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Data collected by the U.S. Census bureau in 2019
show only 20% of industrial engineers employed
full-time were women. While this number seems
small, industrial engineering is ranked fourth in
comparison to the other 13 engineering jobs in this
report.
By Johana M. Mercado Colón, Gabriela A. Renta López and Lourdes A. Medina
The human body is an important source of big data. Biometric data can be collected to track health status and
actively improve quality of life. Though data analysis has recently been actively used as a tool for industrial
innovation, biometric data analysis seems to approach the essence of engineering in terms of developing technologies
that benefit human beings.
By Chang S. Nam, Jae-Yoon Jung, Sangwon Lee, Sanghyun Choo, Zachary Traylor, Hoonseok Park, Donghyun Park and
Sangyeon Kim
A Nov. 16, 2021, Financial Times headline reporting on the rapidly growing fortunes of electric-car startups and the
parallel woes of traditional carmakers declared: “Electric Vehicle Maker Rivian Eclipses Volkswagen in Value While
Lucid Overtakes Ford.” In a sign of the crazy times in car-making, the word “Rivian” was underscored in red by the
spellchecker. Rivian who?
By Anirudh Dhebar
Diversity on teams and in organizations, across its
many dimensions, is widely recognized as a means
to higher performance. High functioning diverse
teams are able to produce better criteria, better
alternatives, better synthesis and ultimately better
solutions; and the individual members grow more.
Yet diversity among team members presents challenges
that might undermine the team’s efforts to be high functioning,
as noted by M.L. Maznevski (Human Relations, 1994).
Even the notion of diverse perspectives can cause team tension
and, to many, the value of varied perspectives is vague
or suspect. To provide clarity and evidence for the value of
diverse teams, we will share two systems examples: a visual
model and a sociological framework.
By Paul Stanfield