Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael W. Prairie, Norwich University; Ronald Lessard, Norwich University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

common program, to be reintegrated by a series of lectures tointroduce concepts and explain how to produce SE-appropriate deliverables.The framework for presenting SE content in the capstone course for non-SE majors is to presentmodules as required1 beginning in a single weekly lecture that decreased in frequency as theprojects transitioned from intensive up-front planning to longer execution tasks. The SE processoutlined in the Systems Engineering Fundamentals (SEF) guide2 was initially adopted, and isoutlined in Table 1 with an approximate correspondence to the steps in the EDP. Supplementalmaterial was also drawn from Systems Engineering Handbook,3 as well as other sources

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maxwell Reid, Auckland University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

. This includes a demonstration of the ability to comprehend and apply a codified body of knowledge at the forefront of the practicing community. 2. 25-30 credits of capstone projects in which they undertake research, rather than investigative projects. 3. 5-15 credits in which a range of contextual skills include for example, working with other disciplines, ethical reasoning, impact of engineering on the community and a possible component based in industry1.To rationalise and introduce new papers, the offering of management papers was reviewed.AUT has for some time included engineering planning, ethics and sustainability in itsprogrammes. However the decision was made in 2011 to review the management papers inthe

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

ratheran introduction to project management and spreadsheets as an Engineering design tool. The classhas a very strong hands-on component using Microsoft Excel and MS Project. The students arethen required to use both tools in their later courses, particularly in their laboratory courses andplanning/tracking of the Capstone Design course. These students also take a Technical Writingcourse from the English Department to prepare them for report writing.We use several assignments of increasing difficulty to expose the students to Excel as a designtool and Project to organize and track a project. The quarter culminates with small teams ofstudents using both tools to design, plan, and track a virtual project of their choice such asstarting a small

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Cherbaka, North Carolina State University; Jerome Lavelle, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

on the design of a proposed program. From this we describe and evaluatepotential proposals for an EM program at NCSU.1. Engineering Management TodayDefining Engineering Management: Engineering Management as a discipline is not tightlydefined, as demonstrated by a relatively wide variance among academic EM programs. Thediscipline is often grouped with Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Management ofTechnology. Although very few EM definitions exist, current discipline trends are representedby the following:  Engineering Management is the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing and controlling activities which have a technological component.2  Engineering Management is

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Douglas Ramers, University of Evansville; Greg Rawski, University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

fundamental science and math courses (See Appendix A) 3. Provide a program with a very specific core of existing engineering and business courses that provides approximately 16 credit hours for specialization in either engineering or business using existing courses. It seemed that this option could eventually lead to accreditation. 4. Provide a program with a very specific core of existing engineering and business courses and an additional set of four to five new courses typically found in industrial engineering and manufacturing programs such as Facilities Planning and Design; Page 12.1238.3 Production

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan O. Schall, SOS Consulting, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #20279Engineeering the Accreditation ProcessDr. Susan O. Schall, SOS Consulting, LLC Susan O. Schall is President of SOS Consulting, LLC. Susan has over 20 years experience delivering improved performance using engineering, statistical and business process improvement methodologies, including Lean Six Sigma, team-based problem-solving, and strategic planning. Clients include higher education institutions and non-profits as well as organizations in the chemical, food, automotive,industrial supply and printing industries. Prior to consulting, Susan held a variety of process improvement and leadership roles at

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peilin Fu, National University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

, capacity planning, supply chain,inventory management, forecasting, operations planning and scheduling, and resource planningetc., which are all closely related with the daily operations of enterprises. However, due to lackof experiences in business operations, most of the students feel the course difficult to learn. Thetraditional teacher-oriented teaching method, in which the teacher explains the textbook contentsto students, makes students lose interests and confidence. An online Operations Managementcourse in which the students and instructor have limited/no face-to-face communications is evenmore challenging.How to stimulate students’ enthusiasm and critical thinking, and increase students' engagementin and out of classroom is crucial for

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian E. White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide; Vernon Ireland, University of Adelaide

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

categories, e.g., Program Management (primarily Planning), (narrow-sense,traditional, or conventional Systems Engineering, as opposed to CSE), and Change Management.Under Planning, there are many possible nuances, and those that are the most relevant in the casestudy should be given some prominence. For example, one must plan for Contingencies and howinformation will be management, especially regarding the Sharing of Information and Infor-mation Security. Attention must be allocated to an overall guiding Strategy and the expenditureof Resources, to include classically, Staffing, particularly contributing Roles, and the Budgetwhich often is revised based upon continually incremental funding. Compared to conventionalSE, in CSE one should strive to

