ABET accreditation is the established benchmark for undergraduateengineeringprograms in the United States, yet there are but four accredited undergraduateengineeringmanagementprograms and one accredited engineeri...
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ABET accreditation is the established benchmark for undergraduateengineeringprograms in the United States, yet there are but four accredited undergraduateengineeringmanagementprograms and one accredited engineeringmanagement technology program in the United States. This apparent paradox results from the many elements, characteristics, and factors contributing to successful accreditation. The scarcity of accredited programs is a concern to the engineeringmanagement discipline and a question to be dealt with. ABET accredited since 1992, Stevens Institute of Technology presently has a relatively large, well established engineeringmanagement (EM) program. Its success is evidenced by the size of its faculty (15 full-time faculty) and external recognition (3 awards from the American Society of engineeringmanagement [ASEM] over the past 15 years). The University of the Pacific, by contrast, has a very small engineeringmanagementprogram (1 full-time dedicated faculty) that just received ABET accreditation in 2003. This program also received ASEM's 2004 Founder's Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership for undergraduateprograms. This article compares and contrasts the accreditation processes in place at the engineeringmanagementprograms at Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Pacific. Among the factors considered most central to their accreditation success are the project and people management skills inherent to the discipline of engineeringmanagement. These skills provide the basis for a plethora of successful accreditation-focused activities within an EM program. Examples of activities leading toward accreditation and recommendations of how colleges and universities can implement similar processes are discussed.
This study investigates the design method of a new-structural matrix material, called "mesh sheet" for Stirling engine regenerators. Flow and heat transfer characteristics of the matrix materials were analyz...
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This paper presents a feature point tracking algorithm using optical flow under the non-prior training active feature model (NPT-AFM) framework. The proposed algorithm mainly focuses on analysis of deformable objects,...
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Civil engineering Faculty at Centro Universitário Positivo created, in 2003, the "Integrated Project", a multidisciplinary design task involving all years and all courses in the program. Each year, a ce...
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A modeling framework and an integration platform for unifying B2Bi (Business to Business integration) and EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) systems are required to effectively manage collaborative B2B business ...
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Knowledge management (KM) has become an important term in the construction industry. Knowledge management involves creating, securing, capturing, coordinating, combining, retrieving and distributing knowledge. The kno...
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Knowledge management (KM) has become an important term in the construction industry. Knowledge management involves creating, securing, capturing, coordinating, combining, retrieving and distributing knowledge. The knowledge can be reused and shared among the involved engineers and experts to improve the construction process and reduce the time and cost of solving problems. Sharing and reusing knowledge depends on acquiring and preserving both tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge as the property of a corporation. This study addresses application of knowledge management in the construction phase of construction projects and proposes a construction map-based knowledge management (MBKM) concept and system for general contractors. This paper proposes a practical methodology to capture and represent construction project knowledge by using knowledge map. Using knowledge maps, users can get an overview of available and missing knowledge in core project areas and take appropriate management in tacit and explicit knowledge. Also, a portal system is developed to assist and present project-related knowledge by providing keyword and map search. The MBKM system is then applied in a case study of a construction precast office building in Taiwan to verify our proposed methodology and demonstrate the effectiveness of sharing knowledge special in the construction phase. By effectively using information and web technologies during the construction phase of a project, knowledge can be captured and managed to benefit future projects. The combined results demonstrate that, an MBKM-like system can be an effective tool for all experts and engineers participating for construction projects by utilizing the knowledge management concept and web technology.
In this paper, we mainly focus on a communication mechanism which enables efficient information publishing and sharing among semantic desktops. We propose MyPortal as a "one stop" for all the information rel...
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In this paper, we mainly focus on a communication mechanism which enables efficient information publishing and sharing among semantic desktops. We propose MyPortal as a "one stop" for all the information relevant to the user and further propose the conceptual architecture of a P2P community Web information retrieval system based on MyPortal. This architecture enables not only precise location of My-Portal instances and their Web resources but also the automatic or semiautomatic integration of hybrid semantic information delivered through Web content and Web services, and it also ensures that the semantics will not be lost during any part of the lifecycle of the information retrieval process.
Outsourcing more of the design and production than before, manufacturers increasingly take on the role of systems integrators and collaborate with "design chain" partners to bring a new product to market. Th...
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Outsourcing more of the design and production than before, manufacturers increasingly take on the role of systems integrators and collaborate with "design chain" partners to bring a new product to market. The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary study that applies the concept of activity overlapping to accelerate design chain activities in order to improve the time to market. An activity overlapping model adapted from the literature is used to determine the optimal overlapping time and the number of information exchanges required to minimize the development lead-time between two dependent activities. Two parametric functions are proposed to model information evolution and iteration sensitivity for upstream and downstream activities. The impacts of activity overlapping on development lead-time can be thoroughly analyzed for different combinations of evolutions and sensitivities. Several strategies for managing design chain to improve the time to market are also discussed.
Pipes of a plant should be properly managed, since corrosion of pipes cause leakage of dangerous material. But, the management is a hard and costly job. Though the pipes are maintained costly, the ratio of really corr...
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The Industrial engineering and managementsystemsdepartment at the University of Central Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum within a Total Quality Improvement cou...
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The Industrial engineering and managementsystemsdepartment at the University of Central Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum within a Total Quality Improvement course. This graduate level course teaches the Six Sigma body of knowledge, including quality management principles and problem solving tools. It provides just-in-time experiential learning opportunities to reinforce the in-class instruction. This paper will provide examples of Six Sigma tools applied in the project case studies including Voice of the Customer, Design of Experiments, and Benchmarking.
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