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Industrial ergonomists know through hard experience the pushback that human factors professionals face in the field. The Interpersonal Skills Teaching Centre at Ryerson University specializes in teaching social skills to students. The core concept is to immerse the student-learner in a simulated social environment with live actors who portray relevant stakeholders. Apart from being a great learning opportunity, this technique has proven to be fun for both instructor and students.
By W.P. Neumann, Rheta Rosen and Katherine Turner
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In the last year, lean Six Sigma has gradually become a talking point in presidential politics. Mike George, largely credited with developing the merged discipline, has the signature of almost every candidate on a pledge in which they promise to use lean Six Sigma to bring down the national debt by 2017 and eliminate an estimated 25 percent of wasteful spending. But will politics and bureaucracy allow any president to implement such a plan?
By David Brandt
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While enterprise transformation relies on process re-engineering and continuous improvement methods, it begins with a corporate strategy founded on the drive to create value with customers. It recognizes that building new business structures, often distinctive competencies, are required to engineer broad pervasive change. Finally, it relies on the development of stretch cultures to sustain any meaningful improvements.
By Michael D. Oliff
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If a grandparent who had never studied industrial engineering asked you to describe operations research, what would you say? Two industrial engineering students from the University of Central Florida answered that challenge with some creative dialogue.
By Maya Basquin and Nicholas Gilbert
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As on-the-move professionals, IEs should be ideal users of productivity applications developed for mobile devices. Surprisingly, a key term search on iTunes for “industrial engineering” will result in a list of apps, but only a select few of them are IE tools. Amateur app development is a useful solution for IEs who view this absence in the market as an opportunity as opposed to a problem.
By Bonnie Boardman
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