Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Hsiao, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

: Engineering Manager Activity and Problem Difficulty Skill Area vs Benefit of Training 80% 70% 60% 50% Benefit 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Little or no benefit Somewhat Beneficial Highly Beneficial Table 5: Perceived Benefit of Additional Training in an Engineering Management SkillDiscussionThe initial research presented in this paper supports the balance of Business and Engineeringgraduate courses as required by MUN’s Master of Engineering Management program.Specifically, practicing engineering managers are stating that “professional skills”, sometimesinadequately called “soft skills”, are what is

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

, project-based Lean Six Sigma course that provides students a Page 22.1611.8 fundamental understanding of the DMAIC process using both quantitative and qualitative tools. Additionally, provide students the opportunity to learn appropriate facilitation (soft) skills necessary to lead productive Six Sigma projects.With the project scope in place, the researcher moved to the second phase of the DMADVprocess, the Measure phase.MeasureDuring this phase, the goal is to measure and quantify the customers’ needs and expectations.More specifically, in this study, the author set out to identify the tools, both quantitative andqualitative