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On The Art Of Making Business Plan - A Successful Case
Authors: Dezhi Liu , Wenjing Cui 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
“Challenge Cup” business plan competition of Chinese college students is held jointly by Central Committee of Chinese Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and All-China Students Federation. It is held every two years and is universally acknowledged as the “Scientific and Technological Olympics” of Chinese college students. It is important to make a business plan after the student chooses a subject of business plan, builds a business creation team, and does a wide & deep marketing investigation. However, tens of year’s practices of business plan competition have seen that business plan’s theory is not closely related to the practice, its practicality is not strong and the attractiveness & persuasiveness need to improve. Thus, it’s necessary to do a summarization through analyzing cases.
The Critical Factors Of Entrepreneurial University In Engineering Education: A Conceptual And Empirical Analysis
Authors: Militaru Gheorghe 
Published: August 2014

Abstract
The transformation of a traditional research university into an entrepreneurial university is increasing due to the reduction or limitation in the university funding from public sources and the emergence of a competitive market for education and research. Entrepreneurial universities play an important role as both knowledge-producer and as disseminating institutions. The aim of this paper is represented by contribution to a better understanding the most critical factors that conditioned the development of entrepreneurial universities, as hubs of creativity, with the teaching, research and entrepreneurial missions. This paper provides evidence based on survey data for a sample of Romanian investigators in engineering sciences. A multivariate regression analyses were used to test our hypotheses by research field. We obtain statistical evidence indicating that our hypotheses have supported. The results of this research show that the most critical factors identified were attitudes towards entrepreneurship from academics and students. In addition, our findings suggest that some universities seek to improve the university-industry cooperation as a means to obtain additional income and learning from industry.
An Enterprise Development Initiative: Incubation In The South African Motor Body Repair Sector
Authors: Muyengwa Goodwell , Dube Partson , Battle Kimbelry , Masinga Errol 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe paper investigates motivations, challenges and success factors experienced by an incubator company and panel shop owners during transformation from a non-registered to a registered panel shop. Since 2006 the company has assisted six black owned panel shops in upgrading their businesses through an annual grant of R1.5 million per business. The objective is to develop and empower disadvantaged black owned motor body repairers. The study was conducted through multiple case studies and in-depth interviews with owners and staff of these panel shops including incubator company personnel. The study revealed that noticeable improvements were in better infrastructure, improved management skills, registration with the repair authority, access to work from the insurance industry and better turnover. Challenges faced were in building of trust among panel shop owners and support agencies seconded to their businesses by the incubator company during the incubation process.
Leadership Style Toward Competitive Advantage Of Business Education
Authors: Maghviroh Rovila El 
Published: August 2014

AbstractLeadership style used in a higher education institution affects the competence-based performance of the lecturers and the administrative staff. In turn, their performance will affect the institution performance. So, leadership style influences the institution toward strengthening its strategy to sustain. This study examined the transactional and transformational leadership styles toward the lecturers and the administrative staff of STIE Perbanas Surabaya. Transformational leadership was measured using ideal, inspirational, and intellectual stimuli; while transactional leadership was measured using exceptional management and contingency reward. The indicators used to measure the lecturers' performance were on teaching, module, research, civil services, IT, English; while for administrative staff were integrity, service, professionalism, learning, adaptation, documenting, English. The survey involved 32 lecturers and 31 administrative staff. The data was collected using questionnaire and was statistically analyzed using multiple regressions. The result was that transformational leadership significantly influenced both the lecturers and the administrative staff, while transactional leadership did not affect both the lecturers and the administrative staff. The implication was that the top management can set strategies of putting motivation of all organization members in the frame of improving their competence thus this will help the institution grow and sustain.
Development Of A Methodology For Improving Product Quality In Order To Maintain Market Competitiveness
Authors: Şogorăscu Irina , Zerbes Mihai , Oprean Constantin , Kifor Ştefania , Rus Alina 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThis article summarizes a research study conducted at SC Scandia SRL Sibiu with double purpose: first to propose a methodology designed to help maintain the competitiveness of the market; on the other hand to provide a complex tool use in training of future graduates of academic skills. The methodology developed is multidisciplinary combining established marketing methods and quality management. The team followed the methodology to be effective, easy to apply and involve minimal costs.
Innovative New Methods For Engineering Education. Case Study In Food Enzymological Simulation-Based Learning
Authors: Darie Neli , Mironescu Ion Dan 
Published: August 2014

