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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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led energy conservation research projects for Argonne National Laboratory. He has a BS in civil engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MS in civil engineering with an emphasis in regional planning from Northwestern University. Wayne is a frequent speaker and author on continuing education for engineers, and is a member of the College of Engineering’s Education Innovation Committee.Dr. Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Jeffrey S. Russell is the Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning and Dean of the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his role as Vice Provost, he is striving to make UW- Madison a global leader in the service to lifelong learners. He

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Engineering Management: Project Management and Partnerships

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Angolia, East Carolina University

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Paper ID #15595An Active Learning Approach to Core Project Management CompetenciesDr. Mark Angolia, East Carolina University Mark Angolia, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Industrial Distribution and Logistics degree program in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University (ECU). Prior to entering academia in 2005, he held industrial positions in engineering, manufacturing, quality, materials, and operations management for manufacturing companies within the automotive sup- ply chain. Dr. Angolia’s teaching focuses on Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP software

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Programs and Pedagogies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Elizandro, Tennessee Technological University; Angelo A. Volpe, Tennessee Technological University; David H. Huddleston, Tennessee Technological University

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, distributed simulation, adaptive control systems, digital signal processing, and integrat- ing technology into engineering education. He has also been an industry consultant on modeling for strategic planning. Professor Elizandro received the University Distinguished Faculty Award, Texas A&M, Commerce and College of Engineering Brown-Henderson Award at Tennessee Tech University. He served as Governor’s Representative for Highway Safety in Arkansas and member of the National Highway Safety Advisory Commission during the Jimmy Carter presidency. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Pi Mu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor societies.Dr. Angelo A. Volpe, Tennessee Technological University Dr.Angelo A.Volpe served as

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Engineering Management: Six Sigma, Data Modeling, and Risk Management

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryam Tabibzadeh, California State University, Northridge; S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge

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schedule and cost analysis and considereda topic for upper management to deal with. However, as projects become more complex and theuncertainty associated with technical aspects of them increases, the risks related to not only thoseprojects but also the environment have to be considered from a holistic or systemic perspective. Inthis dynamic environment, it is important for engineers and engineering managers to understandvarious aspects of risk management such as risk identification, risk tracking, risk impactassessment, risk prioritization and risk mitigation planning, implementation and progressmonitoring.In this paper, the authors review all the existing courses in their Engineering Management (EM)program and analyze the current offerings of

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2: Curriculum and the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Essam K. Zaneldin P.E., United Arab Emirates University; Sarah Samir Sedra, United Arab Emirates university; khawla Mousa Alrayssi, UAEU ; Riham Mohamed Surkatti Ms, Graduate Student ; Haya Mohammed Al Nuaimi, UAEU

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has authored and co-authored several journal and conference publications in topics related to engineering education and course man- agement, design coordination, change management, site layout planning, constructability, claims and disputes, and simulation of design and construction operations.Miss Sarah Samir Sedra, United Arab Emirates university Sarah S. Sedra, a telecommunication engineer currently working at Etisalat UAE as mobile access plan- ning engineer. Worked previously for two years as an low voltage electrical engineer in AECOM middle east. Graduated in 2013 from Communication & electronics department in faculty of engineering Cairo university. After working for almost 4 years now I just started

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mustafa Shraim, Ohio University

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Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) by The American Society for Quality (ASQ). He is also a certified Quality Management Systems (QMS) Lead Auditor by the International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) in London. He was elected a Fellow by ASQ in 2007. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Using Design of Experiments and the PDSA to improve 3-D Printing in a Senior Quality Course AbstractResearch has shown that project-based learning (PBL) is more engaging than traditional teachingmethods. A proposed PBL method using two cycles of plan-do-study-act (PDSA) coupled withdesign of experiments will be tested as

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Curriculum and the Classroom

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

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make a specific step-by-step plan to achieve my goals. I used tothink I could never be a leader. I am not afraid to think about myself as a leader, I started toimagine that I could be a leader now.” The value of the course is to develop leaders to excel in adiverse workforce. It provides students with an awareness of the barriers, biases and challengesto diversity in engineering, and provides strategies that can be used to improve satisfaction in theengineering workplace and in academia.Keywords: Engineering management, engineering education, leadership, diversityIntroduction:Last Spring semester, 2017, an Associate Professor in the Department of EngineeringManagement, Systems and Technology (EMST), and five engineering students piloted a

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Course Tools and Practices

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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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

