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The engineering disciplines of industrial engineering, engineering management, and systems engineering are replete with abstract concepts without physical representations that are inherently difficult to learn. Hence, this study is motivated by engineering students' inability to understand abstract concepts and the need for continuous improvement of student learning. In this study, in the context...
The paper touches upon the fundamental questions of organisation and production resource management, conditions of their sustainable development that enable the young professionals to gain new additional competences within the educational training programs of an engineer-manager. The similarity of the tasks, solutions and synergy of the educational process are declared in the system of basic priorities...
Today the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of team members and identify their strengths and weaknesses is highly crucial in any organizational role. Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) are adopting different strategies in their teaching curricula and assessment methods to encourage the development of team management skills among graduates, one of which is peer assessment. It is an important...
R&D has typically been structured and managed in terms of its maturity on a scale that spans from initial concepts to marketable products. In contrast to a linear, stage-gate process that such a scale implies and for which many management tools have been developed, R&D breakthroughs and disruptive innovation typically emerge from coupled feedback loops and timely decisions in response to unplanned...
Individual surgeons rely on residency programs as their main conduit for developing the necessary soft skills needed to succeed and excel in the operating room. One critical skill requiring subjective (qualitative) learning involves navigating through varying soft and hard tissues by hand, and, most importantly, understanding how medical instruments respond under these conditions. During residency,...
Firms voluntarily incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles often assume they can benefit from some kind of competitive advantage. Yet, we know relatively little about the impact of different dimensions of CSR activities on firms' environmental innovation or their impact on performance. This paper distinguishes between the strategic and responsive dimensions of CSR and investigates...
Despite the fact that one of the main goals of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in high-tech industries is to gain a window on future technologies, the relationship between CVC investments and strategies used to acquire technologies in the markets, such as licensing, has not been adequately explored. To address this gap, we build on the real option literature suggesting that CVC investments...
The Small Business Innovation Research program forms a key element of federal support of innovation and entrepreneurship. Historically this program has been valued on a cost basis and evaluated in terms of broader economic impact. Traditional discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques are inappropriate for projects with strongly skewed distributions of the probability of success; furthermore, the associated...
A description is provided on how good systems engineering processes and methods are used so that gaps can be determined by quantitative methods for informing training programs. The Systems Engineering Capability Model (SECM) is used to determine how good systems engineering methods and processes are performed implicitly and explicitly as well as indicating the gaps. This study focuses on the systems...
How do firms leverage existing innovation for the next round of innovation? We develop a novel concept of generative capability in product innovation to address this question. As a high-level organizational routine, generative capability applies the mechanisms of iteration and rapid knowledge integration to guide ordinary innovation activities. Based on panel data from 2001 to 2009 of 56,333 firm-year...
Although university startup companies are expected to be a source of innovation around the world, economic effects of university startups have not been investigated thoroughly, especially outside of the United States. As described in this paper, we analyzed the characteristics and economic effects of companies started at The University of Tokyo, a world-recognized research university. Results show...
In this work we present the hypothesis that Education of Technology Management is necessary for the success of a Virtual Learning Environments, not only for Information technology professionals, but as well as for instructors and learners. Assuming its veracity, we compiled a set of skills for Management of Technology to support the elicitation of Interdisciplinary skills for Technology Management...
The paper presents a three-stage supervision model that was implemented by two senior academics in the Postgraduate School of Engineering Management at the University of Johannesburg as a pedagogical approach for the supervision of large numbers of postgraduate students. The model was considered as an alternative to the traditional dyadic supervision model and incorporates communities of practice,...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are a vital part of any national economy, so it is important for SMEs to be successful in their ventures. One of the defining characteristics of modern SMEs is their agility and quick movements. However, this impacts how well they can utilize strategic management tactics and tools to further their position. This article will analyze how implementing various...
We study knowledge sharing among engineers to develop a nuanced understanding of the role of meaningful work and organizational identification by integrating the knowledge management framework, the job characteristics model and organizational identity theory. Using a cross-sectional survey of 168 engineers with managerial responsibilities from several industries in Colombia, we tested a structural...
Rumors spread on Online Social Networks sometimes can lead to serious social issues. To accurately identify them from normal posts is proved to be of great value. Users' behaviors are different when they post rumors and normal posts. Since rumors only account for a small percentage of all posts, they can be regarded as anomalies. Therefore, we propose an anomaly detection method based on autoencoder...
This paper aims to explain the implementation of the 5S methodology into the workplace of IEEE UFABC Student Branch as a new culture and the benefits and changes after it. Also, explain each one of the 5 stages that compose the 5S organization method and how it was applied, along with its complications, solutions, benefits and community feedback.
We formulate a mathematical programming problem for allocating capital budget between the organizational and physical capitals of the firm and solve it to obtain an analytically tractable and easy to implement decision rule for the optimal allocation of the capital budget. The model we develop depicts interconnections of these capitals and their constituent variables in the context of the firm's valuation...
Based on a dataset on 1500 Chinese firms, which established overseas R&D subsidiaries in the recent 5 years (2010–2014), we investigate the development trends of the Chinese firms' overseas R&D investment, whether and how it differs from the overseas R&D investment peak led by the Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the developed countries in the past century. Drawing on Dunning's eclectic...
Advancement in Information Technology requires reassessment in decision making regarding investment for the success of project management. The barriers of an Information Technology project should be acknowledged before implementing an organizational innovation. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and analyze the risk factors that should be regarded in Information Technology Project Management...
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