Introduction to
Engineering
Management
ENGG 406 – CHAPTER 1
Engr. Darlene Gayle Dela Fuente, MSEM
Industrial Engineering Department
College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts
Batangas State University - Alangilan
Learning Describe the origins of engineering
Describe
Objectives: management.
Explain the concept and principles of
Explain
engineering management.
Illustrate the role of engineers in engineering
Illustrate
management activities.
The Functions of Engineer
1. The production of more food for a fast-growing
world population;
2. The elimination of air and water pollution;
3. Solid waste disposal and materials recycling;
4. The reduction of noise in various forms;
5. Supplying the increasing demand for energy;
6. Supplying the increasing demand for mobility;
7. Preventing and solving crimes; and
8. Meeting the increasing demand for
communication facilities
Typical Engineering Activities
1. Research – process of learning about 6. Sales – engineer assists the company’s
nature and codifying this knowledge
customers to meet their needs.
into usable theories.
7. Consulting – engineer works as
2. Design and Development of consultant of any individual
products/processes 8. Government – performing any of the
3. Testing – engineers works in a unit various tasks in regulating, monitoring
where new products or parts are tested and controlling the activities of various
for workability. institutions.
4. Manufacturing – in charge of 9. Teaching – employment in a school and
production is assigned as a teacher of engineering
10. Management – assigned to manage
5. Construction – either directly in charge
groups of people performing specific
of the construction personnel or may
tasks.
have responsibility for the quality of the
construction process.
Historical Development
of Engineering
Management
Concept and the
Principles of Engineering
Management
Engineering.
“engineering is the means by which people
make possible the realization of human dreams
by extending their reach in the real world.”
Engineers.
“The key attribute for engineers is the direct
application of that knowledge and experience.”
Management.
“creative problem-solving process of planning,
organizing, leading and controlling an
organization’s resources to achieve its mission
and objectives.”
Concept and the Principles of
Engineering Management
Management Definitions
Manage -> “to handle”
General sense: taking control, taking charge, or directing.
Management was originally a noun used to
process for managing, training,
indicate the
or directing.
Management Levels
Management Levels
First-line managers directly supervise non-
managers.
➢ responsible for carrying out the plans and
objectives of higher management
➢ make short-range operating plans
➢ assign tasks to their workers
➢ supervise the work that is done
➢ evaluate the performance of individual workers
They must provide the linking pin between upper
management and the working level , representing
the needs and goals of each to the other.
Management Levels
Middle managers carry titles such as plant
manager, division head, chief engineer, or
operations manager.
➢ make plans of intermediate range to
achieve the long-range goals set by
top management.
➢ establish departmental policies
➢ evaluate the performance of
subordinate work units and their
managers
➢ integrate and coordinate the short-
range decisions and activities of first-
line supervisory groups to achieve the
long-range goals of the enterprise.
Management Levels
Top managers bear titles such as
chairman of the board, president, or
executive vice president.
➢ responsible for defining the
character, mission, and objectives
of the enterprise
➢ must establish criteria for and
review long-range plans
➢ evaluate leading management
personnel to gauge their
readiness for promotion to key
executive positions
Managerial Skills
Technical Skills – lowest level managers have the
greatest need for technical skills.
Interpersonal skills – important at every
management level, since every manager
achieves results through the efforts of other
people.
Conceptual skills – represent the ability to “see
the forest in spite of the trees” discern the critical
factors that will determine an organization’s
success or failure.
What is
Engineering
Management?
Engineering Management
➢ Direct supervision of engineers or of
engineering functions
➢ Or, application of quantifiable methods
and techniques to practice of
management
these narrow definitions fail to include many of the
management activities engineers actually perform in
modern enterprises
What is Engineering Management?
“Engineering management is the art and
science of planning, organizing, allocating
resources, and directing and controlling
activities that have technological component.”
- American society for Engineering
Management
What is Engineering Management?
“Engineering management is designing operating, and
continuously improving purposeful systems of people,
machines, money, time, information , and energy by
integrating engineering and management knowledge,
techniques, and skills to achieve desired goals in
technological enterprise through concern for
environment, quality, and ethics.”
- Omurtag (1998)
What is Engineering Management?
“Engineering management is the discipline
addressed to making and implementing decisions
for strategic and operational leadership in current
and emerging technologies and their impacts on
interrelated systems.”
- IEEE (1990) and Kocaoglu(1991)
Needs for Engineers in Management
• Really understand the business. • Spend more time on strategic
• Understand both the technology thinking about the future as they
that is driving the business today rise higher in the corporation
and the technology that will • Are dedicated to solving a
change the business in the future. customer’s problem or satisfying a
• Treat research and development as need,
an investment to be nurtured, • Place a premium on innovation.
rather than an expense to be
minimized.
Why study Engineering
Management?
“The engineering manager is distinguished from
other managers because he [or she] possesses
both an ability to apply engineering principles
and a skill in organizing and directing people
and projects.”
- Prentice Hall, 2006
Engineering Management Functions
(forecasting, setting
objectives, action planning,
administering policies,
Planning establishing procedure)
(setting performance
standards, evaluating/
documenting/
correcting performance)
Controlling Organizing
(selecting organizational
structure, delegating,
establishing working
relationship) Figure 1-2. The engineering management education program.
(deciding, (From Daniel L. Babcock, “B.S. and M.S. Programs in Engineering
communicating, Management,” Engineering Education, November 1973, P. 102).
motivating, selecting/ Leading
developing people)
Nature of Managerial Work
