Sunday, October 17th

The Sunday International Day is a workshop that will present two methods of engineering educational reform: 1) A comprehensive outcomes based system and 2) A small project based implementation to foster public sector partnerships. The workshop portion will have participants select one of the methods and develop a plan for implementation at their institution.

Learning Factory – An educational change management technique

• The learning factory is a systematic program that allows an institution to develop a complete outcomes based strategy for educational reform. It provides the tools, guidance and structure to help an institution develop a strategy that fits the goals of the institution.
• It helps develop:
  • Industry partnerships
  • Course/ facilities development
  • Use of Outcomes assessment

Integrated Process and Product Design – Creating Sustainable Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Programs

The Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program is an innovative undergraduate engineering education initiative developed at the University of Florida in 1994 under the auspices of the Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED) initiative that in turn was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Pilot testing was done in the 1995 academic year, and since then the program has been offered as a two-semester course available to senior engineering and business students. The students work in five to seven member interdisciplinary teams, under the direction of one faculty member who acts as a technical coach. Each team also includes the participation of a liaison engineer representing an industrial sponsor, namely a private company, or a government agency or laboratory, which charters the design team with the task of designing and building authentic products and processes of financial or strategic value to the sponsor.

Through ten years of experience the administrators and faculty of the IPPD program have become skilled at identifying industry sponsors and defining achievable projects for multidisciplinary teams of senior students. Each year the IPPD program hosts approximately 27 industrially-sponsored projects carried out by a group of over 150 students who are supervised by 25 faculty from different engineering disciplines. Since 1995, 213 sponsored projects have been identified, defined and completed. Over 1200 students from more than 12 academic disciplines have participated in the two-semester program. More than two-thirds of the projects come from repeat sponsors. Industry praises the IPPD effort as an outstanding experiential educational program, with benefits for students, faculty, and industry.

Crafting a sustainable program such as IPPD is a complex undertaking. Managing this process of complex change requires establishing a vision, identifying the skills needed, determining incentives for the stakeholders, marshalling the resources to create the program, and developing a comprehensive action plan for implementation. After learning about the model the University of Florida used to develop, implement, and institutionalize the IPPD program, participants will create a draft implementation plan that reflects the constraints and unique needs present in their own institutions.

Schedule:

• Morning: Presentations and discussions
  • Attributes of the engineer (ABET a-k)
  • Learning Factory: Lueny Morell, HP
  • Capstone Design – Industry Based (IPPD): Keith Stanfill, UFla
  • Quality assurance impact in Engineering Education: Miguel Angel Romero Ogawa, ITESM
• Afternoon:
  • Breakout groups – two topics to choose: Learning Factory or IPPD
  • Participants select group and work on implementation plan
  • Facilitation by Hoit. Morell, Anderson

Outcomes:

• Leave with an implementation plan
• New set of champions
• Network the community of champions

Participants are expected to attend next ICEE and present the outcomes of implementing their plan.

Registration: $45.00 to attend the International Day. Attendees will also be able to attend the International Reception with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.