27 Portland State University 59 28 Florida Institute of Technology 572. Web-sites for each program were accessed in November/December, 2006 or in January 2007. Based on the data found on the websites, a table was constructed classifying each required course into topic classes based on (a) the course title and (b) a review of the catalog listing for the course in most cases. The classification was done by the author, an engineering management educator for the past 13 years with an additional 18 years as a practicing engineering manager. The classification system was not predetermined but driven by data with new topic classifications added as needed to
Page 12.1381.2to understand the developmental model adopted by the industrial engineering faculty.Developmental TheoryA growing body of research suggests that in order to help students develop more complexthinking skills one needs to provide a curriculum that is challenging while simultaneouslyproviding the foundational support necessary for student success. While some researchers focuson an adaptive curriculum based on a student’s learning preference curve or typology3,4, otherssuggest that a curriculum focused on the social aspects of student learning may be moreproductive5-8. Still others suggest that focusing on students’ intellectual development can lead tosignificant learning gains9,10. The Industrial Engineering program seeks to
is the Engineering &Science curriculum director for the program.The University of Detroit Mercy also offers a Master of Engineering Management (MEM)degree; it is a hybrid degree offered by the College of Business Administration and the Collegeof Engineering and Science. The program integrates technical and management studies toproduce graduates capable of assuming leadership roles in engineering management.The primary author was invited to teach and/or develop an elective for the MEM program.Because of his affinity for systems architecture and systems engineering (as well as hispassionate belief that these two disciplines are both critical and often neglected), he proposed ablended class that covered both topics in adequate depth for the
for hiringbachelor’s degree graduates and training them in-house. Based on these results, the idea wasabandoned at that time.However, about a decade later, with interest from students and a growing industry preference fora more specialized education, the Master of Project Management (MPM) program was started in1989 as a grass roots endeavor with little support from the Northwestern Universityadministration, because the program was in an area where Northwestern had no history and verymodest in-house faculty capability. In the early years the curriculum was composed of somecarefully chosen regular university courses and an increasing selection of custom-designedcourses taught by adjunct faculty. In the ensuing years the program grew from its
EM at the undergraduate level (ouremphasis underlined): The curriculum must prepare graduates to understand the engineering relationships between the management tasks of planning, organization, leadership, control, and the human element in production, research, and service organizations; to understand and deal with the stochastic nature of management systems. The curriculum must also prepare graduates to integrate management systems into a series of different technological environments.8Whether in the area of ABET Criterion 3 (a)-(k) student outcomes or in the program criteria,factors such as a restricted and possibly narrow interpretation of engineering topics, universitypressures to reduce the total
. Page 23.396.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing Community for Distance Learners in an Engineering Management ProgramAbstractAs universities explore options for the delivery of high quality degree programs to distancelearners, some students will look for innovative offerings that combine virtual instruction withelements of face-to-face interaction. Distance learners often select programs that support theasynchronous delivery of core classroom material to retain the momentum of established careersand better manage work-life commitments. There is additional value in distance educationopportunities that combine a flexible, academically rigorous curriculum with
process. All their recommendations were relatedto the improvement of teaching and student service processes. Although an employer was namedas a first customer, students’ recommendations on curriculum improvement, campus layout, andfacilities utilization demonstrated that students considered themselves as customers as well.Francis4 in his study of lean implementation in Canadian universities pointed out strongprospects for new research programs related to Lean in higher education. The universitiespotential in producing rigorous research should be leveraged to promote the lean adoption as asystem in HEI.Although some authors believe that in the recent years it has become easier to use Leanmethodology for non-experts in the field9, most of the
Management Programs; and 4) Use the case of Bristol Tennessee Essential Services(BTES) to illustrate the framework and show positive results for the discontinuous changes thathave occurred. Throughout this discussion the authors strive to use the BTES experience as abenchmark for reinforcing the systematic approach to innovation suggested by the conceptualframework; and to suggest that the Engineering Management curriculum may need innovative Page 15.119.2changes to provide the skills necessary to excel.Enhanced competitiveness in the global arena requires both a commitment to quality/continuousimprovement and an expanded view of organizational
