Leslie Potter

Lecturer

Office: 2102 Black Engineering
Email:  potteriastate.edu
Tel: 319-352-9024
Fax: 515-294-3524
Homepage:  http://www.public.iastate.edu/~potter/

Leslie Potter’s focus is helping IMSE undergraduate students make the transition from academia to industry.  After seven years of working in industry and one year of teaching at UNI, Ms. Potter returned to Iowa State’s IMSE department to teach the Senior Design Capstone course (IE441), which she has been doing now since 2001.    Her primary role is to recruit Iowa-based companies to work with the senior design students, help identify semester-long projects, and then lead the students through the process of problem definition and solution generation for open-ended design problems.  She emphasizes the importance of hard and soft skill integration, including engineering problem solving combined with communication and professionalism skills.  In addition, Ms. Potter is heavily involved in student outcome assessment and the development of new courses based on outcome assessment results.  She has written four papers about outcome assessment and the continuous improvement process applied within the program.

Working Papers

Potter, L.A., Jackman, J.K., Min, K.J., and Search, M., “Integrating Communication and Engineering Skills in an Industrial Engineering Curriculum Based on Outcome Assessment Results,” submitted to the 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conference.

Potter, L.A., Jackman, J.K., Min, K.J., and Search, M., “A New Engineering Communications Course Based on a Professional Communications Process,” submitted to the

2008 ASEE National Conference. 

 Recent Publications

Potter, L.A., Min, K.J., and Peters, F.E., “Effecting Improvement in an Industrial

Engineering Program by Applying Outcome Assessment Results,” Proceedings of the

2007 ASEE National Conference, June, 2007. 

Potter, L.A, Daniel, S., Popejoy-Sheriff, D., and Min, K.J.,  ABET Outcome Assessment and Improvement through the Capstone Design Course in an Industrial Engineering Curriculum, Proceedings of the 2006 National ASEE conference, June, 2006.
 
Potter, L.A. and Min, K.J., ABET Outcome Assessment in an Industrial Engineering Capstone Design Course, Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE North Midwest Regional Conference, October, 2005. 

Courses

IE441 Senior Capstone Design
IE490 Lean Manufacturing and Applied Kaizen
IE421X Lean Mfg International
IE422X Lean Mfg

IE320X Industrial Engineering Professional Interactions