Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University

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Industrial Engineering

human factors principles.The learning objectives for each module are shown in Table 1. Details for each module arediscussed below. The modules have been used in both split level (junior, senior, graduate) andgraduate level classes. The size of the courses has typically been between 15 and 30 entrolledstudents. However, each class has been a mixed-campus class, with some student participatingin the classroom and others participating online. Page 14.1334.2Table 2. Learning Objectives Learning Objective Module “At the completion of the learning module

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Eric Bickel, University of Texas, Austin

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Industrial Engineering

correct), they must assign a probability to each possible answer. In theory, such anexam should better reveal the students’ mastery of the subject, but how should the instructorassign scores in this situation? Formally, consider the assessment of a probability distribution by a student over nmutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive answers, where n > 1. Let p = (p1,…,pn) be an n-vector of probabilities representing the student’s private beliefs, where pi is the probability thestudent assigns to answer i being correct, and the sum of these probabilities is equal to one.These beliefs represent the student’s “true” state of knowledge, but are not directly observable tothe instructor. Let the student’s public assessment or response

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Daniel Ludwigsen, Kettering University

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Industrial Engineering

learned if given a framework.CITIES provides this framework in an active learning context. At face value, students prepareand deliver a presentation that adds value to the class by describing applications of course topics.At the meta-level, the structure of this framework intentionally develops an expert approach togathering information and professional presentation.The student has the burden to create an effective, engaging, and meaningful presentation, but isgiven the tools and process knowledge for the task. The critical components of this instrumentare: (1) ownership of the process by the student, with the instructor available for guidance; (2) amethodology for the student to follow, modeled after expert or best practices; (3) a set

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Cathy Hall, East Carolina University; Michael Bosse, East Carolina University; David Batts, East Carolina University; Laurie Moses, East Carolina University

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Industrial Engineering

assessed were consistent across gender and race, notabledifferences were identified. This paper highlights the importance of better understanding ofinfluences in career considerations as crucial to help guide interventions to improve STEMcareer selection for women and minorities.Representation Issues and Career Choices in STEM FieldsAlthough STEM field populations have grown, this pace has not keeping up with the overalllabor market.1 In 2006, STEM professionals accounted for 5 percent of all the employment inthe United States; this was down from 5.6 percent from 2001. This decline mirrored postsecondary enrollment in STEM degree fields.2 While the actual enrollment in STEM degreefields increased from 519,000 students in 1994-1995 to 578,000

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University

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Industrial Engineering

of office hours the students should be encouragedto ask questions in class or via email. Email responses can be copied to the entire class making itan excellent mode of communication outside class. In this era students are expected to know toeffectively communicate technical material via email and such opportunities are excellent tofoster these skills.Doing away with office hours appears to be a strategy that deserves some testing for obviousreasons. The only course we experimented with having office hours and doing away with it wasa graduate course on stochastic models for queues. For this course, in the first offering there wereoffice hours regularly scheduled and the second offering there were none. Table 1 summarizesthe mean and standard

Conference Session

Applying What We Teach to IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Matthew Elam, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Ben Cranor, Texas A&M University, Commerce

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Industrial Engineering

university alumni from associated industries in the university'sregion and nearby metropolitan areas. The core goal and motivation of this group of facultymembers and advisors/alumni was to develop a curriculum that first included a rigorousengineering education but one that was also closely associated with the best practices,experiences and applications of the real world business and industrial professionals for theindustrial engineering student.The prepared curriculum included two courses with industrial experiences providing the studentto achieve hands-on actual engineering experience and practice. The two courses selected topresent this real engineering application to the student were:1. IE 471, Engineering Internship, three semester hours

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Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marlin Thomas, Air Force Institute of Technology

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Industrial Engineering

). Page 14.95.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A QRW Paradigm for the Industrial Engineering CurriculumAbstractIndustrial engineers need to have a thorough understanding of how product and service qualityare influenced through their design and development, production, and acceptance by customers.This paper proposes a core course for the basic curriculum that provides a modern broad view ofquality as a vector of attributes that includes reliability and warranty concepts and methods. Anotional course is developed by integrating topics from current courses using concept mapping toconstruct a platform that can be used to build and reinforce quality throughout the curriculum.1. IntroductionQuality is much more broadly

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Elam, Texas A&M University, Commerce; E. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Sukwon Kim, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Bob Wilkins, Texas A&M University, Commerce

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

mathematics (STEM) workforce remains strong. Continued growth in nationalproductivity requires a continuous supply of professionals who are highly competent in theSTEM disciplines and who are adaptable to the needs of a rapidly changing profession.1 From2000-2010, employment opportunities in the United States requiring STEM expertise areexpected to increase about three times faster than the rate for all other occupations. However,the available domestic STEM labor supply has not and will not be able to satisfy this growthbecause of the long-term trend of fewer students entering STEM programs in college, thusthreatening the ability of U.S. businesses to compete in the global marketplace. The situation isso dire that the National Science Board has

