INTRODUCTION
TO ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
BY: MELITO A. BACCAY, D. ENG.
CE FACULTY MEMBER
COURSE OUTLINE
Definition of Definition of
Managerial Skills
Engineer Management
Definition of
Functions of
Managerial Roles Engineering
Managers
Management
What is an Engineer?
• Ingenium (Latin): • Webster:
• Skillful • A person who has scientific
• Talented training and who designs and
• Natural capacity or clever builds complicated products,
invention machines, systems or
structures.
• A person who specializes in a
• Oxford Dictionary: branch or engineering
• A person who designs, builds, or • A person who runs or is in-
maintains engines, machines, charge of an engine in an
or public works. airplane, a ship, etc.
What is Management?
The word “Management” originates from Old French ménagement “the art of
conducting, directing”, and from Latin manu agere “to lead by the hand”
Management characterizes the process of leading and directing all or part of an
organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of
resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible).
What is Management?
Directing the actions of a Getting things done through Process of achieving
group to achieve a goal in other people organizational goals by
most efficient manner working with and through
people and organizational
resources
Three Levels of Management
Three Levels of Management
Three Levels of Management
1. First-line Management
❑ Directly supervise non-managers
❑ Carryout the plans and objectives
of higher management using the
personnel & 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 workers.
Three Levels of
Management
2. Middle-Level Management
❑ Manage through other managers,
❑ Makes 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,
❑ Provide integrating and coordinating function,
❑ Orchestrate the decisions and activities of first-
line management.
Three Levels of
Management
3. Top-Level Management
❑ Represent the whole enterprise
❑ Responsible for defining the character,
mission and objectives of the enterprise.
❑ Establish and review criteria for long-
range plans.
❑ Evaluate the performance of major
departments.
Managerial Skills
1. Technical:
Specific subject related skills such as
engineering, accounting etc.
2. Human or Interpersonal:
Skills related to dealing with others and
leading, motivating or controlling them.
3. Conceptual:
Ability to realize the critical factors that
will determine as organization’s
success or failure. Ability to see the
forest in spite of the trees.
Managerial Skills Pyramid
Managerial Roles
Managerial Roles
• Interpersonal Role – How a manager
interacts with other people.
▪ Figurehead: Outward relationship
▪ Undertake symbolic duties to
represent the organization.
▪ Leader: Downward relationship
▪ Inspire the subordinates to
their best by acting as a role
model.
▪ Liaison: Horizontal relationship
▪ Network and build
relationships with outside
agencies.
Managerial Roles
• Informational Role – How a manager
exchanges and processes information.
▪ Monitor Role:
▪ Access information relevant in
running the organization
▪ Disseminator Role:
▪ Synthesize and integrate information
to be shared with relevant members
of the organization.
▪ Spokesperson:
▪ Transmit information to people
outside the organization.
Managerial Roles
• Decisional Role – How a manager
uses information in decision-making.
▪ Entrepreneur Role:
▪ Initiates changes, assumes risks,
transform ideas into useful products.
▪ Disturbance-handler Role:
▪ Manages and solve crises and challenges.
▪ Resource Allocator Role:
▪ Manage and optimize organizational
resources.
▪ Negotiator Role:
▪ Negotiate business deals for the
organization.
Main Functions
of Managers
Main Functions of Managers
PLANNING – ORGANIZING – STAFFING – DIRECTING OR CONTROLLING –
SELECTING ESTABLISHING KEEPING FILLED LEADING – MEASURING
MISSIONS AND THE STRUCTURE THE INFLUENCING AND
OBJECTIVES. FOR THE ORGANIZATIONAL PEOPLE TO CORRECTING
REQUIRES OBJECTIVE. STRUCTURE. ACHIEVE THE THE ACTIVITIES
DECISION OBJECTIVE.
MAKING.
What is Engineering Management?
Engineering Management Engineering Managers
It is a specialized form of management They use their training and experience
required to successfully lead to coach and mentor and motivate
engineering or technical personnel and technical professionals.
projects and applies to either
functional management or project
management.
Functions of
Managers
• 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
Management has a body of specialized
knowledge.
This knowledge need not to be obtained in
formal disciplined programs.
Management:
Is it an art or Somewhere between art and science.
science?
(Engineering + Management = Discipline+Art)
Again somewhere between art and science.
What is Engineering Management?
• Directing supervision of engineers and/or engineering functions.
Definition of Engineering Manager:
An engineer possessing both abilities to apply engineering
principles and skills in organizing and directing people and projects.
Why
Engineering
Managers?
Advantages of Understanding Technology in Top Management
Understanding the business Understanding technology Treating Research and
thoroughly, driving the business today and Development as an investment
technology that will change not an expense to be
the business in the future, minimized,
Advantages of Understanding Technology in Top Management
Spending more time on Dedicating a customer’s Place a premium on
strategic thinking, problem (true marketing via innovation.
customer relations),
❑ An engineering manager’s duties might
include:
▪ Overseeing the team members and
processes associated with engineering and
What is construction projects.
Engineering ▪ Providing management and leadership to a
team of analysts or industrial engineers
Management? ▪ Helping a company or organization identify
cost and budget needs for specific projects
in their planning stage,
▪ Delegating tasks and inspecting processes
and project results for accuracy and
quality.
What is
Engineering
Management?
• What jobs can I get with an
engineering management
degree?
