Engineering Management in Society

DJJ40132 ENGINEERING AND SOCIETY

 Differentiate management and
01 engineering
Outcomes Explore management and engineering

02 Find the relationship of engineering

management to the society
Determine engineering practice in society

03 Determine engineering
responsibilities
- Correlate duties to profession, employers and society
- Classify professional obligations and duities

Classify bylaws and standards in

04
engineering practice
Determine legal and regulatory obligations for public safety, workplace safety and
protection of the environment
What is engineering and management?
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

the profession in which

Management is a process
knowledge of the
mathematical and natural consisting of planning,
sciences gained by organizing,
study, experience and directing (or leading), and
practice is applied with controlling.
judgment to develop
ways to utilize,
economically. The
materials and forces of
nature for the benefits of
mandkind
 ENGINEERING MANAGEMET???
Engineering managers plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate the activities of an engineering
department, service, or firm. They develop and implement policies, standards, and procedures for the
engineering and technical work performed by their team, to ensure that projects are completed on-time
and on-budget.

Engineer Management is concerned with the design, installation and improvement of intergrated system
of people, material, information, equipment and energy by drawing upon specialized knowledge and
skills in the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of
engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate the resultsto be obtaines from such
systems.

Engineering management is the fusion of business and engineering principles. By having knowledge
of economics and management, they can forecast or predict the utility, advantages, disadvantages of
the product and also it’s contribution in growth.

It is also known as a career that brings together the technological problem-solving savvy of
engineering and organizational, administrative and planning abilities of management in order to
oversee complex enterprise from conception to completion.
Example areas of engineering management area are:
 Product development
 Manufacturing
 Construction
 Design Engineering
 Industrial Engineering
 Technology
 Production

Managers within the field of engineering are trained to understand human resources management, finances,
industrial psychology, quality control, operations research and environmental management.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MANAGEMENT
 to integrate and apply the knowledge and analytical approaches
developed by numerous other disciplines.
 to implements/executes the policies laid down by administration
 to find out the objectives of the organization, think of ways how
to achieve them, decide on the ways to be adapted and the
material resources to be used.
 to determine the human requirements of the total job, assign
specific tasks to specific persons, motivate them, and provide
means to make sure that the activities are in the right direction.
 1. the production of more food for a fast
growing world population;
2. the elimination of air and water pollution
Engineers contribute considerably to
the quality of life in society and it is 3. solid waste disposal and materials
important that they articulate their
role clearly and firmly.
recycling;
4. the reduction of noise in various forms;
Engineers create new innovation stuff
just by their different way of thinking 5. supplying the increasing demand for
from the common man and by their
skills , dedication and hardwork they 6. energy;
create some thing new or improve the supplying the increasing demand for
products mobility;
7.
8. preventing and solving crimes; and
meeting the increasing demand for
communication facilities.
The Functions Of Engineering
1. Research
– where the engineer is engaged in the process of learning
about nature and codifying this knowledge into usable
theories.
2. Design and development
– where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a
product concept to a finished physical items. Design for
manufacturability and value engineering teams (a feature
of some companies) are charged with improvement of designs
and specifications at the research, development, design, and
production stages of product development.
3. Testing
– where the engineer works in a unit where new products or
parts are tested for workability.
The Functions Of Engineering
4. Manufacturing
– where the engineer is directly in charge of production
personnel or assumes responsibility for the product.
5. Construction
– this is where the construction engineer (civil
engineer usually) is directly in charge of the construction
personnel or may have responsibility for the quality of the
construction process.

6. Sales
- 0 where the engineer assists the company’s customers to
meet their needs, especially those that require technical
expertise.
The Functions Of Engineering
7. Consulting
– where the engineer works as consultant of any individual or
organization requiring his services.

