StructureSyllabi from 27 Industrial Engineering programs (and 1 Engineering Management program)were examined to determine the design and structure of their capstone courses. Information thatwas readily available for each program included course design (type of projects), credit hours persemester, number of semesters, grading structure, whether work was conducted as teams, and ifother disciplines were included in the course. Characteristics common across all programs arethe use of teams and the use of an A-F grading scale (with the exception of one university).The majority of the capstone course projects were strictly sponsored by industry as seen inFigure 1. Two of the universities (7%) utilized an independent project design where studentseither chose
AC 2012-3473: BIOMIMICRY INNOVATION AS A TOOL FOR DESIGNDr. Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Kettering University Terri Lynch-Caris, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Department at Kettering University and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan. She serves as the Director for the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Kettering. Her areas of interest in teaching and research include ergonomics and human modeling, statistics, work design and lean princi- ples, supply chain management, and environmental sustainability.Dr. Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit MercyDr. Darrell K. Kleinke, University of Detroit Mercy Darrell Kleinke has more than 25 years of
of taxes, techniques of cost estimation and their adequacy versus stage of design, relevancy of currently popular research topics, and other educational areas that need to be addressed.It is probable that many educators can guess some of the outcomes of such a survey, but it isnonetheless extremely important to have firm, reliable information that can be used in designing Page 25.1094.3 2curricula, developing research programs, designing instructional software, and exploringalternative instructional tactics. This knowledge also would be extremely useful to agencies suchas NCEES
AC 2012-3410: UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULA IN ABET-EAC ENGI-NEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS: WITH AN INTERNATIONALTOUCHDr. Amy K. Zander, Clarkson University Amy K. Zander is a professor and the Director of the Engineering and Management program at Clarkson University, Potsdam, N.Y. She has been an engineering educator since 1991 and a member of ASEE since 1993. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota. Page 25.1384.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Undergraduate Curricula in ABET EAC Engineering
define discipline-specificopportunities for leadership development and practice. It is preferred that the leadershipdevelopment be an accommodative platform for other purposes such as program assessment andassessment of student learning outcomes.2According to Malzahn, Whitman and Toro-Ramos3 a lack of effective leadership exists acrossindustry, government and academe. This lack is attributed to confusion as to what/who is aleader and how leadership is related to management. Dixon4 points out that leadership is aprocess that relates leader, follower and purpose. The role of followers in the process ofleadership is often neglected, adding to the confusion. Malzahn, et. al.3, also suggest thatleadership development within engineering programs may
, examine them from a broader systemic perspective toimprove how such systems are designed and managed going forward. Unfortunately, acomprehensive study of engineering management programs across the US, conducted by Gandhiand Pinto [7], revealed that less than 1/3 of all programs offered risk management courses. Toaddress this gap in current educational curriculum, the authors discuss existing approaches toinclude systemic risk management material in engineering management programs.Systemic risk and its importance to engineering managers According to Kaufman and Scott [8], systemic risk is thought of as a risk that originatesfrom multiple sources, affects multiple agents and propagates quickly among individual parts orcomponents of the
York). th9. S. M. Vidalis A, F.T. Najafi B. Cost and time overruns in highway construction. 4 TransportationSpecialty Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Montréal, Québec, Canada 5-8 juin2002 / June 5-8, 200210. Nida Azhar, Cost Overrun Factors In Construction Industry of Pakistan First InternationalConf erence on Construction In Developing Countries (ICCIDC–I) “Advancing and IntegratingConstruction Education, Research & Practice” August 4-5, 2008, Karachi,, Pak istan11. Russell D. Archibald (2003) , Managing high-t echnology programs and projects. John Wiley & Sons,New Jersey. ISBN: 978-0-471-26557-3
basis for a projectmanagement course where the second course intentionally, clearly and directly builds uponconcepts introduced in the first. Likewise the engineering economics course introduces andidentifies concepts that will be used in the project management course. Students get to seeconnections between concepts such as the earned value or work progress and cash flow; betweenmotivating factors of project delivery types (such as Design Build or Job Order Contracting) andtheir competitive advantage; between a contractual obligation clause such as liquidated damagesand performance bonding to their profit margin.In one BS program in Engineering Management that we examined, 200-level EngineeringEconomics courses are offered in the same year as
of the pre-test scores by 97.5% and 99.5% levels of confidencein the two semesters.The “Life Cycle Sustainability Economics” module was one of 11 sustainability modulesdeveloped and implemented in undergraduate engineering courses as part of the EngineeringSustainable Engineers program at University of Texas at Arlington, sponsored by NationalScience Foundation. The program was designed to improve undergraduate student knowledge ofand competency in addressing sustainability issues in engineering design and problem solving,and involves collaboration among faculty in Civil, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering. Page
AC 2009-242: TEACHING REVENUE MANAGEMENT IN AN ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENTAbhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology Page 14.1149.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching Revenue Management in an Engineering DepartmentAbstract: Revenue management is one of the newly emerging topics inthe area of systems engineering, operations research, industrialengineering, and engineering management. While it is not expected tobecome a part of the core curriculum in any of these disciplines in the nearfuture, it is being taught in many universities in the business schools thathave programs in operations research. Since the ideas
