Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

IBM engineering workforce. Itwas soon recognized that these skills also needed promoting among engineering graduate programs, this lead to IBMgrants for the establishment of cross-disciplinary ‘Manufacturing Systems Engineering’ programs in Asia, Europeand the U.S. – these programs developed new courses and also adopted and adapted offerings from Colleges ofBusiness in collaboration with several disciplines in engineering [8].In parallel, by the nineties these initiatives promoting collaboration, communication, presentation and teamworkskills became widely employed in contests starting in middle schools with events like the Future City Competition,Mathcounts, Odyssey of the Mind, and science fairs etc. [9]. Similar competitions for university