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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"engineering management"”.
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Engineering management of early stage warship design
… from the interface analysis and interface management studies are combined to derive a management methodology, consisting of a project schedule, a set of functional flowcharts and an accompanying guidance manual. This methodology is tested and validated on a design study. The results from …
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Buffalo Forge Company : a case study in sales engineering management.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Analysis of engineering management characteristics employed in the defense industry
An analysis of the engineering management characteristics present in companies in the defense industry was performed. These aspects include the organization characteristics of structure, hierarchy, and standards and procedures, as well as various features of company culture. This study revealed …
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Engineering Management Competencies: A Framework for Present and Future Engineering Environments
<p>Managing and directing engineering requires engineering management competencies. Although perspectives may differ concerning competencies for engineering management, identifying competencies can direct and improve management. The purpose of this research is to develop a framework of competencies …
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A Canonical Experiment on System Complexity Metric and Its Impact on Engineering Management
… benefits for product development and project management. In this thesis, 25 people were part of an experiment using the travel salesperson problem, they completed 13 problems each with varying complexity. The results were summarized and through a series of statistical analysis it was found …
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A Holistic Modeling and Simulation Framework of Complex Product Development to Support Engineering Management
… This requires extensive planning and management of the organization, processes, and resource allocations to develop products efficiently. Increasingly capable digital tools are available that can address these challenges and accelerate the development of new products by facilitating …
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Application of MBSE to oil and gas project / product management cycle : a model-based development approach for engineering management and design
… cost and schedules by significant margins. Engineering is often named as a culprit for Project execution issues manifesting in engineering and construction rework, start-up delays, startup performance and early facility life issues. Worthy of note is the increasing complexities of Oil and …
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Development of a management framework to improve the building services engineering design process; a case study of engineering management in an Irish consultancy practice
The building services engineering (BSE) design process is a major source of problems at construction stage, even to the extent of undermining systematic management. Managerial practitioners have wrestled with this productivity gap for many years, and the time has come to innovate. The current …
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An Analytical Framework and Model Formulation for Measuring Risk in Engineering Enterprise Systems: A Capability Portfolio Perspective
… and computational model for assessing risk in engineering enterprise systems. It addresses the engineering management problem of how to represent, model, and measure risk in large-scale, complex systems engineered to function in enterprise-wide environments.</p> <p>The research in this …
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The development and application of a systematic approach to evaluating an academic department's brand meaning
… may be unclear, such as in the case of engineering management. However, even in the cases of better-understood fields of study, for example, electrical engineering, the competition for students with other fields of study and within the field of study itself may drive the need for better …
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Organizational structure : management techniques and lessons learned in aligning technical and program management resources in engineering-intensive organizations
The roles of systems engineering, program and project management, and engineering management are continuously blurred and challenged in complex engineering organizations. The demands made of each of these functions can lead to increasing role confusion in otherwise historically well-defined …
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Identifying Operations Research Systems Analysts' Technical Competencies: A Delphi Approach
… made four significant contributions to the engineering management discipline. First, it has added to the existing body of knowledge in engineering management theory and methodology by presenting and substantiating that a Delphi process is capable of identifying future and/or forecasting …
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Development of computer software support for interpretive structural modelling
… Modelling (ISM), for use at the School of Engineering Management at the University of Cape Town. The package was developed for the IBM PC.
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Engineering a leader : technical career paths to the executive suite
… technical professionals to move past middle management layers into executive leadership. Specific questions to be addressed include: 1. Which technical degrees most often lead to CEO appointments? 2. Which industries offer the most advancement opportunities for technical degree graduates? 3. …
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Shall we play a game?
… in the quality and productivity of software engineering practices and projects, professionally-endorsed graduate and post-graduate curriculum guides have been developed to meet evolving technical developments and industry demands. Each of these curriculum guidelines identifies better software …
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Micro to Macro Dynamics of Shared Awareness Emergence in Situations Theory: Towards a General Theory of Shared Awareness
<p>Engineering Management is an interdisciplinary field of study. As such, Engineering Management must rely on the energies of its participants to integrate toward the problem being solved. Many techniques exist to aid the researcher towards a common goal; however, it can only be surmised on how …
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Understanding Collaborative Writing of Technical Proposals with a Process/product Model
… to performance, collaboration, and conflict management. Writing technical proposals creates appropriate settings for gaining insight into work group efficiencies and project conflict. The research involved different work groups preparing responses to Federal Government solicitations. A …
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Platforms and real options in large-scale engineering systems
… a framework and two methodologies that enable engineering management teams to assess the value of real options in programs of large-scale, partially standardized systems implemented a few times over the medium term. This enables value creation through the balanced and complementary use of two …
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A world class manufacturing model for South Africa
… was the 'we-they' split between the workers and management. These issues were explored in selected literature appropriate for the conditions that are currently prevailing at Omnigraphics. The chapter on organisational culture outlined the behavioural aspects of an organisation and how "the way we …
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Improving the costing system at FCI: an operations perspective
… thesis is an attempt to derive a more effective management accounting system to meet the contemporary organisation's needs. The objective of the thesis is to investigate two management accounting approaches, activity based costing and cost reduction system. Further, to evaluate which one better …
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