Mathematics INstruction using Decision Science and Engineering Tools (MINDSET) is a collaboration between educators, engineers and mathematicians at three universities: Wayne State University, North Carolina State University, and University of North Carolina Charlotte.  The goal of this initiative is to create, implement, and evaluate a new curriculum and textbook to teach standard mathematics concepts using math-based decision-making tools for use in a non-calculus fourth-year high school mathematics course. Several states including North Carolina now require a fourth year of high school mathematics and others may require in the near future. MINDSET has three goals: Develop a curriculum that will 1) enhance students' mathematical knowledge and skills, especially their ability to formulate and solve multi-step problems and interpret results; and 2) improve students' attitude toward mathematics, especially those from underrepresented groups, thereby motivating them to study mathematics; and 3) obtain adoption at the state level of the curriculum initially in North Carolina and Michigan, then in other states.

Intellectual Merit

Combining university expertise from Education, Engineering, and Mathematics can improve mathematics learning, motivate students to study mathematics, and improve their attitude toward mathematics. The project will show students how to use mathematics to solve problems they encounter in daily life (real-world) and remove the abstractness from mathematics by moving it into the realm of students' own experiences (relevance). MINDSET will be a mathematical-based toolset useful in either college or vocational education. Through extensive evaluation, the curriculum's benefits will be validated, allowing relevant disciplines to use it in a variety of educational settings. MINDSET is the first mathematics curriculum to be developed with national support from multiple university Engineering and Operations Research departments and their respective professional societies.

Broader Impacts

Mathematical-based decision-making tools are used routinely in production, manufacturing, healthcare, banking, government agencies, insurance and food industries, in theoretical and applied science disciplines, and in all Engineering disciplines. Most are non-calculus based and build on a foundation of Algebra, probability and statistics. By grounding mathematics in decision contexts familiar to students, we can change the mindset of students, stimulating them to see the relevance of mathematics to their lives and careers. Skilled in using tools that are common to scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematicians, students will enter the workforce better prepared to be creative employees. By enhancing students' multi-step math problem-solving skills, MINDSET will help the transition into college Mathematics and Engineering. For those not headed into STEM degrees, industry will be able to hire more effectively trained employees with less need for on-the-job training. Further, Industrial Engineering departments enroll significantly more students from underrepresented groups (URG) than all of Engineering. Anecdotally, the applicability of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research tools to non-traditional engineering systems appears to be of interest to students from URG. We believe there is strong potential to engage and encourage high school students from URG to pursue STEM careers by teaching decision-making math skills tools through MINDSET.

The Wayne State Faculty  

Dr. Kenneth R. Chelst, CoPrincipal Investigator, (B.A. degree, Yeshiva College ; M.S. in Operations Research, New York University ; Ph.D. degree in Operations Research M.I.T) is Chair of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University . His research interests include structured decision-making in engineering management, globalization of the engineering and manufacturing management functions, and operations research models applied to emergency services. Dr. Chelst played a lead role in the development of the internationally recognized Engineering Management Masters Program (EMMP) in partnership with Ford Motor Company.

Dr. Thomas G. Edwards, CoPrincipal Investigator, is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Wayne State University in Detroit. Following a 24-year career as a high school mathematics teacher in the Buffalo, NY public schools, he completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education at the Ohio State University and was appointed to the faculty at Wayne State. In 2003, he was awarded a prestigious Career Development Chair Award by the University. He has directed 74 master's projects and 9 doctoral dissertations and has a total of 58 publications, including 29 in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings.

Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering

Winter 2008

Honor Roll

3.33 – 3.59

Yusuf Ahmed

Vanda Ametilli

Charles Harris

Kyong Kim

David Majukas

Hakim Neemuchwala

Helga Shaska*

3.60 – 3.99

 Siddharth Babbar

David Low*

Hadi Mahammed

Sabah Sadiq*

4.00

 Iniabasi Nkanga*

Willenia Nkanga

*May/August Certification

Honor Roll achievement is based on 12 credit hours per semester

Product Development and Systems Engineering Consortium (PDSEC) http://pdsec.eng.wayne.edu

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202

Invitation to the 3rd Annual Workshop on Product Development and Systems

Engineering: "Sustainable Product Development and Innovation" on June 13, 2008

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Third Annual Workshop on Product Development and Systems Engineering to be held on Friday, June13, 2008.

Our focus this year will be on "Sustainable Product Development and Innovation". We would very much like you and your colleagues to be part of this informal and informative gathering. The goals of the workshop are to highlight relevant practical problems and to provide opportunities for collaboration among product engineers and academics through formal presentations and panel discussion session.

The workshop agenda is attached. Please note, this year we have a special keynote speaker, Susan Cischke, Ford Motor Company’s Group Vice President: Sustainability, Environmental and Safety Engineering. Besides her Vice President’s role Susan has several other roles for Ford, such as: Liaison to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and as a Board Member of the Chicago Climate Exchange.

