Engineering Management

I. THE ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION ......................... 1

Introduction ...................................... 1

Computer Systems .................................. 1

Information Processing ............................ 2

II. THE CRITICAL CONTEXT ............................. 5

Introduction ..................................... 5

Information Quality .............................. 6

Computers and DecisionMaking .................... 6

III. THE INTEGRATIVE CONCLUSION ....................... 7

IV. REFERENCES ....................................... 8

THE CONTRIBUTION OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATIONSYSTEMS AND COMPUTERSUPPORTTO ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Introduction This paper presents a discussion of the contribution of management information systems (MIS) and computersupport to engineering management. An MIS is considered to be a computerbased system which processes data into a meaningful form, so that they may be used by managers, engineering and otherwise, in the organizational decisionmaking process (Senn, 1990). Contemporary organizations find themselves in the midst of the information environment. The information environment is highly dependent upon the application of computer technology to all facets of management and organizationpart

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ndle large amounts of data, several pipelines can be used in parallel to execute the same functions" (1983, p. 73). The use of many processing elements of the same kind, arranged in a regular arrayeither linear or squareand operating under master control is referred to as array processing (Zakharov, 1984). "To see the motivation for using a processor array, we need only consider the addition of two n X n matrices. Here the nsquared additions could be performed completely in parallel in a single addition time, were there available nsquared adders. Another example might be in 4pattern recognition where the identical transformation needs to be carried out on every picture element . . . and this can be done for as many elements as there are processors" (Zakharov, 1984, p. 55). "Reduction architecture offers an alternative way to increase parallel execution in computers while simplifying programming" (Douglas, 1983, p. 77). This architecture reduces problems assigned to a computer to a hierarchy of simpler tasks (than that of the entire problem). Following this reduction, the simpler tasks are assigned individually to separate processors. "Parallel computation is imp
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