Engineering Management – 4th Stage – Dr.

Jihad Al-Joumaa – 2024/2023

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Engineering
Engineering involves the application of the principles of science and mathematics to solve
real world problems and to innovate new products and processes across a wide range of
industries and applications.
The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD) defined
"engineering" as: The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop
structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, processing and producing or
works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with
full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating
conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life
and property.

Management
- Henri Fayol (1841–1925) stated: "to manage is to forecast and to plan, to organise,
to command, to co-ordinate and to control."
- Fredmund Malik (1944– ) defines management as "the transformation of resources
into utility"
- Ghislain Deslandes defines management as "a vulnerable force, under pressure to
achieve results and endowed with the triple power of constraint, imitation and
imagination, operating on subjective, interpersonal, institutional and environmental
levels"
- Peter Drucker (1909–2005) said that management is marketing and innovation.

Engineering Management
Engineering management is the application of the practice of management to the practice
of engineering. Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological
problem-solving ability of engineering and the organizational, administrative, legal and
planning abilities of management in order to oversee the operational performance of
complex engineering driven enterprises.

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Engineering managers
Engineering managers design, plan, and direct projects and other activities within
engineering companies. They also sign off on and oversee the development of such
projects.
These specialized managers can be found in offices, construction sites, fields and research
laboratories. They typically work in research industries, or for the government. An
engineering manager directs a team of engineers and checks their work for technical
accuracy. They also communicate daily with other managers.
Engineering managers plan and coordinate budgeting and financial concerns for projects.
They also handle hiring for engineering companies and direct all stages of project
development

Basic characters for Engineering Managers

- Self-motivated
- Detail-oriented
- Creative
- Able to see "the big picture"
- Technically adept
- Curious how things work

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. A Master of Engineering
Management (MEM) is sometimes compared to a Master of Business Administration
(MBA) for professionals seeking a graduate degree as a qualifying credential for a career
in engineering management.
At its fundamental core, the field of engineering management combines technical
engineering expertise, human leadership, specific business management concepts, and
advanced technologies
The engineering management is the management of activities and tasks needed to define
and deliver specific products and the goal is to deliver what the customer wants on-time
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and on-budget while meeting the required quality goals. And thus, Management does not
directly produce anything

Engineering Management Importance

Effective engineering management matters enormously. It influences an organization’s
financial outcomes (revenue growth, profitability and operational efficiency) and impacts
engineering facilities, largescale projects, clients, workers, and the public. The focus is on
effective implementation of best practices to lead engineering teams with knowledge
spanning the gap between business management and engineering.
Engineering managers serve as the interface between the business and technical sides of a
project, translating business-oriented goals and needs into actionable engineering
strategies and projects. They direct teams to ensure they stay motivated, focused, and
efficient. Their joint knowledge of certain key aspects of business management and
technical engineering concepts allows them to proactively make balanced decisions that
will mitigate project risks, efficiently allocate resources, and consistently deliver high-
quality products within the project budget and schedule.
Soft Skills and Emotional Intelligence are Core to Effective Leadership: Being an
effective engineering manager requires not just the technical skills they learned as
undergraduates, but a new toolkit of soft, human leadership skills that don’t always come
naturally to more systematic, logical thinkers.
These include: motivating and inspiring employees, persuasion, servant leadership,
communication, project management, and more. Most high degreed engineers with MSc
or PhD typically won’t focus on these important human leadership areas; instead, they'll
push engineers deeper into their chosen area of specialization.

