ME (Module 1-2) Midterms Flashcards
The creative problem solving process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling an organization’s resources to achieve its mission and objectives.
Management
The activity combining technical knowledge with the ability to organize and coordinate worker power, materials, machinery, and money.
Engineering Management
The top position an engineer manager may hope to occupy.
General managership or presidency of any firm, large or small
What are the four main processes of management?
- planning
- organizing
- directing (or leading)
- controlling
A type of organization that includes those with minimal engineering jobs like retailing firms.
Level One
A type of organization that includes those with moderate degree of engineering jobs like transportation companies.
Level Two
A type of organization that includes those with a high degree of engineering jobs like construction firms.
Level Three
Among the types of organizations, the engineer will have a slim chance of becoming the general manager or president of __________, unless of course, he owns the firm.
Level One
The engineer may be assigned to head the engineering division. The need for management skills will now be felt by the engineer manager.
Level Two
These firms provide the biggest opportunity for an engineer to become the president or general manager.
Level Three
He is one of the early pioneers of management theory, a mechanical engineer, who believed that it was management’s task to design jobs properly and to provide incentives too motivate workers to achieve higher productivity.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)
It is believed to have the oldest engineering management department, established as the School Business Engineering in 1908.
Steven’s Institute of Technology
School of Business Engineering was later called __________________ program and moved into the School of Systems and Enterprises.
Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM)
Outside of US, in Germany the first department concentrating on Engineering Management was established in Berlin in what year?
1927
In Turkey, the _____________ has a Management Engineering Department established in _____, offering a number of undergraduate and graduate programs in Management Engineering.
Istanbul Technical University, 1982
In UK, the ______________ has a specialized department WMG (previously known as Warwick Manufacturing Group) established in _____, which offers a graduate programme in MSc Engineering Business Management.
University of Warwick, 1980
_____________ began an Engineering Management program in the School of Business and Economics in the Fall of ____.
Michigan Technological University, 2012
In Canada, ____________ has started a complete master’s degree Program in Engineering Management.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
In Denmark, the _____________ offers a MSc program in Engineering Management.
Technical University of Denmark
In Russia, since 2014 the Faculty of Engineering Management of The ________________ offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering Management.
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
The principle that Frederick Winslow Taylor created.
The Principle of Scientific Management
(1911)
He replaced the rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on scientific study tasks.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
(1856-1915)
According to him, specialization promotes efficiency of the workforce and increases productivity. In addition, the specialization of the workforce increases their accuracy and speed.
Jules Henri Fayol (1841-1925)
He was a German sociologist who approached management by focusing on organizational structures, dividing organizations into hierarchies with clear lines of authority and control.
Max Weber
He was a Harvard professor who proposed that managers should become more “people-oriented”.
Elthon Mayo (1880-1949)
He explained that becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve followed by the aspiration to lead.
Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990)
Max Weber believed that an ideal bureaucracy consists of six specific characteristics:
- hierarchy of command
- impersonality
- written rules of conduct
- advancement based on achievement
- specialized division of labor
- efficiency
A function of an Engineer Manager where the engineers is engaged in the process of learning about nature and codifying this knowledge into usable theories.
Research
Where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a product concept to a finished physical item.
Design and Development
Where the engineer is assigned to manage groups of people performing specific tasks.
Management
Where the engineer gets employment in a school and is assigned as a teacher of engineering courses. Some of them later become deans, vice presidents, and presidents.
Teaching
This is where the construction engineer is either directly in charge of the construction personnel or may have responsibility for the quality of the construction process.
Construction
Where the engineer assists the company’s customers to meet their needs, especially those that require technical expertise.
Sales
Where the engineer works as consultant of any individual or organization requiring his services.
Consulting
Where the engineer works in a unit where new products or part are tested for work liability.
Testing
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.
Government
Where the engineer is directly in charge of the production personnel or assumes responsibility for the product.
Manufacturing
Who indicated at least three general preconditions for achieving lasting success as a manager.
Kreitner
