Classification of University Departments of Industrial Engineering in Colombia: A DEA Application without Explicit Inputs

The article describes the use and applicability of Data Envelopment Analysis without Explicit Input (DEA-WEI) to evaluate the performance in SaberPRO tests of 82 industrial engineering programs in Colombia during 2016-2018. The results obtained can be used as an instrument to strengthen the quality assurance processes in higher education. As a result of applying the DEA-WEI model, the universities could be classified into five homogeneous groups, each with different characteristics. This grouping can be used as a strategic tool for the higher education institutions since it was possible to identify the other institutions' reference universities. In the current environment, evaluating a university's academic program's performance and its comparison with other universities is an essential issue for students, state control agencies, and universities to improve their indicators for accreditation processes. This classification can serve as a comparative measure of the educational quality offered by each university. In some countries, these classification results serve as a reference for allocating resources by the State for financing infrastructure and research projects. In Colombia, one of the indicators of quality in higher education is the standardized tests called SaberPRO, taken by all students in the last year of any academic program.

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Use of Factorial Analysis of Mixed Data (FAMD) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis on Principal Component (HCPC) for Multivariate Analysis of Academic Performance of Industrial Engineering Programs

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University ◽

10.35741/issn.0258-2724.55.5.34 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 55 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Delimiro Visbal-Cadavid ◽

Adel Mendoza-Mendoza ◽

Enrique De La Hoz-Dominguez

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Cluster Analysis ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Academic Performance ◽

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Hierarchical Cluster ◽

Industrial Engineering ◽

Mixed Data ◽

Engineering Programs

The article describes a new idea about using Factor Analysis, Mixed Data, and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis on Principal Components to study the academic performance in 82 Industrial Engineering Programs in Colombia. For this, we used the data from the results of the standardized test of the Saber Pro.). The authors find that the first three components explain 89.12% of the original data set variability. The quantitative variables associated with the Factor Analysis are the first dimension, while the two qualitative variables are related to the second dimension. The first factor explains 95.83% of the dispersion of the scores in Critical Reading, 94.72% of the variability in Quantitative Reasoning, 94.51% of the variation in Mathematics and Statistics, among others. This study shows a strong positive correlation between the quantitative variables and the first factorial axis. It assumes that the Industrial Engineering Programs of public higher education institutions perform better than private ones. The article stipulates that the higher education institutions belonging to the Andean Region present a better performance, followed by the higher education institutions located in the Pacific Region. In general terms, the results confirm that the best performing universities usually appear in the first places in the different rankings and are located in the big cities.

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New Perspectives on Industrial Engineering Education

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering - Optimizing Current Strategies and Applications in Industrial Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8223-6.ch001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Corneliu Octavian Turcu ◽

Cristina Elena Turcu

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

Data Storage ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Industrial Engineering ◽

Engineering Programs ◽

Industrial Internet ◽

Management Staff ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Internet Of Things

The widespread deployment of inexpensive sensors, processors, embedded systems, etc., as well as the latest advances in data storage, analytics, cloud, etc. triggered significant changes in industrial engineering. This chapter aims to examine the adoption of the internet of things (IoT) in industry and the challenges for higher education. In this respect, the authors tried to explain the relationship between major concepts: IoT and industrial internet of things (IIoT). At the same time, they focused on the presentation of some IIoT enablers that could be viewed as building blocks for IIoT higher education curricula. In order to ensure the required qualifications and to develop the necessary skills for current employees, management staff, and students, academic engineering programs must undergo important changes. Some of these changes are also discussed in this chapter. Nevertheless, since there are so many uncertainties that lie between today and the future, higher education programs need to keep up with the latest technological tendencies.

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Global State Control for a Class of Inherently Higher-order Parameterized Nonlinear Time-delay Systems Based on Homogeneous Domination Approach∗∗This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 61374038, 61374050, and 61473079), and a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (1108007002).

IFAC-PapersOnLine ◽

10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.376 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 48 (12) ◽

pp. 191-196

Author(s):

Lin Chai ◽

Pan Wang ◽

Shumin Fei

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Time Delay ◽

Program Development ◽

Natural Science ◽

Higher Order ◽

Academic Program ◽

Delay Systems ◽

Time Delay Systems ◽

State Control ◽

Global State

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The Quality-Profit Assumption

International Higher Education ◽

10.6017/ihe.2013.71.6081 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 12-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kevin Kinser

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Academic Program ◽

Program Quality ◽

Profit Motive ◽

Profit Status ◽

Quality In Higher Education ◽

Service Strategies

The profit motive is typically linked to lower quality in higher education. But there are several routes to profitability that do not presume a decline in quality, but rather take advantage of price and service strategies that generate revenue without significant impact on the academic program. Quality, therefore, is not determined by the profit status of the institution.

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Developing Alternative Measures for Service Quality in Higher Education: Empirical Evidence from the School of Physical Education and Sports Sciences

Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-10864-3_102 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 185-185

Author(s):

Suleyman M. Yildiz ◽

Ali Kara

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Physical Education ◽

Service Quality ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Alternative Measures ◽

Quality In Higher Education ◽

Sports Sciences

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Accreditation and Certification: Do They Improve Hospital Financial and Quality Performance?

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9070887 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 887

Author(s):

Matthew Brooks ◽

Brad M. Beauvais ◽

Clemens Scott Kruse ◽

Lawrence Fulton ◽

Michael Mileski ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Performance Outcomes ◽

Healthcare Management ◽

Academic Program ◽

Future Research ◽

Graduate Degree ◽

Healthcare Administration ◽

Professional Certification ◽

The Impact

The relationship between healthcare organizational accreditation and their leaders’ professional certification in healthcare management is of specific interest to institutions of higher education and individuals in the healthcare management field. Since academic program accreditation is one piece of evidence of high-quality education, and since professional certification is an attestation to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of those who are certified, we expect alumni who graduated from accredited programs and obtained professional certification to have a positive impact on the organizations that they lead, compared with alumni who did not graduate from accredited programs and who did not obtain professional certification. The authors’ analysis examined the impact of hiring graduates from higher education programs that held external accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). Graduates’ affiliation with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) professional healthcare leadership organization was also assessed as an independent variable. Study outcomes focused on these graduates’ respective healthcare organization’s performance measures (cost, quality, and access) to assess the researchers’ inquiry into the perceived value of a CAHME-accredited graduate degree in healthcare administration and a professional ACHE affiliation. The results from this study found no effect of CAHME accreditation or ACHE affiliation on healthcare organization performance outcomes. The study findings support the need for future research surrounding healthcare administration professional graduate degree program characteristics and leader development affiliations, as perceived by various industry stakeholders.

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