past thirty years, many studies have emphasized the importance of applying ergonomicprinciples to product designs such as designing swimming suits3, non-powered hand tools4,writing instruments for children5, and luggage handles6. Thus, continuously injecting humanfactors and ergonomic (HFE) design concepts in the undergraduate engineering curriculum isimportant. It ensures that students have knowledge of applying HFE principles towards productdesign to minimize potential causes of injury and discomfort for the users7.Studies have noted that product design should address ergonomic considerations that take intoaccount the majority of customers’ capabilities and limitations when using the produce for itsintended purpose8. To discover the
extend them to realworld problems. Since assessment of student development in three of the above four categoriesis not an easy task, the majority of schools[6] that offer OR courses have their main focus on theimplementation of the third item (developing operational skills).Based on that, students learn how to perform the simplex method, its iterations, write the dualproblem, and perform sensitivity analysis with or without the use of software. An instructorspends many hours trying to teach the procedural steps which are tedious, repetitive, and requirecareful attention to the details, but it is easy to learn.The concepts, on the other hand, require a higher learning mechanism and instructorstraditionally find insufficient time for such
engineering courses, communication skills are not taught explicitly;however, students are expected and held accountable for being able to speak and write well.Consequently, there is a need to change university engineering programs in order to provideopportunities for students to develop communication skills (Pet-Armacost, & Armacost, 2003).The importance and need for oral and written communication skills in engineering has beenclearly recognized. Engineering students who have good communication skills are more likelyto succeed and advance in the professional world than those who don’t.Team-Working Skills in EngineeringIn today’s work environment, project tasks generally involve the establishment of teams formedby people from different functional
AC 2012-4103: ”LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ECONOMICS” MOD-ULEDr. K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, ArlingtonDr. Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington Melanie Sattler serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she teaches courses and conducts research related to air quality and sustainable energy. Her research has been spon- sored by the National Science Foundation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Luminant Power, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. She has published more than 60 peer- reviewed papers and conference proceedings. In 2010, she received UT Arlington’s Lockheed Martin Excellence in Engineering Education Award. She is a registered
, relevant, immediatelyapplicable to their work, and substantiated by experiences of their own or credible peers 13,14,15,16.As the authors have taught this course over the past eight years, a shared, consistent goal andcommitment to our students has been to make the course “authentically real,” speaking directlyto the experiences and learning goals of these project-experienced professionals. Following is abrief description of a few key ways in which our teaching of effective, real project managementhas evolved.An Emphasis on Living Order“Living order” is a concept that the authors have found helpful in exploring the definition ofproject success and how to best strategize to achieve success. Alex Laufer has writtenextensively about living order and
the practice, and lead them into post-academia endeavors. Capstones differfrom regular courses since they are integrative. With respect to the Master ofEngineering Management program, the capstone course is a one-semester "putting itall together" course that gives students an opportunity to use their knowledge andskills, collaborate with their peers, practice their presentation and organizational skillsand ultimately, showcase what they have learned and achieved during their residencyin the Master Program. Peterson and Humble [2] studied the total undergraduate andmaster student intake for Engineering Management programs in USA during the year2004. They identified that 75% of the students were taken for master programs. Thereare a variety of
age where largeamounts of data are being collected with a growing need for those that can make “data-drivendecisions” [3]. McKinsey Global Institute, a business and economic research firm, claims thatwith the growth of digital data, the United States is going to need an additional 140,000 to190,000 analysts and more than 1.5 million managers capable of performing data analysis [4].Additional calls have been made for more statisticians in the federal system, working in placessuch as the Bureau of Labor Statistics or the United States Census Bureau [5].These pleas are not new, however; even in the early 1980’s authors were writing about the needto make the field of statistics as a separate discipline [6] and recognizing the growing need
individual efforts and the ability level that can be reached under adult guidance or incollaboration with more capable peers.1 Guidance can be provided by helping the learner tofocus on particular aspects of the problem by asking leading questions or providing starterinformation, or simplifying some of the details.2Scaffolding provides a structure that helps students construct knowledge by building newknowledge and competencies upon their existing abilities. It is commonly used in writing andusually given in one the following three forms: 1) breaking up an assignment into smallerassignments, 2) keeping assignment constant but increasing the difficulty of materials, or 3)creating a scaffold within a single assignment. 3 The levels of learning based
moral challenges. • Know how to address and reason through moral issues; how moral reasoning is different from reasoning in general. • Be familiar with several moral theories and how they can be used as tools in moral decision-making process. • Increase their self-awareness and desire to understand the broader world we live in. • Better understand their beliefs, ethical views and predispositions as well as their ‘way of knowing’. • Learn the value of self-reflection and improve their skills in reflective writing. Page 22.3.11III. Module 2: Art of Leadership: Influence, Empowerment
tenured faculty and four part-time facultyalong with one faculty jointly appointed with the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment. The BS in Systems Engineering was ABET accredited in 2012. Both theundergraduate and graduate programs are also accredited by SACS (Southern Association ofColleges and Schools). In addition, the online program is certified by the USDLA (United StatesDistance Learning Association). The program has been growing by about 15-20 students per yearmainly due to growth in the undergraduate program since 2008 and due to the introduction of theonline MS in Engineering Management in 2009. To support this growth the program is recruitingtwo tenure-tracks and several part-time faculty at the time of this writing. SEEM has
this context, this paper provides personal observations common across many organizationsbased on the author’s work in SE, project management, organizational development, and teamdevelopment.STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMDespite the formulation and development of Systems Engineering capability assessment andcompetency models, certifications, education and training courses, et al, system developmentprojects continue to exhibit technical performance issues concerning the engineering of systems.Contributing to this overall problem are several contributory performance effecters: 1. Misperceptions that writing specifications, developing designs, performing integration
Virtual education Distance education Internationalization “abroad” or “at home” Offshore or overseas education Source: Knight [13]A broad literature search using common academic search engines was used namely,ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/) and Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/).A targeted literature search was also performed using search filters for the Journal ofEngineering Education, Engineering Management Journal, American Society of EngineeringEducation conference proceedings (ASEE PEER), American Society for EngineeringManagement (ASEM) proceedings, the ASEM Journal, and Journal of Studies in InternationalEducation.Searches that used the term “global” or “international education
Page 26.1211.21partnership involving Georgia Tech and Emory University. In 2012, U.S. News & World Reportranked the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs second in the nation inbiomedical engineering. Finally, research leaders who purposely cultivate relationships between universities andgovernment entities may realize more innovation success. Partnerships with government officialsresponsible for writing funding solicitations may inform the direction of solicitations andincrease chances of winning the funding. University and industry leaders can alert governmentofficials of the most pressing needs for research, beyond selfish political lobbying. Researchleaders can also benefit from fostering a university‒government