20th IEOM Global Engineering Education
Singapore, March 9-11, 2021
IEOM Society International addresses the issues of Global Engineering Education. There are various levels of readiness of engineering graduates from various parts of the world. One of the main themes is how to reduce the readiness gap of engineering graduates around the world. The special focus is given to Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering including Engineering Management. Are the engineering graduates ready to take on the challenges of the current global economy? With the great success of Global Engineering Education Series of previous IEOM conferences, IEOM 2021 Singapore Conference will have a dedicated session for the Global Engineering Education where distinguished speakers will discuss the readiness of engineering graduates for workforce around the world. Thirty six featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address engineering education challenges and opportunities.
Global Engineering Education Topics can be related on:
- Accreditation
- Learning Assessment
- Problem based learning
- Project based learning
- Active collaborative learning
- Student learning assessment
- Teaching and learning
- Pedagogy
- Curriculum improvement
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Global engineering education challenges
- Industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, integrated engineering, reliability engineering, quality engineering and similar Education
Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, photo and a short bio as well as power point presentation. All will be included in the 11th Annual Singapore Conference proceedings. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.
Each Speaker needs to register for the 2021 IEOM Singapore Conference. Please register online: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=ax32KF2
Global Engineering Education Chairs
Dr. Abu Masud, Boeing Global Engineering Professor – Retired, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
Dr. Hamid Parsaei, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University (College Station) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Academic Outreach, Texas A&M University Qatar
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Session I: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
8:00 – 9:40 am (Tuesday, March 9)
8:00 – 8:20 (Tuesday)
Dr. David Lin Weidong
Assistant Professor
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT)
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt by American Society of Quality
David Lin Weidong is currently an Assistant Professor with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). He is a member of IEEE and a principle investigator of research project related to cyber physical digital twin manufacturing system. He obtained both his PhD in System and Industrial Engineering and MBA from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He is also a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt by American Society of Quality. His current research interest is in the cyber physical digital twin system, systems modelling and simulation.
ID 241 An Integrated Engineering Education Alignment Model towards Industry 4.0
W.D. Lin and M. Y. H. Low, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
8:20 – 8:40 (Tuesday)
Dr. Josephine D. German
Associate Professor
School of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Mapua University
Manila, Philippines
Josephine D. German is an Associate Professor of the School of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Mapua University in Manila, Philippines. She has earned her BS in Industrial Engineering and Masters in Engineering (major in IE) from the same University. She is a Professional Industrial Engineer (PIE) with over 15 years of experience and has taught several courses in IE. She has done several research projects in the field of logistics and supply chain management, systems modelling, entrepreneurship, risk management, vulnerability assessments, and ergonomics and has an extensive experience in academic audits and accreditations. She is also a member of the Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineers (PIIE).
ID 475 Employability and Achievement of Program Educational Objectives: A Graduate Tracer Study for Industrial Engineering (IE), Engineering Management (EMG), and Service Engineering Management (SEM) Programs of an HEI in the Philippines
Josephine D. German, Ma. Lourdes O. Buan, Alyana Bianca G. Carreon, and Marjorie Joyce D. Ochoa, School of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Mapua University, Manila, Philippines
8:40 – 9:00 (Tuesday)
Dr. Moe Moe Myint
Associate Professor
Department of Information Technology
Technological University (Mandalay)
Myanmar
Dr. Moe Moe Myint, is working as the associate professor at Technological University (Mandalay), Myanmar, having research and teaching experiences of more than 9 years. She received Ph.D degree from Yangon Technological University (YTU) in 2015. She has published more than 10 publications in international/national journals and conference proceedings. She received paper award for her research contributions at Technological University (Kyaukse) in 2016 and congratulations award for Adult Literacy Program Contributions in 2019. She has delivered some invited talks in international conferences and Faculty development programme. She is serving as a reviewer and member at international advisory/technical program committees in conferences of India. She successfully organized three workshops related to Embedded System course. She has completed the international/national courses related to Outcome based Education (OBE) on Professional Development Workshop Using MekongSkills2WorkToolkits, OBE and Academic QA, Curriculum Design for Engineering Degree, 21st Century University Education, Curriculum Development Workshop, Different Applied International Business Management Systems and Strategies for Interdisciplinary Engineering Services and Requirements and Inservice Technical Teacher’s Training on Teaching Methods and Student Evaluation. Her research interests include image processing, embedded system, IoT and OBE.