8. Government
– where the engineer may find employment in the government
performing any of the various tasks in regulating, monitoring, and
controlling the activities of various institutions, public or private.
9. Teaching
– where the engineer gets employment in a school and is assigned
as a teacher of engineering courses. Some of them become deans,
vice presidents, and presidents.
10. Management
– where the engineer is assigned to mange groups of people
performing specific tasks.
The Field Of Engineering Management
1. to perform a variety of tasks depending on their specialization and job level.
• It is important to the engineer to perform his job effectively and
efficiently.
2. to identify the skills required which the engineer did not possess.
• As engineers, they are not directly trained to deal with people, so that
some exposure to engineering management activities will most often be
on people-based skills.
3. to provide technical management and organizational leadership for engineering
projects and technical organizations.
• Engineering Management is a specialized form of management that is
required to successfully lead engineering or technical personnel and
projects..
4. to achieve organizational objectives effectively and efficiently.
• The successful engineering manager must have the skills
necessary to coach, mentor and motivate technical professionals.
FIND THE RELATIONSHIP OF
ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT TO THE
SOCIETY
WHAT WILL BE HAPPEN IF NO ENGINEERS????
WHAT WILL BE HAPPEN IF NO ENGINEERS????
 Engineering Management Concentrations

Depending on her educational background and prior work experience, an engineering management major may
be able to customize her professional development by selecting specific courses that complement her career.
Possible specialties to pursue include:
1. Crisis, Emergency, and Risk Management.

When engineering management professionals in this sector do their jobs well, citizens hardly notice. That's
because the very best crisis and risk managers use sophisticated computer models and training scenarios to
prevent catastrophes. Government agencies and insurance companies employ skilled engineering managers to
lead teams of researchers to fully understand weaknesses in construction, civil, and military programs.
2. Economics, Finance, and Cost Accounting.

It may seem like overkill to hire an engineer to oversee a team of accountants. But a skilled engineering
manager can use his communication skills to motivate his staff members while relying on his problem-solving
skills to find new processes to automate or streamline procedures.
3. Environmental and Energy Management.

As oil prices skyrocket and fossil fuels become scarce, utility companies and auto manufacturers are scrambling
to meet the energy needs of future generations. Engineering management specialists travel the world to deploy
innovative new systems that generate power from wind, water, and other renewable sources. Other
engineering managers lead teams that design efficient cars, computers, and generators, to prevent us from
irreversibly damaging the planet.
 Engineering Management Concentrations
4. Knowledge Management.

Many workers in small offices get a handle on a company's trends by hanging around the water cooler. Today's
international conglomerates often employ tens of thousands of workers, spread out over a few continents. When
the water cooler is the size of the Pacific Ocean, engineering management specialists step in to design systems and
processes that keep team members informed about their projects, no matter what country they happen to be in at
the moment.
5. Management and Reliability of Infrastructure Systems.

Engineering management specialists oversee the operation of power lines, canals, dams, drawbridges, and other
vital pieces of infrastructure that we often take for granted. By leading teams of planners and researchers,
engineering managers can maximize taxpayer investment in these operations by building reliable facilities that
perform efficiently over the long haul.
6. Operations Research and Management Science.

At first, this specialty can seem like an exercise in corporate navel gazing. In fact, engineering managers can analyze
the ways that companies communicate and operate in order to make recommendations for efficiency. As a result,
companies run more smoothly and employees don't have to waste as much time on repetitive tasks.
7. Software Engineering and Information Systems Management.

Today's complex software requires development teams of hundreds or even thousands of skilled programmers.
Engineering management graduates coordinate the efforts of specialists so that their final product runs smoothly.
Importance of Engineering in the Society
• Engineering is a profession in which scientific
knowledge and mathematics, gained through study,
experiment and practice are applied with intuition or
judgment to develop ways to use economically, the
materials or forces of nature for the benefit of
• mankind.
Engineering is a faculty that have been making
• machines with unique properties everyday. It is filled
with experts that have great innovative ideas.
In our homes, schools, offices, agriculture,
automobiles, banks, security, and so many other areas,
we observe the applications of engineering. In
 The Major Importance of Engineering

