Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Browder, Bristol Tennessee Essential Services; Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University; April Eads

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Engineering Management

and technical leaders from all areas look for innovativetechnology that can enhance both business units. The business problem was solved using a nonlinear approach without disrupting the company’s day to day operation. The result became twostand alone non linear businesses operating under a joint linear process.IntroductionThe conceptual framework, facilitated by applying Baldrige Criteria, is illustrated andimplementation coaching points are suggested using the technology and business narrative of thetransformation of Bristol Tennessee Electric System into Bristol Tennessee Essential Services(BTES). The eureka occurred when the engineering plan to implement a broadband servicecapability was viewed as also providing enhanced capabilities for

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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Engineering Management

/404 isrun in smaller sections (15 to 35 students) with about as many workshops imbedded inthe two courses as there are lessons. This course set has been run in pilot mode since theFall of 2012. The goal of the new TG 403/404 pilot being spread over two semesters wasto provide just-in-time EM and SE knowledge to the seniors as they completed their two-semester capstone design sequence.The Senior Capstone Design Coordinators were quite cognizant that many of theirstudents did not have good planning and project management skills. They also werereadily aware of how “green” their students were in regard to preparedness in meetingswith clients, and that very few teams designed with cost in mind. So their focus,understandably so, was on their

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bingbing Li, California State University Northridge; S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Li Ding, California State University Northridge

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Engineering Management

, process and systems are the most three essential elementsfor a sustainable macro-nano manufacturing. Design can cover sustainable design and planning,which is the first and important step leading to a sustainable manufacturing. Process includes allthe related manufacturing processes: macro fabrication, nano fabrication and end-of-lifestrategies (reduce, remanufacture, recycle). After design and manufacturing of products, it is alsocritical to implement the supply chain optimization and sustainability analysis, which would bethe system. As mentioned above, this course would be developed around the three themes thatinherently support each other and together form a hierarchical sustainability managementsystem:Design (Sustainable Design and Planning

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel A. Malachowsky, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

practical and pedagogical benefits.1. IntroductionProcess is a major focus of software engineering and its curriculum;13, 18 because of this, projectmanagement has been included as a required topic of study in many of these programs.24 Whileproject management principles and practices are frequently a part of these classes,6, 11, 14, 21 manydo not include the opportunity to participate as a project manager (PM) or as a member of a PM-led team.12 It is important to include the hands-on leadership and planning elements that makeproject management a discipline rather than simply conveying a collection of relatedmethodologies.8 In many cases, the disciplines involved in project management itself has fallento the instructors; this is often carried out

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Management

theselection of the product being manufactured in the transparent factory and the site’s potentialattractiveness in enticing prospective and current customers.The reason for this minor revision is to broaden students’ view from a manufacturing/engineering system design perspective to a higher level of business/marketing/brandingperspective for engineering operations. The following statements show the basic requirementsfor this transparent factory design project. “Adopt project management principles to this term project that involves in the planning and development of a plan for building a transparent plant in the area for a Page 26.1690.4

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Jansen Perry, Baylor University; Emily M Hunter, Baylor University; Steven C. Currall, University of California, Davis; Ed Frauenheim, The Great Place to Work Institute

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Engineering Management

leading the Alliance, it assisted in the launch of over 160 technology start-up companies, which raised in excess of $300,000,000 in equity capital. Currall also founded the Rice University Business Plan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #11561 Competition, which involved the largest number of competing universities (36) and richest prize money ($325,000) of any graduate student business plan competition in the world. Currall received Stanford University’s Price Foundation Innovative Entrepreneurship Educator Award, Ernst & Young’s regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award R

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Management

-authored book on technical presentations, (SlideRules: Design, Build, and Archive Technical Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields), was published in 2014 by IEEE-Wiley.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 has held these dual responsibilities since 2011. Jeff is currently leading a campus-wide strategic planning process focused on creating more transforma- tive educational experiences for lifelong learners. Jeff

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University; S.R. Subramanya

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Engineering Management

thewater scarcity issue is at the heart of the issue, starting with single family water conservation or aHome Water Management Plan (HWM) that is easy to learn, follow and implement, with theultimate goal of making a mobile application (or App) available to the masses.This research introduces the awareness and educational aspects of water conservation to ourfuture leaders through ‘gamification’ (learning through games) at the graduate levelSustainability Management courses, and proposes a plan to bring a HWM mobile app to themasses through local governments, such as city or county. The mobile app approach would beaccomplished through a research relationship with the Computer Science department toprototype the gamification (website and mobile app

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Engineering Management

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

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Julie Ezzell

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Engineering Management

schools in Macao.The teachers included in this study use Facebook to post information on lessons, homework, andclass activities to stimulate student discussion. Throughout the study, teachers posted topics atleast once each day for eight weeks. At the end of the eight weeks, students were surveyed aboutnot only their experience in the classroom but also their interaction with the Facebook group. Kioand Negreiros (13) found that Facebook allowed teachers to plan, advocate, and lead constructiveinteraction within the group. Group members became closer and more collaborative with botheach other and their teacher. This improved relationship helped advance each students learningexperience and academic performance.Leelathakul and Chaipah (14) examined

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

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Engineering Management

depth of understandingof course concepts. In order to understand this, further study is needed.As discussed in the literature review, the findings from studies elsewhere have shown thatconcept maps can be utilized to assist students to structure their existing knowledge.7, 10 This hasbeen shown to aid learning new concepts.6, 10 Given this evidence, it is reasonable to believe that Page 26.1557.8the results of this study also indicate a deeper student understanding of the available knowledge,not simply higher performance on course assignments. In order to more fully investigate thispotential, an additional exploration of the data is planned

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Jennifer A Farris, Texas Tech University; Mario G. Beruvides Ph. D., Texas Tech University; Ahmad R Sarfaraz, California State University, Northridge

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Engineering Management

that influencepartially-distributed teams. While numerous studies have identified contributors to the outcomesof virtual teams in general, the impact of the degree of virtuality specifically remains an openarea with little previous research which is what the authors are going to focus on building aframework to address.Research ObjectivesThe primary goal of this research study is to form a framework which will enable theincorporation of experiencing working on virtual teams in engineering. In order to do this theauthors have to understand the impact of changes in degree of virtuality on student engineeringteam learning outcomes. For this purpose, there will be five basic hypotheses to be tested as partof the research plan. In Hypothesis 1, the