in Ohio State’s Production Planning and Facility Layout are 3rd and4th year IE students usually 2 semesters before graduation. Most of these students havepreviously or are concurrently taking courses in Quality Management, Work Measurement,Cognitive Human Factors, Ergonomics, Project Management, and Linear Programming.The aim of the Cookie Project is to help the students integrate the ideas of demand forecasting,inventory management, material requirements planning, and facility layout from this course aswell as concepts from their other IE courses. The project involves creating a business plan for aproposed cookie manufacturer as a business consultants in teams of 4-6 students. To gain anunderstanding of the process of cookie making, the
2006-2338: INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE DECISION-MAKING MODULESSharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sharon A. Johnson is Director of the Industrial Engineering Program and an associate professor of operations and industrial engineering in the Department of Management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She teaches courses in process management, facility layout and design, and production planning and control. Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1989. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include lean manufacturing and operations design, process modeling, and reverse logistics. With co-investigators Arthur
Paper ID #15684Integrated Curriculum Design for an Industrial Engineering UndergraduateProgram in Latin AmericaDr. Ang´elica Burbano, Universidad Icesi Angelica Burbano C.,holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas. She holds a MSOM from Universidad Icesi and a BS in industrial engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana both in Cali, Colombia. She is a Fulbright Scholar 2007 and a fellow AOTS, Japan 2000. Angelica has previous experience (five years) in the food manufacturing industry (experience related to inventory management and production planning and control, also information systems
, many of thecommon project management tools used for developing a project plan such as developing astatement of work, a project charter, a work breakdown structure, a linear responsibility chart,and a Gantt chart are discussed. What better way to learn this material than by applying it to areal project setting. Beginning in the third week of the semester, students are grouped into 6-person teams with an aim at ensuring diversity with respect to gender, discipline, and academicability. The instructor then assigns a project to the students lasting about three weeks. Theproject deliverables include a final project report and an oral presentation. In the fall 2005, aneffort was made to assign projects that emphasized the societal context of
Engineering Education (SUCCEED) proposed a 10-step qualitymanagement support model in support of engineering education reform1, and a qualitymanagement plan based on service quality had been developed and implemented at IndianaUniversity Southeast2.A series of innovative quality planning approaches important for the success of comprehensivequality planning model have been presented and supported by data from a case study for thefirst-year curriculum at Texas A&M University. It has been verified that the inclusion ofconcepts from systems engineering, quality function deployment (QFD), quality management,and utility theory can not only prove useful in strategic planning but also assist the decision-making team by taking into account the voice of
, distributed simulation, adaptive control systems, digital signal processing, and integrat- ing technology into engineering education. He has also been an industry consultant on in discrete event modelling 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. c American Society for Engineering
well developed andvalidated in an industrial setting. Currently we are utilizing this expertise and combine it withexpert knowledge from the healthcare sectors to establish the context and contents of HSE, toevaluate its practical value and relevance, to develop a preliminary curriculum, and to introducethis into our educational system.Context and contents of Healthcare Systems EngineeringFrom a system’s perspective, many healthcare procedures and operations can be compared to aparticular type of manufacturing situation, known as job-shop production, where each operationneeds to be individually scheduled, and the crews, equipment and all other necessary materialsmust be planned and made available at the right time and in the right place for
that can beintegrated to the curriculum design and review process. We describe the adaptation of a user-based collaborative filtering recommender systems algorithm to analyze the online data and toconvert the data into relevant information that can be used as input to the process. Anundergraduate industrial engineering Operations Planning and Control course case study wasused to illustrate the adaptation of the algorithm. Some of the topics taught in the course weresearched on websites that advertise jobs and tallied. A professor who is familiar with the topicsalso provided expert judgments with regard to the relevance of the topics to industry needs. Bothdata sets were used as inputs to the algorithm. The experimental results show that some
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StudentsAbstractThe Study Cycle is a set of guidelines rich with self-regulated learning (SRL) techniques thatenables students to plan, prepare, and enact their studying by focusing on five comprehensivesteps: previewing before class, engaging in class, reviewing after class, holding study sessions,and seeking help as a supplement. This paper reports on initial findings of a qualitative study inwhich a workshop on the Study Cycle was taught to a class of second-year IndustrialEngineering students as an intervention, aiming to understand effects of the module onengineering students’ SRL strategy use in an engineering course. Students self-reported SRLstrategy use in a one-minute paper pre-workshop and two sets of post-workshop reflections. Thispaper examines
Figure 2. Sample Planning Map of the ModulesActivities and tools that may be utilized during the measure phase include: control charts,capability analysis, Pareto analysis, Affinity diagrams, check sheets and other data collectingmethods. A partial map of the Module© layout (shown in Figure 2) defines some of therequirements derived during the DMAIC measure phase for the ECU Six Sigma Green BeltCertification project.The Analyze PhaseIn the analyze phase of the DMAIC process, key variables having an impact on the output areidentified and the root causes for the loss in productivity and or quality are determined. In theanalyze phase, the activities and tools that are likely to be undertaken are: 5-why analysis, causeand effect analysis, Failure
