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

otherschools which offered degrees in Engineering Management.*Employer SurveyKey customers for our engineering management program are the industrial and commercialemployers of our graduates. Their input for our decision was solicited via an e-mail survey. Thesurvey questions were e-mailed to members of UE’s Business and Engineering AdvisoryCouncil, among whose members are several potential employers of our students such asWhirlpool Corporation (manufacturing), Vectren (energy utilities), TJ Maxx (distribution andsales), and ALCOA (primary production). These companies have regional operations, and mostof our engineering graduates are hired by regional companies. While the number of companiessurveyed was small (only 7 responses were received), they

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

, India. She obtained her M.S. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a member of INCOSE. Page 12.468.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Designing a course on Business Process Reengineering (BPR): Bridging the Gap between Business Operations and Engineering of SystemsAbstract:Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a systematic approach to helping an organizationanalyze and improve its processes. All systems are designed, developed and engineered tosupport business processes. Therefore, an understanding of the business

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management / IE and EM Program Mangement / Engineering Management Program Management

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Raymond Price, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

sharing experiences,knowledge and insight (Crawford, 1998; DeLisle, 2000; Illinois Leadership; Petcher, 1997). AsCrawford (1998) states: We are now recognizing that leadership can and does occur at all levels of organizations and in all kinds of settings. Leadership is increasingly being recognized as an interactive process that takes place between members of an organization. It is not simply a skill employed by a person in a position of power within an organization. (p. 2)Therefore, it is important that engineering students are presented with opportunities to developleadership skills that will allow them to successfully work collaboratively with other people tochange organizations, lead and/or participate in