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规划拨款。在这个项目中，一个教员团队将进行德尔福研究，以就新学科--服务部门工程学的课程要求达成共识。德尔福技术最初是作为一种预测和建立共识的方法在商界发展起来的，后来被用于几个课程开发项目。这项德尔福研究的结果将在美国工程教育学会(ASEE)和ASME的未来年度会议上公布。研究结果还将被用来制定未来本科工程教育招生的部级改革的全面实施方案。通过这个项目，设计出比许多传统学科更有效地服务于当前美国经济需求的工程课程。这一新课程很可能是跨学科的，涵盖了工程学内外多个领域的内容。几项研究表明，传统上在工程学中代表性较低的群体，特别是女性，会被强调服务社会的职业所吸引。因此，服务部门工程学学科的发展可能会提高我们吸引不同类别的学习者学习工程学的能力。

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.