1. Agricultural Sector Banking Sector

Commercial agricultural farmer Engineering plays fundamental roles in banking

• Used of machines to increase the rate of his institutions of various societies. In a bank, there
or her agricultural output. are many engineers that engineer the affairs of
• There are specific kinds of fertilizers for the
• banking activities.
The money is being counted within few
specific kinds of crops. These fertilizers in
seconds by money counting machines.
most cases are products of chemical • Computers used by bank staff during their
• engineers. banking activities
Drilling engineers are among the people that •
Modern day banks cannot function without
make the machine to generate water from
the use of durable bulletproof doors, to be
beneath the ground.
protected from the hands of the armed
robbers.
 The Major Importance of Engineering
5. Automobile 4. Educational Sector

Automobiles have helped in a great way to ease the stress being Education is very important in the life of every intelligent individual,
faced by the people from moving from place to place. and it has been spiced up with the contributions of engineering.

• Starting from the making of the cars from the scratch, • Starting from the clothes that teachers and the lecturers wear
mechanical engineering makes it possible to classes which is a product of textile engineering field.
• In various institutions of learning, it has been made
• The importance of engineering in our society made it possible compulsory that every school will have computers integrated
for car owners to drive so many designs of cars each year. as part of their academic study or curriculum. These
computers being talked about are made possible because of
• the efforts being put by the computer engineers.
Air-conditioners installed in their lecture halls to make the
students feel comfortable learning in a good environment.
This machine that maintains a certain level of temperature in
lecture halls and offices in educational institutions are all
products of engineering.
 The Major Importance of Engineering
6. Health Sector
5. Marketing
Health and engineering; any similarity?
What business does engineering have with marketing? • The health department depends on engineering to achieve any
• Engineering in totality has greatly impacted much in the of their goals in the health status of the patients being admitted
marketing sector. Marketing is the action or the business of to the hospitals. what about the other
promoting and selling products or services.
Has engineering in any way contributed to the level of marketing Does engineering have an influence on it?
activities in our society? • Let us start with the instruments which the doctors used
• The promotions of services and products have been made whenever they are carrying out surgery. Examples of such
possible as engineering continues to advance on the daily instruments are the scalpel, surgical lamps, stethoscope, and so
basis. many others. All these instruments are made available to the
•
The internet has helped many businessmen in the marketing surgeons with the help of engineering.
of products and selling some useful services to their
customers. People sit with their computers and advanced • There are situations where the patients are not manually
mobile phones and promote their businesses through this diagnosed by the doctors to find out the cause of a particular
•
channel. illness. In such complicated cases, the doctors use computers to
people can use their mobile phones, which are the products find out the cause of such illness. These computers are being
of engineering, to order for goods from other countries which
get supplied to them within few days. produced by the engineers who apply engineering principles to
automatically detect problems in the human system.
 Engineer duties and responsibilities
4. Creating technical reports for
1. Making plans using detailed customers
drawings
5. Completing regulatory
2. Preparing estimates and
6. documents concerning safety
budgets
issues
3. Creating accurate project
7. Finishing projects on time and
specifications
within budget
4. Designing engineering
8. Communicating with clients
experiments
and coworkers about analysis
results
Engineering management is distinguished by the technologically
advanced nature and skills of the projects and workers. Most
engineering managers are former engineers whose technical
expertise allows them to oversee effectively employees, projects,
and production lines in high-tech industries, such as semiconductor
and aerospace component manufacturing, as well as scientific
research and development in sectors, such as biomedicine.
Supervise Engineers, Technicians, and Designers
Engineering managers supervise the employees in the technology-driven
departments within an organization, including both the technicians and
the support staff. In high-tech companies, such as aerospace and
electronics component manufacture, engineering managers oversee the
design and production processes.
Direct Projects
Worker supervision operates alongside directing the projects that the workers are
involved in, be it research and development in pharmaceutical or biomedical fields,
production and quality control in manufacturing plants, or product development
