CCLI-EMD: Integrating Enterprise Decision-Making Modules into Undergraduate Industrial Engineering and Management Curricula

如今的组织已经变得注重流程，将跨职能部门和全球范围内的产品开发和订单履行联系起来。集成企业系统(ES)通过建立在公共数据库上的跨功能软件应用程序来支持这一流程导向。公司需要了解决策的全过程收益和风险，并能够有效地使用ES数据来做出这些决策的毕业生。因此，大学需要创造面向过程和数据丰富的教育体验。我们正在开发五个基于ES的决策模块，一个跨课程连接这些模块的案例，以及一个支持数据库。对于每个模块，学生使用ES软件和数据在传统课程中做出决策，并探索他们的决策对产品开发和供应链流程的影响。由于每个模块都是围绕在传统课程中教授的传统决策(如产品设计)而设计的，因此我们的方法引入了一种灵活的观点，即无需重新设计课程即可整合到工程和管理课程中，从而增加了在其他机构采用和进一步发展的可能性。我们正在WPI的两门工程课程和两门管理课程中测试这些模块。我们的评估衡量这些基于ES的主动学习模块是否增加了学生对企业范围决策的理解，以及他们应用ES数据进行决策的能力。

Organizations today have become process-focused, linking product development and order fulfillment across functions and across the globe. Integrated Enterprise Systems (ES) support this process orientation through cross-functional software applications built upon a common database. Companies need graduates who understand the process-wide benefits and risks of their decisions and who can use ES data effectively to make these decisions. In response, universities need to create process-oriented and data-rich educational experiences.We are developing five ES-based decision-making modules, a case linking these modules across courses, and a supporting database. For each module, students use the ES software and data to make decisions in a traditional course and to explore their decision's impact on product development and supply chain processes. Since each module is designed around a traditional decision, such as product design, taught in a traditional course, our approach introduces a flexible view of integration into engineering and management curricula without curriculum re-design, increasing the likelihood of adoption and further development at other institutions. We are testing these modules in two engineering and two management courses at WPI. Our evaluation measures whether these ES-based, active-learning modules increase students' comprehension of enterprise-wide decision-making and their ability to apply ES data to make decisions.