The Tauber Advantage

Team projects are just one way that Tauber students distinguish themselves from other business and engineering graduates. Tauber programs and courses also enhance their employability:

• The LeadershipAdvantageSM program of learning modules and workshops emphasizes leading and influencing an organization through collaboration, creativity, communication, and analytics.

• The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series invites high-level executives to share insights with students about their careers, the qualities needed in today’s global economy for strong leadership, and tangible steps students can take to achieve excellence in their own career paths.

• Facility assessments deliver insight into operations and lean manufacturing. Students learn to perform a rapid audit of the state of an operation, judge the relative leanness of the operation, prioritize targets of opportunity for improvements, and develop an action plan to facilitate those improvements.

• The Global Operations Conference brings leaders in industry and academia together to strategize new ways to advance the practice of operations worldwide.

• The Leadership Forum allows Tauber students to learn about ethical leadership directly from current leaders in operations from top global firms.

• Tauber students are encouraged to give back. Each year, on Community Service Day, they apply what they’ve learned to address operations challenges at southeast Michigan nonprofits.

• The Integrated Product Development course is an experiential, cross-disciplinary course that immerses teams of students from Business, Engineering, Art & Design, and Information in a competitive product development environment.

Many Tauber students assume leadership roles in organizing the Global Operations Conference, Leadership Forum, Industry Panel, and Tauber Leadership Speaker Series, gaining valuable experience in the complexities of event planning and developing rapport with the seasoned executives they bring to campus. Student groups plan Tauber’s Community Service Day and organize networking events, and Student Advisory Board members work closely with Tauber leadership to strive for continuous improvement in our own operations.

On March 9, the Tauber Institute launched 18 team projects for the summer of 2023. Student teams met with faculty advisors to discuss their project plans and to learn more about the valuable resources available to them online through the University. The institute is pleased to strengthen its relationships with Amazon, American Industrial Partners, Boeing, BrandSafway, ConAgra Foods, Ford Motor Company, Mayo Clinic, MillerKnoll, Inc, Stanley Black & Decker, and Target - and to build new partnerships with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Modine Manufacturing, Nestle Purina, Starbucks, and Washington Gas.