We have other outstanding speakers in the areas of Sustainable Product Development and Innovation, such as:  Tony Posawatz, General Motor’s Vehicle Line Director for the Chevy Volt and E- Flex Propulsion Systems. Tony is the key man at GM in charge of bringing electrically driven vehicles to market.  Sandy Stojkovski, Director of Vehicle Engineering for Ricardo, Inc. and leader of the Total Vehicle Fuel Economy Program.

The workshop structure is designed to provide a more informal and productive atmosphere than the typical technical society meeting.   There are no parallel sessions and ample time is scheduled for discussion and brainstorming. There is no charge for attending the workshop. However, in order to help us plan the logistics, please visit our website (http://pdsec.eng.wayne.edu) for registration or reply to this e-mail as RSVP by June 9th (Monday). The availability of seat is limited, so please submit your registration form as soon as possible.

Please share the news of this upcoming event with your colleagues. If you have any questions concerning the workshop or have suggestions for other people who might be interested in attending, please contact us.

Thanks for your attention and we hope to see you on June 13th.

Sincerely,

Leslie Monplaisir, Ph. D

Director of PDSEC and Associate Professor Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wayne State University

4815 Fourth Street, Rm. 2163

Detroit, MI 48202

Telephone (313) 577-1645

Fax (313) 577-8833

E-mail: ad5365@wayne.edu

Kyoung-Yun Joseph Kim, Ph. D

Co-Director of PDSEC and Assistant Professor Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Wayne State University

4815 Fourth St., Rm. 2067

Detroit, MI 48202

Telephone (313) 577-4396

Fax (313) 577-8833

E-mail: kykim@eng.wayne.edu; kyoungykim@gmail.com

The compensation is $12/hr normal, and $18/overtime.

A list of responsibilities is as follows:

- development and implementation of manufacturing process sheets
- test builds
- 5S and Kaizen activities
- fastener torque studies
- cycle and down time reduction activities
- production line set-up and balancing
- independent technical problem solving

Resumes and cover letters should be emailed to (no phone calls please):

Annette Matthae
amatthae@karmann.com

Executive Administrative Assistant
Karmann USA, Inc.
14967 Pilot Drive
Plymouth, MI 48170, USA

Company:  http://www.keyence.com/dwn/recruit_ka.pdf

Training:  http://www.keyence.com/dwn/KA_Training.pdf

Lifestyle:  http://www.keyence.com/dwn/KA_lifestyle.pdf

Job Description:   http://www.keyence.com/dwn/KA_sales_associate_eng.pdf

For additional information, please contact:

Lindsey Mancuso

Sr. Human Resources Associate

 Keyence Corporation of America

www.KEYENCE.com/CAREERS

Tel: 201.930.0100, ext. 70412

Cell: 847.863.8707

Fax: 847.517.9101

The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is pleased to announce that we will behosting the Institute of Industrial Engineers Regional Conference for 2009. Our department will host students, faculty, and industry participants from both the United States and Canada.

We are still in the planning stages of this event. Please reserve the dates on your calendar, and check the IME website for additional information as the event draws closer. If you have any qestions, please contact Gail Evans at 7-2660.

Please note our tentative schedule below:

IIE GDC Regional Conference

February 27, 28 & March 1, 2009

Tentative Schedule

Friday, February 27, 2009

 2:00 p.m.                                                      Begin room check-in (Atheneum)

 3:00 p.m. -  7:00p.m.                                    Registration Begins (Atheneum)

 7:00 p.m. -  9:00 p.m.                                   Icebreaker Reception (TBD)

 Saturday, February 28, 2009

 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.                                 Registration and Graduate Student Poster Display (McGregor)                                                                  

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                                Plenary Session w/ Guest Speaker (McGregor)

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.                                Student Workshops (McGregor)

12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.                                  Lunch w/ Guest Speaker (McGregor) 

 1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.                                   Career Fair (McGregor)

                                                                     Student Paper Competition (McGregor)

 4:30 p.m.                                                     Student Activities

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.                                    Banquet w/ Keynote Speaker (Atheneum)

Sunday, March 1, 2009

 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                                 Officers’ Regional Meeting (Atheneum)

The Production Management Leadership Program (PMLP) is a specialized Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree offered at WayneState University in the Industrial Engineering Department.  The PMLP was created in response to a demand from industry partners for a new breed of engineer trained in people and technical skills needed for success in the plant floor environment in today’s competitive work place.

Seven new and three returning students have been selected for Production Management Leadership Program (PMLP) scholarships and summer internships for the 2007-08 school year.  These ten students will serve their internships at one of the four sponsor companies of the program: General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Axle.

PMLP Executive Coordinator, Jerry Leman commented, “The summer internship provides a great opportunity for I. E. students to experience a real world position as a first line supervisor in an industrial setting.  Getting a scholarship with this program is just frosting on the cake.”

Congratulations to the following students for their selection for PMLP summer internships:  David Low, Vanda Ametlli, Nataki DeForrest and Willena Nkanga with General Motors; Danielle Hunter, Siddharth Babbar and Christine Cardenas with Chrysler; Chris Evans with American Axle and Charles Harris and David Naujokas with Ford.