Experience in distributed virtual collaborative engineering is becoming more and more important as the use of advanced communication and information technologies is transforming engineering companies. To prepare students for this new reality and to respond to corporate demand, universities must begin to incorporate ‘virtual collaborative engineering’ concepts and ‘e-engineering’ technologies into their curricula. In this paper, design, implementation and assessment of a multidisciplinary freshman engineering and technology course is discussed. The aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary skills and practices in the latest methodologies and technologies to apply in a virtual collaborative engineering environment.
Purpose
– The authors examine the approach by which Sam Walton, a 48-year-old when he took his first technology course, drove creation of a new set of technology for retailing.
Design/methodology/approach
– By breaking Walton’s approach into five stages, the authors show how his way of working points to a credible path for leaders with limited background in technology to lead technological change.
Findings
– Senior leaders can apply Walton’s systematic way of leading for creation of excellent processes to accomplish customer-focused technology innovation in the modern era.
Practical implications
– Five elements of Walton’s tech innovation leadership are reviewed and analyzed.
Originality/value
– This article offers insights about how Walton was able to form a tech savvy team of managers and synthesize a vision about the potential of technology to produce operational breakthroughs far in advance of his competition.
The modern education technology course is a compulsory course of teacher professional in Colleges and universities, after years of teaching practice, the teaching content and teaching form has been relatively mature, but there are still some problems: the contradiction between class hour and teaching content; the limitations of communication between teachers-students and students-students, the lack of collaborative learning, etc. Put forward the way and scheme by using QQ group to solve the above problems.
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