Robotics Laboratory in an Industrial Engineering ProgramAbstractRobotics is the study of the design, manufacture and application of robots used in a variety ofexisting systems or systems to be created. The impact and benefits of robotics in education at alllevels have been documented by many researchers and educators all across the country, as wellas, the world. Several universities have developed robotics programs which provide uniqueopportunities for students to learn about robotic systems through coursework and conduct high-level research. When these courses are combined with hands-on laboratory modules, roboticsprovides a means for student to utilize their analytical skills learned in other Science,Technology
Modeling and Decision Analysis21by Cliff T. Ragsdale, Art of Systems Architecting16 by Mark W. Maier. At George Mason, booksinclude Requirements Engineering13 by Elizabeth Hull, Ken Jackson, and Jeremy Dick,Engineering Design of Systems4 by Dennis M. Buede, and Project Management: A SystemsApproach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling15 by Harold Kerzner.The MS in Systems Architecting and Engineering at the University of Southern Californiadescribes its program in a way that fits the INCOSE definition: This program is recommended to graduate engineers and engineering managers responsible for the conception and implementation of complex systems. Emphasis is on the creative process by which these systems are conceived, planned
Tech- nology & Innovation’s Department of Engineering. He earned a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Alfred University, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both from Tufts University, in Chemistry and Engineering Education respectively. Dr. Carberry was previously an employee of the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education & Outreach and manager of the Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP). Page 23.553.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Evaluation of Perceptual Changes in an Engineering Sales ProgramAbstractThis study presents
education.Examples of How Case Studies Can Benefit Engineering Management EducationA simple Google search yields sources to numerous examples of case studies already utilized inengineering education. For example, MIT’s Engineering Systems Division is on the forefront ofeducating graduate students in complex and enterprise systems engineering. Many of their casestudies efforts are publically available.8 In addition, MIT’s System Design and Management(SDM) master’s degree program produces case studies.9 Similarly, doing a Google search forcase studies in engineering management yields another publically available resource.10 The Ste-vens Institute of Technology hosts a plethora of case studies and related material.11 There is moreon engineering case studies at
commissioning of PLC-based control systems for the food & beverage and cement industries. He has developed and teaches a course on PLC-based control systems for engineers. He also teaches a course on advanced digital design using FPGAs, a course on embedded systems using 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers, and the two-semester capstone project sequence for electrical and computer engineers at Behrend.Dr. Osama T. Al Meanazel, The Hashemite University Dr. Osama T. Al Meanazel is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at The Hashemite Univer- sity since September 2013. He received the B.S. in Industrial Engineering from The University of Jordan, Jordan; the M.S. in Engineering Management from Sunderland University
Head of electrical engineering in the faculty of design and creative technologies at the Auckland University of Technology, Saint Paul Street, Auckland 1010, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. Contact at maxwell.reid@aut.ac.nz. Page 25.553.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering management within an undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering (honours) programmeIntroductionAt the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand, we have addressed thecrucial problem of how best to assure that the engineering students receive the best
Haven in 2000, and Ph.D. in engineering management from UMR in 2004. Lewis has taught at the University of Bridgeport, Marshall University, UMR, and UNH.Miss Yiran Zhang, University of Bridgeport Yiran Zhang graduated from the University of Bridgeport in Dec. 2011 with a master’s in technology management. Page 25.1476.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 When to Start Collecting Social Security: Designing a Case StudyAbstractEngineering economy courses often include case studies as a bridge between the simplificationsof end-of-chapter problems and real world engineering
AC 2012-2996: PROPOSING A FRAMEWORK FOR RESTRUCTURINGAN INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT COURSE FORUNDERGRADUATESDr. Kathryn D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology Kate Abel serves as the Director of engineering management in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in technology management and applied psychology. She has been both the President of the Engineering Management Division of ASEE and the President of Epsilon Mu Eta, the Engineering Management Honor Society. She teaches courses in Engineering Economics, Entrepreneurial Analysis of Engineering Design, Total Quality Management, Statistics for Engineering Managers, Engineering Management, and Senior
achieved through the Work Systems Design Course, inwhich students learn about Ergonomics and Methods Engineering as part of the IndustrialEngineering Program Curriculum. The project immersed students in coffee harvesting orprocessing in an actual working environment in the coffee industry.Ergonomics, an area of study within the IE field, is defined as the application of scientificprinciples, methods and data drawn from a variety of disciplines to the development ofengineering systems in which people play a significant role (Kroemer, Kroemer, & Kroemer-Elbert, 2001). The evaluation of a system with a primary focus in the human element, makesthe area of ergonomics ideal for the study of work environments outside traditionalmanufacturing or
AC 2012-5561: ASSESSMENT OF DISCOVERY APPROACHDr. Mysore Narayanan, Miami University Mysore Narayanan obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of electrical and electronic engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several ency- clopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national, and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized, and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is a member