Sri Lanka Curriculum Development in Medicine 6492 Sri Lanka Pharmacy 6493 Sri Lanka Physical Education 6494 Sri Lanka Political Science 6570 Paraguay All Disciplines 6571 Peru All Disciplines 6581 Singapore Military HistoryOnce you have an idea of which awards are of interest to you and might be a little off thebeaten track, you should communicate with the program officers and ask them for advice.I received very good advice from a number of program officers I contacted, since theprogram officers are eager to find qualified candidates for their less popular locations.This is important since you can only apply to one at a time and should apply only afteryou have prepared
risk management topics in the presented curriculumto future engineering management graduates. Based on this analysis, they will then makerecommendations on how to incorporate risk management aspects, in an integrated way, into thecurriculum of various courses in their EM program. The goal of conducting this study is to providea systemic or holistic perspective on risk management to engineering management graduates,which will more effectively prepare them to serve in scientific and engineering communities andindustries.IntroductionWith increasing complexity of engineering projects, the focus on risk and risk management is notonly increasing but it is also changing considerably. Risk management in engineering firms thatdeal with large complex
facilitate the development of moral, ethical and sustainableintegrity, together with an understanding of management issues. Students are made aware ofvarious aspects of management that are important to the practising engineer and how sociallyresponsible management is an integral part of engineering. The programme also provides abase from which students may continue their management education. In these two papers thestudents are encouraged to explore possible alternatives beyond the knowledge andconstraints of the actual situation within their level of competence, as the beginning of a life-long learning process in their engineering careers.The new BE curriculum is designed to interest and challenge undergraduate engineeringstudents, and prepare them
Paper ID #26400Transforming the Industrial Engineering Technology Curriculum through aGraduate Level Management of Systems Engineering CourseCaleb Wolters, University of Dayton Caleb Wolters is currently an Engineering Management Masters student at the University of Dayton. His undergraduate degree was in Mechanical Engineering also from the University of Dayton. During his five years at UD he played college golf and led his team as a captain in 2016-17. He was a scholar athlete and on the honor roll for all five years of his college career. He is now a full time student while mentoring and managing graduate students. He
an integral part of product design, manufacturing, and use. Today, mostcompanies sell their products in different global markets and this requires consideration ofcustomer needs and ergonomics of users from these different markets. Moreover, productdesigners should consider ergonomics to enhance sustainability and maintainability of products.Recent advancements in computer technology in the last two decades have contributed to thedevelopment of computer simulations for ergonomics. Such simulations are known as DigitalHuman Modeling (DHM) and are used to assess the performance of human operators in theworkplace. DHM can also be integrated with Computer Aided Design (CAD) to evaluate theergonomics of product designs.2. Related LiteratureIn the
, therefore making it important to both academicians, as well as, practitioners. EM as aformal degree has been present since the mid 1940s 3 and currently, there are more than 100universities in the US offering an undergraduate and / or graduate program in EM. EM programswere historically embedded within the departments of industrial engineering, depending upon theuniversities 4. However, in order to reflect the gradual shift from manufacturing to turn-keysystems integrators in a global economic environment, many more universities are aligning theirEM programs with their systems engineering program 5.Importance of Analyzing FailuresFailure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of afailure. It relies on
of internationalization inhigher education given by Dr. Jane Knight, who described it as a process of integrating aninternational dimension into teaching, research and service.5, 6, 7There have also been many professors from U.S. universities who have gone overseas to helpmake improvements to global higher education, who play important roles in global highereducation, and who provide services for changes to be implemented into the education systemsof other countries. This also serves as an opportunity for the U.S. professors to be able to learnabout other educational systems worldwide and then identify best practices that they canincorporate into their own educational system.8There are also many cultural benefits that can beobtained by the
