Defining a Curriculum for Service Sector Engineering

这是密歇根理工大学工业工程系系级改革的计划拨款。在这个项目中，一个教师团队将进行德尔福研究，以就服务部门工程这一新学科的课程要求达成共识。德尔菲技术最初是作为一种预测和建立共识的方法在商业世界中发展起来的，后来被应用到几个课程开发项目中。德尔菲研究的结果将在未来的美国工程教育学会（ASEE）和美国机械工程师学会（ASME）年会上公布。研究结果还将用于制定全面的实施方案，以促进未来系级本科工程教育改革的征集。通过这个项目，设计一个比许多传统学科更有效地服务于美国经济当前需求的工程课程。这个新课程很可能是广泛的跨学科，包括工程内外几个领域的主题。几项研究表明，传统上在工程领域代表性不足的群体，特别是妇女，被强调为社会服务的职业所吸引。因此，服务业工程学科的发展可能会提高我们吸引不同群体的学习者学习工程的能力。

This is a planning grant for department level reform for the Department of Industrial Engineering at Michigan Technological University. In this project, a team of faculty will conduct a Delphi Study to reach consensus on the curricular requirements for a new discipline-Service Sector Engineering. The Delphi technique was first developed in the business world as a forecasting and consensus-building method and has been subsequently adapted to several curriculum development projects.Results from this Delphi Study will be presented at future annual conferences of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and ASME. Results will also be used to develop a full-scale implementation proposal to a future Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education solicitation.Through this project to design an engineering curriculum that will serve the current needs of the U.S. economy more effectively than many of the traditional disciplines. This new curriculum will likely be broadly interdisciplinary, incorporating subject matter from several fields both inside and outside of engineering.Several studies have shown that groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering, particularly women, are attracted to careers which have an emphasis on serving society. For this reason, the development of a Service Sector Engineering discipline will likely improve our ability to attract a diverse group of learners to engineering studies.