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Fraser, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Alejandro Teran, ITAM (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)

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Industrial Engineering

business considerations (such as cost and marketing) to a traditional engineering degree so that an engineer designing a product thinks about the business issues. • industrial engineering. Some programs, especially in the UK, use this label to mean engineering applied in industry. For example, at the University of Wales Cardiff (see www.uwic.ac.uk/new/courses/industrial%5Fengineering/), the phrase Industrial Engineering encompasses electrical and mechanical engineering programs.The Mexico to UK dimensionAs shown in Table 1 (see next page), we tabulated the total number of accreditedengineering programs in each country, the total number of accredited IE programs, andthe percent of all programs

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industrial Engineering

. Descriptions of each team’s projects appear below. Table 1. Description of Senior Design Team ProjectsTeam 1 Client A large package delivery service Project Help the company improve the use of part-time helpers that are hired for the peak load during the holiday season.Team 2 Client A major third-party logistics service Project Improve the efficiency of a regional transportation center focusing on four main aspects of its daily operations: flight tracking, field communications, scripting of phone calls, and work area setupTeam 3 Client A small variety store that is expanding into the distribution of toys

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, SUNY Binghamton; Justin Sturek, SUNY Binghamton; Sumit Parimoo, SUNY Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, SUNY Binghamton

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Industrial Engineering

phase, where the confirmation of the selected applicant is requested. On confirmation bythe applicant, the final transcripts and other related documentation are obtained and stored forfuture reference. This constitutes the output phase of the application process. An overview of theadmissions process is shown in Figure 1.It is worth mentioning here that Information Systems (IS) play a very important role in anenrollment management department. IS helps in obtaining basic information of the applicationforms and also gathers data specific to the university admission process 6. There is extensiveliterature available that discusses the importance of IS in the application process. It also allowsfor improved communication between the prospective

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky Whittington, Morgan State University; Douglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

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Industrial Engineering

Space FlightCenter, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing three small satellites under NASA’s NewMillennium Program (NMP). The NMP is a program designed to test and validate flighttechnology. In more detail, the name of this New Millennium Project is called Space Technology5 or ST-5. Other NMP Projects include Deep Space 1, Deep Space 2, Earth Observing 1, EarthObserving 3, and Space Technology 6, etc1. The three ST-5 spacecraft have been built and are undergone various deployment tests toassure a successful launch on March 11, 2006, being lifted by a Pegasus XL rocket fromVandenberg Air Force Base (Figure 1). In more detail, the ST-5 spacecraft is distinctlycharacterized from its lightweight structure (less than 25 kilograms

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

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Industrial Engineering

, economic, environmental, and societal context;(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning; and (j) aknowledge of contemporary issues. This paper will describe pedagogically how these elementsare implemented within the IE 1035 – Engineering Management course and the other inherentbenefits of doing so, i.e., making learning rigorous, relevant, and interesting.1. IntroductionThe Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh is not unlike most othertraditional industrial engineering programs across the country. Our program begins at thesophomore year after students have completed a common freshman year. Upon joining theIndustrial Engineering Department, students complete additional math courses

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Veenstra, University of Michigan; Gary D. Herrin, University of Michigan

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Industrial Engineering

preparednessupon entering college. 5Much emphasis in academia has been placed on the enrollment of minority students with muchless emphasis on the graduation rate of minorities. For under-represented minorities the 6-yeargraduation rate for all four-year colleges and universities is only 45%, compared to the overall 6-year graduation rate of 55%. 1 Among the large research universities that grant doctorates, the6-year graduation rate for under-represented minorities is 58% compared to approximately a67% 6-year graduation rate overall. (These statistics for large research universities are based onan average across all universities that are classified as Doctoral research extensive in theEducation Trust 2003 database.)Yet, there are success stories. Some

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dia St. John, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

engineering fields, especially industrialengineering. Most outreach literature, focuses on the recruitment of students, content, and theimpact on participants. In 2015, the authors, St. John and Specking, proposed a framework toadapt college-level lessons for outreach activities.[5] This work will 1) discuss a modifiedversion of the 2015 framework that emphasizes implementation, assessment, and continuousimprovement, 2) provide an example application that was successfully implemented at multiplesections of a University of Arkansas summer camp with assessment data, and 3) provide anadditional example of a previously implemented activity to emphasize the cycle ofimplementation, assessment, and improvement. The University of Arkansas used pre and

