Third International Conference on Lean Six Sigma
for Higher Education
Theme: Making Higher Education Institutions Efficient and Effective through
Lean Six Sigma Deployment
8th June and 9th June 2015, Cedar Suite, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton,
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK
8th June 2015
08:15
Registration and Coffee
08:45
Welcome address – Professor Robert Macintosh, Head of the School of
Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University
09:00
Opening Remarks by the Conference Chairman
Professor Jiju Antony, School of Management and Languages
Venue: Cedar Suite
09:10
Keynote Address 1
Lean Leadership: Self-Defeating Actions that Undermine Extraordinary
Leaders – Dr Theresa Waterbury, Associate Professor and Chair of the
Education Leadership Department, Winona State University, USA
10:15
Keynote Address 2
Creating and Sustaining a Lean University – Professor Peter Hines,
Chairman of SA Partners
11:30
11:45
Tea/Coffee Break
Keynote Address 3
Application of Lean Thinking to Teaching - Professor Bob Emiliani,
Central Connecticut State University, USA
12:45
Lunch Break / Networking
Cedar Suite
Beech Room
Afternoon Session (Chair: Professor Jiju
Antony)
Afternoon Session (Chair: Dr Theresa
Waterbury)
1.45 Impacting Big Data Analytics in Higher
Education through Lean Six Sigma methodology
1:45 Kaizen Events to improve Teaching and
Learning strategies in Higher education
Speaker: Dr Chad Laux, Technology Leadership
Speaker: Lin Qian/ Regena Scott, Technology
Leadership and Innovation, Purdue University, USA
and Innovation, Purdue University, USA
2.10 Too Lean for Success, an exploratory study
in trimming down of undergraduate education
2:10 Legofication of Education
Speaker: Dr E. Shirl Donaldson, School of
Engineering Technology, Purdue University, USA
Speaker: Kurtis
University, USA
2.35 Lean Six Sigma Leadership in Higher
Education Institutions
2.35 Enhancing the Lean Learning Experience in
Higher Education using a simulated working
environment
Speaker: Jing Lu/Arush Saxena/Chad Laux,
Technology Leadership and Innovation, Purdue
University, USA
Homan,
PhD
student,
Purdue
Speaker: Dr Karl R. van der Merwe, School of
Engineering, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,
South Africa
3.00 – 3.15 (Tea/Coffee Break)
3.00 – 3.15 (Tea/Coffee Break)
Afternoon Session (Chair: Professor Jiju Antony)
Afternoon Session (Chair: Dr Chad Laux)
3:15 Academic Leadership : Special or Simple
Speaker: Stephen Anthony, School of Management
and Languages, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK
3:15 Taking the Non-Value Added out of Lean:
Making it Palatable for Higher Education
Speaker: Bonnie Slykhuis, Des
Community College, Iowa, USA
Moines
Area
3.40 A Continuous Improvement journey in the
Higher Education Sector – a case study
3:40 Creating a Sustainable Lean Culture in Higher
Education
Speaker: Seamus O’Reilly/Joe
College Cork, Republic of Ireland
Speaker: Bonnie Slykhuis/Emily Betz, Des Moines
Area Community College, Iowa, USA
Healy,
University
Oak Room
Oak Room
Afternoon Session (Chair: Stephen Anthony)
1.45 TQM in Higher Education Institutions:
evidence from Greece
Speaker: Dr Evangelos Psomas, Department of
Business Administration of Food and Agricultural
Enterprises, University of Patras, Greece
2:10
Assurance of Learning as
Improvement Tool for Higher Education
a
Lean
Speaker: Dr Jan Riezebos, Faculty of Economics and
Business, University of Groningen, Netherlands
2.35 Sustaining Your Lean/Six Sigma Journey:
What you can do after the initial excitement fades?
Speaker: Richard See, University of Iowa, USA
3.00 – 3.15 (Tea/Coffee Break)
Note: All paper presentations will take place subject to alterations
4.50
Chairman’s Concluding Remarks and End of Conference
7:30
Gala Dinner (Heriot Watt University)
9th June 2015
08:45
Registration and Coffee
09:00
Keynote Address 4
Lean Journey at the University of Iowa, USA – Mr Richard R. See,
Manager, University of Iowa Business Process Improvement
Venue: Cedar Suite
10:15
Tea/Coffee Break
10:30
Panel Discussion – Chaired by Dr Chad/Laux and Dr E. Shirl Donaldson
12:45
Lunch Break / Networking
Workshop A(2:00 – 4:15)
Workshop B (2:00 –
4:15)
Workshop C (2:00 –4:15)
Cedar Suite
Beech Room
Oak Room
Title: Lean Leadership Title: Sustaining Your
for Higher Education
Institutional Lean/Six
Sigma program
Title: Academic
Leadership for LSS in
Higher education
Workshop Leader:
Professor Bob Emiliani,
Central Connecticut
State University, USA
Workshop Leader:
Stephen Anthony, CEO,
Institute of Six Sigma
Professionals, UK
Workshop Leader:
Richard See, University
of Iowa, USA