ID 536 An Explorative Study to build the Work Readiness for Engineering Students
Moe Moe Myint, Thiri Kyaw and Zin May Zaw, Department of Information Technology, Technological University (Mandalay), Myanmar
9:00 – 9:20 (Tuesday)
Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Engineering and Technology Management
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Engineering and Technology Management at the Indiana State University, USA. Before that, he served as a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a visiting assistant professor at Binghamton University – SUNY. He earned B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include nano-mechanics and nano-composites, multi-scale modeling, bio-mechanics, resilient ceramic materials, and engineering education.
ID 090 Comparing Ph.D. in Engineering Management and Technology Management Programs
Sheikh F. Ferdous, M. Affan Badar, James N. McKirahan, and A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Department of Applied Engineering and Technology Management, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
9:20 – 9:40 (Tuesday)
Kinnaleth Vongchanh, Ph.D.
Lecturer/Researcher
Department of Industrial & Mechanical Engineering
Institute of Technology of Cambodia, (ITC)
Russian Federation Blvd, Post Box 86
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Session II: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Yeakub Ali, University Technology Brunei
1:00 – 2:40 pm (Tuesday, March 9)
1:00 – 1:20 (Tuesday)
Dr. Jafri Mohd Rohani
Head of the Industrial Engineering Programme
Department of Materials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Curriculum Design/ Benchmarking of Industrial Engineering Program
Jafri Mohd Rohaniis a Senior Quality and Statistical Engineering Lecturer. He is also Head of the Industrial Engineering Programme at the Department of Materials, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. Currently, he is the President of JohorCost and Quality Engineers Society. He is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and Human Factor Society of Malaysia.
1:20 – 1:40 (Tuesday)
Dr. Boon Leing TAN
Guest Professor
Xi’An International University
Singapore
1:40 – 2:o0 (Tuesday)
2:00 – 2:20 (Tuesday)
Soma Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Education Programs Team Lead
Ansys Granta
Cambridge, CB1 7EG, UK
2:20 – 2:40 (Tuesday)
Professor Ir. Dr. Mohammad Yeakub Ali
PhD. (NTU, Singapore), MEng (AIT, Thailand), BSc Eng (BUET, Bangladesh)
p.Eng. (Malaysia), C. Eng, (UK), CP. Eng, (Australia), P. Eng (Bangladesh)
FIEB, FBSME, MIMechE, MIEAust MASME, MIEM
Mechanical Engineering Programme
Faculty of Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Brunei
Brunei Darussalam
Editor-In-Chief: International Journal of Engineering Materials and Manufacture
Quality Assurance in Engineering Education: Accreditation & Its Global Influence
Mohammad Yeakub Ali is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Programme Area at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. Dr. Ali was a Professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering at International Islamic University Malaysia where he works for 15 years. He earned B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published more than 250 articles in journal and conference proceedings. His research interests include manufacturing systems, optimization, scheduling, machining and micromachining. He has supervised many postgraduate students at Masters and PhD level. Dr. Ali has contributed to biannual International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering as a Conference Chair, Technical Chair and Publication Chair since 2012. He is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council UK, a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia, a Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and a Professional Engineer with Bangladesh Professional Engineers Registration Board as well as the member of many professional societies including ASME, IEOM, and IEM.
Session III: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Panel Chair:
3:00 – 4:40 pm (Tuesday, March 9)
3:00 – 3:20 (Tuesday)
Corina Pacher
Education Project Manager
Resources Innovation Center
Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Franz Josef-Strasse 18, 8700
Leoben, Austria
Corina Pacher is an Education Project Manager at the Resources Innovation Center in Leoben. She studied pedagogical and educational science at the University of Klagenfurt with a specialization on social and inclusive education as well as on professional education. During and after her studies, she gained work experience, e.g., as the head of educational programs and in different social public service enterprises as social education worker. Currently, she is mainly focusing on raising the awareness for a resource-orientated handling of raw materials by connecting research, education, and society, e.g., by building and expanding skills and competencies of students through training initiatives.
