Conference Session

Course Tools and Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric M. Rice, Johns Hopkins University; William Smedick, Johns Hopkins University

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Course Tools and Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University; Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Teresa J.K. Hall, South Dakota State University; Albena Yuliyanova Yordanova, South Dakota State Univeristy ; Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Curriculum and the Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Management

and diversity in bothacademia and the workplace. The instructor attended a Society of Women Engineers (SWE)conference in 2016 and became inspired to prepare engineers for embracing diversity andunderstanding the challenges that women and underrepresented minorities face in the workplace.The instructor had been a woman engineer in industry and in academia for many years, and hadexperienced many of the same challenges discussed in the research literature. The coursedevelopment was highly supported by the Dean of the School of Engineering (SoE), theEngineering Management, Systems and Technology Department chair, the EngineeringManagement Graduate program coordinator, the SoE’s Diversity and Inclusion program, and theother department chairs

Conference Session

Curriculum and the Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victor Taratukhin, SAP America; Natalia Pulyavina, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

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Engineering Management

(US based) and(International based) will need to work together. Now, more than twenty Universities from US,Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, countries of Latin America are part of ME310community. It is unique opportunity to work on real challenges from Industry. ME310 projecthas length 9 months, mostly graduate level oriented and provided significant interculturalexperience for participants. ME310 course dynamic characteristics are also part of researchconducted at Stanford DesignX Lab, conducted at ME310 loft and Design Observatory (DO) atCenter for Design Research [9]. Design Observatory is a core instrument for conductingresearch in the field of design theory and methodology and created with the goal of conductingdesigner’s information

Conference Session

Programs and Pedagogies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

. J. Elect. Eng. Educ., vol. 47, pp. 189–199, 2010.Swart, A.J., “Theory versus practical in a curriculum for engineering students—A case study,”presented at the AFRICON, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009.Yin, R.K., Case study Research—Design and Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: SAGE, 2009.