chain management. Dr. Meixell has extensive industry background in logistics management, production planning, supplier management and supply chain design in the automotive and telecommunications industries. Dr. Meix- ell’s current research interests include sustainable supply chain management, performance implications of outsourcing, and curriculum development in undergraduate programs.Dr. Nebil Buyurgan, Quinnipiac University Nebil Buyurgan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering Program at Quinnipiac University. Prior to joining QU, he served as Associate and Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engi- neering Department at the University of Arkansas. He received his doctorate in engineering
emphasized by the experientiallearning approach, where students interact with and formulate these connections personally in adynamic system. Specifically, the experiential learning iterative cycle used in this workshop isDeming’s plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle[4]. By combining the SOLO relational andexperiential learning approaches as a methodology for the workshop, a learning space is createdfor each student to challenge, test, find, question, and create project management relationships ina dynamic system. This combination yields the opportunity for each learner to developsituational awareness – a critical trait of a dynamic project manager and decision-maker (and atrait rarely discussed in the engineering education literature).MethodologyAfter
of Engineering, she develops projects, plans and implements strategies and develops and documents reports, newsletters and proposals. Page 23.1262.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Training Industrial Engineering Students as Energy EngineersIntroductionBuildings consume approximately 40% 1 of all energy in the United States. Most buildingsoperate far less efficiently than their potential. In the U.S., industry alone accounts for about 31%of all energy used 8. There are many benefits to making commercial and industrialmanufacturing plants more efficient. One is to
todevelop their own product ideas from initial concepts to a business plan for a start-up. Thecourse is offered in English. The second course, offered to 3rd year students, introduces fundamental concepts relatedto industrial process analysis and improvement. Students learn necessary data collection andanalysis techniques (such as, for example, Value Stream Mapping) and also the basics ofprocess simulation using a commercial software package. Student teams work with industrialsponsors and develop competing innovative ideas for process transformation andimprovement. Emphasis is placed on the quality of the student work and final results. Topprojects are offered to present at technical conferences, publish their results in technicaljournals, and
programs in a range of engineering disciplines1,2. Morgan Stateand Stony Brook in Electrical Engineering and University of Alabama in MechanicalEngineering have 2+2 programs online3,4,5. Our program in Industrial Engineering is similar tothe 2+2 online programs at other universities in other disciplines. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the degree plan andcourse modifications required for online teaching. Section 3 discusses the delivery technologyand approaches used to offer online courses. Section 4 discusses the potential market for thisprogram. Section 5 discusses marketing and outreach efforts. Section 5 presents the evaluationresults of a student survey about online courses and discuss the progress of
industrysponsored. Student teams face challenges when defining objectives for an ambiguous project,controlling scope creep, achieving buy-in, and selling their results to the sponsor. These areskills that are not taught in most engineering curriculums prior to the capstone course(s). Ourobservations are consistent with the observations by other researchers who have studied thedesign process. Wilson et. al 2 highlighted how students in the capstone course setting strugglewith setting milestones and soliciting feedback at the right times. Developing and effectivelycommunicating the project plan and status are critical to the success of the project. As noted byYildirim3, there is a need for understanding the relationships between design activities
management. There are also functional gapsbetween working units of the organization. If we superimpose the management gaps ontop of the functional gaps, we find that companies are made up of small operationalislands that refuse to communicate with one another for fear that giving up informationmay strengthen their opponents. The project manager’s responsibility is to get theseislands to communicate cross-functionally toward common goals and objectives5 . Page 25.184.4 Figure-1 An Overview of Management and Functional Gaps5Researchers have identified failures of projects in the 1980s as quantitative, mainly dueto: Ineffective planning
Bloom’s taxonomy6 suchas knowledge, comprehension and application. But this mode of instruction is less likely toemphasize the higher-order cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. In this learningmodule that teaches gauge R&R, students must design a sampling plan for a gauge R&R studythat involves different measuring devices with different characteristics, conduct and evaluatemultiple gauge R&R studies, and recommend a measuring device based upon the analysis of thegauge R&R studies.The remainder of this paper will present the Mouse Factory learning system, the gauge R&R Page 23.1144.2project, results from the
evaluations. Thisfeedback indicated the program needed to provide the senior-level students with a more realisticindustry experience. Currently, the IE internship course, IE 471, and Industrial Systems Design(IE capstone course), IE 495, are in the IE program curriculum to introduce and provide thesenior engineering student an insight into the industrial world. These two courses wereevaluated according to the continuous improvement plan for the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) and changes were recommended.The IE 471 Internship is offered to give students an occupational experience in an industrialfacility. Students and faculty have experienced several disappointing obstacles in executing thisIE 471 internship course, including
