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补助金。 在这个项目中，一组教师将进行德尔菲研究，以达成共识的课程要求，为一个新的学科服务部门工程。德尔菲技术最初是在商业世界中作为一种预测和建立共识的方法开发的，随后被应用于几个课程开发项目。这项德尔菲研究的结果将在美国工程教育学会（ASEE）和ASME未来的年度会议上发表。研究结果还将用于制定一个全面的实施建议，以未来的系级本科工程教育改革的征集。通过这个项目，设计一个工程课程，将服务于当前美国经济的需求比许多传统学科更有效。 这一新的课程可能是广泛的跨学科的，包括工程内外几个领域的主题。一些研究表明，传统上在工程领域代表性不足的群体，特别是妇女，被吸引到强调服务社会的职业中。 出于这个原因，服务部门工程学科的发展可能会提高我们吸引不同群体的学习者进行工程研究的能力。

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.