Management from The University of Alabama Huntsville. Page 12.1368.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Project Management with International CollaborationAbstractGlobal project management is a natural context for training engineering students to meetchallenges of the global economy. This paper describes the methods employed in an innovativeproject management course integrating lecture seminars with international engineeringcounterpart faculty in China, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. The US’s East CarolinaUniversity’s engineering program entered into reciprocal agreements with the Czech TechnicalUniversity
Engineering Management from The University of Alabama Huntsville. Page 12.1273.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Service-Learning and Integrated, Collaborative Project ManagementAbstractThis paper describes the introduction of service-learning into an undergraduate course on projectmanagement. At ECU, engineering courses are taught in an integrated and collaborativeeducation environment. The core curriculum requires junior level students to complete a coursein project management as part of the program’s commitment to industry to supply immediatelyproductive, contributing new
), and high strain deformation of materials. She is currently a Co-PI in NSF S-STEM and ADVANCE-PAID grants. She is actively involved in outreach activities that introduce middle school students to engineering. Page 25.696.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Highly Relevant and Productive Collaborations between Industries and UniversitiesIntroductionEngineering education is enhanced by collaborations between industries and universitiesthat provide a platform for students’ internships, research, and development ofprofessional and leadership skills
. Prior to this, he worked in the areas of software measurement and software process improvement methods for software projects. Dr. Paulish is a co-author of Software Metrics: A Practitioner's Guide to Improved Product Development, published by IEEE Press, and the author of Architecture-Centric Software Project Management, published by Addison Wesley. Dr. Paulish holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY. Page 11.257.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Asynchronous collaboration: achieving shared understanding
Paper ID #25808Assessing the Impact of University-Industry collaborative Lean Six SigmaCapstone Projects on Engineering Management StudentsDr. Hilda Cecilia Martinez Leon, Clarkson University Hilda Cecilia Martinez Leon received the B.S. degree in industrial engineering, the M.S. degree in manu- facturing systems, and the D.Sc. degree in engineering sciences from Monterrey Tech, Mexico. She also received the Ph.D. in systems and engineering management from Texas Tech University, Lubbock. She is also a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Her work experience is related to the product lifecycle man- agement and manufacturing
AC 2007-398: HUMAN BEHAVIOR SKILLS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONRose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana ChampaignRaymond Price, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Page 12.814.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 1 Human Behavior Skills in Engineering Education AbstractThis past decade has been characterized by a series of changes in engineering education,beginning with the recognition of the need to incorporate human behavior skills in engineeringeducation. Now, it is important
this construct aswell as guide would-be team leaders. The implications of this study can better aid distanceeducation instructors who rely on course projects to prepare students for the collaborative aspectof working as an engineer.MethodologyThis study was completed using a quantitative survey of transactional and transformationalleadership behaviors and team performance. It employs a correlational approach and multipleregression analysis to determine the strength of the relationships between these sets of variables.SampleThis study surveyed distance education students who were taking either Project Management,Systems Engineering (I and II), or Quality, Strategy, and Value Creation classes at the Universityof Missouri – Rolla and the
/legrand. He has spent the past 4 years successfully championing Lean Transformation at his facility in Concord, NC. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Page 12.14.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Collaborative Case Study for Teaching “Achieving Lean System Benefits in Manufacturing and Supply Chains” to Engineering Management StudentsAbstractWith the ongoing global pressure of cost cutting and quality focus, many companies havebeen implementing “lean manufacturing” concepts to survive in this
Paper ID #8594Applying Six Sigma in Higher Education Quality ImprovementDr. Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint Dr. Quamrul Mazumder has been conducting research in the areas of metacognition, teaching and learning styles, motivation and engagements. As a Fulbright scholar, he was involved in higher education quality improvement initiatives in Bangladesh. He published a book titled ”Academic Enhancement in Higher Education”. Page 24.191.1 c American Society for Engineering
Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in Paris, France. As an internationally recognized author and instructor in system engineering and its organizational application, he is an invited guest speaker and panelist at professional meetings and symposia. Wasson champions the need to strengthen undergraduate engineering programs with a course in the fundamentals of system engineering. He holds B.S.E.E. and M.B.A. degrees from Mississippi State University and a certificate in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. His professional affiliations include the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the International Council on System Engineering (INCOSE), and the Project Management Institute (PMI
2006-866: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP TAKESENGINEERING MANAGEMENT EDUCATION TO THE NEXT LEVELCarmo D'Cruz, Florida TechMuzaffar Shaikh, Florida Tech Dr. Muzaffar A. Shaikh is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Systems at Florida Tech. Dr. Shaikh spent nearly nineteen years in industry, before he joined Florida Tech in 1987. Dr. Shaikh is an associate editor of the INCOSE System Engineering Journal and the North American editor of the Business Process Management Journal.Wade Shaw, Florida Tech Dr. Wade H. Shaw, P.E. is Professor of Engineering Systems in the Department of Engineering Systems at Florida Tech. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