used acquired systemsengineering methods in fundamental ways instead of making nick of time adjustments of littleconsequence.The Systems Engineering Capstone Course has been part of the degree plan since the mid1980s, and at the beginning of 2000, it was redesigned as part of a curricular change to beeven more profitable for students. The following paragraphs describe the redesign criteria,the course is it is presently, and some of its impact on student learning.Capstone Courses AdvantagesHigher education has used Capstone Courses for a long time, but they have come to the forein recent years. The reasons are many: many institutions have found that students today aremore focused on practical activities, doing things (Keller, 20046); recent
worked extensively in the domain of welding, specifically in the area of weld- ing technology and training. He has a deep appreciation for the importance of the welding field and plan to continue pursuing research projects that benefit the welding community.Ms. Audrey Fyock, Iowa State University Audrey Fyock is a senior in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and first year Master of Business Administration student at Iowa State University. This is her first year doing an undergraduate research assistantship with the IMSE Department, where she is studying the impacts of undergraduate research on retention rates and graduate school.Devna Fay Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University Devna Popejoy-Sheriff is
Page 11.868.7in the appendix. Only those courses that currently include some coverage of a lean topic areshown. An entry of “1” in the table indicates that the topic is currently included in the course,though in some cases it may not be mentioned that the topic is considered by some to be a leantopic. A “2” indicates topics which we may not include in our courses right now, but which fitnaturally into one of the courses we offer. It also includes topics that are discussed briefly in theindicated course with more thorough coverage elsewhere. For example, the role of a bill ofmaterial as a source of planning information is covered in the facilities course, but they arecovered in more detail in the production planning course. A “3” denotes that
• Co-creation of Design document – Learning outcomes, Design Content, Methodology, Schedules, Action learning projects • Project plan with milestones and schedule for joint reviews • Monthly review of progress by the Core team by WebEx • Development of content, duration, sequence by the Develop respective core team members • Design of assessment rubrics for assignment and projects • Identification of action learning projects and scope
EducationAbstractLogistics and transportation has become one of the last frontiers that still remain to be conqueredby most businesses in the twenty first century. Yet this cannot be done unless all logistics andtransportation professionals, irrespective of their functional orientation and current jobresponsibilities, fundamentally understand the dynamics of how products move from one placeto another. This is one of the disciplines that is growing at a faster pace. The issue is that thenumber of graduates in this field is not meeting the current industry demand. Many U.S.institutions have recently developed and planning to develop educational degree programs in thisarea. This research analyzed the need for best practices and identified best practices in
Bloom’s Taxonomy. The current pedagogy removes students from applying higherorder cognitive skills. By using the Mouse Factory, students must select the most appropriateimprovement project to undertake, design a sampling plan, implement a control chart andevaluate the effectiveness of the implement control chart. Assessment of student behavior andattitudes will be discussed and evaluated.IntroductionThe American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)1 defines engineering managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technical component.” Quality-related activities are widelyaccepted as an important field of engineering management and industrial engineering
. This is assuming only 1 in 10 students wish to pursue a BS degree online. All indicationsare that there is a much higher percentage of adult students who are planning to pursue a B.S.degree. Further, addressing this market contributes to supporting a technology-based workforcesought by the State. That goal is to provide a continued path for developing an increasinglycompetent and highly trained technology-based workforce. Page 12.416.4 When considering a fluctuation rate of 8% in undergraduate distance education semestercredit hours, the projected expected growth pattern ranges from a 27% to 48% increase in SCHwithin the next consecutive
aspecific lesson plan. Each of these projects can be modified to suit various age groups,audiences, and time limits.2. FrameworkTackling the invention of an outreach event can seem daunting. Younger students are painfullyhonest, and it is important to foster and maintain a good reputation with the community for high-quality, effective recruiting. Professors and students have a great source of inspiration for K-12activities: the classroom.Adapting college-level lessons for use with younger students requires an understanding of theobjective of the exercise and the capabilities of the audience. The following framework, basedon the development and implementation of many outreach projects, outlines a simplemethodology for activity adaptation
began considering the university’s approach to LID, itbecame important to recognize requirements of accrediting bodies and the need to understand theimplications, or rather the potential for use of the framework, in achieving accreditation goalsrelative to continuous improvement plans. Step 1 of this process was to address where the stagesand development areas meshed with accreditation outcomes. This mesh was important as facultyresources are limited and there was, and still is, a strategic need to limit additional encumbrancesupon otherwise stretched faculty resources. The state is suffering significantly from the currenteconomic environment and this is reflected in decreasing funding for all ECU academic units.The department initiated an
/production, operations management, and logistics. To meetthe obligations of the remaining (nontraditional) tracks, we have developed new courses in Page 12.473.3financial engineering and health care, like many other schools.Table 1. Tracks for each major along with course offerings and home department. IE Tracks Common Tracks I&SE TracksProduction and Mfg Systems Supply Chain Logistics Information TechnologyFacilities Planning (IE) Facilities Planning (IE) Data Communications (IE)Robotics (IE) Supply Chain Logistics (IE) Mfg Info