Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618015
C. A. D. Da Silva, P. Ferrão, M. Freitas, L. Rodrigues, D. E. Alves
The work shows a case study where LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) was used as a tool-driven in the development of a Brazilian vehicle, namely a Buggy. It analyzed the environmental advantages to employ vegetal fibers in development products by LCA focus using the software SIMAPRO V7.1 based on stages of vehicle, from raw material extraction to production. The results are presented by means of confrontation jute fiber and fiberglass based on Eco-Indicator95. They show that materials are both the base of LCA and also too important to build and support an environmental management of products and process.
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Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617955
Ayça Altay
Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkey and the sixth most-populated city in the World, has been dealing with enormous traffic problems for over two decades. Studies and projects are continuously developed, but these efforts have either been temporary solutions or not been adequate in order to solve the problem because of numerous reasons such as unplanned expansion, increasing number of population, etc... In this paper, a number of solutions have been developed and evaluated using a special type of a multi-criteria decision making method: analytical hierarchy process, rating method. This method is widely used in especially group decision making especially in public decisions.
{"title":"A rating approach to the solutions of Istanbul traffic","authors":"Ayça Altay","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617955","url":null,"abstract":"Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkey and the sixth most-populated city in the World, has been dealing with enormous traffic problems for over two decades. Studies and projects are continuously developed, but these efforts have either been temporary solutions or not been adequate in order to solve the problem because of numerous reasons such as unplanned expansion, increasing number of population, etc... In this paper, a number of solutions have been developed and evaluated using a special type of a multi-criteria decision making method: analytical hierarchy process, rating method. This method is widely used in especially group decision making especially in public decisions.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122538366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617956
C. Escobar-Toledo, C. García Aranda
A new approach is proposed for a coordination model with multiple levels. This paper explains how to obtain, decisions related with hierarchical decentralized units, through decision making, which results in a set of input/output processes that characterize a process industry. In this approach, the best global results are obtained using multicriterion decision aid methods instead of mathematical programming.
{"title":"About decentralized multilevel systems: A new system’s approach","authors":"C. Escobar-Toledo, C. García Aranda","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617956","url":null,"abstract":"A new approach is proposed for a coordination model with multiple levels. This paper explains how to obtain, decisions related with hierarchical decentralized units, through decision making, which results in a set of input/output processes that characterize a process industry. In this approach, the best global results are obtained using multicriterion decision aid methods instead of mathematical programming.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126492013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618025
Feng Liu, M. Hirano, H. Niwano
Internet technology has brought many changes in the society. In the Web 2.0 era, the role of common customers in business has changed largely. Consumers have become more influential on sales or new item development by enterprises through Internet (weblogs dasiablogspsila, forums, personal web pages, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarks, RSS feeds and other forms of many-to-many publishing). In some extent, Web 2.0 facilitates the construction of the autonomous decentralized network ldquooutsiderdquo enterprises. This network is constituted by each autonomous customers and supplier. In this paper, we describe a new wave of organization model ldquoinsiderdquo enterprises. Yumenomachi Souzou Iinkai is one successful enterprise on Internet portal business in Japan. The companypsilas main manner of management is to respect the autonomy of the employees. Most of the current staffs have intention to be independent and initiate their own Internet business company in the future. The CEO, Ms. Nakamura, also has been encouraging their ambitions to grow the company as a virtual cluster of new Internet businesses owned by the current employees. The case indicates a new enterprise model based on an autonomous decentralized organization.
{"title":"Autonomous decentralized enterprise model ----A new wave in Web 2.0 type e-commerce in Japan","authors":"Feng Liu, M. Hirano, H. Niwano","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618025","url":null,"abstract":"Internet technology has brought many changes in the society. In the Web 2.0 era, the role of common customers in business has changed largely. Consumers have become more influential on sales or new item development by enterprises through Internet (weblogs dasiablogspsila, forums, personal web pages, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarks, RSS feeds and other forms of many-to-many publishing). In some extent, Web 2.0 facilitates the construction of the autonomous decentralized network ldquooutsiderdquo enterprises. This network is constituted by each autonomous customers and supplier. In this paper, we describe a new wave of organization model ldquoinsiderdquo enterprises. Yumenomachi Souzou Iinkai is one successful enterprise on Internet portal business in Japan. The companypsilas main manner of management is to respect the autonomy of the employees. Most of the current staffs have intention to be independent and initiate their own Internet business company in the future. The CEO, Ms. Nakamura, also has been encouraging their ambitions to grow the company as a virtual cluster of new Internet businesses owned by the current employees. The case indicates a new enterprise model based on an autonomous decentralized organization.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128230094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618033
Dan Wang, Yi-qin Wang
China has experienced great changes in economics and construction over the last few decades. Rapid development of engineering projects and construction has increased the demand for engineering management talents, which in turn has promoted education in this field. This paper describes the evolution and development of engineering management education in China since 1940s, analyzes its present situation and proposes its future prospect with the objective of facilitating the perfection of the specialty and cultivation of talents.