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Brunkhorst, University of Missouri; Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri; Donald Myers, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

. The foundation developed a plan to invest all their capital in a shortperiod of time making substantial grants to thirty new biomedical engineering departmentsthroughout the U.S. in a major way so that they could afford to hire faculty and build the neededfacilities. They also provided funding to almost 1,500 young researchers to help them start theircareers in biomedical engineering.6 Since 1989, seventy-five institutions have received giftsfrom $750,000 to $18 million toward their biomedical engineering programs. This contributedto the rapid rise in biomedical engineering programs during the five year period between 1995and 2000. During this five year period, the number of biomedical engineering programs doubledfrom approximately twenty

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Mangement

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmad Sarfaraz, California State University-Northridge; Tarek Shraibati, California State University-Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

programs1. As the value of theseprograms became apparent, their number began to increase rapidly.Engineering Management, as a discipline, evolved from the need to provide a link between themanagers and engineers of all types. A quick review of master program descriptions describesEM programs as providing a strong engineering core with additional studies in management,technology and business related courses. Hicks et. al.2 classified Engineering Managementmasters programs into three groups. One group focused on traditional management concepts suchas planning, marketing, accounting, etc. The second group focused on mathematical conceptsincluding operations research, probabilistic models, and risk/decision analysis, etc. and the thirdone focused on

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Westbrook, University of Alabama-Huntsville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

classical management concepts- planning, marketing, accounting, etc. Thesecond group focused on mathematical concepts- operations research, probabilistic models, linearprogramming, etc. and the third focused on behavioral management- motivation, projectmanagement, leadership, etc. This research found that there was no agreement on the type ofcourses that should be in EM programs. Some of the EM programs were formerly existingprograms in Operations Research or Industrial Engineering. The lack of agreement of programcontent allows any university or private company to define EM independently.The American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) was presented with this informationand realized the serious implications of an ill-defined but popular

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb Wolters, University of Dayton; Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

customer to encourage innovation, unlike industry-based research orientedinstitutions. The researchers proposed that a consumer pull for better teaching and learning couldmake a difference to encourage research oriented universities to reform their curriculums [8]. Another article presented a model for re-engineering an undergraduate industrialengineering curriculum. The model used a five phase approach which included planning andassessment, identification of emerging topics, curriculum redesign, recruitment strategies, and ameasurement and continuous improvement plan. A voice of customer (VoC), including bothindustry and academics, was used to identify emerging topics and desired characteristics forindustrial engineering graduates. The

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

theselection of the product being manufactured in the transparent factory and the site’s potentialattractiveness in enticing prospective and current customers.The reason for this minor revision is to broaden students’ view from a manufacturing/engineering system design perspective to a higher level of business/marketing/brandingperspective for engineering operations. The following statements show the basic requirementsfor this transparent factory design project. “Adopt project management principles to this term project that involves in the planning and development of a plan for building a transparent plant in the area for a Page 26.1690.4

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Jansen Perry, Baylor University; Emily M Hunter, Baylor University; Steven C. Currall, University of California, Davis; Ed Frauenheim, The Great Place to Work Institute

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

leading the Alliance, it assisted in the launch of over 160 technology start-up companies, which raised in excess of $300,000,000 in equity capital. Currall also founded the Rice University Business Plan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #11561 Competition, which involved the largest number of competing universities (36) and richest prize money ($325,000) of any graduate student business plan competition in the world. Currall received Stanford University’s Price Foundation Innovative Entrepreneurship Educator Award, Ernst & Young’s regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award R

Conference Session

Course Tools and Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kellie Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Julie Phelps, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

lessons in other classes as desired. For instance, themodule on project management could be inserted in a design class or ethics moduleadded to any engineering course. Sharing with other instructors within the sameinstitution is readily accommodated through features of the learning management system.A final culminating module inserted at the completion of the course encourages studentsto reflect on what they have learned and plan for continuing growth in broad, “T-shaped”skills. Learning objectives are as follows: 1. Revisit your individual strengths andweaknesses. 2. Prepare a plan for lifelong learning growth. The content and activitiesassociated with this module typically include: • Readings exploring the value of lifelong learning and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles S. Wasson, Wasson Strategics, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

