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Lecture 11Cultural dimensions

Luis San AndresMast-Childs Tribology Professor

Texas A&M University

http://rotorlab.tamu.edu/me489

March 1, 2011

ME 489 Practices of Modern Engineering

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Lecture 11Date: March 1, 2011

Today: … Cultural dimensionsDefinition of culture – values and dimensions

Team LeftOvers presents:

Assignments & reading:

A3 – Due March 8 – Assess COE Strategic Plan

Other: complete ONE MINUTE PAPER

Beyond Genetic Engineering

NO CLASS Thursday March 3, 2011

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Re-schedule Group presentations

April 26 & 28 - last two classes – Let’s welcome any group wishing to make an additional presentation

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1 The Wrecking Crew X X X

2 A&M Team X X X

3 Classic Style X X X

4 The Better Team X X X

5 Team Alpha X X X

6 Last Pick X X X

7 Gilligan's Blade X X X

8 LeftOvers X X X

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Recommended topics

Make solar energy economical Provide energy from fusion Develop carbon sequestration methods Manage the nitrogen cycle Provide access to clean water Restore and improve urban infrastructure Advance health informatics Engineer better medicines Reverse-engineer the brain Prevent nuclear terror Secure cyberspace Enhance virtual reality Advance personalized learning Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/

Pick one of the GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING in the 21st Century

National Academy of Engineering

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Recommended topic

• Justify Need – Why is this challenge important? Why is it important for the US and the world?

• Note state of the art and current pitfalls and shortcomings

• What is the needed knowledge to achieve goal? Note practical constraints (technological, economic, political)

• Where are the resources to attain the goal?• How can you (us) get involved to face the

challenge?• When do you foresee the challenge be resolved?

GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING in the 21st Century

National Academy of Engineering

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Schedule Guests: Practicing Engineers

Date

Feb 17 (R) Sulzer Turbo: Ash Maruyama & friends

March 8 (T) Pratt & Whitney Engines

March 10 (R) Crash on Entrepreneurship - Richard H. Lester

March 24 (R) UT graduate students

March 29 (T) GE Oil & Gas young engineers

April 7 (R) Southwest Research Institute old engineers

All confirmed

Learn from practicing engineers

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Comments on lecture 9 (prepare yourself), group presentation & others

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Lana Wilson recommends

Watch a GREAT Movie: The Pirates of Silicone Valley

The history of Steve Jobs & Steve Wasniak (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft). It shows how you really have to believe in and develop your ideas. It will pay off!

Practices of Modern Engineering – Spring 2011

See alsohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_ValleyBased on Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by P. Freiberger and M. Swaine

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Questions

Want to know more about SPORTS ENGINEERING?


Visit ISEA (international Sports Engineering Association) at http://www.sportsengineering.co.uk/

Univ. of Nevada (UNLV) offers a BS degree in Entertainment Engineering and Design http://www.eed.egr.unlv.edu/

Entertainment Eng. and Sports Eng. are fast growing branches of eng. Every sports item (balls, bats, shoes, skies, etc.) are designed & tested to satisfy specific needs for performance enhancement (long life, more or less friction, more or less traction, etc). TRIBOLOGY contributes greatly

to the field of Sports Eng.

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Question

How do some upper level classes and technical

electives lead to job opportunities & specialties?


Taking electives and involvement in research projects gives you an edge (a step in the door) to many specialized jobs. Talk with faculty!

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Prepare yourself

1. Poor planning on one’s part does not constitute automatic emergency from others2. Know corporate structure + follow chain of command 3. The inquisitive idiot: must ask, but think first4. Own your project or assignment: anticipate needs5. Less is more: work smarter, not harder6. The enemy of good is perfect: learn when to stop7. Keep a paper trail, write more and write well, It is not

what you know, it is what you can prove8. Leave work at work9 Mistakes are inevitable: GIGO10. Save money early, pace yourself

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Comments on lecture delivered by Ash Maruyama

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Prepare yourself

Great presentation, but I am surprised Ash did say treat people the way you want to be treated… Best presentation I’ve heard while at TAMU.

Ask presenter at the time. It is not impolite or disrespectful.

Earning respect and treating others as one wants to be treated are tracts practiced daily (they could be lost in a second as well)In Ash’s case it is most important since he deals with clients and suppliers, and

technical personnel with all levels of education and backgrounds.

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Prepare yourself Pay for yourself?

Employer invests in you to be productive.

