Engineering Management

Meeting the Global Challenges
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-041-02512-2
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

The revised edition of Dr. Chang's textbook showcases the dynamic evolution of the engineering management field, driven by recent advancements in AI, digital technologies, and shifts in engineering management practices defined by changes in social and economic landscapes. This updated version provides valuable perspectives on the anticipated economic growth and transformation of the discipline over the next twenty years and beyond.

Engineering Management: Meeting Global Challenges, Third Edition, provides engineers with skills for managerial roles, business perspectives, and leadership roles. It emphasizes value addition, customer focus, and leadership attributes. The new edition includes a new chapter on AI, digital twins, creativity and innovation, and consolidates chapters on financial accounting and financial management defined by new economic realities. The third edition places a renewed focus on knowledge management strategies, innovations, Technology, and the importance of STEM professionals and managers in overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities through strategic differentiation and operational excellence.

This third edition targets undergraduate, postgraduate, senior and first-year graduate engineering students across manufacturing, aerospace, biomedical, chemical, computer, electrical, mechanical, industrial, and system engineering disciplines, as well as related technical fields. It also serves as a self-study resource for engineering professionals seeking management roles in complex engineering, technology, and big data environments with evolving project scopes and daily challenges. Additionally, it benefits first-line engineering supervisors/managers advancing along managerial career paths.

PowerPoint slides and a Solutions Manual are available for qualified textbook adoption.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chang, C M

Lunevich, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik Fertigungstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Industrial Engineering

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to Challenges for Engineering Managers. Section I: The Functions of Engineering Management. 2. Planning. 3. Organizing. 4. Leading. 5. Controlling. Section II: Business Administration for Engineering Managers. 6. Cost Accounting for Engineering Managers. 7. Financial Management for Engineering Managers. 8. Marketing Management for Engineering Managers. Section III: Engineering Management Leadership. 9. Engineering Manager as Manager and Leader.10. Creativity and Innovation. 11. Ethics and Workplace Wellbeing. 12. Operational Excellence. 13. Regional vs International Trading. 14. Engineering Management in the New Millennium.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor, Dr. Lucy Lunevich is a program director of the Master of Engineering Management program at School of Engineering, STEM College, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where she has taught engineering management for over eight years. She has a PhD in engineering and a Master of Resource Planning and Environmental Law, Master and Bachelor in Sanitary Engineering and Public Health. Before entering academia, she was a principal consultant serving the global resource sector in Australia, US, Singapore and Europe. She had a successful engineering and engineering management career, delivering liquid natural gas complex projects in Australia, training, coaching and mentoring engineering managers. Professor Lunevich is an editor in chief of Water Environmental Federation (WEF), US and was an associate editor for International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management for several years. Professor Lunevich is the editor and coauthor of "Handbook of Engineering Management: Digital Economy," 2023. She is the author of four books and more than 40 academic publications and numerous government reports.

C.M. Chang, PhD, MBA, was an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY. Dr. Chang taught engineering management for over 25 years and, for a brief period, served as the University’s director of service engineering master’s degree program, after having retired from Praxair, a Fortune 100 company after 25 years. He held five U.S. patents and published a large number of technical articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings. He was also a registered professional engineer.