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History of Engineering Management

Stevens Institute of Technology is believed to have the oldest engineering management
department, established as the School of Business Engineering in 1908. This was later
called the Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM) program and
moved into the School of Systems and Enterprises.
Syracuse University established the first graduate engineering management degree in the
United States, which was first offered in 1957.
In 1967 the first university department explicitly titled "Engineering Management" was
founded at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

In 1959, Western Michigan University began offering the predecessor to the modern
engineering management bachelor's degree (titled "Industrial Supervision").
In 1977, Western Michigan University started its MS degree in Manufacturing
Administration, later renamed as Engineering Management.
Outside the United States, in Germany the first department concentrating on Engineering
Management was established 1927 at Technical University of Berlin.
In Turkey the Istanbul Technical University has a Management Engineering Department
established in 1982, offering a number of graduate and undergraduate programs in
Management Engineering.
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In UK the University of Warwick has a specialized department WMG (previously known
as Warwick Manufacturing Group) established in 1980, which offers a graduate program
in MSc Engineering Business Management.
Michigan Technological University began an Engineering Management program in the
School of Business & Economics in the Fall of 2012.
In Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland has started a complete master's degree
Program in Engineering Management.
In Denmark, the Technical University of Denmark offers a MSc program in Engineering
Management (in English).
In Pakistan, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, University of Engineering
and Technology, Lahore and National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
offer admission both at Master and Doctorate level in Engineering Management while
Capital University of Science & Technology (CUST), NED University of Engineering &
Technology, Karachi and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and
Technology have been running a Master of Engineering/MS in Engineering Management
program.
In Italy, the first Engineering Management program was established in 1972 at the
University of Calabria by Beniamino Andreatta.
In Russia, since 2014 the Faculty of Engineering Management of The Russian Presidential
Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) offers bachelor's
and master's degrees in Engineering Management.
In France, the EPF offered since 2018, a 2-year Engineering & Management major in
English for the 4th and 5th years of its 5-year Engineering master's degree.

HW - 1: Find the History in Engineering Management in Middle East and Arab

world (teams of 5 students - each report will be displayed as a form of PPT Infront
of your colleagues next week)

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Difference between Engineering Management and Project Management

The completion of deliverables always entails elements of Project Management and the
activities that define Project Management are always there, formally assigned to someone
and informally assumed by a member of the team.

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Project Management
is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given
constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the
beginning of the development process. The primary constraints are scope, time, and
budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and
apply them to meet pre-defined objectives.
The objective of project management is to produce a complete project which complies
with the client's objectives. In many cases, the objective of project management is also to
shape or reform the client's brief to feasibly address the client's objectives. Once the
client's objectives are clearly established, they should influence all decisions made by
other people involved in the project – for example, project managers, designers,
contractors, and subcontractors. Ill-defined or too tightly prescribed project management
objectives are detrimental to decision-making

Project Management Activities

Typically the activities include:
- Ensuring the project requirements are defined (Customer, Legal issues, Time,
budget and resource)
- Quality, making sure communications with all stakeholders occurs.
- Coordinating all the resources involved
- Developing and maintaining the overall plan

Project Management importance

A better, faster, cheaper goal, there are no more engineers in white coats in a glass room
because today’s market place is hyper competitive and anyone can play! It only takes a
PC and some skills to get started.

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The Environment of each project

Each project is executed in its own environment, you must understand your projects
environment. A good manager understands the project environment and adapts the
development process to that environment.
The elements of the Environment are basically (The work itself, The customer,
Budget/Schedule, the team, Your organization or company)

Programs and Projects

These terms may be loosely defined even within the same company or organization.
Projects generally refer to the collection of activities working toward a single deliverable
& Programs contain multiple Projects and Products and can have multiple deliverables.
Programs are typically larger and have more complex interfaces.
The titles Program Manager and Project Manager do not always correspond to what they
are managing, for example a Program Manager could be managing a Project Or a Project
Manager could be managing a Program.

Project Characteristics
It is what distinguishes one project from another. Basically consist of (Size, Number of
features, People, Length of time, location of the parts of the project, color of the team,
critical requirements) in addition are all of these requirements, schedule and cost fixed or
flexible and Is there a critical quality requirement?

Project Management failure

- Lack of specific procedures and policies
- Lack of executive support
- Conflicting priorities or conflicting agenda
- System of rewards
- Individual vs project, Passive aggression, agreeing and then never following
through.
- Budgeting rules and Lack of resources
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Project Managing Process

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