studies investigated curriculum integration where softskills teaching is included in most of the academic program courses.27,28,29 Integrated Teaching FrameworkCurriculum integration was practiced and proven as an effective approach to teachinginterdisciplinary skills.27,28,29 The integration was considered as a common theme in a set ofcourses, or as an application of knowledge from one course to teach another course in anacademic program, or as an industry based projects such as internship or capstone projects. Theapplication of industry teaching approaches used to train employees versus teaching in anacademic setting was also described in the literature.30,31 In this research we propose an integration as a
2006-1701: EMBEDDING THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TECHNOLOGY GROUPMANAGEMENT IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE/ENGINEERINGGRADUATE PROGRAMKen Vickers, University of Arkansas Ken Vickers is a Research Professor in Physics at the University of Arkansas, and has served as Director of the interdisciplinary Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program since April 1998. He worked for Texas Instruments from 1977 through March 1998 in integrated circuit fabrication engineering, and has authored thirty issued patents. He received BS and MS degrees in Physics from the University of Arkansas in 1976 and 1978 respectively.Ron Foster, University of Arkansas Ron Foster is a Research Associate Professor at the University
remediation and enhanced oil recovery. Page 24.759.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Innovative Teaching of Product Design and Development in an Engineering Management Master ProgramAbstract: Engineering Management is a discipline that is not rigidly defined and theMaster Programs attract students with different undergraduate disciplines. Studentsare attracted towards Engineering Management only at the Masters’ level and it isdifficult to incorporate all topics in the Masters’ curriculum. Therefore a choice has tobe made. Some programs give more emphasis for Product
and concepts help to integrate thespecialty engineering designs together to better design and manage complex systems. Thesesame systems engineering tools can be used to teach systems engineering to engineers. Agraduate-level engineering management curriculum includes a Management of EngineeringSystems course, whose key learning objective is for the students to be able to synthesize andapply the systems engineering methods and tools to a real-world system design project. Thispaper will describe how the instructor applied systems engineering tools to enhance learning ofsystems engineering tools and concepts in an engineering management course. The studentsapplied the systems engineering tools in the course to design a system in teams of 4 to 5
development, possibly because (once again) they are so focused on the technicalrequirements of an engineering education. Next, there are no standardized teaching methodologiesor techniques available to teach creativity within the engineering leadership curriculum, despite awealth of general creativity techniques focused on specific creative activities, such as ideageneration. And finally, there has been little acknowledgement or push from either the professionalinstitutions or industries of the role of creativity in leadership development for engineers; withoutthis external recognition of its importance, it will be more difficult to persuade academicinstitutions to invest in creativity instruction within their engineering curricula.Exploratory
,’ ASQ Higher Education Brief, 2(4), August 20094. Reichner, R., Bernold, L., Burniston, E., Dail, P., Felder, R., Gastineau, J., Gjertsen, M., Risley, J., ‘Case Study of the Physics Component of an Integrated Curriculum,’ Physics Education Journal, 67 (7), July 19995. Prince, M., ‘Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research,’ Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231 (2004)6. Prince, M. J., Felder, R. M., ‘Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases,’ Journal of Engineering Education, 95(2), 123-138 (2006)7. Novak, G. M., Patterson, E. T., Gavrin, A. D., Christian, W., ‘Just in Time Teaching,’ American Journal of Physics, October 1999, Volume 67, Issue 10, pp. 9378
revise and coordinate the curriculum for ESD.00 in order to provide awell integrated learning experience to our students.Our long-term goal is to make valuable and essential additions to an engineering curriculum,including the possibility of a minor in engineering systems, for undergraduate students of a newgeneration – a generation that becomes well prepared for successfully meeting the grandchallenges of its times.References1 Vest, C.M., “Context and Challenge for Twenty-First Century Engineering Education,” SpecialGuest Editorial, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2008, pp. 235-236.2 National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, And Institute of Medicineof The National Academies. Rising Above the Gathering Storm
of this paper isto provide an approach in using term projects and case studies to offer engineering/engineeringmanagement students the knowledge and awareness of the global market issues and constraintson various engineering/business operations, so they would take more comprehensive evaluationof all factors while making engineering decisions.The ultimate purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways to educate and trainengineering/engineering management students with less required resource or change in theexisting curriculum to sharpen their abilities in making good decisions and creating a globalvision in a competitive environment.The result of this paper provides a brief discussion of the influence of implementing this type ofassignments in
