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INTRODUCTION
What is Engineering?
What is Management?
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
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MAJOR PREMISES
Technology and business savvy represents
a very powerful combination of great
demand in society
Market environment is rapidly evolving
(changing marketplace complexities, webbased technologies, globalization)
Leaders with understanding of technology
and management perspectives are needed
Engineers with proper management and
leadership training have great
opportunities to add value
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Design/development of products/processes
Project engineering/management
Value engineering and analysis
Technology development and applied R&D (laboratory, field)
Production/manufacturing and construction
Customer service
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WORK OF AN ENGINEER
AS TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTOR
Understand objectives of tasks specified
Develop action plan for implementation
Define standards (performance metrics)
Select methodology/techniques
Implement task with proper efforts
Generate results and secure value
Report findings (impact, lessons)
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AIMS
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DUAL AIMS
Make engineers more
effective as technical
contributors
(understand managerial
points of view, effect
teams coordination,
drive to add value)
Ready engineers for
managerial positions
(success factors,
leadership talents,
business/management
perspectives)
Mining Engineer
forecasting
planning
organizing
commanding
coordinating
controlling (feedback->adjustment)
} leading
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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONS
Planning
Leading
Manager
Engineer
Organizing
Controlling
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Administrative
Skills
Leadership
Skills
Technical Skills
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ENTERPRISE OBJECTIVE:
VALUE ADDITION
Management-speak:
Increase Sales Revenue
(new and enhanced
products/services - faster,
better, cheaper - to create
greater customer
satisfaction)
Reduced Cost to Do
Business (simplified
product design, new
technologies, improved
productivity, raised
efficiency, reduced inventory
via supply chains, new
production and marketing
partnerships and alliances)
Engineering-speak:
Efficiency Accomplishing tasks with
the least amount of
resources (time, money,
equipment/facilities,
technology - know-how,
procedure, process, skills)
- do things right
Effectiveness Accomplishing tasks with
efforts commensurate
with the value created by
these tasks - do the
right things
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LEARNABLE SKILLS
Management knowledge and skills
(operational, strategic,
financial/accounting, interpersonal
skills/communications, etc.)
Decision making skills/ tools (what-if
analysis, risk analysis, problem solving,
root cause analysis, decision tree,
optimization, etc.)
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Planning
Project Scheduling
Project Budgeting and Selection
Organising
Strategic decision-making
Game theory
Leading
Incentives and Productivity
theory)
(Principal-agent
Controlling
Project Management
Performance evaluation
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Analytical
Formulate the decision model for the problem
Use of computer and other tools to conduct an
extensive and thorough analysis to produce an
optimal solution
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Complexity of Decision
The problem is not intuitive: beyond our cognitive
capabilities
LEADING/MOTIVATION
Long hours,
Low pay,
high pressure
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CHALLENGES - INSIDE
Introduction
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CHALLENGES - OUTSIDE
Introduction
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CHALLENGES - PRESENT
Introduction
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CHALLENGES - FUTURE
Introduction
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CHALLENGES - LOCAL
Introduction
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CHALLENGES - GLOBAL
Introduction
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