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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Introduction This paper presents a discussion of engineering management. The engineer is "primarily interested in the materials subsystem, dealing with the methods and processes for the allocation of materialrelated resources to the design, development, and operation of engineering systems" (Cleland, and Kocaoglu, 1981, 6). A manager's "primary interest . . . is on the allocation of human and nonhuman resources to perform the tasks demanded of his (sic) organization. His (sic) problems are usually more openended and less well defined than the engineer's problems" (Cleland, and Kocaoglu, 1981, 6). Engineering management unites these two sets of interests. Engineering management, thus, is a combination of industrial engineering, managerial economics, and human resources management.The Scope of 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 management, with special emphases on organizational communications, and the management of change in organizations (Cleland, and Kocauglu, 1981, 91178);

3. all aspects of management science, including an expertise in the use and application of mathematical models (Cleland, and Kocauglu, 1981, 179296);

4. all aspects of decisionmaking methodologies, with an emphasis on decisions related to project control, selection, and evaluation (Cleland, and Kocauglu, 1981, 297376);

5. all aspects of technological pla...

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