Title

Experiential Learning For Industrial Engineering Curriculum

Abstract

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems with its Industrial Advisory board has embarked upon a multi-year effort to reengineer the undergraduate Industrial Engineering program. With the onset of more service industries and Information Technology firms, Industrial Engineering programs need to revise their curriculum to educate and prepare students to meet the expected workforce demands resulting from the shift of traditional manufacturing industries to non-traditional industrial sectors, and to incorporate additional emerging topics in the field. A critical part of this research project was to obtain the voice of the customers, industry and academia, that employ and receive our graduates once they successfully complete our undergraduate IE curriculum. The customers, through a series of surveys applied within a multi-round Delphi study, defined the desired characteristics that the graduates should have when they graduate, as well as emerging topics that should be incorporated into the curriculum. Important desired characteristics included adaptable problem solving skills, creative and critical thinking, teamwork skills, decision making skills, project management and leadership awareness. One important way to help our undergraduates attain these desired characteristics is through incorporating experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum. This paper describes our approach for incorporating experiential learning opportunities into the undergrad IE curriculum. It discusses the courses, timing of the experiences, and the components of the experiences that provide application of the course materials in project-based problem solving that enhance the students' critical thinking and adaptive problem solving skills. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2006.

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Publication Title

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

85029089555 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85029089555

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