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Duke Energy Graduate Assistantship
Duke Energy Graduate Assistantship Recipient '06/07
New Model of Education for Business Schools
The approach to education taken by the MBA Supply Chain Management (SCM) Concentration reflects Drucker’s new model for business schools:
“Management is a practice, like medicine and the model should have been the medical school, where the bulk of the teaching, especially the most important teaching of the M.D. in his or her residency, is performed by practitioners. Unlike medicine, where you can bring sick patients into the classroom, business education does not allow you to bring an organization into the classroom. You can, however, bring experience in through your faculty and students. Business educators should be out as practitioners where the problems where the problems and results are.”
Peter Drucker
Our students learn how to do things. They learn analytical and problem solving techniques and apply them to real life situations through our project-based curriculum. They develop skills for writing management reports, managing teams of workers, and making persuasive management presentations. The students have the opportunity to take responsibility for their learning,
The SCM concentration incorporates teams in each course in its project-base curriculum. A mixture of engineers and business majors creates a real world simulation of the management dynamics encountered in the professional application of an MBA in supply chain management.
The culmination of the team based approach to projects and problem solving occurs in the Supply Chain Management Practicum. During the semester long practicum, students tackle real supply chain challenges within SCRC partner companies. The course is comprised of a team-based project working on a partner company's SCM issues. These projects are as varied in scope as are company's SC issues and improvement initiatives, but they will contain a specific, somewhat narrowly-focused set of deliverables. Each semester we have a mix of projects that generally center, or focus, on SC Relationships, SC Physical Flows and/or SC Information Flows, yet remain integrated across the supply chain issue that faces the company. The scope of the projects is defined prior to, or early in, the semester of the class. Background and objectives, as well as key deliverables and milestones, along with deadlines are established for the student teams. Students should expect to learn at two levels in the Practicum: first, they will study technical supply chain issues particular to each project; and second, they will learn the team-based, deadline-driven nature of supply chain initiatives in a real company setting. This course fits in the SCM concentration.
Upon graduation, NC State MBAs in SCM have not only learned the value of teamwork in project management and problem solving, they have practiced successful team-based activities and solved real supply chain problems.