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Introduction to Engineering Management: Review Notes, Cheat Sheet of Engineering

A comprehensive overview of engineering management, covering its core principles, functions, and key roles. It delves into the organization of construction projects, highlighting the roles of various stakeholders, including owners, design professionals, and construction professionals. The document also explores the essential qualities of effective managers, emphasizing the importance of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling resources. It concludes with a discussion on leadership and its role in successful management.

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Introduction to Engineering Management: Review Notes
¨ Engineering
- Applying math and science with judgment to utilize natural resources economically for the benefit of
mankind.
¨ Management
- A creative problem-solving process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources to
achieve organizational objectives.
¨ Engineering Management
- Management of organizations with an orientation to manufacturing, engineering, technology, or
production.
¨ Functions of Engineering
* Research
* Design and Development
* Testing
* Manufacturing
* Construction
* Sales
* Consulting
* Government
* Teaching
* Management
¨ Functions of Management
* Making Things Happen
* Meeting The Competition
* Organizing People, Projects, and Processes
¨ Kinds of Managers
Top Managers:
* Creating context for change
* Developing commitment and ownership
* Creating organizational culture
* Monitoring business environments
Middle Managers:
* Planning and allocating resources
* Coordinating and linking groups/departments
* Monitoring performance of subunits and managers
* Implementing changes/strategies from top managers
Line Managers:
* Managing entry-level employee performance
* Teaching entry-level employees
* Creating detailed schedules and operating plans
Team Leaders:
* Facilitating team performance
* Managing external relationships
* Managing internal team relationships
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Introduction to Engineering Management: Review Notes

¨ Engineering

  • Applying math and science with judgment to utilize natural resources economically for the benefit of mankind.

¨ Management

  • A creative problem-solving process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve organizational objectives.

¨ Engineering Management

  • Management of organizations with an orientation to manufacturing, engineering, technology, or production.

¨ Functions of Engineering

  • Research
  • Design and Development
  • Testing
  • Manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Sales
  • Consulting
  • Government
  • Teaching
  • Management

¨ Functions of Management

  • Making Things Happen
  • Meeting The Competition
  • Organizing People, Projects, and Processes

¨ Kinds of Managers

Top Managers:

  • Creating context for change
  • Developing commitment and ownership
  • Creating organizational culture
  • Monitoring business environments Middle Managers:
  • Planning and allocating resources
  • Coordinating and linking groups/departments
  • Monitoring performance of subunits and managers
  • Implementing changes/strategies from top managers Line Managers:
  • Managing entry-level employee performance
  • Teaching entry-level employees
  • Creating detailed schedules and operating plans Team Leaders:
  • Facilitating team performance
  • Managing external relationships
  • Managing internal team relationships

¨ Managerial Roles and Skills

Roles:

  • Interpersonal
  • Informational
  • Decisional Skills:
  • Technical Skills
  • Human Skills
  • Conceptual Skills
  • Motivational to manage

¨ Requirements for the Engineer Manager's Job

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • Engineering job experience
  • Supervision training
  • Engineering management training

¨ Mistakes Managers Make

  • Insensitivity
  • Coldness, aloofness, and/or arrogance
  • Betrayal of trust
  • Overly ambitious
  • Specific performance problems
  • Over managing Construction Project Management: Review Notes

¨ The Construction Industry

  • Large global industry: >$3.9 trillion annually.
  • Employs millions directly (plumbers, carpenters, etc.) and indirectly.
  • Supports many other industries (steel, lumber, carpet, etc.).
  • Relies on professionals like architects, engineers, and building inspectors.

¨ Organization

  • A group of individuals cooperating willingly and effectively for a common goal.
  • Focuses on defining roles and responsibilities ("who is to do" and "what is to be done").
  • Structured to promote better management. ⚫ Structural Elements: ◾ Men, ◾ Materials, ◾ Machine, ◾ Methods, ◾ Money Project Players

¨ A. Primary Players

  • How formal decisions are made. ◾ Policies:
  • Established rules or guidelines.

¨ Principles of Good Organization

  • Principle of Objective
  • Analysis
  • Simplicity
  • Functionalism
  • Departmentalization
  • Centralization and Authority and Responsibility
  • Limited Span of Control

¨ Organization and Business

◾ Business - An organization using capital and talent to produce goods or services for profit.

  • Construction enterprises sell the time of workers, machinery, and equipment.
  • Efficient use of time and assets determines profit.

¨ Management

◾ Management as a Process:

  • Directing and facilitating work, combining efforts and resources. ◾ Management as a Function:
  • Getting things done through others. ◾ Management Concept:
  1. Effective management must be systematic.
  2. Successful management must be scientific.
  3. Management must be humanistic.

¨ Effective Communication System

  • Essential for executive control.
  • Provides data to the right people at the right time.
  • Information Purposes:
  1. What are we going to do?
  2. How well are we doing?
  3. How can we do better?
  4. Aids in coordination.

¨ The Manager

  • The manager as an executive has the highest responsibility.
  • The job is varied and can be complicated.
  • Managers need to be prepared for the difficult task of management.

¨ Qualities of an Effective Manager

  1. Studies and analyzes the job.
  2. Delegates administrative details.
  3. Shares credit with subordinates.
  4. Trains and develops subordinates.
  5. Manages time effectively.
  6. Institutes controls for performance.

¨ Executive Functions

  • To Plan
  • To Organize
  • To Direct
  • To Control ⚫ Executive Functions: Planning
  • Objective of the enterprise
  • Policies
  • Procedures
  • Budget
  • Programs ⚫ Executive Functions: Organizing
  • A good organizational structure is necessary for good performance. ⚫ Executive Functions: Directing
  • Guiding and overseeing subordinates.
  • Involves leadership and coordination. ⚫ Executive Functions: Control
  • Ensuring performance aligns with plans, orders, objectives, or policies.
  • Span of control (limiting the number of people reporting to one executive).

¨ Policies and Procedures

◾ Policies

  • General statements guiding thinking and action. ◾ Procedures
  • Reflections of policy, applied to future activities.

¨ Leadership

  • Success results from good management.
  • Management is the effective, efficient, and economical utilization of resources.
  • A good leader usually makes a good manager.
  • A leader should be an exemplar (appearance, mannerisms, friendliness, cheerfulness, and good health).
  • A leader should command respect.
  • A leader should possess adaptability, understanding, patience, and self-control.
  • Leadership is the ability to motivate subordinates.