AC 2012-4002: APPLICATION OF CASE STUDIES TO ENGINEERINGMANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology S. Jimmy Gandhi is a faculty member in the School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens In- stitute of Technology and also at Baruch College, which is a part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. His research interests are in the field of risk management, engineering education, and globalization. He got a Ph.D. in engineering management from Stevens Institute of Technology, a mas- ter’s in engineering management from California State University, Northridge, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is
AC 2012-4001: THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMICRISK IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONDr. S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology S. Jimmy Gandhi is a faculty member in The School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens Institute of Technology, as well as at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research interests are in the field of risk management, engineering education and globalization. He got a Ph.D. in engineering management from Stevens Institute of Technology, a master’s in engineering management from California State University, Northridge, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is currently co
. Wefocus on the four roles that faculty and course development staff collaboratively undertakes todeliver courses online: the pedagogical, management, technical, and social roles. In doing so, wefocus on our four project management courses and some of the practices we use in our ownuniversity to address distance education issues. We conclude with some recommendations foreffective program delivery practices.IntroductionWith its roots in systems engineering, project management is a relatively new discipline.Historically, project management originated in the construction, engineering, and technicalfields, and it is now applied to various industries, including new product development, productinnovation, and information technology 1. As a reference
Paper ID #6547The Case for On-Line College Education - a work in progressDr. Brian E. White, CAU-SES Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wiscon- sin, and S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. He served in the United States Air Force, and for 8 years was at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. For five years Dr. White was a principal engi- neering manager at Signatron, Inc. In his 28 years at The MITRE Corporation, he held a variety of senior professional staff and project/resource management positions. He was Director of MITRE’s Systems En- gineering
today’s supply chain curriculum. She has worked with a team of colleagues throughout other colleges at East Carolina University to plan a STEM initiative for 8th grade girls. This initiative helps bring more than 100 Pitt County girls to campus to engage them in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. She has also worked with ECU’s Global Academic Initiatives to collaborate with other institutions throughout the world. In addition, Dr. Pagliari collaborates with many external organizations. She is past president of APICS (Association of Operations Management) and past Education Chair for the CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals). She also served as a board member for the Museum of the Marine in
a Project Management Professional as certified by the Project Management Institute. Page 11.1321.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Prospect of Project Management Instruction in Undergraduate Engineering EducationAbstractThis paper explores the need for engineers, especially young engineers, to graduate withdemonstrable knowledge and performance competencies in the area of project management.Trends are explored and used to address the prospect for project management instruction inengineering undergraduate education. A Project Management Competency Development Modelis
communication, co-location, coordination and collaboration.Software tools and hardware solutions that support such distributed design teams havethus become a necessity rather than a fad [7].In 2000, Dryer et al. reported that the National Research Council (NRC) Committee onAdvanced Engineering Environments expected significant changes in engineeringproduct design, project processes, collaboration support and education in training withinthe upcoming seven years (NCR, 2000 as reported by Dryer et al., 2003) [4]. Thesechanges were the apparition of more and more global engineering design teams.In their paper, Bushari et al. provide the statistics of companies outsourcing theirengineering designs; these statistics were collected by the Aberdeen group. The
. “Promotion of critical thinking by using case studies as teaching method.”Nurse Education Today, 31, 204-207, 2010.33. Mayo J.A. Using case-based instruction to bridge the gap between theory and practicein psychology of adjustment. Journal of Constructivist Psychology 17, 137-146. 2004.34. Tiwari, A., Lai, P., So, M., & Yuen, K. A comparison of the effects of problem-basedlearning and lecturing on the development of student’s critical thinking. Blackwell PublishingLtd 2006. Medical Education; 40, 547–554. 2006.35. Korkmaz, S. Case-Based and Collaborative-Learning Techniques to Teach Deliveryof Sustainable Buildings. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education &Practice, Vol. 138, No. 2. ©ASCE, ISSN 1052-3928/2012/2
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2005).28. W. H. Shaw, “Collaboration: The Key to Preparing Engineering Managers,” Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (1999).29. G. Nelson, “Developing Engineers With An Entrepreneurial Spirit,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference (2006).30. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2002.31. R. H. King, T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no
