ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

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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.

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What is a system?
Interrelated components which come together for some purposes.

interface Interrelations
inputs

Purpose
Components

Outputs
Boundary

constraints
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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

First-line Managers

Middle Management

Top Management

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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.
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
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.
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:

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Ability to discern the critical factors that will deter

as organizations success or failure.
Ability to see the forest in spite of the trees.

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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
etc. in favor of enterprise
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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 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 customers problem (true marketing
via customer relations)
Place a premium on innovation
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