Lean Engineering Education: bridging-the-gap between academe, industry and society  

Oleh:

Siriban-Manalang, Anna Bella ; Alves, Anabela Carvalho ; Kahlen, Franz-Josef ; Flumerfelt, Shannon

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 14th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS), 3-6 December 2013 Cebu, Philippines, page 1-6.
Topik: Lean Engineering Education; systems thinking; sustainability; ethics; competencies
Fulltext: 2029.pdf (588.33KB)

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Globalization has permeated our personal and professional lives and careers over the past two decades, to a point where communication, product development, and service delivery now are globally distributed. While for large corporations, the market for recruitment of engineers is global, the education of engineers is taking place at different speeds and with different strategies in all parts of the world. This brings some challenges for all stakeholders, particularly for university education systems which traditionally are slow to respond to shifting market trends and demands. Regional initiatives recently have intended to promote the mobility and the free movement of students and teachers in global tertiary education. The original concern has been the global education space but the question must be raised if this is enough in a globalized work market? Are the Engineering students prepared to compete for employment with others in a work market far different from the “old continent”? Is the introduction of a Lean Engineering Education philosophy a worthwhile curricular innovation for engineering courses? This paper presents Lean Engineering Education (LEE) as a curricular innovation in the Engineering courses. It provides a discussion, mainly based on literature and informal dialogues, about the disconnected world of academe and industry and the demands for new educational methods and strategies. Additionally, it defines the principles inherent to LEE and describes how this addresses two complex challenges faced by Higher Education Institutions: the globalized marketplace and the required skills from industry perspective for engineering graduates.

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