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Technological and Managerial Competencies

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."1 A manager's "primary interest . . . is on the allocation of human and nonhuman resources to perform the tasks demanded of" the organization.2 The problems faced by the manager "are usually more openended and less well defined than the engineer's problems."3 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 knowledgeable of the following processes: (1) all aspects of project management, including the concept of the project life

1D. I. Cleland, and D. F. Kocaoglu, Engineering Management, 3rd ed. (New York: McGrawHill Book Company, 1991), 6.

cycle; (2) all aspects of human resources management, with special emphases on organizational communications, and the management of change in organizations; (3) all aspects of management science, including an expertise in the use and application of mathematical models; (4) all aspects of decisionmaking methodologies, with an emphasis on decisions related to project control, selection, and evaluation; (5) all aspects of technological planning and forecasting; (6) the relationship between an organization's engineering function and the external environment; and (7) the relationship between an organization's engineering function and the organization's legal envir...

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