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
. Calvin A. Kent (Lexington Books, 1984) p. 4115. Knight Russell M. “Can Business Schools Produce Entrepreneurs ? An Empirical Study,” Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 5 (1) Summer 198716. AUTM: Association of University Technology Managers Licensing Survey (1999). http://www.autm.net/surveys99A.pdf17. Schreiberg, D. The Matchmakers. Stanford Today. (Jan/Feb 1998)18.Wolfe, C., D. Adkins, and H. Sherman. Best Practices in Action – Guidelines for Implementing First-Class Business Incubation Programs. NBIA Publications, Athens, OH 2001.19. Aley, J. “The Heart of Silicon Valley: Why Stanford.. Fortune. (July 7, 1997) pp 68-69.20. Robinson, R. “Technology Transfer”. Research Horizons (Sum/Fall 1998). Atlanta: Georgia
Paper ID #22573Tools for Creating and Managing Student TeamsDr. Eric M. Rice, Johns Hopkins University Eric Rice teaches management and communication courses in the Center of Leadership Education in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University where he also directs the Graduate Non- Degree Program. A sociologist by training, he has used his knowledge of organizations in his teaching and consulting practice with financial institutions, unions, fortune 500 companies and not-for-profit or- ganizations to develop strategic plans, design programs, create management and instructor training and materials, and
management practices in higher education – improvement ofprocesses to reduce non-value added time of faculty members and staff. The authors aimed tocontribute to the Lean Higher Education best practices by presenting the case study completedwithin the South Dakota State University Lean initiative.Lean Practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEI)Since Lean became a management philosophy in Higher Education, the approach has beenconsidered as a method of reducing costs and increasing the quality of education9. In comparisonwith manufacturing Lean practices, the concept is still quite new for Higher Education, and it hasnot been introduced to universities as a whole but more commonly in discrete systems orprocesses6. Most popular projects for Lean
AC 2012-3473: BIOMIMICRY INNOVATION AS A TOOL FOR DESIGNDr. Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Kettering University Terri Lynch-Caris, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Department at Kettering University and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan. She serves as the Director for the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Kettering. Her areas of interest in teaching and research include ergonomics and human modeling, statistics, work design and lean princi- ples, supply chain management, and environmental sustainability.Dr. Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit MercyDr. Darrell K. Kleinke, University of Detroit Mercy Darrell Kleinke has more than 25 years of
Computer Research, 2(4). Pp. 130-138.9. de Vries, C., and Parkinson, M. B. (2014). ‘Limiting disproportionate disaccommodation in design for human variability’, Ergonomics, 57(1), pp.52-65.10. Rethaber, J. (2016). ‘Hit and Miss Ergonomics Education’, ISE Magazine, 48 (10), pp.31-34.11. da Silva, A.M., (2015) ‘Ergonomics and Sustainable Design: A Case Study on Practicing and Teaching’, Procedia Manufacturing, 3, 5806-5813.12. Dias, A.C., Almendra, R., and da Silva, F.M., (2015) ‘The Application of Ergonomic Knowledge by Undergraduate Product Design Students: FAULisbon as a Case Study’, Procedia Manufacturing, 3, 5851-5858.13. Chang, Y. H., and Miller, C. (2006). ‘Using Computer Simulation to Teach Undergraduate Engineering and
Page 23.1205.2with Professor X. Such positive impressions can aid promotion and tenure as well as increasingsuch faculty members’ influence on decisions of which classes they teach.This paper reviews the literature about student response units’ use and discusses prior researchinto their benefits. While this will touch on some best practices for using clickers, the focus isnot upon convincing instructors how to adopt or improve clicker usage. Much of the authors’prior experience with clickers has been in courses with a large quantitative component. Thispaper discusses the authors’ findings from their first application of clickers in a mainlyqualitative course. The results are consistent with previous results indicating that clickers are
AC 2012-5046: DEFINING THE CORE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (COR-BOK) FOR A GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING: AWORK IN PROGRESSDr. Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires is Manager of Systems Engineering at Aurora Flight Sciences and an adjunct systems engi- neering faculty for the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is one of many authors on the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (http://www.sebokwiki.org/) and the Graduate Curriculum for Systems Engineering (http://bkcase.org/grcse-05). She was previously a Senior Researcher for the Systems Engineering University Affiliated Research Center (SE UARC) and Online Technical Director for the School of