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul C. Lynch, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Joseph Wilck, College of William & Mary; Amanda Elizabeth VanBuskirk

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

went to:  Check Grades  Check Attendance  Check Course Calendar for Upcoming Deadlines, Quizzes, Exams - The ANGEL Calendar also contained the breakdown of coverage on exams and quizzes  Print Lecture Notes (Unedited and Edited)  Print Lab Procedures (for IE MFG course)  Print Assignments  Submit Assignments  Send EmailsData were collected in both courses regarding student satisfaction with the instructor, course,communication in the course, and the use of the course management system. Table 1 belowbreaks down the course semesters and enrollments for the data collection.Table 1: Course and Enrollment Statistics for Data Collection Course/ Semester Enrollment

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

individual efforts and the ability level that can be reached under adult guidance or incollaboration with more capable peers.1 Guidance can be provided by helping the learner tofocus on particular aspects of the problem by asking leading questions or providing starterinformation, or simplifying some of the details.2Scaffolding provides a structure that helps students construct knowledge by building newknowledge and competencies upon their existing abilities. It is commonly used in writing andusually given in one the following three forms: 1) breaking up an assignment into smallerassignments, 2) keeping assignment constant but increasing the difficulty of materials, or 3)creating a scaffold within a single assignment. 3 The levels of learning based

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

forstudents in OR and SPC courses in the case they don’t like the software used for solving problems. On the otherhand, learning multiple software applications during a 4-month long semester course can be a challenge forstudents in these courses. On the contrary to its importance, there is little to no attention given to pedagogicalresearch on Industrial Engineering students’ software choices. Engineering majors’ software choices to solvecalculus questions were investigated in several pedagogical research articles however these articles were notfocused on industrial engineering students’ software application interests.1, 2The importance of meeting students’ learning choices and research-based principles of smart teaching is studiedin the literature

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faisal Aqlan, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Richard Zhao, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Heather C. Lum, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Jo Elliott, Pennsylvania State University

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Industrial Engineering

production.Manufacturing concepts such as inventory planning, production scheduling, and processimprovement (Lean and Six Sigma methodologies) will also be considered. By comparing physicalsimulations with virtual reality environments, this paper provides insights into the applicability ofvirtual reality technologies in the education domain. Research activities will be integrated intoundergraduate courses on manufacturing systems to support problem-solving skill developmentamong students.1. BackgroundSimulation games can be a catalyst for understanding manufacturing concepts among engineeringstudents. Using simulation games allows students to experiment various manufacturing systems ina realistic setting. Moreover, simulation games can provide a means to engage

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech; Andrew Katz, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

properly tackling the ethical conflict and enable engineeringstudents to align their decisions with their ethical preferences.IntroductionPracticing engineering consists of making many engineering decisions to ultimately realize asystem that satisfies certain needs [1], [2]. Some of those decisions involve elements that affecthuman lives [3]. While the sought effect is generally positive, engineering also has the potentialto generate negative outcomes to society. That double-edged sword arguably leads to theimportance of identifying and justifying that which is morally right and wrong - engineeringethics.This paper focuses on the ethical dimension of engineering stemming from design decisions thatmay affect human lives. Specifically, we ask how

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

three courses offered in fall 2016 and fall 2017.The results reviewed as a whole and individually provided insights on student preferences,engagement and learning particularly from the perspectives of the two courses, Quality Analysisand Design of Experiments, which have substantial practical applications within the IndustrialEngineering discipline.IntroductionScaffolding is an instructional strategy that is based on L. Vygotsky’s Zone of ProximalDevelopment (ZPD). The range between the ability level of a person achieved by individualefforts versus under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers denotes ZPD [1].With scaffolding, the materials that the learner has to absorb are broken down into smallercomponents so that the

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Courses for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Andre Hamilton, Mississippi State University ; Raed Jaradat, Mississippi State University; Parker Jones, Mississippi State University; Emily S. Wall , Mississippi State University; Vidanelage Lakshika Dayarathna, Mississippi State University; Debisree Ray, Mississippi State University ; Ginnie Shih En Hsu

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

traditionalteaching methods. The proposed VR teaching modules allow students 1) to experience the senseof being present in a virtual queuing system environment that is representative of a real-worldengineering situation, 2) to expand their natural perceptive abilities and authentic experience, and3) to eliminate the need to deal with any expensive equipment or risky environments to understandthe application of queuing theory. The purpose of the research is to investigate how well studentsgained conceptual knowledge of queuing theory using the developed VR teaching module.Queueing theory is defined as the mathematical study of waiting lines. In this study students wereprovided a conceptual queuing theory quiz after the VR teaching module, and then they

