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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management from The University of Alabama Huntsville. Page 12.1273.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Service-Learning and Integrated, Collaborative Project ManagementAbstractThis paper describes the introduction of service-learning into an undergraduate course on projectmanagement. At ECU, engineering courses are taught in an integrated and collaborativeeducation environment. The core curriculum requires junior level students to complete a coursein project management as part of the program’s commitment to industry to supply immediatelyproductive, contributing new

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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potential tosuccessful implements the changes and be cross referenced into other departments’ asdevelops a control plan for the changes. elective courses in both engineering and business curriculums.3. Objective With all the functions mentioned above, In order to educate future engineering the system builds on an assessment consultantsmanagers it is important to provide an as well as traditional student classroomenvironment that facilitates learning of how to evaluations in order to attain accurate feedbackmanage Six Sigma initiatives. The general on learning outcomes. Also

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IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Engineering Management

corporate partners and sponsors to deliver an engineering degree that enablesdiverse technically oriented middle management staff to advance in their abilities to lead andmanage the enterprise.Suggestions to provide such managers with standard master of business administration degreeswere met with skepticism and doubt. Leaders of technology centric corporations wereunconvinced that the standard MBA curriculum included the competencies they were seeking todevelop. For example, one corporate partner mentioned that the MBA would not help the salesand marketing people better communicate with engineers and other technical staff. They wantedan engineering based degree that would provide engineers and non-engineers alike with a highlevel understanding of

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management

Management from The University of Alabama Huntsville. Page 12.1368.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Project Management with International CollaborationAbstractGlobal project management is a natural context for training engineering students to meetchallenges of the global economy. This paper describes the methods employed in an innovativeproject management course integrating lecture seminars with international engineeringcounterpart faculty in China, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. The US’s East CarolinaUniversity’s engineering program entered into reciprocal agreements with the Czech TechnicalUniversity

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Ozgur Erol, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology

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2005confirmed this trend. The use of BPR as a management tool was reported to have gone downfrom 69 percent in 1995 to 38 percent in 2000, and revived again to 61 percent in 20041.The concept of reengineering traces its origins back to management theories developed as earlyas the nineteenth century. BPR integrates methods from total quality management, technologyand innovation management, strategic planning, systems engineering, and organizational design4.The Stevens EM program has been offering courses related to these topics and integrating BPRin the curriculum was only natural. It aimed to provide our students an understanding of theBPR as a concept, learning of the tools and techniques and the ability to find similarities anddifferences between

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Peterson, Arizona State University; Jane Humble, Arizona State University

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27 Portland State University 59 28 Florida Institute of Technology 572. Web-sites for each program were accessed in November/December, 2006 or in January 2007. Based on the data found on the websites, a table was constructed classifying each required course into topic classes based on (a) the course title and (b) a review of the catalog listing for the course in most cases. The classification was done by the author, an engineering management educator for the past 13 years with an additional 18 years as a practicing engineering manager. The classification system was not predetermined but driven by data with new topic classifications added as needed to

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Engineering Management

Page 12.1381.2to understand the developmental model adopted by the industrial engineering faculty.Developmental TheoryA growing body of research suggests that in order to help students develop more complexthinking skills one needs to provide a curriculum that is challenging while simultaneouslyproviding the foundational support necessary for student success. While some researchers focuson an adaptive curriculum based on a student’s learning preference curve or typology3,4, otherssuggest that a curriculum focused on the social aspects of student learning may be moreproductive5-8. Still others suggest that focusing on students’ intellectual development can lead tosignificant learning gains9,10. The Industrial Engineering program seeks to

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EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raymond Krizek, Northwestern University; Ahmad Hadavi, Northwestern University

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Engineering Management

for hiringbachelor’s degree graduates and training them in-house. Based on these results, the idea wasabandoned at that time.However, about a decade later, with interest from students and a growing industry preference fora more specialized education, the Master of Project Management (MPM) program was started in1989 as a grass roots endeavor with little support from the Northwestern Universityadministration, because the program was in an area where Northwestern had no history and verymodest in-house faculty capability. In the early years the curriculum was composed of somecarefully chosen regular university courses and an increasing selection of custom-designedcourses taught by adjunct faculty. In the ensuing years the program grew from its