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University; Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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undergraduate program. There are fourlearning objectives defined in this course: After successful completion of the course, studentsshould be able to: 1) Differentiate and explain the concept, framework, and techniques of the supply chain design, planning, operation, and strategic management. (ASAC j) 2) Apply analytic methodologies, utilizing practical managerial levers, to design a supply chain for defined conditions, and to achieve competitive advantage in the supply chain. (ASAC l) 3) Analyze contemporary issues in SCM and to propose solutions to the identified issues. (ASAC m) 4) Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively and use information from a variety of sources. (ASAC g)The notation of (ASAC x

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech; John Ray Morelock, Virginia Tech; Arash Baghaei Lakeh, Virginia Tech

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provide a description of ourmethods, which includes the site where the intervention was conducted, the design of theintervention, the data collection process, and the data analysis approach. Then, we present theresults of the intervention and provide a summary of the conclusions, implications, andrecommendations for our planned next steps in this research direction. The results of this studyare meant to inform a more thorough, mixed methods assessment of the simulation game’s nextimplementation, as well as to refine and iterate the game’s design.BackgroundContemporary engineering work primarily involved solving problems related to decision-makingamong alternatives, troubleshooting malfunctioning systems, and design, all of which requiresome level

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi , United Arab Emirates University; Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University

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the virtual product, and numerically testvirtual components and virtual assemblies. It follows that capstone courses inengineering management also should have a set of key features and every capstoneproject should satisfy these key features.2.6 Course or Curriculum DevelopmentAt the planning level of a program, the university in collaboration with theconstituencies, establishes the addition to the student’s skill set, as a result offollowing the program. These are called student outcomes. Course Outcomes on theother hand are expressions describing the desired abilities, in comprehension,application and integration, the student achieve during a course that is part of theprogram. These are defined and derived to achieve the student outcomes of

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1: Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charlee Millett, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University; Sandra Wilson Kuntz, Montana State University; Durward K. Sobek, Montana State University

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project from the host organization and developing their initial project plan underthe close guidance of their project mentor. The team then moved to the partner site to conduct aRIE to create positive change for the organization. The team was responsible for facilitating anagreed upon definition of the problem, observing and documenting process flows for relatedareas, and collecting and analyzing key data related to the problem. This information was thenutilized to generate potential solutions, finalize and implement the selected solution(s), anddesign and implement appropriate controls to ensure that the problem stays fixed followingsolution implementation. These activities were run as a PDCA cycle consistent with thehealthcare approaches of

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Engineering Management Division 1: The Practice of EMD

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Christina McCoy P.E., Oklahoma State University; Carisa H. Ramming, Oklahoma State University

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outcomesaddressed include the following: 3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives This paper will look at key issues of the report as they are presented by NCSEA and fromthe perspective of engineering educators. The conclusion of this paper proposes a “short course”or workshop outline in order to facilitate implementation in a curriculum at a small scale. It willcover SE3 topics relating to management and organizational leadership and consider theirapplicability to students in both engineering management and

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Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brian Aufderheide, Hampton University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University

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understand that only their imagination limits them to using this flexible toolto develop scenarios to test the worthiness of the design project. Stress over and over again thepurpose is not to make a Financial Operational Model to get a value for the Internal Rate of Return,Net Present Value, and Payback time in years. It is to develop scenarios to test the project’sviability, to see potential weaknesses that must be studied further before moving ahead with theproject, and to plan for success. And that is not all. A good Financial Operational Model is a livingdocument. Once the design is built and put in practice, it still has use. It can be modified todetermine upgrades to potential equipment, changes to feed stocks, issues with labor wages

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Don Bowie P.E., Aurasen Limited; Xuping Xu, California Baptist University; Anthony L Donaldson, California Baptist University

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student internsrather than using capstone project teams. An arrangement was agreed to: The non-facultyportion of the professional team would provide “hands on” technical direction andsupport; with the Engineering College faculty having controlling oversight – the studentsare still ultimately answerable to the professors.ObservationThe following items highlight pertinent observations by the involved engineering facultyand the supporting sponsor.Murphy’s Law: “If it can go wrong, it will.” And almost every project has somethingembedded that can go wrong (“The best laid schemes (plans) of mice and men / often goawry.” – Robert Burns). The students seem not to be aware of Murphy’s Law. Some ofthis comes from the optimism and enthusiasm of youth. But

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Gordon Thomas Beverly III, East Carolina University

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they skip to first. If they canincorporate more planning prior to simply throwing facts and figures onto a slide they will findmore success. It can be again stated that any information that is put into the presentation shouldbe appropriate and concise.How will the presentation be delivered?It is important that students consider the way they will deliver their information. Aspects ofdelivery include: opening, attire, voice projection, and body language. Each of thesecomponents are important to engaging the audience and providing validity to the presentation.The opening of a presentation can be the make-or-break point for audience reception. Presentersneed to capitalize on this opportunity as it is the point in the presentation that should help

