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Engineers in Society
Published in Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner, Planning and Design of Engineering Systems, 2018
Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner
Engineering management is concerned with the planning and organisation of an engineering project in order to ensure that it can be undertaken efficiently and carried out successfully through all stages to completion. As the scale and complexity of a project increase, so too does the need for careful and effective planning and management. For example, a small project such as the installation of a roundabout in an existing street may require a team of 4 to 5 professionals including a project supervisor, project secretary, design engineer and a draftsperson. By the time the project size is measured in millions of dollars the team is more like 10 to 12 people with additional engineers with specialised knowledge, and an increase in support staff also. Engineering project management will be discussed further in Chapters 3 and 5. The skills required for teams will be outlined in Chapter 6.
Engineering Manager: Constitutive Elements of this Profession
Published in Engineering Studies, 2019
Jelena Fischer, Mladen Pecujlija, Djordje Cosic, Bojan Lalic
Engineering management is a career that brings together engineering’s technological problem-solving expertize with the organizational, administrative, and planning capabilities of management in order to oversee the operational performance of complex engineering-driven enterprises. A Master of Engineering Management (MEM) is sometimes compared to a Master of Business Administration (MBA) for professionals seeking a graduate degree as a qualifying credential for a career in engineering management. Yet history shows that many of the best managers and leaders have been technically-minded individuals with some degree of formal engineering education.2 A successful engineering manager should have the skills necessary to coach, mentor, and motivate technical professionals, which are often very different from those that are required for individuals in other fields.3 Engineering managers typically require training and experience both in general management and in the specific engineering disciplines that will be used by the engineering team to be managed.4
Holacratic Engineering Management and Innovation
Published in Engineering Management Journal, 2019
Guy Savage, Anna Franz, James S. Wasek
“Engineering management is the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing and controlling activities that have a technological component” (Kotnour & Farr, 2005, p. 4). A system is, “an integrated set of elements, subsystems, or assemblies that accomplish a defined objective” (Jackson & Ferris, 2013, p. 2). The main elements of the system, in this case, are the team members. SE’s utility in enterprise architecture is highlighted by the fact that engineering managers perform SE to organize sizable teams of engineers as they work to accomplish complicated tasks (Shelby, 2013).