Keep Industrial and Systems Engineering at FIU Alive TODAY to Secure The Future of All The Engineering Programs at FIU
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We the undersigned petition the Florida Governor to Save the profitable Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) program at Florida International University (FIU) and continue promoting Engineering in the State of Florida.
Statement:
Our Community; Our Industry; and Most Importantly Our Nation Needs Engineering to Survive and Grow In This New Globalized World.
Objectives:
1. Reject the plan to close the Industrial and Systems Engineering programs at FIU
2. Work with the alternative budget cut plan being propose by the ISE Department of FIU
3. Keep the Profitable ISE program at FIU alive for the future of engineering in the US
Florida International University (FIU) is facing an $11 million budget cut for 2008-2009 fiscal year. Due to the need for these budget cuts on May 15, 2008, Dean Mirmiran announces a recommendation to close all Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) programs.
If we continue down this path TODAY we will close down ISE, and TOMORROW we will slowly close down other Engineering programs at FIU.
STOP the CLOSING of the ISE program at FIU. Budget cuts DO NOT MEAN close down valuable academic programs at FIU. There are alternatives. One alternative being the ISE budget cut proposal that would NOT require the closing of the ISE program.
FIU CANNOT be interested in a SHORT-TERM MISGUIDED SOLUTION what FIU should NEED/WANT is a LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION a solution with a future.
Disadvantages for our Nation (USA):
The National Science Board (NSB) monitors a science and engineering indicators which in 2004 informed of the troubling trend, a decline in the number of US citizens who are training to become engineers. The NSB claims that these trends threaten the economic well fair and security of our country.
The NSB report found that the number of Americans 18- 24 years old enrolled in a science and engineering degree is falling. The US ranked 3rd a few decades ago and today we have fallen to 17th in the world.
Of the 2.8 million Bachelors Degrees in Science and Engineering granted world wide in 2003 only 400 thousand are from the USA:
Asian: 1.2 million were eared by Asian students in Asian Universities
European: 830 thousand
US: 400 thousand
In engineering Asian countries now produce 8 TIMES as many bachelors degrees as the United States does.
In 2002 the number of Americans graduating with engineering degrees is 5\% compared to 25\% in Russia and 46\% in China.
NASA, a 2003 government accounting office study concluded that NASA was having difficulty hiring people with the sufficient engineering and information technology skills that are critical to its operations.
Disadvantages for our industry
If local industry cannot hire engineers locally they will be forced to take their business (tax dollars, infrastructure, high wages, investment, etc.) to other cities or states who do offer a labor pool of highly demanded engineers. FIU industrial engineering alumni have been highly employable; you find them in the following companies:
oGE, Motorola, FPL, Beckman Coulter, Boeing, IBM, Procter & Gamble, NASA, Homeland Security, USPS, DHL, UPS, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Boston Scientific, JMH, Mercy Hospital. Baptist Hospital, Cordis among others
Disadvantages for our community
Impact to FIU Alumni
o The degrees FIU Alumni worked so hard for will DIMINISH in value.
Impact to Current FIU Students
o Students currently in the program will be affected negatively as they will be faced with working on a degree that will not have the same value as when they enrolled.
Impact the FIU name
o Start to tarnish the image FIU has created over the years.
Closing ISE at FIU will is not only hurting students, our local community and industry but it is also putting our nations well being in jeopardy over time. At a time were need to be creative in coming up with ways to attract more engineering students and grow the engineering program we are doing the opposite (not very strategic).
Alternatives Solution for the budget cut (No permanent harm to FIU or Engineering):
The plan proposed by the ISE department would have significant savings that would easily meet budget goals:
Hiring FREEZE,
Deans Office budget REDUCTION
Other monetarily significant cuts that will not permanently damage FIU
Statement:
Our Community; Our Industry; and Most Importantly Our Nation Needs Engineering to Survive and Grow In This New Globalized World.
Objectives:
1. Reject the plan to close the Industrial and Systems Engineering programs at FIU
2. Work with the alternative budget cut plan being propose by the ISE Department of FIU
3. Keep the Profitable ISE program at FIU alive for the future of engineering in the US
Florida International University (FIU) is facing an $11 million budget cut for 2008-2009 fiscal year. Due to the need for these budget cuts on May 15, 2008, Dean Mirmiran announces a recommendation to close all Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) programs.
If we continue down this path TODAY we will close down ISE, and TOMORROW we will slowly close down other Engineering programs at FIU.
STOP the CLOSING of the ISE program at FIU. Budget cuts DO NOT MEAN close down valuable academic programs at FIU. There are alternatives. One alternative being the ISE budget cut proposal that would NOT require the closing of the ISE program.
FIU CANNOT be interested in a SHORT-TERM MISGUIDED SOLUTION what FIU should NEED/WANT is a LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION a solution with a future.
Disadvantages for our Nation (USA):
The National Science Board (NSB) monitors a science and engineering indicators which in 2004 informed of the troubling trend, a decline in the number of US citizens who are training to become engineers. The NSB claims that these trends threaten the economic well fair and security of our country.
The NSB report found that the number of Americans 18- 24 years old enrolled in a science and engineering degree is falling. The US ranked 3rd a few decades ago and today we have fallen to 17th in the world.
Of the 2.8 million Bachelors Degrees in Science and Engineering granted world wide in 2003 only 400 thousand are from the USA:
Asian: 1.2 million were eared by Asian students in Asian Universities
European: 830 thousand
US: 400 thousand
In engineering Asian countries now produce 8 TIMES as many bachelors degrees as the United States does.