3:20 – 3:40 (Tuesday)
Erwin Rauch
Industrial Engineering and Automation (IEA)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Bolzano 39100, Italy
Erwin Rauch is an Assistant Professor in Manufacturing Technology and Systems at Free University of Bolzano, Italy. He was Visiting Researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA (USA) and Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Further, he is Head of the Smart Mini Factory laboratory for Industry 4.0 application at the Free University of Bolzano. His research interests include industry 4.0, axiomatic design, agile and reconfigurable manufacturing systems as well as optimization in SMEs.
ID 249 Needs Analysis for Education and Training on Automation 4.0 in Thailand
Erwin Rauch and Matteo De Marchi, Industrial Engineering and Automation (IEA), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano 39100, Italy
Prajaks Jitngernmadan, Digital Media and Interaction Laboratory, Faculty of Infomatics, Burapha University, Chon Buri 20131, Thailand
Felipe M. Martin, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Oviedo, Área de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automáticah Gijón 33204, Spain
3:40 – 4:00 (Tuesday)
Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman, CEng, Chartered Energy Engineer
Senior Lecturer
School of Mechanical Engineering
University Technology Malaysia (UTM)
Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Md. Mizanur Rahman is currently a Senior Lecturer at Thermo-Fluids Panel, School of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Dr. Mizanur is a certified Chartered Energy Engineer by Energy Institute UK. Before joining at UTM, he has served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland. Mizanur also has more than 12-year working experience in a government statutory body namely Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB), Bangladesh. During his tenure in BREB, Mizanur has gathered practical experiences in dealing with techno-economic and sociocultural challenges faced by rural electrification program. He has accumulated deep insights towards the solution pathways for the Global Mega-challenge of having 1.2 billion people without access to electricity yet. Mizanur has sound understanding into the global energy sector challenges and its societal implications. He has received his Ph.D. in Energy Economics and Power plant Engineering from Aalto University, Finland, M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy Engineering from Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden, and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. His research interests include Thermodynamics, low temperature Kalian cycle, energy economics, energy management, energy efficiency and system, sustainable and renewable energy, energy system modelling, Life-Cycle analysis, distributed power generation, multicriteria evaluation etc. Mizanur has several publications in International referred journals in energy engineering domain.
4:00 – 4:20 (Tuesday)
Dr. Tiia Rüütmann
Associate Professor Engineering Pedagogy/Higher Education Pedagogy
Ph.D Education (Engineering Pedagogy); M.Sc. Chemical Engineering
Head of Estonian Centre for Engineering Pedagogy
School of Engineering
Tallinn University of Technology TalTech
Tallinn, Estonia
4:20 – 4:40 (Tuesday)
Dr. Devinder Banwet
Vice Chancellor Founding (UEM Kolkata)
Professor Emeritus IIT Delhi
NEP 2020 and Pandemic impact disruption impact on Indian Education: Teaching Learning Evaluation Assessment: Some observations and remedies
Session IV: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
5:00 – 6:40 pm (Tuesday, March 9)
5:00 – 5:20 (Tuesday)
5:20 – 5:40 (Tuesday)
5:40 – 6:00 (Tuesday)
6:00 – 6:20 (Tuesday)
6:20 – 6:40 (Tuesday)
Session IV: Global Engineering Education Panel (Room – 1)
7:00 – 8:45 pm (Tuesday, March 9)
Panel Chair
Panel Speakers
Past Programs of IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2014 Bali – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2015 Dubai – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2015 Orlando – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2016 Kuala Lumpur – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2016 Detroit – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2017 Rabat Global Engineering Education Speakers
- 2017 Bristol, UK – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2017 Bogota – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2018 Bandung – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2018 Paris – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2018 Washington DC – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2018 Pretoria – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2019 Bangkok – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2019 Pilsen – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2019 Toronto – IEOM Global Engineering Education
- 2019 Riyadh – IEOM GEE
- 2020 Dubai- IEOM Global Engineering Education
- Deroit 2020
- Harare 2020
- Singapore 2021
(Click on the name of the speakers for pdf presentation file)
- Dr. Jinwoo Park
- Prof. Don Reimer
- Dr. Hongyi Sun
- Dr. Ilham Kissani
- Dr. Eugene Rex Jalao
- Dr. Gulnara Abitova
- Dr. James Chen
- Dr. FJ Kahlen
- Dr. Erik Sundin
- Dr. Abdul Hakim Halim
If you have any question about IEOM Conference and/or IEOM Society, please contact: info@ieomsociety.org.