and fabrication in industries. An engineering manager may be placed in charge of a
facility, such as a manufacturing plant and may direct the design, operation, and
maintenance of the facility. Engineering managers are in charge of operations that
rely on technical expertise.
 What Are the Job Duties of Someone in Engineering Management?
Set Technical Goals for the Organization
Within the broader goals set by organization executives, engineering management
personnel set the technology goals for the organization. Those in engineering
management have both the business and technical knowledge to identify how
science and engineering can further the aims of the organization. Engineering
managers identify new technology-driven opportunities for company expansion or
new product development. When goals are not met, engineering managers
examine technological reasons for the failure and develop solutions.
 • Making plans using detailed drawings
Engineer duties and responsibilities • Preparing estimates and budgets
• Creating accurate project
• An Engineer’s duties and responsibilities specifications
ensure the safety and effectiveness of a • Designing engineering experiments
process, system or product. Engineers • Creating technical reports for
work within a team and must be able to
cooperate with other coworkers to ensure
customers
• Completing regulatory documents
the success of a project. Effective
communication plays a role between concerning safety issues
•
Engineers, customers and businesses. Finishing projects on time and within
Other engineer responsibilities include: • budget
Communicating with clients and
coworkers about analysis results
Duties of Employers Obligations of Employers
• Guided by the philosophical definition of duty, a • An employer's obligations are often tied to legal
business' ownership and management have a moral responsibilities. For example, an employer must
duty to respect their employees and provide a implement health and safety measures in the
positive work environment. Employees expect a workplace in accordance with local, state and
workplace that allows them to air concerns without federal laws as well as industry standards.
fear of retaliation or cold treatment from managers. Emergency exits should be easily accessible.
An ethical employer considers the well-being and • When applicable, the employer should provide
advancement of his workers when making business safety gear such as protective clothing for handling
decisions. He does not seek to arbitrarily replace an chemicals or other dangerous substances.
employee without good reason or a warning. Employees should also comply with laws prohibiting
discrimination in the workplace based on age,
gender, race, religion, ethnic background or physical
disability.
• Duties of Employees • Duties of Employees
• An employee has a moral obligation to be loyal to • An employee is legally bound to fulfill his end of
his employer, do the job he is paid to do to the best
contractual obligations to a business. If he signs a
of his ability, and apply his knowledge and skills to
contract to work for a certain number of years, for
meet the objectives set out for him. For example,
example, he is obligated to fulfill the terms of the
the duty of a bookkeeper is to ensure that a
contract. If he signs a contract preventing him from
company's financial records are accurate and up to
sharing company secrets or intellectual property
date. The duty of honesty is prevalent in all
with others outside the company, he must uphold
positions, according to Compact Law.
that obligation as well. He is also obligated to
• When an employee wants to resign from a job, he perform his job without breaking laws. An employer
has a duty to give adequate notice to his employer has a right to institute legal proceedings when his
to avoid disrupting the business. Moral obligations employee violates his legal obligations.
of an employee extend to interactions with
coworkers and customers as well. He should treat
colleagues and customers with respect and
consideration. An employee also has a duty to
maintain professional ethics in his business
relationships.
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CLASSIFY BYLAWS AND STANDARDS IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE
 What Types of Laws Do Engineers Need to Know?
Engineering and law may not seem to have much in common, but laws affect every
profession in some way. Engineers deal with highly technical concepts, designs
and products, and the laws affecting an engineer’s work can be as complex as the
work itself. While engineers may be reluctant to devote time to a subject like the law,
there are some laws that engineers should be familiar with in order to avoid
problems during their careers.
SO ENGINEERS NEED TO STUDY LAW BECAUSE OF :
Engineers and engineering managers need to have a working knowledge
of the laws that affect their work so that they can do the following:

 Follow regulations.
 Stay compliant with governmental ordinances.

 Know which permits are necessary in which

 Circumstances.
 Protect their work.
 Know the boundaries of liability.

 Avoid lawsuits.

 Negotiate contracts.

 Know when to contact a lawyer.

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