IIE Solutions articles from November 1999

IIE Solutions archives from November 1999

Northwestern offers business curriculum to engineering students.
November 1, 1999... Northwestern University: undergraduate engineering students now have the opportunity to pursue both engineering and business education by participating in a business basics certificate program offered through the McCormick School of Engineering...

Don't believe me.
November 1, 1999... "There's something you need to know about me before we go any further," I told an acquaintance with whom I was making plans to meet for an outdoor concert. There was nothing but silence from her side of the telephone. I hadn't meant the...

Engineers' income outpaces inflation.
November 1, 1999... The median annual income of engineers increased by 4.7 percent in 1998, outpacing a 1.7 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index by the largest margin in more than a decade, according to the "1999 Professional Engineer Income and Salary Survey"...

NSF awards $2.7 million to train a new breed of engineers.
November 1, 1999... The National Science Foundation awarded $2.7 million to Lehigh University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business to develop Ph.D. programs in manufacturing logistics. As part of NSF's Integrative Graduate Education...

Engineer tackles murder.(Review)
November 1, 1999... When it's time to take a break from dry, technical tomes, pick up Affirmative Reaction, a new mystery by civil and environmental engineer Aileen Schumacher. The story begins when structural engineer Tory Travers discovers a woman's body...

Ambitious E-Week plans continue.
November 1, 1999... Plans for the most ambitious National Engineers Week in the 49-year history of the event have been unveiled. The week of Feb. 20-26, 2000, will showcase a number of new projects and programs that will highlight the importance of engineering to...

Poetry of motion.
November 1, 1999... Lest we forget the fragility, of humanity, poets, playwrights, and painters remind us that we are at nature's mercy. Add to that list of creative souls engineers and scientists. Ken Goldberg, associate professor of industrial engineering...

Distribution program combines engineering and operations.
November 1, 1999... As the school year begins to settle into a routine, the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is already instructing a handful of students in the school's innovative new distribution engineering program. The distribution and...

Ergonomic software increases worker productivity.
November 1, 1999... Workers who use computer software to remind them occasionally to assume good posture, take "microbreaks," and stretch do more accurate work and as a result are more productive, according to a Cornell University, study. "We found that...

Revised IE handbook in the works.
November 1, 1999... The fifth edition of Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook will be published by McGraw-Hill late next year, according to Editor Kiell Zandin. "The past decade has seen the industrial engineering domain change by extending its scope,...

Stop wasting my time.
November 1, 1999... We all know that learning is central to organizational improvement, but how do we ensure that we are really learning? Is it just me or have a lot of other people also developed the inability, to sit through an eight-hour workshop? For me, it's...

Rocket man.(Interview)
November 1, 1999... The world changed for Homer Hickam - and for most Americans - on Oct. 5, 1957, the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. That was the day Hickam became a "rocket boy." And it was the pivotal moment around which he spun his best-known tale: the...

Better designs for all people.
November 1, 1999... While researchers strive to make products that are more accessible to the disabled, they're also creating things that are easier for everyone to use. When you ask industrial engineers why they enjoy their jobs, they're likely to tell you...

Advantage through agility.
November 1, 1999... The rate of change in the global marketplace continues to accelerate exponentially. Organizations must respond promptly and properly to the shifting demands of customers, consumers, and increasingly aggressive competition. Companies small and...

Y2K contingency planning.
November 1, 1999... What can your company do before Dec. 31? Called the Millennium Bug by some, the year 2000 problem is the single largest computer dilemma in history, with the potential to affect millions of computers. Given the time constraints involved...

Process simulation for facility layout.
November 1, 1999... A collaborative project that put academicians in the consultants' seats proves successful When XYZ Inc. decided to relocate to a new facility, and expand its production capacity, it needed to look forward to future demand. The relocation...

Design for manufacturability.
November 1, 1999... Too often, as industrial engineers, we see the product development people in our companies come up with new designs that cannot be manufactured with any great certainty about cost effectiveness or profitability. Often, a design hits the shop...

IIE 2000: Our path forward.
November 1, 1999... Over the past several months, I have used this column to share my excitement about lie as we work to reinvent, renew, and revitalize the organization. Volunteers, staff, and the leaders of IIE have worked to develop a path forward, which we...