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IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Jinkins, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Jill Clough, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Engineering Management

Page 12.1154.2 Safety management Communication skills Ethical decision making Team skills Professional development and responsibility Career planningAlthough these are covered in many other courses in the curriculum, the engineeringManagement course provides an important aspect of the education in each vital area thatcould not be slighted in coverage.Coverage, however, did not require use of lecture, written assignment, and exams. Infact, more memorable mechanisms would be preferred. It was determined that acombination of pedagogical techniques could be used to advantage and a syllabusconstructed that relied heavily on: Class discussion Case studies Independent and group research and

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Engineering Management Program Management / IE and EM Program Mangement / Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Raymond Price, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Engineering Management

regarding the need to modify the engineering curriculum in order to betterprepare engineering graduates to face the new challenges that the current engineeringenvironment presented. In 1994, “industry and academe realized that their concerns were thesame, [therefore] they began to mobilize through ABET, the organization responsible for settingthe standards of engineering education” (ABET, 2004, p. 1). As a result, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) acknowledged this call from industry andeducational leaders, and started working towards changing the standards of engineeringeducation in order to guarantee that engineering students not only have an education in thetechnical disciplines of engineering but also in human

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EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Douglas Ramers, University of Evansville; Greg Rawski, University of Evansville

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Engineering Management

” portion of the degree requirements.From the beginning, we desired an EM minor that would be available to students in bothEngineering and Business. It was apparent that any such minor would need two completelydifferent tracks: engineers would need to learn fundamentals of business and business studentswould need the fundamentals of science and engineering/technology. Each group provided itsown set of challenges. For the engineers, the issue was how to integrate the 18 hours into analready crowded schedule (It was decided at the outset to attempt to design a minor that could beincorporated into the existing eight-semester engineering and business curricula – at least in idealcircumstances- rather than requiring an additional semester.) For the

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IE and EM Program Mangement

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Hagenberger, Valparaiso University; Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Kathleen Sevener, Valparaiso University

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Engineering Management

disciplines. Prior to the 2000-2001 academic year,both the ME and ECE departments had an independent senior design sequence. In the summer of2001, these were merged by the ME and ECE departments, and this has continued to the present.The senior design curriculum change was motivated by a need to place additional emphasis ondeveloping student skills in product design and effective multidisciplinary teamwork. Muchcurriculum development at our university and others has focused on these skills since theintroduction of Engineering Criteria 2000 by the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology. Additionally, multidisciplinary design and teamwork have been active areas incurriculum development at other universities.Each team of four to six students

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EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Thomas Johnson, Besam Entrance Solutions; Tom Benson, Pass and Seymour-Legrand; Dean Nestvogel, Pass and Seymour-Legrand

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AC 2007-709: A COLLABORATIVE CASE STUDY FOR TEACHING“ACHIEVING LEAN SYSTEM BENEFITS IN MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLYCHAINS” TO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT STUDENTSErtunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and the Associate Director of the Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Before joining academia, Dr. Ozelkan worked for i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain software vendor in the capacity of a Customer Service and Global Curriculum Manager and a Consultant. He also worked as a project manager and a consultant for Tefen Consulting in the area of

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cassandra Elrod, University of Missouri; Ashley Rasnic, University of Missouri; William Daughton, University of Missouri

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aboutwhat the common definitions/elements are so that the field can be marketed consistently to bothperspective students and potential employers. Page 12.644.2MethodologyIn order to make comparisons between the Engineering Management and Industrial Engineeringdegree fields’ definitions and curriculum, a decision on what institutions and programs to includehad to be made. For the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management, onlyschools that held an ABET2 accreditation in Engineering Management (not combined or mixedprograms) were selected to be analyzed. These schools were thought to be most closelycomparable since the ABET holds each

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EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Engineering Management

SE discipline fills this critical educational need to handle theincreasing demands for systems efficiency, effectiveness, and integration in engineering andbusiness operations. SE education is critical for the companies in the U.S. to remain competitiveand for U.S. engineering graduates to be able to participate in global engineering operations.This paper demonstrates some activities in designing a Bachelor of Science in SystemsEngineering (BSSE) curriculum. The activities include benchmarking other similar programs,performing an industry needs analysis, and fulfilling the needs from other engineeringdepartments and the institution’s B.S. requirements. A list of required skills in industry in the SErelated fields is used to map to the demand

