Simulations afford students opportunities to apply newly acquired skills to actual "real world" situations, and experiential activities involving community executives can enhance these "real world" experiences to an even greater degree. This article suggests such experiential activities, including labor negotiating, banking and financial bargaining, Security and Exchange Commission reporting, and Board of Directors' briefings. This combination of complex simulation and experiential activities involving local community executives received the 1988 SME Manufacturing Engineering Award for unusually significant and innovative coursework.
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