Undergraduate students and the management-technology interface: a multi-disciplinary education program

Abstract

~~~~~~ As advanced technologies become incre&ngly central to our every-day lives, there is a growing awareness on the part of both manuf~urers and customersof Xheimportanceof ‘so$er’or >eopkw!akd’ issues in Ihe desi~ development and use of technology-based txzefuts. l%h, however, is poorly ?@?ectedat dergraduate k?velwhere,within computing am?other Iechaok+y-orientedcourses,there tends to be a strozg preoccup~-on with the technology and link 6mpMsis on socio-tecimicalfactors, managementtheory ad group work Conversely, students taking arts, nm..geuzent and social science coursesfrequently have little cwnprehenswn of th important roles played by tec?m.ology in modem societies. In this papec tnperierxes with a novel “TechnologyManagement” course, and its derivatives, that aim to address these problems are reponed EmphasiS is plizced on the vm”oxsrolesplayed by computer-assistedteachingand kz?ming.