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U429B·SUNDAY WORKSHOP: Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS) — Toolsets for Sociotechnical Systems Analysis of a College of Engineering
Workshop Industrial Engineering Division (IND)
Sun. June 25, 2023 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room 308, Baltimore Convention Center
Session Description

Free ticketed event
The workshop will be a hands-on, activity-based, two-and-a-half-hour session. A brief draft outline of the workshop activities includes:
• Facilitator introductions and workshop mechanics
• Brief overview of the sociotechnical systems lens and framework
• Think-pair-share activities with the following toolsets (a booklet and electronic copies of these templates will be made available to the workshop participants before the conference):
o Systems boundary scan
 Defining vision, mission, organizational boundaries, time boundaries, input, throughput and output boundaries
o Expectations matrices
o Social systems modeling
 Role networks and key role modeling
 Social systems grid modeling
o Technical systems modeling
 Identifying key operations and activities
 Modeling attributes of key operations and activities
o Pivoting the social and technical systems analyses and putting it all together
• Suggested next steps in using the tools and forming community of practice for Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS)

Speakers
  1. Dr. Arunkumar Pennathur
    University of Texas at El Paso

    Dr. Arunkumar Pennathur, Associate Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA, apennathur@utep.edu

  2. Priyadarshini Pennathur

    Dr. Priyadarshini Pennathur, Associate Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA, prpennathur2@utep.edu

  3. Prof. Nicholas A Bowman

    Dr. Nicholas Bowman, Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA, nick-bowman@uiowa.edu

  4. Dr. Emily Gwen Blosser
    University of Louisiana at Lafayette

    Dr. Emily Blosser, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, USA, Emily.blosser@louisiana.edu