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- Engineering Management Program Design
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- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College
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lucrative for working professionals as well asdistance learners. The paper examines how the basic principles of Six Sigma were systematicallyapplied to curriculum development to not only ensure quality of the program but also toexpressly address needs of the students and industry.IntroductionAs engineers, scientists, and technologists advance in their careers, they encounter an increasingexpectation of project and team management. At the same time, these technical specialists areoftentimes poorly prepared to take on these additional job responsibilities. A Master of Sciencein Engineering Management degree is designed to help technical professionals take this next stepin their career. In addition to added technical exposure, this well-rounded degree
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- Engineering Management Program Design
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- Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Ronald Rosenberg, Michigan State University
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, rather than lagging behind them.”Structural change does not come easily even to a profession that sees new technologies displaceold ones on an ongoing basis. To maintain the historically competitive advantage of theengineering workforce in the United States, our undergraduate engineering programs must havethe ability to change to meet societal need.In the College of Engineering, Michigan State University we are developing an agile engineeringeducation program that builds on the foundations of physical and social sciences, business andthe humanities. Building on these pillars, a student develops career-oriented knowledge andskills in a student-selected satellite cognate. Our program design balances between technicaldepth and breadth. Further, it
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- Frontiers in Engineering Management
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- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University
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included in theengineering and engineering technology curriculum. The findings indicate that American toolshops are using innovative technologies, updating machinery, and instituting new strategies. Thetool shops making this transition are the adaptors creating new competitive advantages byrevising their strategies to reflect competitive changes, offering products fitting into uniqueniches, supplying specialized customer services, and providing rapid delivery. The results fromthis study have been incorporated into engineering and engineering technology courses to betterprepare graduates for careers in engineering management for manufacturing based industries.IntroductionForeign competition has had an extremely negative impact on American
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- Frontiers in Engineering Management
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- William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University
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are usually restricted. This raises the question of whichimprovement programs are being implemented and how successful have they been? Anengineering management study (Loendorf18, 2008) was conducted in 2008 with its mainobjective to answer these questions in a definitive manner.Knowledge about the improvement programs most frequently used by manufacturers is a keyaspect that must be included in the management courses associated with the engineering andengineering technology curriculum. Exposure to this important information better preparesgraduates for the challenges that they will encounter during their real-world engineering andmanagement careers in manufacturing. To meet that objective, various engineering andengineering technology courses
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- Frontiers in Engineering Management
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- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University
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engineeringmanagement careers, the results from this study have been directly integrated into multipleengineering and engineering technology courses.IntroductionThe tooling industry has been around for hundreds of years in one form or another. In fact, theindustry has been in existence since before the industrial revolution when dies, molds, and otherforms of tools were just beginning to be widely used. In those days, a competitor was also aneighbor or the fellow down the street. The competition was from local people and companies.Due to vast improvements in communication and transportation, competitors are now morelikely to be located anywhere in the world. Most likely, they are located in a far away countrywith little or no environmental regulations, few if
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- Frontiers in Engineering Management
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- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Hector Carlo, University of Puerto Rico; Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Scott Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology
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in participants’dispositions or beliefs, the program will use pre and post online surveys designed to gatherinformation on students’ attitudes, skills, self-confidence, interest in careers, and perceptions ofexperiences related to integrated virtual teaming. For virtual teaming metrics includecommunication level, leadership, and performance as a unit4, 6, 1. Quantitative data will beanalyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to test for statisticallysignificant differences from pre to post. Page 15.248.7Faculty mentors also complete online surveys. Since mentoring is one of the hardest, yet mostrewarding
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- Frontiers in Engineering Management
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- Andrew Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; Michael Parker, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Robert Bridges, B&W Y-12 Technical Services, LLC
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sustainability. Engineers of the 21stcentury must understand globalization and sustainability to be professionally successful in thedomestic and international dimensions of their careers.2 Galloway goes on to say that suchrequirements demand that engineering education be reformed to include lifelong learning, ethicsand sustainability; while continuing to teach the core undergraduate curriculum. Interestingly,results from the Peterson and Humble 2007 study of 28 graduate programs in EngineeringManagement, places Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development at the bottom of lists ofcourses taught ranked in order of importance.3 This gap certainly creates a challenge foreducators at institutions of higher learning teaching in Engineering Management