Using Integrated Teaming to Enhance Sustainability Supply Chain Curriculum

Abstract

Today's engineer faces a complex assortment of challenges in the modern global business environment including mastery of concepts for sustainability and globalization. Awareness of these issues should be an essential component of any engineering management curriculum, particularly those focused on supply chain design and management. This paper examines the value-added skills achieved through the addition of a global, virtual student project environment through a multi-institutional partnership. Early results revealed that students and faculty often differ on concepts for sustainability, integrated project teams, and global content. The creation of modules and cases designed to address these deficiencies in the basic understanding of sustainability are discussed. The addition to the realm of engineering management conceptual knowledge will create a highly skilled, competitive workforce capable of understanding global forces driving complex environmental systems.

Meeting Name

31st Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management (2010: Oct. 13-16, Fayetteville, AR)

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Engineering Management Education; Globalization; Integrated Teaming; Sustainability; Sustainable Supply Chains; Complex Environmental Systems; Global Business Environments; Curricula; Engineering; Human Resource Management; Students

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-1617824449

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2010 American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Oct 2010

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