. Page 25.1227.2 • Paradigm Shift- A transformational change driven externally by: 1) the marketplace or technology, or 2) internally through visionary leadership to advance state of the practice or being from one paradigm to another over a planned period of time. • System Engineering - “The multi-disciplined application of analytical, mathematical, and scientific principles to formulating, selecting, and developing a solution that has acceptable risk, satisfies user operational need(s), and minimizes development and life cycle costs while balancing stakeholder interests.” [2]INTRODUCTIONOne of the challenges of industrial enterprises operating in a highly competitive global economyis the capability to

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Plemmons

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Page 11.1321.2to follow professional development programs associated with grade descriptions, experience, andprofessional registration. A common and often used model for this career advancement is theASCE Professional Grade Descriptions 3. Each grade, from Engineer I to Engineer IX, isdelineated by the general characteristics, directions received, typical duties and responsibilities,and typical position titles. Using the professional engineer (PE) registration as a discriminatorbetween Grade III and IV, practicing engineers are not normally expected to “plan, schedule,conduct, or coordinate detailed phases of engineering work in part of a major project or in a totalproject of moderate scope” until becoming an Engineer IV as a registered

Conference Session

EMD Recruitment and Certification

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Daughton, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

been out of school for 3-5 years or more, and the prospect of preparingfor and taking the GRE is daunting. One particular group of students strongly affected bythis requirement is the Corp of Engineer Army Captains at Fort Leonard Wood.2 Theseindividuals, if they meet admission requirements, are able to complete the MSEM degreewhile they are at the fort for career training. Many of these individuals are now coming tothis program straight from war zones in Iraq or Afghanistan, making it very difficult toprepare for and take the GRE. Overall, some potential students have simply said theywould not take the exam and planned to look elsewhere for their graduate education.These individuals are often indignant that as successful professional

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kellie Grasman, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

summative assessment.Initial course delivery offered an opportunity to refine the course design throughout the semesterbased on instructor observations, formal and informal student feedback, and changingenvironmental conditions. End of course surveys and assessment data were used to evaluateinstructional effectiveness and inform future iterations of the course design.Introduction & Instructional ContextAfter the initial emergency shift to remote learning in March 2020 due to the global Covid-19pandemic, careful preparation for future semesters of continued uncertainty and disruptionbecame a necessity. Beginning in Summer 2020, planning for the Fall 2020 semester began inearnest. An undergraduate course, Engineering Management 2110 – Managing

Conference Session

Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanislav Karapetrovic, University of Alberta; John Doucette, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

(course “D”). ISO 10001principles, framework and guidelines were used to plan, develop, implement and maintain codesfor student satisfaction with the course delivery, while ISO 10002 was applied to resolve andfollow-up on the individual student complaints, suggestions and other feedback in the course.Because these standards were designed for universal, efficient and focused applications (e.g., seesection 1 “Scope” of ISO 10001: 20076 and ISO 10002: 20047 or Dee et al., 20048), aninterpretation or replacement of only a few generic terms from section 3 “Terms and Definitions”of the standards, such as the previously-mentioned “customer”, “product” and “organization”,was necessary. Therefore, “customer satisfaction code of conduct” (term 3.1 in ISO

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard A. Pitts Jr., Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

diffusion,hazardous waste removal) could be executed and simplified using various robots. Even todayrobots are used with assisting humans with common everyday tasks such as performing generaloffice work, doing the laundry, or retrieving a newspaper. However, none of these roboticactions are possible without the use of a computer to execute and control the actions and tasks.Since robots are controlled by computers, they can be integrated and connected to othercomputer systems to perform computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) activities. Therefore,CIM is the pervasive use of computer systems to design the products, plan the production,control the operations, and perform the various information processing functions needed in amanufacturing firm2

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Ozgur Erol, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

2005confirmed this trend. The use of BPR as a management tool was reported to have gone downfrom 69 percent in 1995 to 38 percent in 2000, and revived again to 61 percent in 20041.The concept of reengineering traces its origins back to management theories developed as earlyas the nineteenth century. BPR integrates methods from total quality management, technologyand innovation management, strategic planning, systems engineering, and organizational design4.The Stevens EM program has been offering courses related to these topics and integrating BPRin the curriculum was only natural. It aimed to provide our students an understanding of theBPR as a concept, learning of the tools and techniques and the ability to find similarities anddifferences between

