Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan O. Schall, SOS Consulting, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

)composed of academic and industry leaders, leaders from ABET and the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) was chartered to advise on how to increase flexibility in theengineering accreditation criteria while maintaining a strong emphasis on educational qualityand to recommend ways to facilitate recruitment of outstanding engineers from industry andeducation to lead the ABET accreditation process. The committee identified three major barriersto change: 1) excessively long, prescriptive and detailed accreditation criteria, 2) a complicatedand user-unfriendly evaluation system, and 3) difficulty attracting technically active mid-careerprofessionals. ABET with support from the National Science Foundation convened consensus-building workshops

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faisal Aqlan, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); Yuan-Han Huang, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); E. George Walters III P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College); Osama T. Al Meanazel, The Hashemite University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

involves gathering of customer requirements, identifying productspecifications, generating design concepts, evaluating the designs, and selecting the best design.Results show that students’ design skills can be greatly enhanced by integrating the two courses.1. IntroductionInterdisciplinarity is becoming a critical issue for teaching design skills1. Integrating EngineeringDesign courses with Manufacturing and Ergonomic courses can effectively enhance students’design skills. Aligning product design and manufacturing education with market needs isimportant to overcome the skills gap and other challenges faced by students2. Moreover,ergonomic consideration is crucial for product design and development in today’s global market.Ergonomics, which is the

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

decide for an alternative that is notaligned with those ethical principles and values.A formal justification for the need to incorporate ethics in engineering curricula can be made byreferencing ABET, which requires “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility,broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global andsocietal context” (ABET, 2007, p. 1). Informally, two examples can set the ground.Example 1: Challenger. In 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated during launch,instantly killing its crew. Assessment of failure root cause, led to concluding that launch wasapproved despite the predicted operating temperature for one of its components (the O-ring) wasgoing to be -3 degree C

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

DescriptionThe Work Systems Design course at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus,provides junior-level students their first formal design experience in the IE ProgramCurriculum. The course prepares students in work systems design where human beings playan important role. This is accomplished through the alignment of systems, jobs, products andenvironmental conditions to the characteristics and human abilities to achieve mental andphysical well-being. The expected course outcomes include: (1) application of designstrategies for work systems design, (2) design of products, workstations and systems usingdata and design principles, (3) evaluation of the physiological requirements of a task, (4)identification of occupational risk factors, and (5

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 Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behin Elahi, Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

course:in the Fall of 2013 and Fall 2014 for a lecture-based classroom course that faculty applied atraditional textbook, for 58 students and in the Fall of 2015 and Fall of 2016 for a mix of lecture-based and problem-based classroom course that faculty used a textbook with more applicable casestudies for 54 students.The ABET outcomes are considered in this research (see Table 1). Table 2 provides the criteria,learning outcomes, and assessment tools based on which students have been assessed. Table 1. Definition of Applied ABET criteria for applied statistics course Criterion Definition a1 An ability to select and apply the knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

inaccordance with conditions that continually changed in response to competitors’ actions.Adaptability involved managing uncertainty through negotiations with other teams andinnovating within the game’s ruleset to secure advantages. Third, the game was built to promoteconstrained decision-making, as students needed to understand what information was needed toapply certain engineering techniques or make engineering decisions, as well as distinguish whichdecisions were appropriate for the given amount of information and time they had to completethe game.The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify evidence of learning during the game and todetermine, for future iterations, (1) what learning frameworks fit the data to inform the game’sdesign and