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Engineering Your Future, 2000
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction [Go to Page]
- Definitions of Engineering
- Definitions of Management
- Similarity of Engineering and Management
- Definition of Engineering Management
- Steps of Engineering Management
- Leadership, Management, and Production: Deciding, Directing, and Doing [Go to Page]
- Leadership Management and Production Defined
- The Traditional Pyramidal Segregated Organizational Model
- The Shared Responsibility Organizational Model
- The Focus of This Book: Management
- The Engineer as Builder
- Common Sense and Common Practice
- Exercises
- Chapter 2: Management of Self [Go to Page]
- The New Work Environment: Culture Shock? [Go to Page]
- No Partial Credit
- Little Tolerance for Tardiness
- Assignments Are Not Graded
- Schedules Are More Complicated
- Higher Grooming and Dress Expectations
- Teamwork Is Standard Operating Procedure
- Expect and Embrace Change
- Employment or Graduate School? [Go to Page]
- Full-Time Graduate Study
- Full-Time Employment
- Learn From Potential Employers
- Time Management [Go to Page]
- Time Is a Resource
- Roles, Goals and Then, and only Then, Time Management
- Time Management: The Great Equalizer
- Time Management Tips
- A Time Management System
- Key Ideas About Management
- The First Few Months: Make or Break Time [Go to Page]
- Recognize and Draw on Generic Qualities and Characteristics
- Never Compromise Personal Reputation
- Learn and Respect Administrative Procedures and Structure
- Do All Assignments Well in Accordance with Expectations
- Get Things Done
- Trim Your Hedges
- Keep Your Supervisor Informed
- Speak Up
- Dress Appropriately
- Seek Opportunities To Develop Communication Skills
- Seize Opportunities for You and Your Organization
- Choose To Be a Winner
- Summing It Up
- Managing Personal Professional Assets: Building Individual Equity [Go to Page]
- Personal Professional Assets
- Annual Accounting
- Careful Management of Personal Professional Equity
- Continuing Education
- Involvement in Professional Organizations: Taking and Giving
- Licensing [Go to Page]
- Licensing Process
- Thoughts on Taking the Fundamentals Examination While in Engineering School
- Comity
- License Renewal
- Exercises
- Chapter 3: Communicating To Make Things Happen [Go to Page]
- Listening [Go to Page]
- Be Attentive
- Verify Understanding
- Use What Is Learned
- Three Distinctions Between Writing and Speaking [Go to Page]
- Single-Channel vs. Multi-Channel
- One-Directional vs. Two-Directional
- Conveying vs. Convincing
- Report Writing Tips: A Chance To Shine [Go to Page]
- Define and Write to Likely Audience or Audiences
- Ask About Written Report-Writing Guidelines and Standards
- Start Writing on Day 1
- Outline and Incubate
- Retain Some of the Outline in the Report
- Write "Easy" Parts First
- Write in Third Person
- Employ a Gender-Neutral Style
- Write in an Active, Direct Manner Rather Than a Passive, Indirect Manner
- Use Rhetorical Techniques
- Avoid Tin Ear
- Adopt a Flexible Format for Identifying Tables, Figures, and References
- Use Lists
- Design a Standard Base Map or Diagram
- Use Format Writing
- Establish Report Milestones
- Produce an Attractive and Appealing Report
- Cite All Sources
- Read One More Time
- Concluding Thoughts
- Speaking Tips: How To Make an Effective Presentation [Go to Page]
- Conquer Reluctance to Speak
- Define the Audience and the Setting
- Prepare the Script
- Prepare the Graphics
- Practice Out Loud
- Arrange For and Verify Audio-Visual Equipment
- Suggest a Proper Introduction
- Deliver the Speech
- Prompt Post-Speech Questions and Answers
- Follow-Up
- Take Extra Care with International Audiences
- Body Language
- Chapter 4: Management of Relationships with Others [Go to Page]
- Types of People
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Theories X and Y [Go to Page]
- Definitions
- Perspective
- Applications of Theory X and Theory Y Knowledge
- Probable Dominance of Theory Ys
- Delegating [Go to Page]
- Reasons To Practice Effective Delegation
- Reluctance To Delegate
- Delegation Isn't Always Down
- Delegation Tips
- Three Possible Outcomes
- Managing Meetings [Go to Page]
- Reasons To Meet
- When Not To Call a Meeting
- A Dozen Tips for Successful Meetings
- Dealing with Difficult People and Situations at Meetings
- Miscellaneous Thoughts
- Appreciating and Working with Support Personnel [Go to Page]
- Essential Members of the Organization
- Challenges Unique to Working with Support Personnel
- Tips for the Entry-Level Technical Professional
- Selecting Co-Workers and Managing Your Boss [Go to Page]
- Carefully Select Co-Workers and Your Boss
- Seek a Mutually Beneficial Relationship
- Avoid Being a Yes Man/Woman
- Caring Isn't Coddling
- Coaching [Go to Page]
- Coaching Defined
- Coaching Tips
- Concluding Thought
- Team Playing
- Effective Conference Attendance [Go to Page]
- Learning About the Conference
- Before the Conference
- At the Conference
- After the Conference
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 5: Project Management [Go to Page]
- Broad Definition of Project
- Project Management Defined
- All Things Are Created Twice
- The Centrality of Project Management
- Relevance of Project Management to the Entry-Level Technical Professional
- Project Time and Task Management [Go to Page]
- Chronological List
- Gantt (Bar) Chart
- Critical Path Method
- Review of Earlier Questions
- Key Ideas
- Project Management Software
- Project Plan [Go to Page]
- Project Team Kickoff Meeting
- Client Kickoff Meeting
- Project Plan Format
- Project Plan Avoidance Syndrome
- Project Monitoring and Control
- Project Post-Mortem [Go to Page]
- Client Input
- Team Meeting
- Closure: Common Sense and Self Discipline?
