ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

The scope of engineering management is broad; however, it is also deep. Broadly, the engineering manager must be prepared to deal with technological engineering problems, human resources management problems, production efficiency problems, and problems associated with an organization's external

1 2environment (Cleland, and Kocaoglu, 1981). In depth, however, the engineering manager must be proficient in, or knowledgable of:

1. all aspects of project management, including the concept of the project life cycle (Cleland, and Kocauglu, 1981, 190);

2. all aspects of human resources m

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ach event; and (4) a specific starting point (Sisk, 1985). In the application of the network concept to construction project management, two separate systems were developed concurrently: (1) the CPM; and (2) the program evaluation and review technique (PERT). The development of CPM began in 1956 at the du Pont Company, and was originally designed for use in the company's own engineering operations. PERT was designed by the U. S. Navy, beginning in 1957, for the management of its Polaris Fleet Balistic Missile program. 5 The Critical Path Method From its inception, CPM was a computerbased system. By 1957, the basic elements of CPM had been defined, and no "fundamental changes have been made in this . . . work" (O'Brien, 1984, 5). CPM relies on the four essential components of the network concept. The critical path in a series of events in a network was defined as the longest route through the network of events. CPM emphasizes both time and cost in construction applications (Levy, Thompson, and Wiest, 1963). PERT also relies on computer support. In its original form PERT emphasized time, and provided a means of calculating the most probable time for completion of a project. PERT provides probability estimates of t
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