1. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
IE 256
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2. Course Outline Understanding Learning
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
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3. Textbook Managing Engineering and Technology, 3rd Edition
Daniel L.Babcock and Lucy C.Morse
Publisher: Prentice Hall 2002
ISBN
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4. Evaluation 1. Assignments 15% 2. Quizzes 20% 3. Mid Term 25%
4. Final Exam %
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5. Weekly Course Topics 1 Engineering Management Engineering 1,2 1-2 2
Topic Chapter Week 1
Engineering Management
Engineering
Management
Management Philosophies
Scientific Management
Behavioral Management
1,2
1-2 2
Planning and Forecasting
Planning and Planning Concepts
Forecasting 3
3-4
Decision Making
Nature of Decision Making
Tools for Decision Making 4
5-6

6. Weekly Course Topics 4 Organizations Nature of Organizing 5-7 7-8 5
Topic Chapter Week 4
Organizations
Nature of Organizing
Organizations Theory
Staffing Issues
Functions of Organizations
Authority, Power, and Delegation
Motivation, and Leadership
5-7
7-8 5
Finance
Accounting
Financial Ratios
9-10 6
Production Planning
Facility Layout
Production Methods
Production Planning and Control 11
10-11

7. Weekly Course Topics 7 Managing Projects
Topic Chapter Week 7
Managing Projects
Project Planning and Acquisition
Project Organization and Control
14-15
12-14
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8. Ingenium: Talent, natural capacity, or clever invention.
Engineering and Management
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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9. The first issue (1866) of the English Journal Engineering
Engineering and Management
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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10. Modern Definition of Engineering By ABET (Accrediting Board for
Engineering and Management
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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11. What is a system? interface inputs Purpose constraints Environment
Engineering and Management
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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12. What is Management? Engineering and 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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13. Engineering and Management
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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14. Engineering and Management
Level
Type of Job
First-line Managers
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.
Middle Management
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.
Top Management
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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15. Engineering and Management
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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16. Engineering and Management
Managerial Level
Lowest Middle Top
Technical Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Conceptual Skills
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17. Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Engineering and Management
Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Interpersonal roles
Informational Roles
Decisional Roles
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18. Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Engineering and Management
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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19. Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Engineering and Management
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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20. Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Engineering and Management
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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21. Engineering and Management
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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22. Management: Is it an art or science?
Engineering and Management
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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23. Engineering Management (Discipline+art)
Engineering and Management
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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24. Proper Definition of Engineering Manager:
Engineering and Management
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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25. Engineering and 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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26. Engineering and Management
Why Engineering Managers?
Competition is global and companies need these people
to compete successfully
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27. Advantages of Understanding Technology in Top Management
Engineering and Management
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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