Conference Session

Engineering Management: Project Management and Partnerships

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wayne Paul Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John S Nelson PE, University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Civil & Environmental Enginieering

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

Paper ID #17278Teaching Project Survival Skills: Lessons from ’The Martian’Prof. Wayne Paul Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wayne P. Pferdehirt is the director of distance degree programs for the College of Engineering and director of the Master of Engineering Management program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wayne also co-teaches the Master of Engineering Management program’s Technical Project Management and Foundations of Engineering Leadership courses. Prior to joining UW-Madison, Pferdehirt directed the Midwest solid waste consulting services of an international environmental consulting firm and

Conference Session

Developing Better Engineering Managers - Curricular Ideas from Year 1 Through Graduate School

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Suter, Johns Hopkins University; Stanislaw Tarchalski, Johns Hopkins University; Judith G Theodori, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineeering; James D Beaty, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Michael McLoughlin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Richard Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

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Whiting School of Engineering Mr. Blank is a part-time instructor and program committee member for Technical Management and En- gineering Management at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School Engineering for Professionals Program. He teaches Introduction to Project Management, Executive Technical Management, and Enterprise Systems Engineering. He also holds a full-time position as the Deputy Chief Quality Officer for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Chief of Strategy for the Force Projection Sector. Appointed to these positions in August 2015 and February 2014, respectively, he supports the Laboratory in establishing policies and procedures with respect to the quality of the Laboratory’s delivered products

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Developing Better Engineering Managers - Curricular Ideas from Year 1 Through Graduate School

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy K. Zander, Clarkson University

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Engineering Management

CourseAbstractA two-semester first-year undergraduate course is offered as the introductory course in theengineering management major at Clarkson University. The course is open only to engineeringmanagement majors and has broad objectives that touch on many aspects of the major in anintroductory fashion. It also touches several aspects of the ABET engineering criteria. Thecourse is required of first-year students in the major. In the course students work in teams toperform two engineering designs. In the first semester the design is prescriptive and is used as atool to teach and learn engineering design tools of Microsoft Excel, MathWorks MATLAB, andAutodesk Inventor, and the presentation tool Powerpoint. The students also learn basics ofteaming, the

Conference Session

Engineering Management: Project Management and Partnerships

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; James H. Lampley, East Tennessee State University; Leendert M. Craig, East Tennessee State University; Addison Scott Karnes, East Tennessee State University

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quantitative research topics. Dr. Lampley also serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Post Secondary and Private Sector Leadership concentration in the ELPA de- partment. Dr. Lampley teaches a variety of courses including Research Methods, Educational Statistics, and Quantitative Analysis. Currently, Dr. Lampley has research interests in online delivery and graduate education and spearheads research opportunities as often as possible.Mr. Leendert M. Craig, East Tennessee State University Leendert Craig graduated from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) with a Masters in Engineering Technology in 2015. While working on his masters he worked as a graduate assistant in the Department of Engineering Technology