Engineering Management: Challenges in the New Millennium - Hardcover

Chang, C M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131446789 ISBN 13: 9780131446786

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

For senior and first-year graduate courses in technology and engineering including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, computer, electrical, mechanical, industrial, and systems engineering.

This easy-to read-text covers a wide range of relevant topics affecting the future roles of engineering managers, contains over 80 examples and 120 chapter-end questions, articulates a forward-looking globally orientated perspective, and emphasizes a six-dimensional challenge for engineers in the new millennium. The book is organized in three parts: Part I reviews the basic functions of engineering management; Part II provides backgrounds in cost accounting, financial analysis, financial management and marketing management; and Part III readies the student for exercising leadership in managing technologies through discussions related to engineers as managers/leaders, ethics, web-based tools, globalization and engineering management in the decades to come.

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Engineering Management: Challenges in the Near Millennium prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much needed leadership roles to meet the new challenges in the decades ahead. These challenges will include satisfying customer demand with faster, cheaper and better products and services, managing an increasingly diversified workplace, creating and managing global supply chains, applying web-based management/engineering techniques to develop and sustain competitive advantages, and leading in creativity and innovation by transforming emerging technologies into business success.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131446789
• ISBN 13: 9780131446786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544