Mount Marty College has launched a new leadership minor for undergraduates that truly follows the spirit of the interdisciplinary program guide. Bonita Gacnik, O.S.B., Ph.D contacted me about a year ago to understand the guide and ideas about service science. Then she and her team made it their own, to fit local needs and Mt …
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From the April edition of the Journal Of Engineering Education http://www.jee.org/2011/April/10 An interesting study: “Student and Faculty Interdisciplinary Identities in Self Managed Teams” How can self-managed work teams can be used as a pedagogical strategy for promoting interdisciplinarity? LISA D. MCNAIR Virginia Tech CHAD NEWSWANDER University of South Dakota DANIEL BODEN Virginia Tech MAURA BORREGO …
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Conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Minitrack: Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45dt.htm#DT9 Workshop: Five Years of SSME at HICSS: Looking Back and Looking Ahead http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45swt/WS/SSME.pdf A “service system” is in an integrated, value-creating configuration of service providers, their clients, their partners, and others. The best-performing service systems are IT-enabled, customer-centered, relationship-focused, and knowledge-intensive – yet …
June 16 event at San Jose State University in Menlo Park, CA… Global Innovation Forum – Innovation and the Digital Generation http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/gif2011/agenda.html
http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-1-4419-8320-6?changeHeader Series: Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy Macintyre, Mairi; Parry, Glenn; Angelis, Jannis (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, XXII, 169 p. 100 illus.
As part of the IEEE Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011) event this September there are several workshops. We call your attention to the workshop on “Convergence of Business Architecture, Business Process Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture“. Important dates: Submission deadline: June 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011 Camera-Ready copy due: …
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The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering December 12-14, 2011, Irvine, CA, USA Collocated with SOCA, KSEM, RTSOAA and KASTLES Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society; Co-sponsored by: Arizona State University, San Jose State University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oxford Brookes University, University of Leeds.
Link: http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ilss/speaker-series.html
From the March/April issue of ASEE’s PRISM see the National Foundation Director, Subra Suresh, talk about tearing down barriers to research collaboration http://www.prism-magazine.org/mar-apr11/feature_01.cfm (*American Society for Engineering Education)
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