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Engineering Management Development Program

AN ORGANZATIONALLYBASED MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

FOR INEXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: A SYLLABUS

The organizationallybased management development program for inexperienced professional engineers will emphasize three areas for an intensification of knowledge. These areas are (1) the role of engineering management, (2) quantitative decisionmaking, and (3) construction project management. The general thrust of the instruction which will be presented in each of these areas is presented in the following course descriptions.

The Role 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 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 environment. 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;

2. all aspects of human resources management, with special emphases on organizational communications, and the management of change in organizations;

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