ENGINEERING

MANAGEMENT

Prologue

Primed By: Michael Angelo A. Soliven

What in it?

Engineering Management

Functions of the Engineer

Engineer in various types of organization

Process of Management

Requirements for the Engineer Manger’s Job

Engineering Management Organizations

“Successful Engineer Manager”

Required Skills and Disciplines

Engineering

  Is the discipline, art and profession of

acquiring and applying technical, scientific,

and mathematical knowledge to design and

implement materials, structures, machines,

devices, systems, and processes that safely

realize a desired objective or invention.

Engineer

Management is defined

Management in all business areas

and organizational activities are the acts

of getting people together to accomplish

desired goals and objectives.

Management comprises  planning,

 organizing, staffing, leading or directing,

and controlling an organization (a group

of one or more people or entities) or

effort for the purpose of accomplishing a

goal.

Engineering Management

  Is the field concerned with the

application of engineering principles to the

planning and operational management of

industrial and manufacturing operations 

Is a term that is used to describe a

specialized form of management that is

required to successfully

lead engineering personnel and projects

Is a unique discipline that uses

engineering skills and knowledge in

managing large scale projects.  It links all

other types of engineers from civil and

mechanical to chemical and electrical in

accomplishing organizational results

through the leadership of knowledge-

workers and the appropriate application of

technology.

Functions of the Engineer

The production of more food for a fast growing

world population

The elimination of air and water pollution

Solid waste disposal and materials recycling

The reduction of noise in various forms

Engineers are responsible for:

Functions of the Engineer

Supplying the increasing demand for energy

Supplying the increasing demand for mobility

Preventing and solving crimes; and

Meeting the increasing demand for

communication facilities

Engineers are responsible for:

Functions of the Engineer

Research - where the engineer is engaged in the process of learning about nature and codifying this knowledge into usable theories.

Design and development - where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a

product concept to a finished physical item.

Testing – where the engineer works in a unit where new products or parts are tested for workability.

Areas where functions of engineering encompass

Functions of the Engineer

Manufacturing – where the engineer is directly in charge of production personnel or assumes responsibility for the product.

Sales – where the engineer assists the company’s costumer to meet their needs,

especially those that require technical expertise.

Construction – this is where the construction engineer (civil engineer) is either directly incharge of the construction personnel or may have responsibility for the quality of the construction process.

Areas where functions of engineering encompass

Consulting – where the engineer works as consultant of any individual or organization requiring his/her services.

Government – where the engineer may find employment in the government performing any of the various tasks in regulating, monitoring, and controlling the activities of various institutions, public or private.

Teaching – where the engineer gets employment in a school and is assigned as a teacher of engineering courses. Some of them later become deans, vice president, and presidents.

Management – where the engineer is assigned to manage groups of people performing specific tasks.

Engineer in various types of organization

1. Level One – those with minimal engineering jobs like retailing firms

2. Level Two – those with a moderate degree of engineering jobs like transportation companies.

3. Level Three – those with a high degree of engineering jobs like construction firms.

Degree of engineering jobs

Process of Management

Must seek to find out the objectives of

the organization

Think of ways on how to achieve them

Decide on the ways to be adapted and

the material resources to be used

Process of Management

Determine the human requirements of

the total job

Assign specific tasks to specific persons

Motivate those persons and

Provide means to make sure that the

activities are in the right direction.

Requirements for the Engineer Manger’s Job

A bachelor’s degree in engineering from a reputable school: In some cases, a master’s degree in engineering or business management is required;

A few years experience in a pure engineering job

Training in supervision Special training in engineering

management

Engineering Management Organizations

There are a number of societies and

organizations dedicated to the field of

engineering management

American Society of Engineering

Management  founded in 1979 by a group

of 20 engineering managers from industry

The Master of Engineering

Management Programs Consortium-  is

a newly formed consortium of prominent

universities intended to raise the value and

visibility of the MEM degree

The Engineering Management

Certification International- is a part of

American Society of Mechanical

Engineers, provides a very

comprehensive guide on Engineering

Management, known as EMC-BOK Guide

“Successf

ul

Engineer

Manager”

How?

Ability

Motivation to manage

Opportunity

Managerial ability refers to the capacity of an

engineer manager to achieve organizational

objectives effectively and efficiently.

Ability

Effectiveness, according to Higgins refers to a description of “whether objectives are accomplished”

Effectiveness

Efficiency is a description of the relative amount of resources used in obtaining effectiveness

Efficiency

The test is anchored to the following dimensions:

1. Favorable attitude toward those in positions of authority, such as superiors.

2. Desire to engage in games or sport competition with peers

3. Desire to engage in occupational or work-related competition with peers

Motivation to Manage

John B. Miner: a management researcher that developed a psychometric instrument to measure objectively an individual’s motivation to manage

4. Desire to assert oneself and take charge

5. Desire to exercise power and authority

over others

6. Desire to behave in a distinctive way,

which includes standing out from the crowd

7. Sense of responsibility in carrying out the

routine duties associated with managerial

work.

Successful manager become possible only if those having the ability and motivation are given the opportunity to mange. The opportunity for successful management has two requirements:

Obtaining a suitable managerial job and

Finding a supportive climate once on the job.

Opportunity

Required Skills and Disciplines

Successful engineering managers

typically require training and experience in

both general management (which may

include business administration) and the

specific engineering disciplines that will be

used by the engineering team to be managed.

But additionally, the successful

engineering manager must understand

that the factors that cause certain

individuals to pursue careers in

engineering are often quite different than

those for individuals who are driven by

purely entrepreneurial thinking.

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