analyze the data and provide quality improvementrecommendations.The objective of the project on the University Enterprise Partnership for Total QualityManagement (UE-TQM-P)7 was to fill the gap between the demands of business and theknowledge, skills and attitudes about TQM being provided to students by institutes of highereducation. The study identified eight important quality concepts and skill categories: customerorientation; practical knowledge and application of TQM tools; fact based decision making; anunderstanding of work as a process; team orientation

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton

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Industrial Engineering

of the key diagrams used in the ABET self study document to Page 11.786.3describe the role that each stakeholder group serves with respect to the Industrial Engineeringprogram at TAMUC. The individual stakeholder groups play key roles in establishing andmaintaining communications with the faculty and administrators affiliated with the IE Program.These communications include such things as: internship opportunities for students whileenrolled in classes and job offers for students upon graduation, senior design projects, capstonecourse project support, plant tour opportunities, and access to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)who serve as resources

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Ethling Hernandez, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Hamidreza Eskandari, University of Central Florida; Serge Sala-Diakanda, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida

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Technology.Ethling Hernandez, University of Central Florida Ethling Hernandez is a Master’s Degree student of the Engineering Management program in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering in December 2004, from UCF. She is a student member of the Industrial Engineering Society as well as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Since 2003, Ethling has been a Research Assistant for the IEMS department. Some of her interests are Project Management, Program Development and Quality.Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida Lesia Crumpton-Young, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Flynn, The College of New Jersey

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Industrial Engineering

expect to spend at least 42 hours on the job. Regardless of whether Ireceive released time for a sanctioned activity or not, I should use Work Measurementtechniques to estimate the time commitment associated with the activity. This is especiallyimportant for project type activities because inappropriate allocation of time to perform(scheduling) can often lead to procrastination and ultimately inability to deliver by deadlines.Budgeting Work TimeFigure 2 presents a load budget for my Fall 2005 schedule. Assume that I was assigned threesections of the same course. The course is fully developed in that it requires no preparation otherthan familiarization before each class meeting. There were 25 students assigned to each section.The classes met in

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Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Koopmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Erick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Industrial Engineering

, 1992).Bauch, Garland T., Chung, Christopher A.., A Statistical Project Control Tool for Engineering Managers, Project Management Journal 32(2): 37-44.Bohlen, George A., Lee, David R., Sweeney, Patrick A. “Why and How Project Managers Attempt to Influence Their Team Members” Engineering Management Journal, Volume 10 No. 4 (December 1998), pp. 21-28.Bureau of Labor, Labor Letter, (Washington: US Department of Labor, 1966).Chermiss, C.(1980b). Staff Burnout: Job Stress in Human Services, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Page 11.66.11 Publications.Chung, Christopher A. Simulation Modeling Handbook, A Practical Approach, (New York

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Koubek, Pennsylvania State University; M. Jeya Chandra, Pennsylvania State University

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Industrial Engineering

courses into areas of competency. Page 11.954.2• Reorganize elective courses (IE and non-IE) into domain areas.• Introduce elective course(s) in other application areas (e.g., service processes, financial engineering, health care management, etc.)• Introduce a focused design project in various application domains.Description of changesChanges in the non-major courses from other departments in the College of EngineeringThe old curriculum required that the students take the following non-major courses in thecollege. a) Introduction to Engineering Design (ED &G 100) 3 Credits b) Computer Programming for

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Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Jamshed Mistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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, taken primarily by industrial Page 11.783.2engineering majors. This study is a prototype for a larger project addressing ERP-baseddecision-making, which involves creating learning modules for a variety of undergraduateengineering and management courses. Each module focuses on a decision-making problem thatis traditionally part of a functional course (e.g., production planning), and presents it in thecontext of a major business process, e.g., product development or supply chain and orderfulfillment. The process focus allows students to explore the impact of their decision on otherparts of the organization as well as its customers, suppliers, and

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Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Durward Sobek, Montana State University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University

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Industrial Engineering

complete weekly homework assignments, but do not complete a project or take exams.The course does not require a textbook.The two courses cover many of the same topics, but do not completely overlap; although the NUcourse goes into greater depth being a four-credit offering versus one-credit. Table 1summarizes and compares the topical coverage of the courses.Examples of Hands-On ActivitiesTo portray the active learning elements of the courses with greater vibrancy, we describe a fewof the hands-on activities developed and used. Page 11.252.3 Topic Montana State University Northeastern

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New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, SUNY Binghamton; Justin Sturek, SUNY Binghamton; Sumit Parimoo, SUNY Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, SUNY Binghamton

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Industrial Engineering

, itcould be filed in a separate room, waiting for the payment and the final transcript from thestudent. This scenario would help decrease the time spent on filing, since it eliminates theredundant and time consuming searches for files.However, the amount of space available for filing, before the counselors make the decision onthe applications, needs to be studied. The filing rooms that hold the undecided applicationsshould cater to volume before the decisions are made on the applications. Moreover, the spacerequirements for a projected increase in the volume of applications in the future need to beaddressed.3.2.3 Component 3: ErgonomicsErgonomics is defined as a behavioral science that analyzes the interaction of the personnel withtheir working

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce

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Industrial Engineering

) External Informal sources. This paper describes the processes used andcorresponding results of the ABET Site Visit completed in October. A sample of the graphicaltools used to identify, track, collect, analyze, and report various outcomes as they relate to recentgraduates of our new IE Program will also be provided.Background The Industrial Engineering program at Texas A&M University-Commerce wasestablished by the Texas Legislature with an effective operational date of August 2002. At thattime, the initial projection was to have 30 students enrolled in the IE program when classesbegan in the Fall. As it turned out, over 70 students enrolled for classes leading to a Bachelor ofScience degree in Industrial Engineering at TAMUC. In each of

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Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Chase, University of San Diego; Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Leonard Perry, University of San Diego

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Industrial Engineering

, a school with a curriculum similar to USD’s could decide to confer aLean Methods certificate to students completing the IE program. This certificate might indicatethat the graduate knows how to apply lean tools, but has not been exposed to some of theorganizational and cultural aspects that might be seen by participants in a Lean Enterpriseprogram. Schools electing to supplement their core curriculum with a specific course in leancould emphasize these organizational topics, include a project and award a Lean Enterprise Page 11.868.8certificate.Regardless of the scope of the certificate the school might confer the certificate to all