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Engineers design new products, increase productivity, and thereby increase the standard of living worldwide. Although the common wisdom is that large corporations invest the most money in new product R&D, the surprising fact is that most discontinuous innovations come from small firms, and most engineers in the US are employed by entrepreneurial firms as well. In spite of the centrality of entrepreneurial...
Logistics is a new comprehensive discipline with broad coverage. The teaching of logistics management curriculum needs innovation, and innovation is based on economic management courses and curriculum background theoretically. To cultivate the creative ability of college students in the teaching of logistics management consists of three aspects: innovation awareness, innovation skills and construction...
Academic education of engineers and natural scientists has to be adapted to today's social and economic needs. One of the Galilea projects goals is to design and implement innovative study courses, which shall attract as many female as male students at Berlin University of Technology. In this article we describe the design and implementation of a new study course which tries to play a demonstrator...
It has been well established that economic growth is stimulated by technology innovation. Most technology innovation is made by engineers. Despite the importance of engineering to the economic growth of the U.S., as the U.S. economy has become increasingly driven by global competition, U.S. citizens are exhibiting decreased interest in a career in engineering. This declining interest is evidenced...
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