Lean engineering education: driving content and competency mastery

Recent studies by professional organizations devoted to engineering education, such as Vision 2030 (ASME) and Vision 2025 (ASCE), highlight the need for the restructuring of engineering education. Deficiencies of many engineering graduates include poor systems thinking and systems analysis skills, l...

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Main Authors: Flumerfelt, Shannon (Author), Kahlen, Franz-Josef (Author), Alves, Anabela (Author), Siriban-Manalang, Anna Bella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York American Society Of Mechanical Engineers [2015]
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Summary:Recent studies by professional organizations devoted to engineering education, such as Vision 2030 (ASME) and Vision 2025 (ASCE), highlight the need for the restructuring of engineering education. Deficiencies of many engineering graduates include poor systems thinking and systems analysis skills, lack of sensitivity for sustainability issues, poorly developed problem solving skills and lack of training to work in (multi-disciplinary) teams, as well as a lack of leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, and project management skills. The book's contents include an analysis of current shortfalls in engineering education and education related to professional practice in engineering. Further, the authors describe desirable improvements as well as advocacy for the use of lean tenets and tools to create a new future for engineering education. This book presents, for the first time, an outside-in lean engineering perspective of how this commonly accepted and widely practiced and adapted engineering perspective can shape the direction in which the engineers of the future are trained and educated. By its very nature, lean engineering demands systems thinking and systems analysis as well as problem solving skills. In this sense, "Lean Engineering" immediately talks to sustainability of operations. Hence, this book adds to the body of knowledge regarding engineering education. It blends the perspectives and expertise of mechanical, industrial and production engineers and academics and the perspective from social sciences on the challenges encountered in engineering education. Because of the unique mix of authors, the book presents a well-rounded perspective of how lean thinking can address shortcomings in engineering education
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Planning for the future to improve mechanical engineering education -- What is needed from mechanical engineering education in the future? -- What are the target outcomes of mechanical engineering education? -- The future state of content & competency-based engineering education: Lean Engineering Education -- Examples of content & competency-based Lean Engineering Education. - System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. - Mode of access: World Wide Web
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (144 Seiten) illustrations

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