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Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 2, IE-ing the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

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capability analysis, measurement systemanalysis, specification and tolerances, and acceptance sampling plans. Students typically take thiscourse in the second year of their masters program. The course learning outcomes are (a) Defineconcepts in quality and quality management; (b) Apply statistical tools in analysis andapplication of Statistical Process Control; (c) Produce and employ control charts; (d) Explainsampling process; and (e) Design acceptance sampling procedures for quality control.The course work and activities typically include a term paper, a term project, homework, in classexercises and discussions, quizzes and two exams (midterm and final). During the study periodthe author added the library training and a factory visit to the class

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekar Viswanathan, National University; Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University

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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

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EMD 2: Issues in Engineering Management Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Elizabeth Hart, University of Dayton; Andrea Mott, University of Dayton; Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

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courses did not appear to deteriorate over the semester and 80% of thestudents planned to take the next course in the physics sequence. Additionally, more than half ofthe students could see themselves as an engineer or scientist. [13]In another peer mentoring program, the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program atSyracuse University implemented a mentoring program focused on helping women graduatestudents in engineering and computer science and Arts and Sciences, designed to address thedrop-off of women in engineering at the graduate level. The program helped address barriers ofisolation and the lack of successful women role models at the graduate level. [14]Another graduate peer mentoring program was implemented in a research-oriented

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Princy L. D. Johnson, Liverpool John Moores University; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University

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, creativity is seen as the ability to generate new ideas, either as new ways oflooking at existing problems or of seeing new opportunities, perhaps by exploiting emergingtechnologies or changes in markets [1-4]; as shown in Figure 1, creativity has two phases. Incontrast, innovation is seen as the successful exploitation of new ideas—i.e., it is the process thatcarries new ideas through to new products, new services, new ways of running the business, oreven new ways of doing business [5-7]. By the time we reach our university studies, most of ushave been trained to move quickly from divergent thinking to convergent thinking, so we can findthe best answer or best plan to whatever problem we face. Interestingly, at an early age, primaryschool children

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2: Curriculum and the Classroom

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Homero Murzi, The University of Queenslad; Jurij Karlovsek, The University of Queensland; Bianey Ruiz, University of Táchira - Venezuela; Lilianny Virguez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; omar perez

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. engineering students teams without thetraining) in order to determine if the training experience in the course was the one causing thechanges of perceptions regarding the constructs.Another limitation of this study is participant bias. Participants were actively trained inteamwork and its constructs, therefore it is possible that students who choose to participate inthe post-test were very aware of the importance of our experiment, and their responses couldbe influenced by the training, and the expectation of receiving some reward from the teachingteam.For future work, we will continue conducting this experiment next semester and morequantitative data will be collected. Specifically, we plan to do an experiment having a controland experimental group

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Course Tools and Practices

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Snyder, Valencia College; Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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comprehensive 0.5788 Yes Degree declared (biology, chemistry, engineering) 0.4614 Yes Gender 0.4381 Yes ACT Math 0.3211 Yes ACT Reading 0.1205 Yes Plan to work while attending college -0.1104 No ACT English -0.1493 No Age

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Programs and Pedagogies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut

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“Living Lab” where town officials can actively monitor the number of parking spots using Cisco Kinetic for Cities digital platform for future planning. Cisco is continuing to upgrade and add new functionalities to its digital platform. One of the new features provides enhanced support for public safety. Cisco Capital has partnered with Digital Alpha Advisors, APG Asset Management and Whitehelm Capital and launched a City Infrastructure Financing Acceleration Program with $1 billion assets to make it easier, faster and more affordable for cities to fund and adopt technologies that will transform their communities (Cisco, 2017).These are only a few examples of a variety of industries who are early adopters of SmartManagement System. Its versatility

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1: Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ulises Daniel Techera, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christy Bozic, University of Colorado, Boulder; Seth Murray, University of Colorado, Boulder

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indicate the degree to which they agree with theaffirmation by selecting a value in a 6 point Likert-type scale. Eight of these items were selectedto evaluate subjective learning outcomes associated with each of the student types. The followinglist includes the selected items:FCQ selected items: 1) Hours per week spent on course, including class time (i1) 2) Intellectual challenge of the course (i2) 3) How much you learned in this course (i3) 4) Course overall (i4) 5) Instructor overall (i5) 6) This class improved my understanding of the profession I plan to practice. (i6) 7) My confidence to succeed as a student was enhanced. (i7) 8) This course prepared me for my chosen career. (i8)Subjective learning