Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Viola, School of Engineering, Tufts University

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Engineering Management

program outcomes and student assessments is included, as well as a shortdescription of our efforts to adapt key elements of the MSEM program to the Tufts engineeringundergraduate curriculum. Included, as appendices, are demographic data for students andindustry representation as well as the objectives and outcomes for the leadership courses. Page 22.3.2MSEM Courses and Integrated Modular ArchitectureThe mission of the Tufts MSEM is to prepare practicing technical professionals to lead andinnovate in the highly competitive global environment. The program focuses on studentdevelopment in four areas: (1) technical skills, (2) business knowledge, (3

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

successful leaders achievegreat improvements in their operational activities and customer satisfaction. As such, the needfor Six Sigma belt certification and training has increased significantly in recent decades. Gygiet al.1 indicated, “In certain corporations, Six Sigma proficiency on your résumé is now aprerequisite to moving into a management position.” This movement has led manyundergraduate and graduate engineering students with management aspirations to seek out SixSigma training during their formal studies. Unfortunately, acquiring Six Sigma training throughpopular means (professional quality organizations or private consultants) is costly,geographically challenging, and oftentimes the timing is incongruent with academic schedules.Given

Conference Session

Frontiers in EM Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen A. Raper, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Management

middle of the state in a rurallocation with a very limited manufacturing base. Thus, the program would have to reach out andgo to industry partners rather than bring problems into a laboratory environment.The department knew a course which met ABET requirements must be developed and added tothe curriculum in the form of a core, required course taken during the last semester. As statedabove, significant challenges to development of this course existed. However, the departmentused the ABET requirements as the primary catalyst or driver for change.1 The department reliedupon the ABET constituent driven approach to overcome at least the cultural, personality, and

Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Hsiao, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

is a course-based graduate program that can be completed on a fullor part-time basis and draws on the expertise of both the Faculty of Engineering and AppliedScience and the Faculty of Business Administration. The completion of twelve courses results ina Master of Engineering Management, or MEM, degree. The program consists of five coursesoffered by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, five courses offered by the Facultyof Business Administration, and a two-course project. These courses are shown in Table 1.To be eligible for the program, applicants must have a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor ofScience degree in an engineering discipline from a university of recognized standing, with acumulative B-average. The three

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valeria Quevedo, Universidad de Piura; Susana Vegas, Universidad de Piura; Reynaldo Villar, Universidad de Piura

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

to those that did not take partof one.1&3 Page 22.1321.3Figure 1 shows the process that a student has to follow from admission to the first semester atfour prestigious private universities in Perú. As shown, these universities offer certain kinds ofremedial programs to help the students perform better in their undergraduate studies.Nevertheless, there is no literature related to those experiences that help universities judge iftheir programs are effective. Introductory Fail

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West

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Engineering Management

Page 22.1383.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaching Design of Experiments using the Mouse FactoryIntroductionThe American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)1 defines engineering managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technical component.” Quality-related activities are widelyaccepted as an important field of engineering management. In today’s global and highlycompetitive business environment, high quality products and services are a necessity. Quality isone method in which organizations compete2. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)3,4has conducted competency surveys and

Conference Session

Frontiers in EM Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga C. Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Management

. Online delivery has been selected as a strategicinitiative, which resulted in the establishment of an Online MS in Engineering Management thatstarted during the Fall of 2009.Scope:This study is an extension of the work presented in Ozelkan and Galambosi[9,10], who studiedpreferences of engineering and EMGT students towards online learning techniques. They haveshown that student preferences vary depending on the engineering discipline, and EMGTgraduate students are one of the most interested in online learning. The current paper focuses onthe faculty perspectives instead, and tries to answer the following three research questions: 1.What are faculty’s preferences for different online teaching techniques?; 2. What is theperception of faculty

Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy K. Zander P.E., Clarkson University

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Engineering Management

. Page 22.599.2ABET, Inc., has been the recognized accreditor for college and university programs in appliedscience, computing, engineering, and technology for more than 75 years. Among the purposes ofABET, Inc. (ABET) are two that relate to accreditation. ABET intends to 1) organize and carryout a comprehensive process of accreditation of pertinent programs leading to degrees, and assistacademic institutions in planning their educational programs, and 2) promote the intellectualdevelopment of those interested in applied science, computing, engineering, and technologyprofessions (ABET Policy, 2008). The Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) evaluatesand accredits individual degree programs with the word “engineering” in their title

Conference Session

EM Program Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anirban Ganguly, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

set of quallity/ process managemennt topics perttinent to anyy graduate EM Mcurriculuum. Figure 1 provides thee reader withh an overvieew of the prooposed reseaarch. Research R h • Evaluating the relative im mportance off a set of quaality / process O Objective e m management ttopics as a part p of a gradduate EM cuurriculum • (A A) Identifyinng a set of toppics