Lean Engineering Education : bridging-the-gap between academy and industry

This paper presents Lean Engineering Education (LEE) as an curricular innovation in the Engineering courses. It provides a discussion, mainly based on literature and informal dialogues, about the disconnected world of academy and industry and the demands for new educational methods and strategies. A...

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Main Author: Alves, Anabela Carvalho (author)
Other Authors: Kahlen, Franz-Josef (author), Flumerfelt, Shannon (author), Manalang, Anna Bella Siriban (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Lean Engineering Education
Systems thinking
Sustainability
Ethics
Competencies
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/30297
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/30297
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Summary:This paper presents Lean Engineering Education (LEE) as an curricular innovation in the Engineering courses. It provides a discussion, mainly based on literature and informal dialogues, about the disconnected world of academy and industry and the demands for new educational methods and strategies. Additionally, it defines LEE as also the principles inherent to this and describes how LEE addresses two complex challenges faced by Higher Education Institutions: the globalized marketplace and the right skills from industry perspective for engineering graduates.

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