Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

Several publications address topics such as continuous improvement, Lean, and Toyota Production Systems in manufacturing organizations.  However, these same topics have not been addressed deeply for higher education institutions (HEIs).  As an HEI business unit, a classroom is a small complex group of persons interacting during a short time to achieve an organizational/personal goal.  Therefore, applying TPS principles in an HEI classroom could be a strategy to achieve stakeholder goals.  This paper has two purposes: to traduce TPS into a classroom and define behaviors expected from main participants in a classroom for each TPS principle.  To achieve these goals, the authors followed three steps: literature review, research method and data collection, and definition of the TPS principles and behaviors. Lastly, in the discussion section, the authors address topics such as research limitations and future works.