. Page 25.487.5 • LEP students will place greater value on the work of individuals from other disciplines.Supporting Objective: DesignCompared to their non-LEP peers, LEP graduates will be more skilled at: • executing a design process, • designing multicomponent systems including the ability to manage interfaces between subsystems, and • applying practical design skills such as reading specifications sheets for electrical components or selecting parts from distributors for an integrated design.The research question to be addressed by the research strategy described in this paper is asfollows: Are LEP graduates different than their non-LEP graduate peers with respect to theirability to perform interdisciplinary work as described
learning and Engineering Education. She is an active collaborator and currently internal evaluator and assessment coordinator for multiple grants from the National Sci- ence Foundation and the Department of Education, including the UPRM Nanotechnology Center and the Transformational Initiative for Graduate Education and Research at UPRM .Prof. Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus Christopher Papadopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mate- rials at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez (UPRM). He earned B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1993) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Me- chanics at
that our students could be better prepared for future success.This enabled serious deliberation to occur through first an ad-hoc committee, followed by thenormal curriculum committee, and subsequently approved according to normal departmentprotocol. The process also ensured that all EM graduates would receive more than the minimumhours in engineering and design credit. The revised core eliminated the potential for an ABETevaluator to question the minimum requirements. Courses that were added to the core clearlyincluded engineering content. The senior design capstone course also added engineering contentand met the strict requirements required by ABET.The ad-hoc committee was a small subgroup that had more in depth knowledge of ABETcurriculum
(formerly known as the University of Missouri-Rolla). Dr. Schonberg has 25 years teaching and research experience in the areas of shock physics, spacecraft protection, hypervelocity impact, and penetration mechanics. He received his B.S.C.E from Princeton University in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern Uni- versity in 1983 and 1986, respectively. The results of his research have been applied to a wide variety of engineering problems, including the development of orbital debris protection systems for spacecraft in low earth orbit, kinetic energy weapons, the collapse of buildings under explosive loads, insensitive munitions, and aging aircraft. Since 1986, Dr. Schonberg has published over 65 papers in
-relationship of the different types of knowledge resource. StrategicManagement can be defined as understanding where are you now, where you want to be andhow you are going to get there. This paper suggests that engineers need to be developed inthese areas.Changes In Business that Call For a Change in GraduatesIn the past, organisations tended to recruit from traditional universities, using the ‘knowledgebase’ of the student as evidence that graduates could undertake tasks, or learn, in a‘compliant, dutiful and reliable manner’2. However, in the context of the changing nature ofthe engineering industry, contemporary graduates will be required to be equipped with skillsto accommodate these changes. Indeed graduates will have
and engineering employers consider as a must for engineering graduates.However, the process of achieving critical thinking skills is not always well laid out and /ordeveloped. Although a number of models have been developed in this topic by many academics,developing “critical thinking skills” can be a long and arduous process. In particular, thedevelopment of higher education program level critical thinking skills require detailed courselevel planning, structured assignments, critical analysis of case studies, student centric learning,and guided design using tools such as simulation and gaming, communication exercises, andlaboratory experiments. Research suggests that the development of any skill is best facilitated bypractice and not by
disruptions and uncertainty in their educational and personalenvironments is paramount [3].One author, though experienced and formally trained in online course design and delivery,sought to update their skills and pursued multiple formal and informal learning opportunitiesimmediately prior to developing this course. Specifically, NETI -3 Online offered an up-to-dateanalysis of active engagement strategies for online STEM courses [4] [5]. Recognized leaders inquality online instruction prepared comprehensive, research-based resources for online coursedevelopment and delivery that provided best practice standards [6]. Additionally, whilequarantined at home with three college-age offspring, the author experienced a firsthand windowinto the student