Paper ID #18306The Development of Engineering Management Education in K-12 Schools: ALongitudinal Case StudyDr. Andrew J. Czuchry, East Tennessee State University Andrew Czuchry received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1969 with a concentration in guidance and control systems engineering. He has more than twenty years experience as a professional manager in technical innovation and the electronics manufacturing industry. Dr. Czuchry is a tenured full professor and has been the holder of the AFG Industries Chair of Excellence in Business and Technology since joining East Tennessee State University in 1992. He
– Rolla. In 2014, Dr. Cudney was elected as an ASEM Fellow. In 2013, Dr. Cudney was elected as an ASQ Fellow. In 2010, Dr. Cudney was inducted into the International Academy for Quality. She received the 2008 ASQ A.V. Feigenbaum Medal and the 2006 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineering Award. She has published five books and over 50 journal papers. She is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Manager of Quality/Operational Excellence, and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. She is a member of the ASEE, ASEM, ASQ, IIE, and the Japan Quality Engineering Society (JQES). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Lean Six Sigma Journey in a UK Higher Education Institute
healthiest, safest, and mostproductive civilization in history—a civilization that has advanced and continues to advance withextraordinary rapidity, in large measure through the achievements of the engineering profession.But the speed with which this civilization continues to advance is fundamentally challenging theway in which engineering is practiced and the way in which engineering students are educated. Page 13.1197.3Technological breakthroughs—the Internet most prominent among them—have effected anincreasingly global “workplace” in which the collaborative efforts of multinational teams areunhampered by geographical distance or time zones
personal global business experiences. Next, the paper will offer tips on howto leverage the barriers such that it can actually help the team become more effective along witha summary of modern techniques to increase team bonding and collaboration. It also includes abrief literature review on global management educational resources. To highlight the do’s anddon’ts in a global team, the discussion will end with two case studies drawn from industry tohelp realize the good and bad practices in leading a global team. Upon conclusion of this paper, Page 14.287.2engineering management students and current engineering leaders will have a
Mechanical Engineering and concentration in Energy Systems from the same university. Her primary focus is energy assessments and carbon neutrality studies for mid-sized manufacturing plants in Ohio and commercial buildings across campus. In addition to her field of study, she coordinated the first year of the WISE Mentoring Program connecting freshmen women in STEM to upperclassmen peer mentors.Dr. Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton Dr. Sandy Furterer is an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton, in the Department of Engineer- ing Management, Systems and Technology. She has applied Lean Six Sigma, Systems Engineering, and Engineering Management tools in healthcare, banking, retail, higher education and
found to stress teamwork as an important learning outcome, alongwith disciplinary grounding, integration, communication, and critical awareness3 (Borrego &Newswander 2010). Engineering education research reiterates the need for engineering studentsto develop teamwork skills as part of the undergraduate curriculum6-8.Research on interdisciplinary teams has focused mostly on the barriers and bridges tointerdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork, rather than specific assessment methods9-13. Withundergraduate engineering students specifically, research has shown that these students aresubject to, and acknowledge, the challenges of “disciplinary egocentrism,” which is defined asthe “inability to think outside of one’s disciplinary perspective
17 articles in numerical analysis and education in peer reviewed journals.Mr. Ramesh Hanumanthgari, Texas A&M International UniversityMiss Sri Bala Vojjala Page 25.457.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Development of a Virtual Teaching Assistant System Applying Agile MethodologyAbstractThis research describes a case study of a project to develop a web-based Virtual TeachingAssistant System (ViTAS) for college students and instructors. ViTAS, a digital homeworkassignments submission and grading system, is an innovative idea to provide
that is the foundation of the future SystemsEngineering & Engineering Management Department. One professor from the EMGT Programand three professors who are the senior design advisors of these engineering departments haveproposed to work on creating the new educational material by taking advantage of UNCC’sexisting senior design program.The current senior design program at the COE provides students with the opportunity to work onreal-world design projects by working collaboratively with twelve industrial partners (such asGeneral Dynamics, Lowe’s Hardware, and Irwin Tools). However, challenges discussed inSection 3 still exist. If this proposed work is approved, it is anticipated that, first, most of thetheoretical material including
Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University. Dr. Furterer has over 25 years of experience in business process and quality improvements. She is an ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Quality Engineer, an ASQ fellow, and a certified Master Black Belt. Dr. Furterer is an author or co-author of 4 reference textbooks on Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma and Lean Systems, including her latest book: Lean Six Sigma Case Studies in the Healthcare Enterprise by Springer publishing in 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Applying Systems Engineering Tools to Teach Systems Engineering in an
adjunct faculty member at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received a B.S.(Metallurgical Engineering) from The Ohio State University in 1990, an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1997, and an MS Product Development from the University of Detroit Mercy in 2004. He has fifteen years of automotive experience and is active in numerous technical and professional societies. Page 11.333.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Combining Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering in an Engineering Management ProgramAbstractThe discipline of systems engineering is