{"title":"Evolution and development of engineering management education in China","authors":"Dan Wang, Yi-qin Wang","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618033","url":null,"abstract":"China has experienced great changes in economics and construction over the last few decades. Rapid development of engineering projects and construction has increased the demand for engineering management talents, which in turn has promoted education in this field. This paper describes the evolution and development of engineering management education in China since 1940s, analyzes its present situation and proposes its future prospect with the objective of facilitating the perfection of the specialty and cultivation of talents.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131128483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618032
C. Gheorghe, D. Constantinescu, M. Covrig
The present paper depicts the peculiarity of Quality Function Deployment method (QFD) applied to quality improvement in higher technical education. The application of this method has been adapted to the typical profile of the services researched. Moreover, it differs from the classical method on how the data on the clientspsila needs has been gathered as well as on the way some data on competition has been missed out. This paper may gain importance due to the diagrams supplied as to determine the variables necessary to apply this method, in an attempt to be as objective as possible.
{"title":"The determination of factors underlying decision making process on quality improvement in technical education","authors":"C. Gheorghe, D. Constantinescu, M. Covrig","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618032","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper depicts the peculiarity of Quality Function Deployment method (QFD) applied to quality improvement in higher technical education. The application of this method has been adapted to the typical profile of the services researched. Moreover, it differs from the classical method on how the data on the clientspsila needs has been gathered as well as on the way some data on competition has been missed out. This paper may gain importance due to the diagrams supplied as to determine the variables necessary to apply this method, in an attempt to be as objective as possible.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126742140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618028
T. C. Papavramides, P. Aupee, J. Yttesen
ldquoYou canpsilat manage it if you donpsilat measure itrdquo. Conventional project performance metrics including the foundation work of PMI and their ongoing contributions is mainly about achieving specified objectives at a given time and within an agreed budget. In our approach, we followed a different direction in estimating how project performance can affect positively or negatively organizational capacities and generate proportional organizational impact. This in turn can be used to assess project performance from a different perspective. To estimate the organizational impact, one needs to identify the respective organizational capacities impacted by the project, establish a measurement system and measure the difference on each capacity before project starts and after project ends. We present a novel approach according to which projects should be also evaluated for the positive or negative ldquoorganizational impactrdquo they create to both the performing and the recipient(s) organization(s). Our hypothesis is that apart from the classic financial gains or losses a project delivers, there is a further and deeper impact on the performing organization as well as to the recipient ones. We introduce this hypothesis and describe a framework to measure organizational impact created by a project in a study case. We finish with conclusions and suggestions for further research.
{"title":"Assessing project performance by measuring organizational impact.","authors":"T. C. Papavramides, P. Aupee, J. Yttesen","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618028","url":null,"abstract":"ldquoYou canpsilat manage it if you donpsilat measure itrdquo. Conventional project performance metrics including the foundation work of PMI and their ongoing contributions is mainly about achieving specified objectives at a given time and within an agreed budget. In our approach, we followed a different direction in estimating how project performance can affect positively or negatively organizational capacities and generate proportional organizational impact. This in turn can be used to assess project performance from a different perspective. To estimate the organizational impact, one needs to identify the respective organizational capacities impacted by the project, establish a measurement system and measure the difference on each capacity before project starts and after project ends. We present a novel approach according to which projects should be also evaluated for the positive or negative ldquoorganizational impactrdquo they create to both the performing and the recipient(s) organization(s). Our hypothesis is that apart from the classic financial gains or losses a project delivers, there is a further and deeper impact on the performing organization as well as to the recipient ones. We introduce this hypothesis and describe a framework to measure organizational impact created by a project in a study case. We finish with conclusions and suggestions for further research.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129122107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617951
S. Tsafarakis, A. Doulamis, N. Matsatsinis
Market simulators assist managers in product design and pricing decisions, through advanced heuristic algorithms for consumer buying behavior modeling. We propose a model for use in such systems, which combines the effective incorporation of the two critical properties a simulator should theoretically reflects, with exceptionally performance in actual choice shares estimation. Differential Impact and Substitution are exhibited through the representation of customer heterogeneity and product similarity in the choice rule, while high predictive accuracy is displayed with the implementation of the Stochastic Logarithmic Search algorithm.
