As the world becomes flatter in today’s global economy, engineers are a key element in the role that a country must play to maintain technological leadership and a sound economy. To do this, the engineer needs to remain alert to changing products, processes, technologies, and opportunities and be prepared for a creative and productive life and position of leadership.
Managing Engineering and Technology is designed to teach engineers, scientists, and other technologists the basic management skills they will need to be effective throughout their careers.
For courses in Technology Management, Engineering Management, or Introduction to Engineering Technology.
Key Features
- Introduction to engineering and technology management – Traces the historical development of management and describes the functions--from planning and decision making to organizing, leading, motivating, and controlling.
- Nature and application of management principles throughout the technology product/project life cycles – Including research, design, production, marketing, technical sales and service, and project organization and management.
- Tailored to the needs of the technical professional –Discusses the transition from technical performer to technical management, the importance of professional ethics and conduct, the position of women and minorities in engineering management, effective time management, and the global community.
- Explores traditional management functions of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling with an emphasis on the management of technology.
- Management methods and tools – Describes concurrent engineering, strategic management of technology, activity-based costing, and total productive maintenance.
- Discussion questions and problems – Addresses current dimensions in engineering and technology management, and asks students to apply material to their own professional experience.
New to This Edition
- Emphasis on leadership. The four fundamental management functions are presented, but leadership is now first.
- Additional material on ethics.
- Increased emphasis on globalization.
- New reference section at the end of each chapter including websites.
- Expanded instructor website includes PowerPoint slides for each chapter, test banks and answers.
Contents
Part I Introduction to Engineering Management
- Chapter 1 Engineering and Management
- Chapter 2 Historical Development of Engineering Management
Part II Functions of Technology Management
- Chapter 3 Leading Technical People
- Chapter 4 Planning and Forecasting
- Chapter 5 Decision Making
- Chapter 6 Organizing
- Chapter 7 Some Human Aspects of Organizing
- Chapter 8 Controlling
Part III Managing Technology
- Chapter 9 Managing Research and Development
- Chapter 10 Managing Engineering Design
- Chapter 11 Planning Production Activity
- Chapter 12 Managing Production Operations
- Chapter 13 Engineers in Marketing and Service Activities
Part IV Managing Projects
- Chapter 14 Project Planning and Acquisition
- Chapter 15 Project Organization, Leadership, and Control
Part V Managing Your Engineering Career
- Chapter 16 Engineering Ethics
- Chapter 17 Achieving Effectiveness as an Engineer
- Chapter 18 Globalization and Challenges for the Future
- Index
About the Authors
- Dr. Lucy C. Morse recently retired as an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She was both the Coordinator for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology program and Director of Engineering Technology at a Distance, a program focused on using advance learning technologies to deliver engineering technology degrees to students on and off campus. Currently she teaches engineering management as an adjunct for UCF and NTU/ Walden University. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in engineering at UCF, receiving a PhD from the Department of Industrial Engineering in 1987. In the early 90’s Dr. Morse served as a Program Manager at the National Science Foundation in the Engineering Directorate.
- Daniel L. Babcock began his career as a chemical engineer, earning a BS at Penn State and an SM at MIT.¿ He then served three years as a USAF officer in development testing, three years as a chemist and technical writer for a silicone chemical manufacturer, and three years abstracting progress in solid propellant rocket development on a U.S. government contract.¿ Next, he spent seven years with North American Rockwell Corporation coordinating development and integration of solid and small liquid propellant rocket motors into the Apollo Command and Service Modules, engine with a leave to complete a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering Management at UCLA in 1970.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (c2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0133485102
- ISBN-13: 978-0133485103
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
- List Price: $190.80