- Exercises
- Chapter 6: Total Quality Management [Go to Page]
- Quality Defined [Go to Page]
- Quality as Opulence
- Quality as Excellence or Superiority
- Quality as Meeting Requirements
- Stakeholders
- Total Quality Management Defined
- Principles of Total Quality Management
- Comments on Some of Deming's "14 Points for Management"
- Tools and Techniques [Go to Page]
- Metrics
- Written Guidelines
- Flow Charting
- Fishbone Diagrams
- Pareto Analysis
- Brainstorming Sessions
- Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Process
- Benchmarking
- Partnering
- Stakeholder Input
- Results of Total Quality Management
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
- Closing Thoughts
- Exercises
- Chapter 7: Design [Go to Page]
- The Design Function [Go to Page]
- Interaction
- "Back-of-Envelope" Sketches and Calculations
- Contrasting Planning and Design
- Hard and Soft Results
- The Disproportionate Impact of the Design Function
- Design in Terms of Deliverables [Go to Page]
- Drawings
- Technical Specifications
- Non-Technical Provisions
- Design as Risky Business
- Design as a Creative, Satisfying Process [Go to Page]
- Creating a Creative Atmosphere
- The Word "Engineer" and Creativity
- Concluding Statement
- Chapter 8: Decision Economics [Go to Page]
- Broad Applicability of Decision Economics Tools
- Distinction Between Economic Analysis and Financial Analysis
- Steps in the Decision Economics Process [Go to Page]
- Step 1: Determine Physical and Economic Lives of Project Components
- Step 2: Diagram Revenue and Construction, Manufacturing, Replacement, and Operation and Maintenance Expenditures
- Step 3: Select Interest Rate
- Step 4: Put Costs and Benefits on a Comparable Basis and Calculate Benefit-Cost Ratio or at Least Cost
- Step 5: Consider Intangible Benefits and Costs
- Step 6: Recommend Best Alternative
- Discounting Factors [Go to Page]
- Single-Payment Simple-Interest Factor
- Single-Payment Compound- Amount Factor
- Single-Payment Present-Worth Factor
- Series Compound-Amount Factor
- Series Sinking-Fund Factor
- Series Present-Worth Factor
- Capital-Recovery Factor
- Gradient-Series Present-Worth Factor
- Summary of Discounting Factors
- Benefit-Cost Analysis [Go to Page]
- Alternatives with Variable Costs but Identical Benefits
- Alternatives with Variable Costs and Benefits
- Alternatives With Variable Costs and Benefits and with Significant Intangibles
- Concluding Thoughts
- Sensitivity of B/C to Interest Rate
- The Sensitivity of B/C to Economic Life
- Sensitivity of Costs to Load, Capacity, or Other Measures of Service [Go to Page]
- Analytic and Empirical Approach
- Computer Simulation Approach
- Empirical Approach
- Concluding Statement
- Rate of Return or Return on Investment
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Exercises
- Chapter 9: The Organization of Organizations [Go to Page]
- The Concept of a Team
- Legal Forms of Business Ownership [Go to Page]
- Sole Proprietorship
- Partnership
- Corporation
- Organizational Structures [Go to Page]
- Functional Organizational Structure
- Regional Organizational Structure
- Client Organizational Structure
- Matrix Organizational Structure
- Neat on Paper, Messy in Practice
- To Reorganize or not To Reorganize: That Is the Question
- Single vs. Dual Ladder Advancement Systems
- Virtual Teams
- Exercises
- Chapter 10: Business Accounting Methods [Go to Page]
- Why Do Accounting?
