Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Galloway, The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

enhance theirstudies and get a head start in their careers; officials with government entities as they face criticalengineering issues and determine how best to solve them; and educators, who can truly make adifference in engineering education reform.The need to educate the engineer of the 21st century more strategically is essential to theendurance of the profession. Developing a proposed education program through modifications ofsuccessful programs to meet the needs of the 21st-century engineer will enable engineers toacquire the skills necessary to succeed in the world economy and to grow within the domesticengineering and construction market in a more transparent manner. This paper is based on theauthor’s book The 21st Century: A Proposal for

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

graduates since2000 showed that over 50 percent of EM graduates either become analysts or enter theIT/Systems field. Knowing that a majority of Stevens Engineering Managementgraduates do not follow the typical path into traditional engineering, creating focus areasspecializing in the career path of over half the graduate EM population was deemedappropriate and necessary to serve the undergraduate Engineering Managementpopulation well.Summary of Successful Endeavors and ChallengesStevens Institute of Technology had no concentrations in the Engineering ManagementProgram since its inception in the late 80’s. However, other more established programs,such as Mechanical Engineering, which has been at Stevens since its inception in 1870,had many

Conference Session

Professional Engineering Management Initiatives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology; S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

< 20% NONE 0%Table 1: Degree of Commonality (Scale)The above table describes the Degree of Commonality between the various EMBoKs and isbased on the logic of normal distribution6. The 68-95-99.7 rule or empirical rule states that for anormal distribution, almost all values lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean. From that,about 68% of the values lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean.The ASEM EMBoK7 is used as the basis of comparison to other EM BoKs since it is based onthe undergraduate and graduate EM programs. ASEM EM BoK is the basis of the knowledgeEM graduates should have before they join the workforce. It is considered to be a pivotal point inthe career of an engineering manager; therefore it was

Conference Session

Professional Engineering Management Initiatives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

an SME andthen peer reviewed by another SME in the field. The combination of these two processes ensuresthat the ASEM EM BoK was validated.Other Approaches to an EM BoKThere are a number of other approaches to establish an EM BoK using different approaches.One approach uses an industry survey as the primary basis to establish an EM BoK. While thisapproach captures EM Managers’ needs later in their careers, it does not address many of the Page 13.225.4basic topics taught to EM students in various programs. Also for this approach to have validitythere needs to be a process of peer review by practitioners and SMEs.Subject Matter Experts (SMEs