AbstractSimulation-based learning as a broad modern technical high educational method offers through students' research projects, more advantages: performing individual and team student work, originality and practical usefulness, interdisciplinary fields. The student's personality is stimulated and also well developed and many professional major skills in food engineering are assimilated. The aim of this paper is to assess, in a case study of some technological food enzymes features, the simulation-based learning using simulation means. The results of this educational method prove a higher motivation in students' research work; the study environment is nearest of the real applications from the food industries.
The Integration Of Engineering And Business Education In A Global-Network University
Authors: Sjursen Harold P. 
Published: August 2014

AbstractNew York University characterizes itself as a global-network university. It currently offers (or soon will) engineering and business/management curricula leading to baccalaureate degrees on campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. The programs are designed to be interoperable, i.e., students (and faculty) can move from campus to campus while staying on track in their particular course of study. This objective of interoperability raises interesting issues regarding the internationalization of engineering and technical education. Additionally, at Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, the engineering and business management programs are tightly integrated with classical, western liberal arts education. This paper will explore the variety of educational and philosophical issues of this approach. The paper will offer a favourable assessment of the approach while acknowledging the profound challenges it entails.
Engineering Management In An Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project
Authors: Yelamarthi Kumar , Slater Joseph , Wu John , Mawasha P. Ruby 
Published: August 2014

AbstractInnovation in the changing undergraduate engineering curriculum mandates efficient management of interdisciplinary capstone senior design projects. This effort requires collaboration and management of students and faculty from multiple disciplines, and provides students an opportunity to learn from other engineering disciplines. In addition, this approach will i) emphasize problem solving and creative thinking skills; ii) provide students first-hand experience in generating a management plan; iii) expose students to multiple engineering disciplines, and work in diverse, multi-cultural teams; and iv) prepare students with an in-depth understanding of the interdisciplinary skills necessary for success. The senior design project (SDP) presented is based on the interdisciplinary collaboration of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students and faculty to design an integrated high altitude balloon system that would reach an altitude of 100,000 feet and return safely to earth. This paper presents methods by which all the above issues are addressed, results obtained over the recent years.
Sustainable Development Through Innovation In Service Sector
Authors: Banu Ilie , Butiuc Ioana Madalina 
Published: August 2014

AbstractRegarding the economic crises and the slow recovery that still continues, we believe that a solution can be improving the capacity to research and innovate in order to achieve sustainable development. Another key issue of the paper is about developing the cooperation between academia and business. The challenge of this development is how to increase the amount to finance research and innovation that can be implemented in the economy. As a global solution, to this problem we can recommend, for example, reducing tax evasion and by fiscal education. Also particular sources have to be found in order to develop innovation on SME level. It is essential for innovation to make quality research in order to be better prepared and increase adaptability to economic cycles. The aim of the paper is to find out how service innovation and cooperation between academia and business can enhance sustainable development indicators. The conclusions of the paper are structured in particular proposals and recommendations.
The Business Community To Support The Training Of Prospective Students/Employees
Authors: Duşe Dan-Maniu , Negrea Gabriel-Octavian 
Published: August 2014

AbstractIn the past years, theoretical high-school education in Romania has gone through much public criticism regarding both the quality and the effectiveness of the instruction offered to students. An excessive focus on theory for most subjects and the neglect of the practical aspects/applications of the themes studied are known to have had negative effects on students’ motivation and their ability to choose a career and to adapt to the labour market requirements. The authors of this article intend primarily to briefly analyse some of the curricular aspects underlining this problem and to suggest some opportunities to offset this situation – opportunities derived from the business community and within the reach of the theoretical high-schools’ managers. In support of the proposed solutions, the authors are going to examine two types of initiatives implemented at the “Gheorghe Lazăr” National College from Sibiu: “training placement” in EU-funded Leonardo da Vinci projects and a “work-experience” type of initiative leading to a successful programme run every school year in cooperation with firms, institutions, and companies from Sibiu.
Making Air Travelling More Economical, An Innovative Drag Reduction Approach For A Supercritical Wing Section Using Shock Control Bumps
Authors: Saeed A , Raza Malik. S. , Mohsin Khalil Ahmed 
Published: August 2014