andcreative problem solving6, 7, 9. It is paramount for engineering and technology programs todevelop curricula and courses that emphasize the development and use of creativethinking skills for problem solving and decision making.Since 2004, the author has been using a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach toteach “Creativity in Business and Industry,” which is listed as OLS 350, in theConstruction Science and Organizational Leadership (CSOL) Department.Teaching Creativity Using Problem-Based Learning Page 25.1245.2Throughout the author’s teaching career, he has experimented with different learningapproaches to improve the content and delivery of his
director of evaluation and assessment for the Directorate for Engineering. In this new role, Medina-Borja’s respon- sibilities include designing and implementing a state-of-the-art evaluation and assessment system for the whole directorate that encompasses close to 100 programs in five different divisions with a budget of 800 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Paper ID #7538million dollars. Outcome indicators collected through this system will be used to demonstrate the impacton society of NSF’s investments in engineering research. She was nominated for the UPRM EngineeringDistinguished Faculty Award
number: 2007-01-1377,2007 SAE International World Congress, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI., April 2007.20 Argyris, Chris, Knowledge for Action. A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change,Jossey-Bass Wiley, 1993.21 Spear, Steve and Bowen, K., “The DNA of the Toyota Production System,” HBR, 1999.22 Bohm, David, On Dialogue, 3rd ed., Taylor and Francis, 2003.23 Cochran, D. S. and Isaacs, W., System Design and Leadership, Workshop guidebook to NASA SecondGeneration Re-useable Launch Vehicle Program Leadership and Design Engineering Team, and JointProgram Office Senior Leadership and Management Team, F-35 Program, 2002-2003.24 Talbot, Michael, The Holographic Universe, HarperCollins, 1991.25 Ohno, T., Toyota Production System: Beyond
Engineering at East Carolina University. She received a MS in Chemical Engineering from NC State University. Her research interests focus on biomaterials and bioprocessing. Educational efforts include the development of a bioprocess engineering laboratory, engineering program outreach, as well as curriculum development.Gene Dixon, East Carolina University Gene Dixon is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He received a BS in Material Engineering from Auburn University, an MBA from Nova Southeastern and a PhD in Industrial and System Engineering and Engineering Management from the University of Alabama – Huntsville. His professional experience
AC 2012-4172: ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT PERFORMANCES IN OP-ERATIONS RESEARCH CLASS DELIVERED BY AN INNOVATIVE AP-PROACHMr. Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University Yaseen Mahmud is a doctoral candidate in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Morgan State University’s School of Engineering.Dr. Masud Salimian, Morgan State University Masud Salimian is a faculty member in the Industrial Engineering Department at Morgan State Univer- sity. He is the Interim Director of the Advanced Engineering Design lab and Center for Multimedia In- structional Design and Technology. His research interests are in optimization, simulation, manufacturing systems and processes, and engineering education
. in engineering management from the University of Dayton in 1988, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Boston University in 1984. His primary research interests are in supply chain risk analysis, decision making, engineering optimization, quality, and reliability.Mr. Eric Specking, University of Arkansas Eric Specking serves as the Associate Director of Recruitment for the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He directs the engineering recruitment office and most of the College of Engi- neering’s K-12 outreach programs. Page 25.1095.1 c American Society for
AC 2012-3013: ASSESSMENT OF TQM IN THE 21ST CENTURYDr. Mysore Narayanan, Miami University Mysore Narayanan obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of electrical and electronic engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several ency- clopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national, and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized, and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a
considering issues involved in designing, maintaining,and improving human-technology systems. These include health care delivery, public healthpolicies, sickness prevention, health education, energy, city management, environmentalstewardship, quality control, inventory management, supply chains, workplace design, factorydesign, service delivery systems, and emergency room care. Also, since engineering design touchesalmost every aspect of daily life, ideas can be found in current news articles and in repositories suchas The Probability Web (www.prob.berkeley.edu).Discussing the Nature of ProblemsAs the first step in going beyond problems like those described in the previous section, the nature ofproblems is discussed. The learners that they will find
education, todevelop professionally and to engage in research. Table 2 presents the list of recommendedmajor courses for level 2. Page 25.807.4 3. Concept of Course – Logistics Processes DesignAs a result of cooperative efforts between Faculty of Engineering Management in Poznań(Poland) and University of Windsor (Canada), the new concept to integrate knowledge fromkey courses of the Logistics Program has been developed6. Its main idea is to use coursesProcess Design from Level 1 and Design of Logistics Systems and Processes from Level 2 asmain foundational courses. Process-based approach allows to think about any enterprise or afactory as structures
AC 2012-3821: INTEGRATING PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEAN-SIXSIGMA, AND ASSESSMENT IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CAP-STONE COURSEDr. Ana Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University Ana ”Anita” Vila-Parrish is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.Dr. Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College Page 25.803.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Integrating Project Management & Lean-Six Sigma Methodologies in an Industrial Engineering Capstone CourseAbstractThe ability to