1. Business Visit Report

2. Business chosen Honeywell
Honeywell is a high tech, global company
Although Honeywell as a company has many facets, the area I had contact with was the largest and was the aerospace division. This division designs and produces products for the aerospace industry with a focus on guidance and navigation.
As a former engineer this is was an area of interest to me, and many of my students want to go into engineering of some form.

3. Technology Skills currently being used
I focused in on engineering since many of my students are interested in engineering. The following slides show the different types of engineers they use there and what the skill requirements are.
The first slide shows tools that all share

4. Systems Engineer Microsoft Office
Doors (requirements traceability software)
Clearcase & Clearquest (software configuration management & software problem tracking)
Excellent written & verbal communication
Good interpersonal skills to communicate with customers
Good hardware & software knowledge
Microsoft Windows Messenger
Ability to interface with other disciplines to discuss hardware/software/systems tradeoffs

5. Systems Engineer
Obtaining customer requirements, ensuring that those requirements are documented and flow down to other disciplines. Define the system archetecture to meet those requirements and define system algorithms.
May come from any engineering discipline
Specific tools used
Matlab
Software programs that have been developed by software engineers

6. Software Engineer
Create the software to meet the requirements that are provided by the systems engineers
Majority are computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering, but they also come from all over
Specific tools used
Software development tools such as Visual Studio
RTOS software such as VxWorks from Windriver & Greenhills
Beyond Compare (allows you to compare files for differences)
Knowledge of several computer languages namely C++ & C

7. Hardware engineer
Responsible for electrical design & test, design & programming firmware into the hardware
99% are electrical engineers
Specific Tools Used:
Circuit design
Simulation tools
Specific skills needed
Know both analog and digital design

8. What future skills do you see Honeywell using?
The same tools, but newer versions
Example: Microsoft office
Products are at a level that no entry level person knows what is going on so there is a lot of on the job training that occurs. They will start off at a low level.
Due to the nature of the business, data access is limited. Data transmission is done doing secure , restricted websites, and heavily firewalled intranets
Web 2.0 tools are not used and are not likely to be adopted for project related activities. They may be used occasionally for corporate tasks such as entering yearly goals
Note corporate IT departments have discouraged this by becoming more restrictive on what’s allowed

9. How does this relate to our student survey?
Our students top 3 tools they saw themselves using were: computer, phone & iPod.
Looking further down the list they saw themselves using things such as video games, tv’s, etc.
Based on the student responses it appears that 1 of 2 conclusions may be made:
We are not meeting the needs of the students who are going into this field
The students are not thinking about tools they will use in their work life and are instead thinking of tools they will use in general.

10. How well does my curriculum match?
Positives
I teach classes in Microsoft office, hardware, programming, etc. so from that standpoint the
I require students to do several presentations
Negatives
We do not have programming classes in C++ or C, nor do we teach many of the industry standard tools
The industry hasn’t adapted many of the web 2.0 tools yet.

11. Ideas for technology integration
Ideally I think WHS should combine the best of both worlds. We should try to meet the business requirements (strong written, oral communication, classes that will give students the skills they need, etc.), while also exposing the students to new tools (i.e. voicethread, blogs, webquests).