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Mindmap Preparations- What is Industrial Engineering and Management?

Culture Immersion Industrial Engineering and management Day 5

Our project was a success, and it ended up being something that we all were proud of. We received many compliments from both teachers and students about the content, the creativity, and the display. 

Working in a group with these 5 guys was very relaxed. Every one had some input, and in the end we combined the best ideas. 

The toughest part was trying to understand the different accents, but the amazing part was that everyone had patients and especially respect for one another.

Reflection

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Preparing for the Pop- up Museum

Tomorrow (exactly at 14:01), a pop- up museum will take place at the Fontys canteen at R1. At the museum, all the students from year 1 IE&M and Technische Bedrijfskunde (Dutch version of IE&M) have the chance to display their work of art. This work of art is based on the topic that each group got at Day 1 and is inspired by the information enquired during the week. 

My Group’s topic is Technology and Empathy. We created an example of empathy through communication and how the way of communication has changed throughout the years. Behind our project we also displayed different ways technology can be used. 

Our conclusion is that technology can be both good and bad, just like how fire can be used to cook, but also to burn people. In the same way, technology can help a girl who has lost her leg to build a new one that enables her to walk and dance again, but the materials used to make such products can harm the environment and kill animals. 

We also focused on how technology makes a person less sociable, thus also less empathic, and for this I want to refer to the following video that we looped in the background: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY&ab_channel=GaryTurk

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

My group (F105) with Pedro Sterken (the bald guy), founder of XYZebra and Co- Founder of Topologx.

https://nl.linkedin.com/in/pedrosterken/nl

I want to thank all of the IE&M experts for their wise words and inspiration!

Thank you for your time!

Reflection

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Getting inspired by experts

Today we spent the day interviewing experts who work in the field of Industrial engineering and management. We prepared these interviews by researching their backgrounds and coming up with questions that relate to their job. After gaining a lot of interesting information and advice based on their experience and views, we now have to come up with our own definition of what Industrial engineering and management is.

A summary of some of the interviews (5 out of 7): *Note: You can look these people up on www.linkedin.com to find more information about them.

Ben Blocks explained that as an industrial engineer and manager you are capable of understanding the different positions in a company. He gave the example of putting a product on the market and having to find a compromise between the engineers who want to use the best (and most of the time most expensive) materials to create it, and the finance department that wants to make as much money as possible. The problem is that less people would/ would be able to buy a very expensive product. Your job is thus to work on a product that is of both good quality and price.

Ben Blocks’s advice to future industrial engineers and managers is: “Think about something that you would be happy to wake up to do, and that’s the direction you have to go in. Have your eyes and ears wide open to how people act and why they act the way they do and lastly: You can find your passion, but can’t learn to have passion.”

Ramon Vullings stated that there is no typical Industrial engineer. IE&M in his view is a way of life. We asked him how he became as successful as he is and he told us that in order to be successful, you first have to define your own success. To him success means “joy and freedom”, but everyone is different.

Ramon Vullings’s advice to future industrial engineers and managers is: “ Have a good attitude and an open mind because reality is as you perceive it and everyone perceives it differently. Be delicate about change because people think differently and everyone does what they do because they think they are doing the right thing.” “My quote would be: Stop searching, start creating”

Max van Kruysdijk had some trouble speaking english, but still managed to make the following points:

IE&M makes/ fine tunes processes to make products First be effective than efficient (First do a good job at something and than do it efficiently) You have to be able to put yourself in someone else's shoes to create a product that others like.

Max van Kruysdijk’s quote: “Be nice to people”

Daniel Legarde talked all about creative problem solving and thinking outside the box. He explained how judgements are also called ‘idea killers’, because the moment you say that an idea is bad, it stops being an idea (it is forced away/forgotten) that can be brainstormed about and built upon. He said that it is best to have as many ideas as possible, so that you can use them to be creative and come up with an amazing product.

Daniel Legarde’s advice to future industrial engineers and managers is: If you keep doing things the same way, you will always get the same outcome, whereas you can  achieve more by being creative, thinking outside the box, and coming up with new ideas.

Pedro Sterken’s definition of IE&M: IE&M is a way to get an understanding of the whole company; how it works, how you can grow the company, and why the company is in a supply chain and not the company alone.

