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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENTIE 256
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%
Weekly Course Topics
1 Engineering Management 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
3 Decision Making Nature of Decision Making
Tools for Decision Making
4 5-6
Topic Chapter Week
Weekly Course Topics
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 9-10
6 Production Planning Facility Layout
Production Methods
Production Planning and Control
11 10-11
Topic Chapter Week
Weekly Course Topics
7 Managing Projects Project Planning and Acquisition
Project Organization and Control
14-15 12-14
Topic Chapter Week
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??
Engineering and Management
The first issue (1866) of the EnglishJournal Engineering
The art of directing the great sources of powerin nature, for the use and convenience of man.
Is it an art or profession?
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 naturalsciences 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
Engineering and Management
What is a system?
Interrelated components which come together for some purposes.
Components
Interrelations
Boundary
Environment
Purposeinputs
Outputs
interface
Engineering and Management
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
Engineering and Management
Top-level management(president, executive vice president)
Middle managers(chief engineer, division head etc.)
First-line managers (foreman, supervisor, section chief)
Engineering and ManagementLevel 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, supervisethe work that is done, and evaluate the performance of individualworkers.
Middle Management
Manage through other managers. Make plans of intermediate range to achieve the long-range goals
set by top management, establish departmental policies, andevaluate the performance of subordinate work units and theirmanagers.
Provide and integrating and coordinating function so that theshort-range decisions and activities of first-line supervisorygroups can be orchestrated toward achievement of the long-rangegoals of the enterprise.
Top Management
Responsible for defining the character, mission, and objectives ofthe 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 forpromotion to key executive positions.
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.
Engineering and Management
Lowest Middle Top
Managerial Level
Interpersonal Skills
Conceptual Skills
Technical Skills
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Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
• Interpersonal roles
• Informational Roles
• Decisional Roles
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• Interpersonal roles
Figurehead role: Outward relationshipLeader role: Downward relationLiaison role: Horizontal relation
Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Outward
Horizontal
DownwardDr.B.G.Cetiner
Engineering and Management
• Informational Roles
Monitor Role: Collects information about internal operations and external events.
Disseminator Role: Transforms informationinternally to everybody in organization (like atelephone switchboard)
Spokesman Role: Public relations
Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
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• Decisional RolesEntrepreneurial 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
Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
Dr.B.G.Cetiner
Engineering and Management
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
Functions of Managers
Engineering and Management
Management has a body of specialized knowledge.This knowledge need not to be obtained in formal disciplined programs.
Management: Is it an art or science?
Somewhere between art and science.
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.
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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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
Engineering and Management
Why Engineering Managers?
Competition is global and companies need these peopleto compete successfully
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