AbstractAir travelling is the second largest travelling medium used by people. In future it is expected to be the first choice for the travellers. As increase in the price of oil cost of air travelling is getting higher. Engineers are forced to find the cheaper means of travelling by innovating new techniques. This paper presents the new idea to reduce air travelling cost by reducing drag, which is major driving factor of high fuel consumption. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional shock control contour bumps have been designed and analysed for a supercritical wing section with the aim of transonic wave drag reduction. A supercritical airfoil (NACA SC (02)-0714) has been selected for this study considering the fact that most modern jet transport aircraft that operate in the transonic flow regime (cruise at transonic speeds) employ supercritical airfoil sections. It is to be noted that a decrease in the transonic wave drag without loss in lift would result in an increased lift to drag ratio, which being a key range parameter could potentially increase both the range and endurance of the aircraft. The major geometric bump parameters such as length, height, crest and span have been altered for both the two-dimensional and three-dimensional bumps in order to obtain the optimum location and shape of the bump. Once an optimum standalone three-dimensional bump has been acquired an array of bumps has been manually placed spanwise of an unswept supercritical wing and analysed under fully turbulent flow conditions. Different configurations have been tested with varying three-dimensional bump spacing in order to determine the contribution of bump spacing on overall performance. The results show a 14 percent drag reduction and a consequent 16 percent lift to drag ratio rise at the design Mach number for the optimum arrangement of bumps along the wing span. This innovative technique proves to be a bridge between economical problems and engineering solutions and a milestone for aviation engineering.
Business Intelligence For Educational Purpose
Authors: Banica Logica , Stefan Liviu Cristian , Jurian Mariana 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe paper follows three main directions: business intelligence – as a software tool, companies – as an application field and top management – as target of intelligent efforts. From this symbiosis does result an advantage, scientific and data based educational tool, having the goal to give the students a tool to explore data collections and analysis methods in order to improve the management of a company and forecast its evolution. The purpose of Business Intelligence (BI) software is to help the firms on acquiring knowledge about highlights and dangerous trends, to observe the connections and to forecast the future market evolutions. From this perspective, we consider that students need to learn theory and practical application about BI. After an overview of the BI main concepts, we choose to use the facilities of Jaspersoft BI software; to model the most frequently used analysis requirements, displaying the most relevant data and key indicators, following the steps of a BI system.
The Impact Of Transformational Leadership On University Performance Through Knowledge And Innovation
Authors: Militaru Gheorghe 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThis study investigated the range of potential performance implications of transformational leadership to improve the university performance by creativity, knowledge, and innovation. We examine the relationships among innovation orientation, transformational leadership, organizational learning, and university performance using hierarchical OLS regression technique. We found that transformational leadership influences the relationship between leaders' performance (rectors, deans, and managers) and university's outcomes (teaching, research, and service) to establish how leader behaviours affect the university performance. Results reveal that transformational leadership may motivate academic staff to work harder, exerting more effort and engaged in higher levels of task performance through inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence, and individualized consideration. The current study shows that transformational leadership may facilitate higher levels of creativity and innovation through emphasized the knowledge integration mechanisms into university. The moderately positive relationships of transformational leadership with university performance suggest that universities should focus on selecting and promoting individuals for upper-level managerial positions with these characteristics
Knowledge Capital – Influenced By Rationality Or Animal Spirits?
Authors: Oprean Camelia 
Published: August 2014

AbstractIt is already a well-accepted concept in expansion, the economy, organization and management based on knowledge. It is said that the owners of knowledge, respectively the individual, organization and the society, will hold the power in the future. Thus, the knowledge become the economic and personal basic resource and all the activities from the economic sphere are prevailingly concentrated on the treatment of information and producing of knowledge goods. However, it is still difficult to explain on a strict scientific basis why people behave non-rational when facing with money decisions. Classic finance foundation lays on strict rationality and optimization of financial decisions. We affirm that monetary and financial decisions are significantly influenced by psychological factors. Behavioural Finance adds to the equation the psychological and emotional facets of the human decision. This emerging discipline has challenged the Efficient Market Hypothesis, arguing that markets are not rational, but are driven by fear and greed instead. The paper proposes a critical analysis, based on consistency criteria, regarding the controversy current state of the informational efficiency theory of the capital market. In this sense, the critical approach is one that shows the weaknesses, the vulnerable aspects that characterize the classical form of EMH theory. Also, the paper highlights the most significant criticisms levelled against EMH by psychologists and behavioural economists.
The I-P-C-V Model For Improving The Quality Management And Its Applications
Authors: Oprean Constantin , Bucur Amelia 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe process of quality management consists of several stages defined by specific verbs. Some experts have named the stages after the following verbs[1,2,3]: to forecast and to plan, to organize, to direct, to control (Fayol), to plan, to do, to check, to act (Deming); to design, to implement, to manufacture, to deliver; to design, to supply, to control, to assess; to develop, to inspect, to control, to improve or to enhance; to establish quality policies and quality objectives, to establish strategies for quality planning, to determine strategies for quality control, to establish quality assurance policies, to establish policies in the field of quality improvement. In this work we will show that a model of improving the quality management process could be defined starting from the following verbs: to identify needs, to program, to construct, to verify. We will also define a new quality indicator in the Oprean-Bucur model. We applied the models for a course of the Faculty of Engineering from Sibiu, Romania.
Developing A Decision Support System For Project Management In Universities
Authors: Pascu Radu Vasile , Ciora Radu Adrian , Lobonţ Lucian , Simion Carmen Mihaela 
Published: August 2014

