Description
Book SynopsisIn today's global business environment with high speed interactions, engineering organizations are evolving continuously. Engineering Management in a Global Environment: Guidelines and Procedures provides guidelines for changing roles of engineering managers in the international arena. The book covers global, multidisciplinary, and flat engineering organizations. Recommended procedures for hiring, mentoring, work assignments, and meetings in the global arena are detailed. Guidelines for keeping up with technology and with the changing world, performance reviews, layoffs, necessary engineering tools, and work atmosphere are discussed. Procedures for engineering team building and for having good relationships with upper management, customers, subcontractors, and regulatory agencies are provided. Each chapter ends with a checklist summarizing engineering managerial guidelines in that chapter.
Trade Review"This book is an outstanding contribution to Engineering Management. Dr. Atesmen is uniquely qualified to write this book due to his wide-ranging experience in high technology, engineering management in a number of industries, working with globally diverse clients and teams. This book should be required reading in upper undergraduate/graduate engineering and business curricula. It is very well-written with many real-world experiences spanning decades, countries, and industries that make this book very unique in the field."
— Husam ("Sam") Gurol, General Atomics-Retired, California, USA
Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1: Typical Engineering Organizations Chapter 2: Hiring Engineers and Technicians for an Engineering Organization. Chapter 3: Mentoring Engineers and Technicians in an Engineering Organization. Chapter 4: Work Assignments for Engineers and Technicians. Chapter 5: Meetings. Chapter 6: Keeping up with Technology and with Changing World. Chapter 7: Engineering Department Performance Reviews. Chapter 8: Laying off, Firing and Losing a Team Member. Chapter 9: Engineering Tools and Atmosphere Needed to Perform Effectively and Efficiently. Chapter 10: Engineering Team Building. Chapter 11: Relationships with Upper Management, Customers, Subcontractors and Regulatory Agencies. Index.