{"title":"An integrated market simulation model for the design of new products","authors":"S. Tsafarakis, A. Doulamis, N. Matsatsinis","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617951","url":null,"abstract":"Market simulators assist managers in product design and pricing decisions, through advanced heuristic algorithms for consumer buying behavior modeling. We propose a model for use in such systems, which combines the effective incorporation of the two critical properties a simulator should theoretically reflects, with exceptionally performance in actual choice shares estimation. Differential Impact and Substitution are exhibited through the representation of customer heterogeneity and product similarity in the choice rule, while high predictive accuracy is displayed with the implementation of the Stochastic Logarithmic Search algorithm.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131794176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617993
Andreia C. T. D. Pereira, J. Sequeira
Todaypsilas competitive world, no matter what industry we are considering, has innovation as a key element for the survival and growth of firms. The product development process tends to be central to the sustainability of firms, emerging the need of top management and the different departments to focus on innovation and to perceive this same objective as a common path which has to be taken together. The literature stresses that Marketing and R&D, the leading departments on the innovation process within firms, have to work jointly to achieve the market success of the innovative product. Usually, this stream of the literature discusses the integration issue focusing essentially on the outcomes - failure/success factors of the innovation process - derived from the (lack of) integration between these departments. In the present paper we assess how close are the perceptions of these departments on the innovation process through the use of an innovation audit. To our knowledge, no study has used the innovation audit to assess the integration of Marketing and R&D departments. The study was applied to a set of key actors within the Marketing and R&D departments of a Portuguese beverage firm. Being a case study, due to the limitation of its sample, it evidences an actual divergence of global perceptions regarding to the firmpsilas innovation process and performance. These results highlights the need for departmentspsila integration not only on the outcomes, but they also indicate that a big effort should be employed in order to close perceptionpsilas gaps on Strategy, Process, Linkages, Learning and Organization, i.e. the fundamentals of innovation, namely by improving intra- and interdepartmental communication.
{"title":"Do R&D and marketing departments perceive innovation fundamentals through the same lenses?","authors":"Andreia C. T. D. Pereira, J. Sequeira","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4617993","url":null,"abstract":"Todaypsilas competitive world, no matter what industry we are considering, has innovation as a key element for the survival and growth of firms. The product development process tends to be central to the sustainability of firms, emerging the need of top management and the different departments to focus on innovation and to perceive this same objective as a common path which has to be taken together. The literature stresses that Marketing and R&D, the leading departments on the innovation process within firms, have to work jointly to achieve the market success of the innovative product. Usually, this stream of the literature discusses the integration issue focusing essentially on the outcomes - failure/success factors of the innovation process - derived from the (lack of) integration between these departments. In the present paper we assess how close are the perceptions of these departments on the innovation process through the use of an innovation audit. To our knowledge, no study has used the innovation audit to assess the integration of Marketing and R&D departments. The study was applied to a set of key actors within the Marketing and R&D departments of a Portuguese beverage firm. Being a case study, due to the limitation of its sample, it evidences an actual divergence of global perceptions regarding to the firmpsilas innovation process and performance. These results highlights the need for departmentspsila integration not only on the outcomes, but they also indicate that a big effort should be employed in order to close perceptionpsilas gaps on Strategy, Process, Linkages, Learning and Organization, i.e. the fundamentals of innovation, namely by improving intra- and interdepartmental communication.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121400957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-06-28DOI: 10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618020
C. Polito, L. Martinich
Engineers are well trained as engineers. However, they need additional training to make a successful transition to engineering management. After researching the needs as defined by executives in the technology industry, the authors defined a program to meet these needs. This paper describes their research and the resulting program.
{"title":"Leadership: so easy even an engineer can do it!","authors":"C. Polito, L. Martinich","doi":"10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618020","url":null,"abstract":"Engineers are well trained as engineers. However, they need additional training to make a successful transition to engineering management. After researching the needs as defined by executives in the technology industry, the authors defined a program to meet these needs. This paper describes their research and the resulting program.","PeriodicalId":408691,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129004664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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