in embedded systems. She held other positions related to project management.Dr. Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology Art Pyster is a distinguished Research Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Deputy Ex- ecutive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) sponsored by the Department of Defense. During Pyster’s 35-year career, he held several senior positions, including being the Senior Vice President and Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for SAIC and the Deputy Chief Informa- tion Officer for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. He is an INCOSE Fellow and a member of their Board of Directors. He currently runs BKCASE, a project that is establishing the
Sigma as Part of their UniversityTraining,” Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 21, pp. 249-256, 2005.[17] Castellano, J., Petrick, J., Vokurka, R., & Weinstein, L, “Integrating Six Sigma Conceptsin an MBA Quality Management Class,” Journal of Education for Business, 83, pp. 233-238,2008.[18] Cudney, E.A. & Kanigolla, D., “Measuring the Impact of Project-Based Learning in SixSigma Education,” Journal of Enterprise Transformation, 4, pp. 272-288, 2014.[19] Dinesh Kanigolla, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Steven M. Corns, V.A. Samaranayake, “EnhancingEngineering Education Using Project-based Learning for Lean and Six Sigma", InternationalJournal of Lean Six Sigma, Vol. 5 Issue: 1, pp.45-61, 2014.[20] Besterfield, D., Quality
, itbecomes evident that it is pertinent for the organizations to adopt an organizational culture thatwill foster well-developed means of communication, strive for development as well as flexibilityin order to adapt well to the environmental trends. In both instances one could gain acomparative advantage in adaptation to environmental trends such as market trends competitors,technological developments, economic climate etc. that are crucial for the success of anorganization. The authors will use the above logic to explain to engineering managers the need toincorporate more psychological concepts into the EM curriculum so as to understand how tobetter the organization as an entity and to improve its organizational strength
first joined UW-Madison’s faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he co-founded the Construction Engineering and Management Pro- gram and developed the construction curriculum. In addition, he has authored and co-authored papers on the subject of educating civil engineers. His body of work demonstrates his commitment to using emerging technology in the classroom to prepare the next generation of engineers and other students for the challenges of the future. Jeff was honored in 2014 with an Outstanding Projects and Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from
suggestions, the BEEd proposed integrating into the curriculum 1. “exposure to the concepts of business, economics, marketing and manufacturing and risk. 2. Sustainable development of the environment and 3. Engineering management, including effective interaction with shop-floor and technical support personnel.”They also recommended “ remove some material and some courses from the currentcurriculum. …Remove redundancies, for example the repetitious teaching of the sameprinciples of chemistry, physics and thermodynamics in different courses. Incorporatesome math and science “base” courses into engineering courses. Emphasize in-depth onearea of engineering practice in a discipline and provide
presentation), an opportunity for workers to participate in the creation ofalternative work methods (student visits to the plantation), as well as improved practices andimprovement of livelihoods (Neet & Neubert, 2011). These are characterized as relevantattributes within the stakeholder’s benefit dimension.In considering this course and project experience as a whole, it is suspected that theEngineering Curriculum can go further to elicit meaningful reflections from students as anintegral part of their entire project experience. Rather than only relying on a post-projectreflective experience, as was the case here, a new model (see Figure 3) that integrates a pre-reflection activity as a means to create a deep and meaningful reflection of the
teaching an online graduate Operations Management course.A combination of instructional approaches including active learning, cooperative learning andproblem-based learning were applied in teaching through threaded discussions, BlackboardCollaborate sessions and project etc. In addition, students developed simulation games in theirgroup project to simulate business operations and dynamics. The design of the games not onlyhelped students quickly gain a conceptual background of the real world operations problems, butalso increased the depth of their learning. A rich combination of project work and exposure toengineering practice throughout the curriculum provided excellent vehicles for students todevelop their critical thinking and problem-solving