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Teaching with the problem solving power of simulation

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

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Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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A strategic curriculum revision concerning simulation methods, production operations, and facility layout and material handling courses in a product design and manufacturing engineering curriculum is described. The revision is based on two ideas. Simulation is best taught in the context of its applications. Simulation is both a vital analysis tool and a vital teaching approach for examining the time dynamics of production systems such as work cells, kanban systems, and flexible manufacturing systems as well as material movement systems within facilities and logistics systems for material movement over long distances. The simulation methods classes are removed from the curriculum. Simulation methods are integrated into revised production operations courses. A traditional material handling and facilities layout course is revised into a material movement course that includes supply chain logistics. Simulation based laboratories, case studies and case problems are used extensively in both of the revised courses.

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Standridge CFinke DJurishica CFerrin DHarmonosky CTew J(2007)What I wish they would have taught me (or that I would have better remembered!) in schoolProceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come10.5555/1351542.1351952(2315-2321)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1351542.1351952

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December 2006

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L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Standridge CFinke DJurishica CFerrin DHarmonosky CTew J(2007)What I wish they would have taught me (or that I would have better remembered!) in schoolProceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come10.5555/1351542.1351952(2315-2321)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2007
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