Department of Electrical Engineering Engineering Management Spring 2020

Department of Electrical Engineering
Engineering Management
Spring 2020
Instructor: Anees Akbar

Office Hours: Tuesday 1200-1300Hrs
Telephone: 051-9075557
Email: anees.akbar@ist.edu.pk
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Unannounced quizzes will be given throughout the semester and will
add to exam scores and therefore affect final grade. NO makeup
opportunity will be given for any missing quiz.
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Assignments will be given and score will be add in final grade.
Class Participation 5%
Assignments 5%
OHT 115%
OHT 2 15%
Final Exam (comprehensive)50%
Quizzes 10%
Total 100
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Final Average=0.05(class participation)0.05(Assignment)
+ 0.15(OHT1) + 0.15(OHT2)+ 0.10(Quiz)0.5(Final Exam)
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Grading= Relative Grading
Topics/Chapters
 Introduction to Management
 Fundamentals of Management
 Project Management
 Human Resource Management
Topics/Chapters
 Total Quality Management

 Cost Accounting and Finance
 Forecasting
 Intellectual Rights, Engineering Ethics
What is Engineering?
• Solve Technical Problems
• Design for Customer Requirement
• Application of Science Principles to solve
problems within constraints
• Trade off between
safety,economy,performance and servicebility
• Efficient application of resources
Engineering is the application of Science for
Human being
Engineering= Problem Solving
Scope of Engineering
• If Engineering= Problem Solving
• Does this mean any problem? Or only
problems dealing with a technology
component
• The Scientist explains that which exists; The
engineer creates that which never was.
Theodore von Karman

What is an engineer
• Ingenieur from old French (engeigneur) a war
machine
• All of these words derive from the latin
“genius” meaning
A divine spirit presiding at birth
 A talent, natural gift
• To contrive or plan out usually with more or less
subtle skill or craft: to guide course of: manage or
supervise during development
What is an engineer
• The first issue (1866) of the Eeglish Journal
Engineering
• The art of directing the great sources of power
in nature, for the use and convience of man
• Is it an art or profession
Modern Definition By ABET
The profession in which a knowledge of the
mathematical and natural sciences gained by
study, experience, and practice is applied with
judgment mathematical and science
knowledge proper to develop ways to utilize,
economically, the materials and forces of
nature for the benefit of mankind. (ABET)
Engineer: A person applying his/her apply to
solve practical problems.
Engineering
• Engineering includes the application of these
mathematical and scientific principles to the
planning, design; construction, operation and
maintenance of products, systems etc that
serve mankind
• Engineering includes management of such
activities research and development and the
education of persons who will be responsible
for these activities
Management
• Is getting work done through others.
• Requires a set of activities (including planning and decision
making, organizing, leading, and controlling) directed at an
organization’s resources (human, financial, physical, and
information), with the aim of achieving organizational goals
in an effective and efficient manner.
• Process of achieving organizational goals by working with
and through people and organizational resources
• An organization is a group of people working together in a structured

and coordinated fashion to achieve a set of goals.
Management in Organisation
Management Functions
• Planning: Setting goals and deciding how best to achieve
them.
• Decision Making: Selecting a course of action from a set
of alternatives.
• Organizing: Grouping activities and resources in a logical
fashion.
• Leading: Processes to get members of the organization to
work together to further the interests of the organization.
• Controlling: Monitoring organizational progress toward
goal attainment and taking corrective action when needed.
• Manager: Someone whose primary
responsibility is to carry out the management
process.
• Effective: Making the right decisions and
successfully implementing them.
• Efficient: Using resources wisely in a cost-
effective way.
Management Functions
Most managers engage in more than one

activity at the same time
Management Origin
Management Level and Areas
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.
Basic Managerial Skills
Basic Managerial Role
What is Engineering Management
• Engineering management is a process of
leading and controlling a technical
function/enterprise.
• Engineering management is similar to other
definitions of management, but with a slant
toward technical issues.
What is Engineering Management
• Engineer possessing both abilities to apply
engineering principles and skills in organizing
and directing people and projects
Advantages of Understanding Technology in
Top Management
• Really understand the business
• Understand technology driving the business
today and that will change the business in
future
Advantages of Understanding Technology in
Top Management
• Treating research and development as
investment not an expense to be minimized
• Spending more time on strategic thinking
• Place a premium on innovation
Critical Thinking
• Which one is the best?
• The engineering manager with business skills
or the business manager with the technical
skill

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Department of Electrical Engineering

Instructor: Anees Akbar

 Total Quality Management

Theodore von Karman

• An organization is a group of people working together in a structured

Most managers engage in more than one

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