In short. Assume it costs your company (low estimate) $200 k/year to keep you employed [salary + benefits + administrative cost ]. You must generate business for at least $200k/year to break even, i.e., to justify your employment (pay for yourself).

You will be rewarded and recognized when making more (net profit) and bring more (for others).

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Recommendations for organizing?

Only one – start today!

Perpetual procrastination is the worst enemy of organization.


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Comments on lecture 10 & group presentation: Driverless cars

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Question – driverless cars

Are the autonomous cars able to sense objects beyond immediate interferences, i.e., a wrecked vehicle behind the 18 wheeler in front of you?


How do sensors pick up edges or middle of roads that are only one lane and do not have lane lines (country back roads) to keep the car on the proper side of the road?

I will really miss driving if we go in that direction. I really enjoy the “thrill” of driving although it may be “illegal”

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Question – driverless cars

What are other projects that will replace “people”? (as controllers or drivers?)


For example: pilots maneuvering UAVs (unmaned aerial vehicles), rescue missions, dirty jobs, etc.

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More comments

Thanks you for this class. It is keeping me motivated and excited about engineering!


Good class as always!

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Room for thought

Pending legislation:Allow concealed guns in buildings at Texas universities

Will you feel safer or will you fear more?

A forum athttp://dof.tamu.edu/Guns%20on%20Campus.pdf

Debate time

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Topic

The world we live in:

What makes us unique or different from others?


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Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind by Geert Hofstede & Gert Jan Hofstede

Resource

• Reveals the unexamined rules by which people in different cultures think, feel, and act in business, family, schools, and political organizations.• Explores how national cultures differ in the key areas of inequality, collectivism versus individualism, assertiveness versus modesty, tolerance for ambiguity, and deferment of gratification

Product description found & copied in www.amazon.com

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Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind by Geert Hofstede & Gert Jan Hofstede

Resource

• Explains culture shock, ethnocentrism, stereotyping, differences in language and humor, and other aspects of intercultural dynamics•Provides powerful insights for business people, civil servants, physicians, mental health professionals, law enforcement professionals, and others•Explains how organizational cultures differ from national cultures, and how they can--sometimes--be managed

Product description found & copied in www.amazon.com

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Culture

Cultures and Organizations: Software of the MindBy Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede

Culture is the collective programming(*) of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group of people from others.

Culture is learned (not innate), it derives from the social environment.

(*) mental patterns of thinking, feeling and acting

Culture [cultivate]: Dictionary:

ALL THE KNOWLEDGE AND VALUES SHARED BY A SOCIETY

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Culture


Culture must be distinguished from human nature and from individual personality

Human nature

Culture

Personality

Universal Inherited

LearnedSpecific to group

Specific to individual Inherited and learned

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Culture


The onion manifestation of Culture at different levels of depth

Rituals

Symbols

Heroes ValuesPractic

es

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Culture


Values (tendencies to prefer certain states)

Rituals

Symbols

Heroes

ValuesPracticesRituals

Symbols

Heroes

ValuesPractices

Evil vs. good,Dirty vs. Clean,Dangerous vs. safe,Forbidden vs. permitted,Decent vs. indecentMoral vs. immoralUgly vs. beautifulUnnatural vs. naturalAbnormal vs. normalParadoxical vs. logicalIrrational vs. rational

Values are acquired early in our lives

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Dimensions of National Cultures


Basic problems worldwide

1.Relation to authority

2.Conception of self – relation of individual and society, and the individual concept of masculinity and femininity

3.Ways to deal with conflict, including thecontrol of aggression andexpression of feelings

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1980-2000s research & statistical analysis on the values of people for countries

1.Social inequality, including relationship with authority2.Relationship between individual and group3.Concepts of masculinity and femininity the

implications of having been born as a boy or a girl4.Ways to dealing with uncertainty & conflict

(related to the control of aggression andexpression of emotions)

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Ideas were first based on a large research project into national culture differences across subsidiaries of a multinational corporation (IBM) in 64 countries.

Later studies covered students in 23 countries, elites in 19 countries, commercial airline pilots in 23 countries, up-market consumers in 15 countries, and civil service managers in 14 countries.

http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/

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1.Power Distance (More Equal than Others)2.Individualism (I, We and They)3.Masculinity (He, She & (S)he)4.Uncertainty Avoidance (What is Different is

Dangerous)5.Long-Term Orientation (Yesterday, Now, or

Later)http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/ See

For a map of the World to evaluate how similar or different countries or regions are

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Questions?Next lecture03/08 –

“Culture and organizations”Power Distance Index, Individualism vs Collectivism

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