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Dr. Alice Squires named Wendell J. Satre Distinguished Professor

Alice Squires has been named the Wendell J. Satre Distinguished Professor in WSU’s Engineering Technology Management (ETM) program. Supported by the professorship, she will serve as the program’s graduate studies committee chair, leading efforts to refresh its core competencies. “Alice has a long history of industry engagement and leadership,” said Todd Vanek, the program’s director. […]

ETM faculty member, Dr. Alice Squires, is empowering women as leaders in systems engineering.

Women and men often enter engineering because they see a fit between what engineers do, the projects that they work on, and their personal goals and vision for the future.  These future engineers often excel in science and mathematics and have strong self-efficacy – the belief that they can do it!  For women in particular, […]

Playing by the Numbers: An Introduction to Throughput Accounting by Lisa Scheinkopf

October 3, 2019 5:30 PM Online Register on Zoom Good managers use “the numbers” to quantify decisions and proposals. But what if there is a fundamental flaw in the way managers traditionally look at the numbers? A flaw that conditioning blinds us to, but that ultimately leads to decisions and recommendations that degrade the bottom line rather than […]