Reflection

It has been a long day as I’m not used to going to school from 8:45 AM until 16:55 PM. I feel like today was about clarifying what we are going to learn about the following years. The day started off with an introduction to Organizational Science and Mr. Tom van den Eertwegh made sure to tell us multiple times that money makes the world go round. We got an intro on what GNP/Credit/ Debit are and talked some more about the importance of money. Then Mr. Alain Deleu introduced himself and asked us a few questions to find out where we are from, why we chose to study IE&M and such. This is also where I will properly introduce myself on my blog:

Hi there :),

              I am Ilana Rosheuvel from a beautiful country in South America called Suriname. My first language is Dutch, but I am also fluent in english as I graduated from the International Academy of Suriname where I went to school for 4 years. In august 2015 I came to the Netherlands to study Nursing. I made this choice because I thought (and still think) that it is a beautiful thing to spend your life helping and taking care of people. I did not like the way of teaching at school and I also found out that I extremely dislike anatomy/ biology which are the main subjects of this major. There are also other things that I had problems with such as the absence of math and physics classes which are my favorite subjects. I soon knew that I wanted to study something else, did lots of research online on courses and narrowed it down to about four programs. I went to the open day and with support from friends and family (especially my dad) and further research on IE&M programs and the subjects, Industrial Engineering and Management was my final choice. I feel like the program and the courses are a right fit for me, and that it is very broad which means that there is a big range of jobs that I will get be able to fulfill in the future.

              The reason I picked the Netherlands out of all countries is because I have family here, and it is my dream to travel around Europe. I came to Fontys because out of all of the cities with an IE&M program, I liked Eindhoven the best, also because it’s the brain port region of the Netherlands. I expect IE&M to be instructive, yet challenging and fun. I do not have specific plans for the future, but I am very open minded and excited.

At last I learned about the culture in the Netherlands and how it is applied in business relationships. It is important to study some of that culture in order to know what is normal over here. This way you can better understand why people talk the way they do, because you might for example easily perceive the directness in speech of the dutch as ‘rude’, while this is part of their culture.

Reflection

Monday (08-30-2016) Culture Immersion Industrial Engineering and Management

Today started out to be very frustrating.

Because I switched majors from nursing to Industrial Engineering and Management, I do not have access to the new portal yet. I called the school multiple times last week, but no one was able to help me fix the problem, and that’s why I came an hour early today. To find out where I have to be, I asked a lady at the desk downstairs. She told me that everyone is waiting at the canteen, so that’s where I headed to. Eventually I found out that there were only people there from the programs Elektrotechniek and Mechatronica. I went back downstairs to ask again, and this time a guy was sitting there. He told me to go to the International department, because he was not sure where I had to be at, and he had a hard time communicating in English. As I was walking up the stairs, I saw the IE&M sign on the first floor. The lady there at the desk asked around to find out where I had to be and brought me to a class. I noticed that the number by the door was also mentioned in an e-mail. The students in that class were watching a movie, but since I was ten minutes late and missed the introduction, I did not understand the point of the movie. There was also no teacher in the class, and because I was already late I decided not to disturb anyone. Eventually (after another hour) the teacher walked into the room and started speaking dutch. At this point I could not believe my ears. I was at the wrong place again! I walked up to her and told her that I was in the IE&M program. This sweet lady finally walked me to the right class, where I was welcomed by another teacher. I must say that the fact that so many people, including the ones I called and e- mailed with did not know where I had to be, was certainly the most interesting part of the day. Finding out where I had to be was  thus the hardest thing. What I loved most though, was seeing the diversity of the IE&M class, because since I am from Suriname and studied at an International School, I immediately felt home. Just within my group there are people from Indonesia, one person from Nigeria, one from Bangladesh, and another person from St. Maarten (My side of the world also yay!). I must say that I did not expect such great diversity, but it certainly is very beautiful and exciting! Later on we had the chance to ask questions (42 questions to be exact). I liked that, because the things that I missed in the morning came to the surface and got explained by the teacher, especially the details about the pop up museum that will take place at one past two on Friday. Hereafter, my group met up with our tutor. He seems like a nice guy, and he is willing to guide us and help us with a lot. I am curious and excited about the coming days, and hope that I get access to the IE&M portal very soon!