, internships andpractical courses (Provitera, 20078). This paper describes a case in which a well designed andsuccessfully integrated Capstone Course can serve as an amalgam of theory and practice andprovide benefits like reinforcing learning, developing skills, and improving congruence withthe discipline.Background of the InstitutionLa Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) is a private, non profit institution founded in 1969 inthe city of Monterrey in northeastern Mexico. UDEM offers 35 undergraduate degreeprograms in fields such as business, medicine, architecture, engineering, education and law.It serves 3,000 preparatory, 8,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students.Its undergraduate degree program in Industrial and Systems Engineering is focused
industrialengineering and industrial engineering technology. There were no recent articles for curriculumreform for industrial engineering technology curricula. The authors did find articles discussingcurriculum redesign for industrial engineering programs. Researchers at a medium-sized privateuniversity in the northeast United States applied a systems engineering approach to develop anew industrial engineering curriculum. They designed a “flexible” program with acceleratedgraduate programs, a second major, various minor options, study-abroad programs, and practicalhands-on education [4]. Another article investigated how industrial engineering education inSouth Africa is embracing Industry 4.0. The study found that technical universities are morepositively
to ten technical individuals, but with the potential to move up theladder as the need grows.Carr2 argued that industry attention was operating primarily at the undergraduate level, whereasthe research and graduate study nature of civil engineering faculties established the desirablefoundation for each program at the master’s level. Berger3, as mentioned previously, leavesopen the desired level of management education.Construction EducationOglesby4 stated in 1990 that more than 150 undergraduate construction programs were inexistence, and these programs essentially followed three tracks: (a) an engineering base (civilengineering programs), (b) an architecture base (building construction programs), and (c) othernonengineering or
Education, (2006)3. James Conrad, “Determining How to Teach Management Concepts to Engineers”, American Society for Engineering Education, (2006)4. Ana Valeria Quevedo, “Improving Generic Skills among Engineering Students through Project-Based Learning in a Project Management Course”, American Society for Engineering Education, (2013)5. Donna C.S. Summers, “Practical Methods for Keeping Project Courses on Track”, American Society for Engineering Education, (2001)6. S. Scott Moor and Bruce D. Drake, “Addressing Common Problems in Engineering Design Projects: A Project Management Approach”, Journal of Engineering Education July (2001)7. Charlie P. Edmonson Donna C.S. Summers, “Using Project Management Skills to Improve the Outcome of
Tucson, one in Meteorology from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. She is a Senior Lecturer now at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include a wide range of topics from educational games in college teaching to engineering management and optimization problems and applying systems methods to climate change modelling.Mr. Sandeep KrishnakumarMr. Arun Kottayil c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 1 How to design lean six sigma simulation games for online
0.50 Class in Lecture Hall 4.08% 4.08% 32.65% 40.82% 18.37% 0.68 0.33 0.50Each Index value was calculated by summing the product of the survey results and thepercentage of respondents’ answers to each question, indicating a general level of value for eachresource categorized by letter grade. It is interesting to note that most students find the Lessons,Examples and Practice to be the most valuable resources in the course. Also, the studentsearning D/F grades seem to find relatively little value in any of the many course resources.Measured EffectivenessLearning outcomes were assessed to determine the impact of the hybrid/buffet model on studentlearning. As
impact ofother technologies, such as clickers and financial calculators, can be combined to provide a moreeffective educational experience to prepare students to become practicing engineers. Thepreliminary results using logistic regression found that the probability of a student earning anExam #1 score of 80% or higher was negatively affected by transfer student status and positivelyaffected by recitation attendance and the first attempt score for the fourth homework assignment.IntroductionAs engineering education continues to evolve and instructors strive to integrate technology in theclassroom, research must be done to understand the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of thetechnology. In many higher education institutions around the country
business process; (3) BPR tries to achieve major goals or dramaticperformance improvements; (4) IT is a critical enabler of BPR; and (5) organizational changesand human issues are critical enabler of BPR and must be managed accordingly16. We built ourBPR course around these five elements and specially tailored our curriculum to address the needto produce EM graduates who can work effectively at the interface between technology,management, and engineering.The Stevens BPR CourseThe BPR course provides knowledge on BPR and its main concepts; the technologies and thestrategies for implementing business transformation; and best practices on BPR. It emphasizesthe role of BPR in managing technology and the engineering functions. The course covers