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University; John Vail Farr P.E., West Point; Elizabeth W Schott, USMA, Department of Systems Engineering; David A. Wyrick PE, PEM, American Society for Engineering Management

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Management

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana Valeria Quevedo, Universidad de Piura; Dante Arturo Guerrero, Universidad de Piura; Martin Palma, Universidad de Piura; Susana Vegas, Universidad de Piura

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Paper ID #6168Improving Generic Skills among Engineering Students through Project-BasedLearning in a Project Management CourseMs. Ana Valeria Quevedo, Universidad de Piura Ms. Ana Quevedo has a master’s of Management in Operations Research from UBC. Quevado is an Industrial and Systems Engineer with the Universidad de Piura.Dr. Ing. Dante Arturo Guerrero, Universidad de Piura Doctor of Project Management specializing in Project Planning and Management for Sustainable Rural Development, Master of Engineering with specialization in Rural Development Projects / Local from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Masters in

Conference Session

Instructional Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John H. Ristroph, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

environment, new hires who can maintain and improve profits without a long delay, individuals who can continue learning and adapt to changes, and technically competent persons who can progress into management.Employers sometimes focus on one of these needs more than another, depending upon theircurrent problems, but the foregoing issues seem to be recurrent themes. However, the relativeimportance of these and other needs is not documented on a systematic basis. How can this bedone?The ASEE includes industrial members and also can interface with other organizations to obtainthis information at a level suitable for academic planning. One alternative is to perform aperiodic survey. This would allow needs to be tracked over time with

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francisco Gamboa Valderrama, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira; Bianey Ruiz, University of Tachira; Dilia Alcalde, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Tachira

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

optimization. c. Objectives definition: All group members participate in this activity. Group members develop a plan of action to coordinate the development of subtasks. In this step group members should pursuit: a) to build up one or more objectives leading to task completion, b) to develop activities leading to achieve objectives which will be displayed in a Gantt chart showing execution priorities, time, resources, and responsible, c) to develop indexes to help group members to follow the task progress Page 12.793.52. During the development of the task: a. Task development assessment: This activity take place during the

Conference Session

Curriculum and the Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

planning and development of a capital investment strategy in the next three-year period for Apple, Inc. to follow its new strategy in building new manufacturing capability in the United States to enhance its design, production, future new product deployment, and market dominance in the US market and support the promotion of Made-in-USA national manufacturing strategy. The expected investment budget is 800 million dollars to 1 billion dollars of the present-day value. This project needs to consider the issues of moving manufacturing activities from Asia to the US, including all the supply chain & supplier issues. The project needs to provide what the strategy should be, how much to

Conference Session

Engineering Management: Supply Chain, Systems Thinking, and Lean Initiatives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Andreas Jattke, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt; Ahmad R Sarfaraz, California State University, Northridge

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

highereducation system. For example, Hanoi University of Technology is currently offering mastersand bachelor’s degrees with institutions of higher education from Belgium, France, Germany,Singapore, and the U.S.10 The University of New South Wales will establish for the first time a100% foreign owned higher education institution in Singapore with a plan to offer undergraduateand graduate programs, which will include a strong research focus.In the Middle East, examples of internationalization of higher education include Saudi Arabia’sestablishment of a new private university that will involve foreign institutions and investors. TheUniversity of Arizona and UNESCO are helping to establish the Prince Sultan PrivateUniversity. The Stevens Institute of

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra Elrod, University of Missouri; Ashley Rasnic, University of Missouri; William Daughton, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Bridge the Gap Material/Equipment Management Business Operations Management Science Decision MakingTerm Systems Problem Solving Ethics Staffing Controlling Resources Project Management Organizations Planning Marketing Cost/Finance Organizing Communication Leadership

Conference Session

Professional Engineering Management Initiatives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

AC 2008-585: ASEM EM BOKDonald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology Donald N. Merino is a tenured full professor and the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chaired Professor of Economics of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches Engineering Economy, Decision Analysis, Total Quality Management, and Strategic Planning. He is Founder Emeritus of the undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM) and the Executive Master in Technology Management (EMTM) Program at Stevens. He won the Morton Distinguished Teaching Award for full professors at Stevens. John Wiley published his book, “The Selection Process for Capital Projects”. Dr. Merino received two