WORKSHOP: Management of Technology and the Paradigm Shift in Education in Response to the Technology Revolution; Orlando, FL, February 16-20, 1998

[9725914]哈利勒迈阿密大学将组织一次研讨会，研究该行业对技术管理（MOT）领域教育的需求。技术变革的快速步伐和市场的全球化正在迫使行业变革。这些变化需要受过良好教育并有能力应对新出现的技术和商业模式的人员。教育项目对MOT教育的需求反应迟缓。他们继续将教育划分为工程学院或商学院，而主要出于地盘保护的障碍继续存在。提议的研讨会将确定创建MOT课程的必要性，以及修改科学、工程和商学院现有课程的基本原理。与会者将审查是否有对网络交通技术教育的需求，如果有的话，其内容应该是什么。他们还将检查教育是否满足了这一需求。这种方法是基于听取行业的意见。主要工业公司的代表将被邀请参加研讨会。为了筹备会议，将请它们出席或派一名代表出席1998年2月在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的第七届技术管理国际会议。每位受邀者将被要求准备一份简短的立场文件，概述其所在行业对MOT教育和培训的需求。将于3月底或4月初举行一个后续一天的讲习班，讨论反应和总结想法，并将于1998年夏天发表一份报告。假设如果存在产业需求并且需求明确，大学可能会做出回应。

9725914 Khalil The University of Miami will organize a workshop to examine the industry's demand for education in the Management of Technology (MOT) field. The fast pace of technological change and the globalization of the marketplace are forcing industry to change. These changes require personnel who are educated and capable of dealing with the emerging paradigms of technology and business. Educational programs have been slow in their response to the need for MOT education. They continue to compartmentalize education into either engineering or business schools, and barriers motivated primarily by turf protection continue to exist. The proposed workshop will identify the needs that justify the creation of MOT programs as well as the rationale for revamping existing curricula in science, engineering, and business schools. The participants will examine whether there is a demand for MOT education, and if so, what its content should be. They also will examine whether education is meeting that demand. This approach is based on listening to industry. Representatives from major industrial corporations will be invited to the workshop. In preparation for it, they will be asked to attend or to send a representative to the Seventh International Conference on Management of Technology in Orlando, Florida in February 1998. Each invitee will be asked to prepare a short position paper summarizing his/her industry's demand for education and training in MOT. A follow-up one-day workshop to discuss responses and summarize ideas will be held in late March or early April, and a report will be published in the summer of 1998. It is postulated that if there is an industrial demand and the demands are clarified, universities are likely to respond.