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Lean
Academy Targets Undergrads - and Their Teachers
LAI's Lean Academy
aims to bring lean learning to company interns, cooperative education
students, and recent graduates through a weeklong immersion. This active
learning workshop piloted last summer at Rolls Royce in Indianapolis will
run in four locations this summer, each involving some 25 undergraduate-age
students and four or five instructors.
The five-day workshop
is the first formal product of LAI's Educational Network, or EdNet, which
involves 13 universities in developing curriculum and training opportunities
for graduate and undergraduate students and aerospace workers. In another
effort, faculty from MIT, Stanford, Georgia Tech, and other EdNet colleagues
are developing the intellectual basis for incorporating lean concepts
in graduate level systems engineering courses.
Alexis Stanke, a
CTPID research engineer who coordinates EdNet, says the training benefits
the instructors as well. "The Lean Academy is aimed at undergraduate
age students but the real power is engaging the faculty. Instructors who
teach the lean academy have an opportunity to make a relationship with
a company, go onsite for a week, and see the company's presentations.
Then, they have set of curriculum that they can take back to their campus
to teach."
The curriculum, which
was revised following a January train-the-trainer workshop at Arizona
State University, includes the manufacturing component of the Lean
Enterprise Value Training Simulation as well as case studies, role
playing, and lectures. Instructors are faculty and business executives
who are members of EdNet. Last year's instructors, including Stanke, who
will begin the Engineering Systems Division PhD program in September,
will each lead one of this summer's teams at Boeing St. Louis, Boeing
Huntington Beach, Northrop Grumman El Segundo, or Rolls-Royce Indianapolis.
Learn more about
Lean Academy at the LAI web site.
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