INTRODUCTION TO

ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
EMGN0IA – Engineering Management Ch1

Althea Mendoza, CIE, AAE

Lyceum of the Philippines - Laguna
 Chapter outline
• What is Engineering?
• What is Management?
• Management Levels
• Managerial Skills
• What Managers Do?
• Functions of Managers
• What is Engineering Management?
What is an Engineer?

Testing Sales

Research
Manufacturing

Design &
Devt. Construction
Consulting
Government

Teaching Management
 Functions of Engineer
 the production of more food for a fast growing world
population;
 the elimination of air and water pollution
 solid waste disposal and materials recycling;
 reduction of noise in various forms;
 supplying the increasing demand for energy;
 supplying the increasing demand for mobility;
 preventing and solving crimes; and
 meeting the increasing demand for communication
facilities.
Areas of Engineers
1. Research – engineers engaged in process of learning
about nature and codifying knowledge to usable
theories.
2. Design and Development – undertakes activity of
turning a product concept to a finished physical item
3. Testing – where new products or parts are tested for
workability
4. Manufacturing – directly in charge of production
personnel or assumes responsibility of product
5. Construction – either directly in charge of personnel or
may have the responsibility for the quality of the
construction processes
Areas of Engineers
6. Sales – assists the company in meeting their needs
7. Consulting – engineer works to qualify ideas proposed
8. Government – employment in government performing
any of the various tasks in regulating, monitoring, and
controlling the activities of various institutions.
9. Teaching – gets employment of school and is assigned
as teacher of engineering courses
10. Management – manages group of people assigned to
specific tasks.
What is Management?

• Directing the actions of a group to achieve a goal in

most efficient manner
• Getting things done through people

• Process of achieving organizational goals by working

with and through people and organizational resources
Functions of Management

Planning

Controlling Organizing

Directing
Management levels

Top-level management
(president, executive vice president)

Middle managers
(chief engineer, division head etc.)
First-line managers
(foreman, supervisor, section chief)
 Level Type of Job
 Directly supervise non-managers.
 Carry out the plans and objectives of higher management using
the personnel and other resources assigned to them.
First-line Managers  Short-range operating plans governing what will be done
tomorrow or next week, assign tasks to their workers, supervise
the work that is done, and evaluate the performance of individual
workers.
 Manage through other managers.
 Make plans of intermediate range to achieve the long-range goals
set by top management, establish departmental policies, and
evaluate the performance of subordinate work units and their
Middle Management managers.
 Provide and integrating and coordinating function so that the
short-range decisions and activities of first-line supervisory
groups can be orchestrated toward achievement of the long-range
goals of the enterprise.
 Responsible for defining the character, mission, and objectives of
the enterprise.
 Establish criteria for and review long-range plans.
Top Management
 Evaluate the performance of major departments, and they evaluate
leading management personnel to gauge their readiness for
promotion to key executive positions.
 Managerial Level
Lowest Middle Top

Skills required versus management

Managerial Skills:

Managers need three types of skills:

Technical: Specific subject related skills such as engineering,

accounting, etc…

Interpersonal: Skills related to dealing with others and leading,

motivating, or controlling them

Conceptual: Ability to discern the critical factors that will determine

as organization’s success or failure.
Ability to see the forest in spite of the trees.
Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Interpersonal roles

• Informational Roles

• Decisional Roles
 Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Interpersonal roles
Outward
Figurehead role: Outward relationship
Leader role: Downward relation
Liaison role: Horizontal relation
Horizontal

Downward
 Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)

• Informational Roles
Monitor Role: Collects information about internal
operations and external events.

Disseminator Role: Transforms information

internally to everybody in organization (like a
telephone switchboard)

Spokesman Role: Public relations

 Managerial Roles (What Managers Do)
• Decisional Roles
Entrepreneurial Role: Initiates changes, assumes
risks, transforms ideas into useful products.

Disturbance Handler Role: Deals with unforeseen

problems and crisis.

Resource Allocator Role: Distributing resources

Negotiator Role: Bargains with suppliers, customers

etc. in favor of enterprise
What is Engineering Management?
Is the activity of combining “technical knowledge with the ability to
organize and coordinate:
End note:
Engineering Managers are distinguished from other
managers because they possess both the ability to apply
engineering principles and skill in organizing and directing
people and projects.
Prentice Hall, 2006
END OF CHAPTER 1
EMGN0IA – Engineering Management Ch1
EM Homework no. 1 – Introduction to
Engineering Management
Handwritten, Short Bond paper, Bordered Red 0.50” all sides
EM Homework no. 1 – Introduction to
Engineering Management
Computerized, Short Bond paper, Bordered Red 0.50” all sides

Research and prepare a success story brief for 20

engineers who became president or general manager of
large company (15) locally and (5) internationally.
Activity
Highest Tower