ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Course Outline

Understanding
Principles of Engineering Management
Applications of these Principles in Engineering Organizations
Learning
The importance of management to engineers,
Various forms and functions of organizations
Operation and Quality Management
Planning
Project Management
Textbook
Managing Engineering and Technology, 3rd Edition
Daniel L.Babcock and Lucy C.Morse

Publisher: Prentice Hall 2002

ISBN 0-13-061978-7
 Evaluation
1. Assignments 15%
2. Quizzes 20%
3. Mid Term 25%
4. Final Exam 40%

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 Weekly Course Topics
Topic Chapter Week

1 Engineering Management
Engineering
Management 1,2 1-2
Engineering Management
Management Philosophies
Scientific Management
Behavioral Management
2 Planning and Forecasting
Planning and Planning Concepts 3 3-4
Forecasting
3 Decision Making
Nature of Decision Making 4 5-6
Tools for Decision Making
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Topic Chapter Week
4 Organizations
Nature of Organizing
Organizations Theory 5-7 7-8
Staffing Issues
Functions of Organizations
Authority, Power, and Delegation
Motivation, and Leadership
5 Finance
Accounting 9-10 9-10
Financial Ratios
6 Production Planning
Facility Layout 11 10-11
Production Methods
Production Planning and Control
 Weekly Course Topics

Topic Chapter Week

7 Managing Projects
14-15 12-14
Project Planning and Acquisition
Project Organization and Control
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What is an Engineer?

Ingenium: Talent, natural capacity, or clever

invention.

Early applications of Clever Inventions

based on Military

Builders of Ingenious military machines??

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The first issue (1866) of the English

Journal Engineering

The art of directing the great sources of power

in nature, for the use and convenience of man.

Is it an art or profession?

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Modern Definition of Engineering

By ABET (Accrediting Board for
Engineering and Technology)
The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural
sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with
judgement to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and
forces of the nature for the benefit of mankind.

Engineer: A person applying his mathematical and science

knowledge properly for mankind

It is a discipline not an art. Dr.B.G.Cetiner

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What is a system?

Interrelated components which come together for some purposes.

interface Interrelations
inputs Purpose
Components
Outputs
Boundary

constraints Environment
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What is Management?
• Directing the actions of a group to achieve a goal in
most efficient manner
• Getting things done through people

• Process of achieving organizational goals by working

with and through people and organizational resources

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Top-level management
(president, executive vice president)

Middle managers
(chief engineer, division head etc.)
First-line managers
(foreman, supervisor, section chief)

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Level Type of Job
 Directly supervise non-managers.
 Carry out the plans and objectives of higher management using
the personnel and other resources assigned to them.
First-line Managers  Short-range operating plans governing what will be done
tomorrow or next week, assign tasks to their workers, supervise
the work that is done, and evaluate the performance of individual
workers.
 Manage through other managers.
 Make plans of intermediate range to achieve the long-range goals
set by top management, establish departmental policies, and
evaluate the performance of subordinate work units and their
Middle Management managers.
 Provide and integrating and coordinating function so that the
short-range decisions and activities of first-line supervisory
groups can be orchestrated toward achievement of the long-range
goals of the enterprise.
 Responsible for defining the character, mission, and objectives of
the enterprise.
 Establish criteria for and review long-range plans.
Top Management
 Evaluate the performance of major departments, and they evaluate
leading management personnel to gauge their readiness for
promotion to key executive positions.

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Managerial Skills:

Managers need three types of skills:

Technical: Specific subject related skills such as engineering,

accounting, etc…

Interpersonal: Skills related to dealing with others and leading,

motivating, or controlling them

Conceptual: Ability to discern the critical factors that will determine

as organization’s success or failure.
Ability to see the forest in spite of the trees.

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Managerial Level
Lowest Middle Top

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Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Interpersonal roles

• Informational Roles

• Decisional Roles

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Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Interpersonal roles
Outward
Figurehead role: Outward relationship
Leader role: Downward relation
Liaison role: Horizontal relation
Horizontal

Downward
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Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Informational Roles
Monitor Role: Collects information about internal
operations and external events.

Disseminator Role: Transforms information

internally to everybody in organization (like a
telephone switchboard)

Spokesman Role: Public relations

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Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Decisional Roles
Entrepreneurial Role: Initiates changes, assumes
risks, transforms ideas into useful products.

Disturbance Handler Role: Deals with unforeseen

problems and crisis.

Resource Allocator Role: Distributing resources

Negotiator Role: Bargains with suppliers, customers

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Functions of Managers
Planning: Selecting missions and objectives.
Requires decision making.

Organizing: Establishing the structure for the

objective.

Staffing: Keeping filled the organization structure

Leading: Influencing people to achieve the objective

Controlling: Measuring and correcting the activities

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Management: Is it an art or science?

Management has a body of specialized knowledge.
This knowledge need not to be obtained in formal
disciplined programs.

Somewhere between art and science.

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Management has a body of specialized knowledge.

This knowledge need not to be obtained in formal

disciplined programs.

Engineering Management (Discipline+art)

Somewhere between art and science.

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What is Engineering Management?

Narrow definition: Directing supervision of

engineers or of engineering functions.

Proper Definition of Engineering Manager:

Engineer possessing both abilities to apply
engineering principles and skills in organizing and
directing people and projects.

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Management

Management can be classified into one of four categories:

An organizational or administrative process
A science, discipline, or art
The group of people running an organization
An occupational career

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Why Engineering Managers?

Competition is global and companies need these people

to compete successfully

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Advantages of Understanding Technology in Top

Management

• Really understanding the business

• Understanding technology driving the business
today and technology that will change the business
in future
• Treating Research and Development as investment
not an expense to be minimized
• Spending more time on strategic thinking
• Dedicating a customer’s problem (true marketing
via customer relations)
• Place a premium on innovation
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