Applied industrial engineering is concerned with imparting employable skills to improve the productivity for current situation of products and services. The purpose of this case study is to present the results of an initial research study conducted to identify the desired professional characteristics of an industrial engineer with an undergraduate degree and the emerging topic areas that should...

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have a distinct and unique role to contribute to the overall advancement of Europe, in its efforts to ensure economic and social success. Europe needs continuous progress in information and communications technologies and its industry and universities contribute to this progress. The demand for professionals increases constantly and exceeds the ...

Research universities are a recent innovation, having emerged in Prussia in the early 19th century, and in the United States only in the aftermath of the Civil War. By 1940, perhaps a dozen American universities could be regarded as firstclass research institutions. However, they received virtually no financial support from the US government. The most farreaching recommendation of Vannevar Bush...

Any system designed for people to use should be easy to learn and remember, effective, and pleasant to use. Over the years there has been a considerable increase in designing interfaces that score highly on these issues. This experience has been documented in a number of guidelines for constructing good human-computer interfaces [5, lo]. Following these guidelines is commonly considered a neces...

With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students’ cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today’s foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities. Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modern language talents. This paper ...

The paper describes the structure and the aims of a new modular educational programme in Production Engineering (PE) which will be developed in the scope of a European project and implemented in the Tunis University of Sciences and Techniques (ESSTT). Today, Tunisia looks forward to a high technology transfer. One of the national projects, that have a great effect on the Tunisian national econo...

One of the universities responsibilities is to form a quality graduates who will be armed with the knowledge needed in industrial practice. In this context a constant improvement of teaching materials must be done in order to reflect the current needs of the industry. This paper presents a new approach for updating the content of the Industrial Engineering course as well as a new concept of tea...

Due to the expensive nature of an industrial robot, not all universities are equipped with areal robots for students to operate. Learning robotics without accessing to an actual robotic system has proven to be difficult for undergraduate students. For instructors, it is also an obstacle to effectively teach fundamental robotic concepts. Virtual robot simulator has been explored by many research...