employers are increasingly picky: “They are all looking for the same kind of people — people who not only have the critical thinking skills to do the value-adding jobs that technology can’t, but also people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/opinion/13friedman.html?_r=2
OPINIONATOR: Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure A new book questions how necessary academic freedom is in the context of higher education today. http://nyti.ms/rnVGjc
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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“to compete effectively in a knowledge-based economy — business leaders of all kinds need to reinvent themselves as innovators in services.” http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11210?gko=af24f&cid=TL20110616
go to yahoo finance story: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/3gs-mindset-over-skill-set-critical-landing-job-125910227.html?nc the 3 G’s Global: This is the big picture perspective. It is your ability to lift your eyes out of the weeds, look at the world and understand the ripple effect of your actions. Good: This is the sensitivity to people and awareness of and the inkling to …
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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.
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)
http://www.ahfe2012.org/HSSE.html JULY 20-25 San Francisco “If there is any one element to the engineering of service systems that is unique, it is the extent to which the suitability of the system for human use, human service, and excellent human experience has been and must always be considered.” And here’s a WHO’s WHO in service science!! …
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http://www.springer.com/978-1-4419-8269-8 Demirkan, Haluk; Spohrer, James C.; Krishna, Vikas (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, XXIV, 358 p.