REU SITE: Educating the culturally-sensitive industrial engineer: A complex interdisciplinary systems perspective to global IE issues

REU 网站：教育对文化敏感的工业工程师：从复杂的跨学科系统视角看待全球 IE 问题

• 批准号: 0851879
• 负责人: Viviana Cesani
• 金额: $ 36.36万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851879&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; SITE; Educating; culturally; sensitive

Proposal: 0851879PI Name: Viviana I. Cesani"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."This proposed three year REU site program at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM) will provide research experiences for undergraduate students focused in the area of industrial and systems engineering. Students will be recruited from US universities such as the University of Missouri-Columbia, Texas State University, University of Central Florida, and Virginia Tech to participate in a six week summer program and students from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez to participate in a fifteen week program during the academic year. This REU site will take advantage of the unique location of Puerto Rico with a distinct Hispanic Caribbean culture and a highly industrialized manufacturing environment to expose the participants to some of the challenges of working in a global economy. The proposed activities are aimed at providing students an opportunity for developing culturally sensitive management skills most needed to excel in today's business world by working on inter-cultural work teams on research problems that require a more profound understanding of society and the environment as a complex system. Students will learn to use IE analytical techniques in non-traditional and non-structured very complex societal problems, service-delivery systems, manufacturing facilities and complex mathematical modeling.In addition to the hands-on research experience, the students will participate in the following educational activities: 1) workshops on research skills, graduate school preparation, scholarly writing and presentation skills; 2) plant tours to a pharmaceutical company and a large biomedical devices manufacturer; and 3) a scientific site visit to the Department of Marine Sciences (DMS) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. Finally, a variety of social-cultural events will be available to enhance the cohort experience.The broader impacts of this REU site arise from the participation of undergraduate students who are women and underrepresented minorities. For UPRM students, access to present their work in international research conferences will greatly enhance their oral and written presentation skills and will expose them to the wider array of scientific opportunities in other universities.

提案：0851879PI姓名：Viviana I. Cesani“该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。”波多黎各马亚圭斯大学（UPRM）提出的为期三年的REU现场计划将为专注于工业和系统工程领域的本科生提供研究经验。学生将从美国大学，如密苏里-哥伦比亚大学、德克萨斯州立大学、中佛罗里达大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学招募，参加为期六周的暑期项目，并从波多黎各马亚圭斯大学招募学生，参加为期十五周的学年项目。这个REU场地将利用波多黎各独特的地理位置，具有独特的西班牙加勒比文化和高度工业化的制造环境，使参与者暴露在全球经济中工作的一些挑战。拟议的活动旨在为学生提供一个机会，通过与跨文化工作团队合作，研究需要对社会和环境作为一个复杂系统有更深刻理解的问题，从而培养在当今商业世界中最需要的文化敏感管理技能。学生将学习在非传统和非结构化非常复杂的社会问题、服务交付系统、制造设施和复杂的数学建模中使用IE分析技术。除了实践研究经验外，学生还将参加以下教育活动：1)研究技能，研究生院准备，学术写作和演讲技巧研讨会；2)工厂参观制药公司和大型生物医学设备制造商；3)对马亚圭斯波多黎各大学海洋科学系（DMS）进行科学实地考察。最后，将有各种各样的社会文化活动，以增强队列体验。这个REU网站的更广泛的影响来自本科生谁是女性和代表性不足的少数民族的参与。对于upm的学生来说，有机会在国际研究会议上展示他们的工作将大大提高他们的口头和书面表达能力，并将使他们在其他大学获得更广泛的科学机会。