| dc.description.abstract | The Lean Aerospace Initiative’s (LAI) Educational Network (EdNet) established in 2002 is
comprised of 32 universities who share a common interest to collaborate on developing and
deploying curriculum for teaching lean six sigma fundamentals. Supported by a small staff
centered at MIT, collaborating faculty have developed a week-long LAI Lean Academy®
course, and delivered it to multiple audiences on-campus and in industry and government. The
topics of the course map to many CDIO syllabus topics, and the pedagogy and assessment
methods have borrowed on the CDIO knowledge base. This paper reports on this undertaking
and on the extent to which it has contributed to developing faculty competency for teaching Lean
Thinking in engineering and management. Results from this study reveal that instructors have
significantly improved their competency to teach Lean Thinking during their affiliation with the
LAI EdNet. On average, the instructors’ proficiency in twelve Lean Enterprise knowledge areas
has increased a full level, from 3.2 to 4.2, on the CDIO Syllabus MIT Activity Based Proficiency
Scale. The instructors report that collaboration on conceiving, developing and implementing the
curriculum has been the most valuable EdNet activity for increasing their competency. | en_US |
