TY - GEN
T1 - Improving capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST) among industrial engineering students
AU - Koral-Kordova, S.
AU - Frank, M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Systems education and training should become an integral part of the academic curriculum design. This paper presents an undergraduate course aimed at developing students' capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST). The course is based on executing projects in teams. The students' CEST prior to and at the end of the course was assessed by addressing and measuring four components: cognitive characteristics, abilities, personal traits, and knowledge. The data collected in this study was used to analyze the four above-mentioned components of CEST. The Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) program was used to analyze the collected data; the general data analysis approach, known as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), was also implemented. The research findings allow us to conclude that the final project contributed to the development of three out of four CEST components among learners.
AB - Systems education and training should become an integral part of the academic curriculum design. This paper presents an undergraduate course aimed at developing students' capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST). The course is based on executing projects in teams. The students' CEST prior to and at the end of the course was assessed by addressing and measuring four components: cognitive characteristics, abilities, personal traits, and knowledge. The data collected in this study was used to analyze the four above-mentioned components of CEST. The Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) program was used to analyze the collected data; the general data analysis approach, known as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), was also implemented. The research findings allow us to conclude that the final project contributed to the development of three out of four CEST components among learners.
KW - Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS)
KW - Capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST)
KW - Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84903845319
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2012.6837971
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2012.6837971
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AN - SCOPUS:84903845319
SN - 9781467329453
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 1378
EP - 1380
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2012
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2012
Y2 - 10 December 2012 through 13 December 2012
ER -