In 2002 the number of Americans graduating with engineering degrees is 5\% compared to 25\% in Russia and 46\% in China.
NASA, a 2003 government accounting office study concluded that NASA was having difficulty hiring people with the sufficient engineering and information technology skills that are critical to its operations.
Disadvantages for our industry
If local industry cannot hire engineers locally they will be forced to take their business (tax dollars, infrastructure, high wages, investment, etc.) to other cities or states who do offer a labor pool of highly demanded engineers. FIU industrial engineering alumni have been highly employable; you find them in the following companies:
oGE, Motorola, FPL, Beckman Coulter, Boeing, IBM, Procter & Gamble, NASA, Homeland Security, USPS, DHL, UPS, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Boston Scientific, JMH, Mercy Hospital. Baptist Hospital, Cordis among others
Disadvantages for our community
Impact to FIU Alumni
o The degrees FIU Alumni worked so hard for will DIMINISH in value.
Impact to Current FIU Students
o Students currently in the program will be affected negatively as they will be faced with working on a degree that will not have the same value as when they enrolled.
Impact the FIU name
o Start to tarnish the image FIU has created over the years.
Closing ISE at FIU will is not only hurting students, our local community and industry but it is also putting our nations well being in jeopardy over time. At a time were need to be creative in coming up with ways to attract more engineering students and grow the engineering program we are doing the opposite (not very strategic).
Alternatives Solution for the budget cut (No permanent harm to FIU or Engineering):
The plan proposed by the ISE department would have significant savings that would easily meet budget goals:
Hiring FREEZE,
Deans Office budget REDUCTION
Other monetarily significant cuts that will not permanently damage FIU
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Alba N Nunez
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- I work at Royal Caribbean Crusies and we employee regular staff and Interns from FIU.
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Bertha Arteta
- Comments
- Please do not close- very important for local Indsutry
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nathan contreras
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Renzo Macher
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- we need ISE
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Andres Diez
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- IE 1996, MBA 2000
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Carlos Limon
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Pablo J Mendez
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Arlyn Palacios
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Mario Sanchez
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- Please stop this hastily made plan to cut a highly valuable engineering program!
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Stacy Da Costa
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- The proposed closing of the ISE program at FIU is a serious reflex decision with long term repercussions not just to the state's business community but also to the University's prestige and its ability to attract students to its Engineering program. As the developing countries of Latin America and the Caribbean look toward transforming their economies into competitive, efficient, and innovative ones they have increasingly looked to their neighbors to the North to educate their students and to develop their own change agents - Lean Enterprise Professionals, Total Quality Management Experts, Business Process Re-engineering and Management Professionals, Logistics Experts, Simulation Experts to name a few; - these are the specific capabilities of Industrial Engineers. Our company - a Business Process consulting firm focused on core IE competencies - has seen this trend first hand with inquiries into our services from Mexico even as far as India.
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Carlos Gandarillas
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Christian Lievano
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- I will be affected...
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Ricardo Velez
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Gabriela Arguello
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Bill Brown
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- Engineering is critical to indusrty in the US, please maintain a strong program supporting all engineering disciplines.
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Francisco Porras
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- I am an internatinal student and I believe that ISE has given me the opportunity to gain much experience in this highly competitive area even as an international student. I am completely satisfied of becoming an IE and it would be such a disgrace if they close this great program.
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Klaus Loewy
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Maria Lucia Gonzalez
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- FIU student and alumni
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Carolina Ansmann-Prince
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Xavier Ferragut
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- Some of my best hires are from this program
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Lissette Gonzalez
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Jonathan Breunig
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Ana
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Ivan Contreras
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- Keep all Engineering Programs at FIU!
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Johnny Arocha
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Ines Coco
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Jorge L Diaz
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- FIU ISE graduate Class of 2005 and FIU MIB graduate class of 2008. Proud of our faculty, staff and ISE department
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Sandra Pulido
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Ramon Llavona
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Cristina Albacete
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Antonio Yunez
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Mario Carozzi Alayza
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Miguel F Rotalde
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Andrea Rios
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- Most of the interns and engineering positions where I work (American Express Plantation, FL) are filled with ISE FIU students or alumni. Loosing this amazing pool of candidates will hurt not only my comapny but many other companies in the local south florida area.
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Mauricio Vengoechea
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- It would be such a shame to close a department such as ISE, which delivers such talented professionals which are very valuable for today's industry. We should definitely not let this happen.
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Diego Arbe
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Aldo Fabbri
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- Class of 2006
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Jose Nelton Gonzalez
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Silvia Valencia
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- 2005 Alumni
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Edwin Centeno
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- How can closing this program be an option?
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Yamille Quinones
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Joshua Goossen
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Mireya Moncada
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- This is an outrage!!! This decision shows lack of planning on the side of the University and points to the State and FIU's need to hire competitive Industrial Engineers to come up with a more viable plan. One that will not put in jeopardy the future of FIU, local industry, and local citizens.
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Gyldra L Collante
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Nick Kouloukas
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Christian Mora
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- Please save the program. It's my future...it's our future!!!
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Alicia Mendoza
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VMB Venkatesan
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lixiang jiang
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- Shutting down ISE is not an option to save money but a huge waste. We need ISE alive!
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