Introduction to Engineering Managment

Hello, my name is Abdulrhman Jiffry and I will be writing a 5 part blog about each topic that we took in the IE 256: Engineering Management. While I'm not sure what the purpose for this blog is when the forums provide a similar activity, it isn't really my place to question the rules but simply to adhere to them for the time being.

I'll be talking about the first Chapter, aptly named "Introduction to Engineering management" in this first post, not as a second explination but simply as a summary of the ground it covered and the significance of doing so.

The start of this chapter was just a short semantics discussion on whether Engineering is an art or a profession, a discussion who's usefulness was... questionable to say the least.

The classification trend didn't end there however, it continued breaking things down under other section such as context, input, output and the relation they all share with each other so basically more boring stuff that really didn't seem practical at all.

"Whats next?" you must be wondering, probably on the edge of your seat with anticipation. Well it was even more chatter though at least with relevance to the course material now. Defining management, talking about where a manager's roles and responsibilities lie, the skills he needs to develop for those roles, the different levels of management and how the required skills change with those levels were all discussed.

Although slow to start (first half bore me into submission) I do feel that the chapter accomplished what it was intended to do: Lay down the groundwork and give a general view of Engineering Management before divulging into the specifics.