AbstractDecision making is a complex and continuous process of correlation and harmonization of the project objectives with the organizational goals and all kinds of the resources available for projects carried out in universities (regardless of their source of funding). At an academic institution that can run simultaneously a large number of projects, using a Decision Support System (DSS) contributes to increase both transparency of decision and reaction rate of the decision makers. This paper presents a very useful DSS: POMADESUS – PrOject MAnagement DEcision SUport System. This DSS can be used to increase the efficiency of the Projects Implementation Unit from the University. POMADESUS is also a useful tool for all personnel involved in the implementation and the management of the projects.
Studies Regarding The Evolution And Development Of Documents Printing Technologies
Authors: Gora Nelu , Mătieş Vistrian 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe paper presents a study of the evolution in development of documents printing technology, characterized in terms of the technical performance like print speed, resolution, repeatability, gamut etc., and of meeting the requirements of sustainable development and environment protection. Are analyzed printing technologies with toner and ink. Ink printing technology is emphasized using liquid and solid ink and toner printing based on the xerographic process, using organic xerographic drums.The trend in the development of these technologies is to increase technical performance while meeting environmental requirements. In this context the main items are detailed on solid ink printing technology, widely promoted by the representative company in the market.
Collaborative Engineering In The Management Of Business Implementing Initiatives
Authors: Dobrin Carmen , Bondrea Ioan 
Published: August 2014

AbstractCreating a systematic approach in designing and implementing of a new product, by considering all elements from lifecycle is integrating all the aspects of product, manufacturing and services process is one of the most advanced manufacturing method. The constantly team work between designing and manufacturing compartments is always reaching to the same point: higher quality-cost-time. Maturity of internet technologies, market shifts and increased competition forces the adoption of establishing offshore engineering centres where the combination from engineering and CAD software are working together for achieving new market goals. Collaborative Engineering is the key of business competitiveness.
Creativity And Benchmarking Influence On Research, Production And Marketing In Romanian Organizations
Authors: Moraru Gina-Maria 
Published: August 2014

AbstractThe paper is a small part of a research made for identify if benchmarking is or can be used in creativity management in Romanian organizations, in order to combat the effects of the economic-financial crisis and to increase organizational performance. Using questionnaires, the author collected data from the academic and industrial environment. The paper related the creativity and benchmarking influence on three of the organizational functions: research and development, production and marketing. First, it presents an original synthesis about the theory in this field. Second, it presents the results of a research performed on three categories of respondents: PhD candidates in management, university management professors and managers from industrial organizations. Finally, it suggested some modalities for an efficient use of creativity and benchmarking in Romanian organizations.
Test Of Vowels In Speech Recognition Using Continuous Density Hidden Markov Model And Development Of Phonetically Balanced-Words In The Filipino Language
Authors: Fajardo Arnel C. , Kim Yoon-joong 
Published: August 2014

AbstractAn Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) converts the speech signals into words. The recognized words can be the final output or it can be an input for a natural language processing. In this paper, vowel recognizer using Continuous density HMM and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) were used for feature extraction for its development, and phonetically balanced words (PBW) in Filipino were developed. Thus, this study is a preparation for Filipino Language ASR using HMM. For vowel recognizer, forty speakers were trained (20 male and 20 female speakers). An average accuracy rate of 94.5% was achieved for speaker-dependent test and 90.8% for speaker independent test. For PBW, 2 word lists were developed consisting of 257 words for the 2-syllable Filipino PBW word list and 212 words for the 3-syllable Filipino PBW word list.