Where the engineer is engaged in the process of learning about nature and codifying this knowledge into usable theories.

Where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a product concept to a finished physical item.

Where the engineer works in a unit where new products or parts are tested for work-ability.

Where the engineer is directly in charge of production personnel or assumes responsibility for the product.

Where the engineer is either directly in charge of the construction personnel or may have responsibility for the quality of the construction process.

Where the engineer assists the company's customers to meet their needs, especially those that require technical expertise.

Where the engineer works as consultant of any individual or organization requiring his services.

Where the engineer may find employment in the government performing any of the various tasks in regulating, monitoring, and controlling the activities of various institutions, public or private.

Where the engineer gets employment in a school and is assigned as a teacher of engineering courses. Some of them later become deans, vice presidents, and presidents.

Where the engineer is assigned to manage groups of people performing specific tasks.

Those with minimal engineering jobs like retailing firms.

Those with a moderate degree of engineering jobs like transportation companies.

Those with a high degree of engineering jobs like construction firms.

Slim chance of becoming the general manager or president.

May be assigned to head a small engineering unit of the firm.

May be assigned to head the engineering division.

Provide the biggest opportunity for an engineer to become the president or general manager.

Refers to the activity combining technical knowledge with the ability to organize and coordinate worker power, materials, machinery, and money.

Is presumed to be technically competent in his specialization, one may now proceed to describe more thoroughly the remaining portion of his job, which is management.

The creative problem solving-process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling an organization’s resources to achieve its mission and objectives.

A process consisting of planning, organizing, directing (or leading), and controlling.

Refers to the capacity of an engineer manager to achieve organizational objectives effectively and efficiently.

According to him, effectiveness refers to a description of whether objectives are accomplished. While efficiency is a description of the relative amount of resources used in obtaining effectiveness.

A description of whether objectives are accomplished.

A description of the relative amount of resources used in obtaining effectiveness.

He developed a psychometric instrument to measure objectively an individual’s motivation to manage.

Characterized by the recognition of managerial talent through financial and nonfinancial rewards.

Are primarily tasked to provide leadership in the quest for the attainment of the organization's objectives.

The process of identifying and choosing alternative courses of action in a manner appropriate to the demands of the situation.

The heart of all the management functions.

Exists when there is a difference between an actual situation and a desired situation.

Its objective is the identification of constraints, which may be spelled out as either internal or external limitations.

Refers to organizational activities within a firm that surrounds decision-making.

Refers to variables that are outside the organization and not typically within the short-run control of top management.

like org, structure, policies, procedures, rules, ability of management, etc.

like product strategy, promotion strategy, etc.

like recruitment practices, incentive systems, etc.

like plant facility layout, inventory control, etc.

like liquidity, profitability, etc.

He suggests that each alternative must be analyzed and evaluated in terms of its value, cost, and risk characteristics.

Refers to benefits that can be expected.

Refers to out-of-pocket costs, opportunity costs, and follow-on costs.

Refer to the likelihood of achieving the goals of the alternatives.

Refers to the process of selecting among alternatives representing potential solutions to a problem.

He advises that particular effort should be made to identify all significant consequences of each choice.

Refers to carrying out the decision so that the objectives sought will be achieved.

Refers to the process which requires checking at each stage of the process to assure that the alternatives generated, the criteria used in evaluation, and the solution selected for implementation are in keeping with the goals and objectives originally specified.

Refers to actions made to ensure that activities performed match the desired activities or goals, that have been set.

Refers to evaluation of alternatives using intuition and subjective judgment.

Refers to the evaluation of alternatives using any technique in a group classified as rational and analytical.

Used to calculate the number of items that should be ordered at one time to minimize the total yearly cost of placing orders and carrying the items in inventory.

An economic order quantity technique applied to production orders.

Used for planned shortages.

Used to minimize the total cost when quantity discounts are offered by suppliers.

Describes how to determine the number of service units that will minimize both customer waiting time and cost of service.

Are models where large complex tasks are broken into smaller segments that can be managed independently.

A technique which enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and control large and complex projects by employing three time estimates for each activity.

A network technique using only one time factor per activity that enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and control large and complex projects.

The collection of past and current information to make predictions about the future.

A forecasting method that examines the association between two or more variables.

May be simple or multiple depending on the number of independent variables present.