University of Northeastern Philippines

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

San Roque, Iriga City, 4431
Tel. No. (054)299-2698 loc. 28

NAME: CENETA, MARIA ERICKA MAE DIMAIWAT PROGRAM: BSCE 2

SUBJECT: ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

ACTIVITY 1

1.What is engineering management?

Engineering management is a specialized form of management required to successfully lead

engineering or technical personnel and projects and applies to either functional management
or project management.

Engineering management covers the gap between engineering and business management,
namely the combination of technical and economic decision-making with analytical skills,
optimization capabilities, and technical product development.

2.What are the duties of engineer manager?

The engineering manager is responsible for the overall technical integrity of the project. As
such this would include a facility scope that meets the business needs. An overall integrated
technical solution requiring management of interfaces as well as management of
technical/engineering quality of deliverables be it design deliverables or actual hardware like
vessel, pipes or even control and IT systems.

An engineering manager’s duties might include:

 Overseeing the team members and processes associated with engineering and
construction projects
 Providing management and leadership to a team of analysts or industrial engineers
 Helping a company or organization identify costs and budget needs for specific projects
in their planning stage
 Delegating tasks and inspecting processes and project results for accuracy and quality

3. What are your jobs if you finished the course of engineering Management?

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Primary duties: Operations managers are advanced positions within the field of human resources.
An operations manager's primary responsibility is to optimize the productivity, cost-efficiency
and quality of a business's various procedures and protocols. Duties include overseeing budgets in
all departments, managing inventory materials and creating staff training processes.

PROJECT ENGINEER

Primary duties: Project engineers oversee and guide teams for the duration of a specific project. A
project engineer needs to have the ability to lead unified teams effectively and understand
engineering principles related to a project's design and functionality.
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
San Roque, Iriga City, 4431
Tel. No. (054)299-2698 loc. 28

A project engineer's duties vary depending on their engineering field. For example, while a
project engineer in civil engineering may oversee the development of a new bridge, a project
engineer in electrical engineering may work on optimizing the speed of an electric vehicle.

ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT MANAGER

Primary duties: An architectural project manager leads the design processes related to
constructing various types of buildings. Architectural project managers develop building plans,
ensure that projects meet federal and regional standards and communicate with all professionals
involved in the building's design and construction.

Architectural project managers may work for architecture firms, developers, government agencies
or other organizations. Professionals with master's of engineering management degrees interested
in architectural project manager jobs first need to receive an architectural license.

SYSTEMS ANALYST

Primary duties: Also called a computer systems analyst, a systems analyst evaluates a business's
IT infrastructures, such as data storage centers or online networks. Systems analysts design,
manage and fix an organization's IT systems as needed.

Duties may include researching new technologies to incorporate into the business, creating
analysis reports about potential upgrades and figuring out ways to improve the uproductivity of
computing procedures or resources.

BUSINESS ANALYST

Primary duties: Like systems analysts, business analysts evaluate an organization's structures and
procedures. However, business analysts specialize less in technology than systems analysts.
Instead, business analysts focus more broadly on the evaluation and optimization of all business
processes, such as operations, departmental organization structures or budgets. Business analysts
typically analyze a business's technology only in relation to other aspects of a company.

4. What is decision making?

Decision-making may be defined as “the process of identifying and choosing alternative

courses of action in a manner appropriate to the demands of the situation.”

5. Discuss the different kind of decision making.

A structured decision is one that is made quite often, and one in which the decision is based
directly on the inputs. With structured decisions, once you know the necessary information you
also know the decision that needs to be made. For example, inventory reorder levels can be
structured decisions. Once your inventory of widgets gets below a specific threshold, there is a
need to order more. Processes like this, based on structured decisions, are good candidates for
automation. They can also be referred to as programmed decisions.

In contrast, an unstructured decision or non programmed decision involves a lot of

unknowns. They are generally based on criteria that are not well-defined, and information is
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
San Roque, Iriga City, 4431
Tel. No. (054)299-2698 loc. 28

more likely to be ambiguous or incomplete. The decision maker may need to exercise some
thoughtful judgment and creative thinking to reach a good solution. An information system can
support these types of decisions by providing the decision makers with information gathering
tools and collaborative capabilities. An example of an unstructured decision might be dealing
with a labor issue or setting policy for the implementation of a new technology.

A semi-structured decision is one in which most of the factors needed for making the
decision are known but human experience and other outside factors may still impact the
decision. A good example of a semi-structured decision is the hiring process. Part of the decision
is structured (years of experience, education, etc.) and part of the decision is based on human
experience (for example: social skills, problem solving skills etc.) Take a look at how companies
are trying to program this decision and use algorithms. Semi-structured and unstructured
decisions are more challenging and systems may not be able to assist in the process fully.
However, advances in artificial intelligence are helping to change this.

Strategic decisions set the course of an organization. Tactical/Managerial decisions are

decisions about how things will get done. Finally, operational decisions refer to decisions that
employees make each day to make the organization run.

Figure 1.1