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IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Mantey, University of California-Santa Cruz; RAM AKELLA, University of California-Santa Cruz; John Musacchio, University of California-Santa Cruz; Yi Zhang, University of California-Santa Cruz; Kevin Ross, University of California-Santa Cruz; Subhas Desa, University of California-Santa Cruz

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Engineering Management

both in engineering and in a business school, and to synthesize on their own what theyhave learned from both of these in the context of their industry careers. TIM will instead bringboth of these domains together in an integrated curriculum and focus, enabling students toacquire the tools to address the complex problems faced by managers in these technologycompanies. Working engineers in local industry with interests in management in advancedtechnology enterprises are expected to be a major source of graduate students in TIM. (Note thatit is anticipated that 80-90% of the TIM M.S. students will have full-time jobs in Silicon Valley,and will therefore be enrolled part-time in the TIM program. Ph.D. students on the other handare expected to be

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Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Elson, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University; Howard Evans, National University

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Engineering Management

specializations in educational curricula. There are two primary reasons why engineering management should be included as part of asystems engineering curriculum. The first is that, as noted above, the design and engineering ofsystems is itself a systems process and is therefore embodied as a system. As INCOSE’sstatement was quoted above, it is a blending “of appropriate technologies and managementprinciples in a synergistic manner”. The second reason, perhaps less compelling but none the lessas valid, is that some systems, especially those complex systems of systems, tend to requirehuman involvement and decision making and in some cases management – not necessarily themanagement of just an engineering process, but the management of technology: its

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EMD Program Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yesim Sireli, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Frank Skinner, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Management

well asselected experiences elsewhere in academic arena, a significant number of engineering seniors aswell as graduate students have problems with at least systems thinking, integration of risk anduncertainty into design, and schedule overruns. Current teaching practices and educationalmaterial do not seem to be sufficient to help overcome these challenges. Consequently, it is safeto expect that similar problems will occur when graduates join the workforce, contributing to theindustry problems mentioned in Section 2. This study proposes that new multidisciplinaryeducational material and an improved curriculum are necessary to equip engineering studentswith crucial design knowledge and skills from a systems perspective. Based on the industrial

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IE and EM Program Mangement

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmad Sarfaraz, California State University-Northridge; Tarek Shraibati, California State University-Northridge

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Engineering Management

utilize and apply some of the knowledge and skills gainedthroughout the Master of Science in Engineering Management degree program. Implementingthese case studies ensure the program integrates the curriculum with real-world application.MSE 697, Directed Comprehensive Studies, is the culminating experience that has been selectedand approved by the university for the Master of Science in Engineering Management. Thespecific requirements have evolved over several years, reflecting in part suggestions provided byprogram alumni. The culminating experience course or directed comprehensive course may notbe undertaken until the last semester of program enrollment. The student’s committee chairmanis involved with the student on a regular basis and is in a

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IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

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Engineering Management

® learning platform, the rich, collaborativelearning environment fosters a high level of interaction among students and academic coaches,and facilitates discussions that are thoughtful, reasoned, and reflective. The project managementprogram was established in 2002. Following the first six MBA courses, students complete fourcourses in project management. Each course is completed over an eight-week period in thepaced, asynchronous environment. This means that students post their assignments andparticipate in threaded discussions through Lotus Notes® databases. The fourth course isfollowed by an integrative comprehensive exam. We developed all four courses using fourtextbooks and a set of academic readings. The textbooks are as follows

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Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

articles and conference papers. Page 12.744.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Finding Appropriate Data for ABET Self Study Sections B2&3 for Engineering ProgramsAbstractABET accreditation is an established benchmark for undergraduate engineering programsin the United States and ensures the quality of education college engineering studentsreceive. As such, ABET is the recognized U.S. accreditor of engineering college anduniversity programs. ABET outlines the criteria for each engineering program and thekey elements of what is required in each engineering program’s Self Study. However,ABET leaves up to