Paper ID #20486Differences in Learning Outcomes and Engagement Across Traditional, Blended,and Online Engineering Management Undergraduate CoursesDr. Ulises Daniel Techera, University of Colorado, Boulder Ulises D. Techera recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include construction management and safety, and education in engineering. Dr. Techera also graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Structural Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona. Ulises has worked in the construction industry for 4 years
of resources from many areas within andperhaps outside the organization to meet a deadline. In this case a tight schedule is needed toreduce cycle time for product development. Although the three approaches differ in thetechniques employed, they are all after the same goal. The solution for any organization will besome combination of these three approaches, one that best fits their unique situation.Reduced cycle time is crucial for the success of organizations engaged in a highly competitiveglobal market. The quest for speed in design, development, and introduction of new products iscontinual for organizations seeking a competitive advantage. In the long term, organizationssurvive by beating their competitors to market with better and
structured design process for systemsengineering projects. In the second, they developed syllabi for their new courses by selectingfrom a menu of modular content to construct courses appropriate for their respective universities.In the third workshop, faculty received training on assessment best practices and agreed on acommon assessment process. The new courses were implemented in three programs in the 2010-11 academic year and implemented in additional programs in the 2011-12 academic year. Thepaper describes the lessons learned in adapting and implementing the systems engineering-basedmulti-disciplinary capstone design courses as well as assessment results for the first year ofimplementation.IntroductionAs engineering teams undertake more high
course to take in the upcoming semester.Staff members report that since the practice of PCP was started in early 2020, most studentsfollow the PCP designed for them and self-enroll without the need to be reminded. It appears thePCP serves as a road map that gives the student some autonomy to take charge of their programof study. This in turn results in higher engagement with the program and timely degreecompletion. Of course, unplanned events occur that might necessitate a student to deviate fromtheir PCP, either in terms of changing elective courses they wish to take or inability to enroll in aterm which might impact their PCP. In such a case an advising session with the program Directortakes place and a revised PCP is created for them.Program
AC 2011-552: A LEADERSHIP-FOCUSED ENGINEERING MANAGEMENTMASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAMMary Adams Viola, Ph.D. and Robert J. Hannemann,Ph.D., School of Engineering, Tufts University Robert J. Hannemann Director, Tufts Gordon Institute Professor of Practice Rob Hannemann is the Director of the Tufts Gordon Institute. In this role, he is responsible for the En- gineering Management and Entrepreneurial Leadership programs, which serve more than 100 graduate students and 500 undergraduates annually. He is also Professor of the Practice in the Mechanical En- gineering department. Dr. Hannemann earned advanced degrees in Mechanical Engineering from New York University (MS ’72) and MIT (Sc.D.’75) after receiving his BS degree
Learning (CETL) events, Campus-based ASEE Best Practices discussions, conferences and webinars on active learning pedagogy, the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) workshop); 2) Adoption of research-based effective teaching techniques, use of technology, and emerging pedagogy in the observed classes (flipped class, online games and exercises, simulation software).To compare the impact of all three approaches on improvement of teaching the authors analyzedIDEA10 student evaluation of teaching scores for all observed classed using “Learning Objectives,”“Excellent Teacher,” and “Excellent Course” criteria. The impact of this joint observationapproach can be illustrated via interrelationship of the class session
Yi-Ching Liao, University of Texas, San Antonio Yi-Ching Liao is a master’s student in advanced manufacturing and enterprise engineering at the Univer- sity of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA). She is also a Graduate Research Assistant at the Sustainable Manufac- turing System Laboratory at UTSA. She received her B.S. in system and naval mechatronic wngineering from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. Her research interests include lean systems design and implementation, simulation and gaming, and engineering education.Dr. Glenn Kuriger, University of Texas, San Antonio Glenn Kuriger is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Sys- tems (CAMLS) and the Department of