Conference Session

IED Technical Session: Preparing Students for the Future

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Olson, University of San Diego; Andrés Esteban Acero, Universidad de los Andes

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

for students to develop thesame fundamental skills that they currently learn, but to see how these skills can be applied toproblems and situations that don’t appear in traditional textbooks. By placing the technicalconcepts in new contexts, students will learn to critically evaluate the impact of their work innew ways, and they will graduate with a better understanding of their potential to useengineering to create change. For industrial engineers and systems engineering (ISyE) majors,this presents an opportunity to include examples of ISyE outside of traditional manufacturing,supply chain, or healthcare settings to show how the field can to address broader societalproblems.In Fall 2017, this changemaking content was introduced to ISYE 340

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Desen Sevi Özkan, Virginia Tech; Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, thus resulting in a more comprehensive overview of what their project entailed. For those clients who embodied the ‘problem,’ projects had a different level of personalinvolvement, in which the student teams used a different language. There was a sense ofconnection and emotion in these reports. Moreover, many of the decisions made in these groupswere a yes or no decision, in that the design would or would not work with the client. Because theteam’s design directly affected one person, this instant feedback may have been a critical elementin establishing the report as decisive. As an example, one report explains their choice for a certaindesign based on how the client’s “currently uses the U-shape for her forearms and prefers