INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
PLAN FOR PRESENTATION
-Definition of engineer
-Definition of Management
-Managerial skills
-Managerial Roles
-Functions of Managers
-Definitions of engineering management
Engineer
-Ingenium (latin)
Management
-Directing the actions of a group to achieve a goal in
most efficient manner
Level of Management
-Top Level management (president, vice)
-Middle level management (chief engineer, division
head)
-First line management (foreman, supervisor,
section chief)
FIRST LINE MANAGEMENT
-carry out the plans of higher management using
the personnel and other resources assigned to them
-operation plans
MIDDLE LEVEL MANAGEMENT
-make plans of intermediate range to achieve the
long range goals set by top management
-provide plans
TOP LEVEL MANAGEMENT
-Represent the whole enterprise
-establish and review criterias for long range plans
Managers skills
- technical: Specific subject related to skills such as
engineering, accounting
-interpersonal: Skills related to dealing with others
and leading, motivating or controlling them
-Conceptual: Ability to realize the critical factors
that will determine as organizations success or
failure
Managers do
-interpersonal roles
-informational roles
-decisional Roles
Functions of managers
-Planning: selecting missions and objectives
-organizing: stabling the objectives
-Staffing: keeping filled the organizations structure
-Leading: influencing the people to achieve the
objective
-controlling: measuring and correcting objectives
Engineering Management
-engineering possessing both abilities to apply
engineering principles and skills in organizing and
directing people and projects
