New Dean wants engineering students to look at the big picture

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 29 March 2010, 2:18 pm

Doreen Edwards, new dean of Alfred U.’s engineering school: Students in the discipline “need a better sense of business. They need to understand different cultures. … They need a better understanding of the world in general.” From the Chronicle of Higher Education Doreen Edwards, the first female dean of Alfred University’s engineering school, encourages the …

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from the ASEE newsletter Feb 2010

Posted by Site Administrator on 29 March 2010, 2:12 pm

Per Capita, Engineering Degrees Remain Constant The numbers of engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded annually per capita have remained essentially unchanged at about 250 since the 1995 academic year (AY).

CFP ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge 1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 19 March 2010, 11:30 am

ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge 1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden http://www.servdes.org/

CFP 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2010

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 26 February 2010, 10:03 am

December 7 – 10 2010, San Francisco, California, USA www.icsoc.org IMPORTANT DATES Research and Industry Papers: Abstract due: June 1, 2010 Full paper due: June 7, 2010 Notification: July 14, 2010 Camera ready due: August 23, 2010 TOPICS OF INTEREST ICSOC 2010 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as …

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CFP PACIS

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 23 February 2010, 10:59 am

Call for Paper: PACIS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan The 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems PACIS 2010 (http://www.pacis2010.org/) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on July 9-12, 2010 with the theme “Service Science in Information Systems Research.” Submission deadline: Mar 8th, 2010

Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology by Domenico Grasso and Melody Brown Burkins (Hardcover – Dec. 1, 2009)

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 23 February 2010, 10:35 am

Table of Contents Chapter 18 “Collaborative Innovation and Service Systems” by Nicholas Donofrio, Calline Sanchez, and Jim Spohrer “This collection of essays provides compelling arguments for the need of an engineering education that prepares engineers for the problems of the 21st century. Following the National Academy’s report on the Engineer of 2020, this book brings …

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Welcome to 2010: The Decade of Smarter Service Systems!

Posted by Jim Spohrer on 18 January 2010, 3:26 pm

My new year’s resolution was to start blogging regularly again. So here goes. First, thanks to Wendy Murphy of IBM for setting this open forum up for us to exchange information about Service Science. Second, welcome to the decade of “smarter service systems” or the “decade of smart” for short. If you want to read more …

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NEW BOOK!!! 20% off

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 14 December 2009, 11:46 am

Order by Feb. 1, 2010 and receive a 20% off list price on any books in the SSRI series. Discount CODE: E30461 – you must use this code to receive the 20% discount Handbook of Service Science, Maglio, Paul P.; Kieliszewski, Cheryl A.; Spohrer, James C. (Eds.) 750 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4419-1627-3, $159.00 20% discount: $127.20 …

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Content of SSME standards?

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 10 December 2009, 9:53 am

If a group agreed on standards for a Master’s program or undergraduate certificate — would you recommend including the stringent standards for facilities and faculty (as in ABET standards) OR Might it be a good idea to first require an existing accreditation (such as ABET) as a pre-requisite and focus specifically on the service science …

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Do Service Science standards need to be associated with a big-name association?

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 10 December 2009, 9:46 am

If standards are created for an SSME Master’s program and/or an undergraduate certificate; who should administer the accreditation? Should there be accreditation? Why or why not? What organization might you recommend? Example: ABET?

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