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behin Elahi, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Industrial Engineering

al., 2013; Abed-Elmdoust and Kerachian, 2012). They categorizedwaste in health care systems as follows. Table 1. Major healthcare waste streams Health care waste category Examples Wastes derived from normal inpatient wards, outpatient a) General wastes examination rooms, first aid areas, administration, cleaning services, kitchens, stores, and workshops. Potentially infectious wastes that require special management inside and outside the health care system

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; Richard Stone, Iowa State University; Audrey Fyock, Iowa State University; Devna Fay Popejoy-Sheriff, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

CurriculumAbstractSince 2013, the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department at IowaState University (ISU) has provided high-impact education experiences to as many as 35students/semester (~6% of its student body) through undergraduate research assistantships(URAs). These experiences support ISU’s strategic goal of ensuring that students receive anexceptional education, with sub-goals of improving the ISU Experience for underrepresentedstudents, increasing retention and graduation rates for all students, and growing the impact andscope of graduate programs [1], [2]. The number of students who can benefit from thisexperience in the IMSE Department has plateaued, however, because of faculty time constraints.To significantly increase the

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Students for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Miller, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Daniel Emery

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Documents 1 Lisa A. Miller – Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of MinnesotaDaniel Emery – Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, University of Minnesota1. INTRODUCTIONThe collaborative nature of the engineering discipline is often translated to the classroom viagroup project work. The positive impact of project-based learning (PBL) has been welldocumented in the research literature and in previous ASEE proceedings, including successfulapplications as described in Yousaf et. al, 2010, and Figges and Vogt, 2017. Peer response tostudent writing and team-based learning are well established, evidence based practices thatimprove student learning (Cho and

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Courses for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Ridvan Gedik, University of New Haven

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

3products. The students are given a 1-week period to play the game. The game simulates selectedinventory control strategies with reorder point and order quantity parameters for 12 months. Thelearning outcomes of the course related to inventory control, and students’ experience with thegame are surveyed. Survey results are statistically and visually analyzed. Overall results indicatedthat the proposed gamification approach is found to have positive impact in learning effectivenessin the majority of evaluation categories. In addition, the contribution of the proposed gamificationapproach was found to be effectively supporting the learning outcomes of the course.IntroductionUse of gamification in higher education has gained credible attention in the

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Programs for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

World Report include Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, PennState and Texas A&M.6Schools in the North East region of the US on ASEE’s 2015 “top 50” list of schoolsgranting the most undergraduate Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems degrees includeCornell University, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh, Lehigh University,Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, State University of New York,Rutgers University and Rochester Institute of Technology. ASEE’s 2015 statistics arelisted below:Table 1:Industrial/Manufacturing/Systems Engineering Degrees Awarded by North EastSchools Rank School # Degrees Awarded 10

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing for the Future Through Projects and Research

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gokhan Egilmez, University of New Haven; Dusan Sormaz, Ohio University; Ridvan Gedik, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

have a balanced lecture and lab sessions, which are specifically designed to addressthe needs of the term project as the semester continues. In the term project, groups of 2-3 studentswere asked to form a group, where each group was expected to work on a real system to 1)understand, conceptualize, and model the existing system as a mental, then software-model; 2)validate the existing system model statistically; 3) identify areas for improvement (in addition tothe ones given by the supervisor); 4) complete the project with testing out system improvementscenarios and conducting cost/benefit analysis. The effectiveness of project-based learning issurveyed and studied based on the course learning outcomes. The results indicated that theproposed

Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Programs for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Elizandro, Tennessee Technological University; David H. Huddleston, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

faceincreasingly complex endogenous and exogenous challenges affecting program accountabilitythat include technological changes, financial stability, and demographic shifts in studentpopulations. Entirely related is Buhrman’s discussion [1] on accountability that includesdocumenting formative and summative assessment techniques to evaluate instruction.Elizandro et. al. developed a vertically integrated approach to stakeholder engagement inregional university accountability [2] that originates from this proposed implementationstrategy for ABET accredited programs. However, the concept is easily extendable to allscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs [3]. STEM programaccountability is critical because of the regional university

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ergin Erdem, Robert Morris University; Sangho Shim, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

). The hybrid rule leads to only a small number of iterations and makes it possible to perform the column generation approach in an undergradu- ate class using Microsoft Excel. We perform a large scale computational experiment and show that the hybrid rule is effective.1 IntroductionA column generation approach performs the simplex method to solve a hugescale of linear programming problem which we call the master problem. Whilea general linear programming approach enumerates the reduced costs of thecolumns which measure the contribution of the columns toward the optimalsolution, the column generation approach keeps and updates only a small setof columns, which we call a basis, without enumerating the columns. Instead,the