- The Balance Sheet: How Much Is It Worth? [Go to Page]
- Personal Balance Sheet
- Business Balance Sheet
- The Income Statement – Introduction [Go to Page]
- Personal Income Statement
- Business Income Statement
- Relationship Between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement
- Financial Ratios [Go to Page]
- Liquidity Ratios
- Leverage Ratio
- Activity Ratios
- Profitability Ratios
- The Impact of Time Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio on Profitability in the Consulting Business [Go to Page]
- Profitability and the Determining Factors
- Sensitivity Analyses
- The Multiplier
- The Income Statement as Part of the Business Plan for a Consulting Firm
- Project Overruns: Implications for Profitability and Personnel
- Exercises
- Chapter 11: Legal Framework [Go to Page]
- The Entry-Level Professional and Legal Considerations
- Legal Terminology
- Changing Attitudes: Added Burden on the Technical Professional
- Liability: Incurring It
- Liability: Examples of Failure and Lessons Learned [Go to Page]
- Collapse of Hotel Walkway
- Collapse of Supermarket Roof
- Collapse of Scoreboard
- Collapse of Bridge Section During Construction
- Other Failures
- Liability: Minimizing It [Go to Page]
- Insurance: Financial Protection
- Preventive Practices
- Danger Signals
- Damage Control
- Maintaining Perspective on Liability Minimization
- Exercises
- Chapter 12: Ethics [Go to Page]
- Enviable Reputation of Engineering and Allied Professions
- Defining Ethics
- Teaching Ethics
- Academia: A Corner on Ethics?
- Legal and Ethical Domain
- Codes of Ethics [Go to Page]
- Limited Power
- Bureaucracy
- Self-Serving
- Difficulty Obtaining Consensus
- Evolution
- Conflicting Provisions
- Codes of Ethics of Professional Societies [Go to Page]
- Engineering Societies
- Non-Engineering Societies
- Codes of Ethics of Other Professional Organizations
- Business Codes of Ethics
- Government Codes of Ethics [Go to Page]
- Federal Government Executive Branch
- Other Federal Entities
- State Government
- Local Government
- Applying Codes of Ethics [Go to Page]
- Advice of Experienced Personnel
- A Nine-Step Process
- A Systematic Group Process
- Application of Moral Imagination
- Looking Ahead: Less Ethics or a Different Kind? [Go to Page]
- Three Possible Future Directions
- Key Ideas
- Seeing Sermons
- Exercises
- Chapter 13: Role and Selection of Consultants [Go to Page]
- Why Retain a Consultant?
- Characteristics of Successful Consultants
- Consultant Selection Process [Go to Page]
- Cost vs. Quality
- Fee-Based Selection
- The Ideal Selection Process
- Negative Consequences of Fee-Based Selection
- Qualifications-Based Selection
- Steps in the Selection Process
- Welcome Exceptions
- Closing Thoughts on the Consultant Selection Process
- Chapter 14: Marketing Technical Services [Go to Page]
- The Financial Motivation for Marketing Technical Services
- Definitions of Marketing and Some Observations
- Marketing Research and a Case Study [Go to Page]
- Research
- Case Study
- Concluding Observations
- Suggested Working Model for Planning and Implementing a Marketing Program
- Tools and Techniques
- Closing Thoughts
- Exercise
- Chapter 15: The Future and You [Go to Page]
- The Changing World of Engineering and Other Technical Work [Go to Page]
- Who Will be Available To Do Engineering and Other Technical Work?
- Who Will the Future Engineers and Other Technical Professionals Serve?
- What Kinds of Needs Will 21[sup(st)] Century Engineers and Other Technical Professionals Fulfill?
- How Will the Way Engineers and Other Technical Professionals Work Change?
- Recap of the Changing World of Technical Work
- The Future—Can You Spare a Paradigm? [Go to Page]
- Anticipative and Reactive Modes
- Definition of Paradigm
- Examples of Paradigms
- Some Characteristics of Paradigms
- Examples of Paradigm Shifts
- Some Possible Future Paradigms
- Individual and Organizational Implications
- The Elements of Leadership [Go to Page]
- Honesty and Integrity
- The Vision and Mission: Preach, Teach, and Reach
- Set Goals, Establish Strategies and Tactics To Achieve Them, and Follow Through
- Always a Student
- Courageous
- Calm in Crisis and Comfortable with Chaos
- Creative, Synergistic, Imaginative, Innovative
- References
- Appendix A: Special Features of Civil Engineering
- Appendix B: Ethics Ordinance for the City of Valparaiso, IN
- Bibliography
- Index [Go to Page]
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Z
- About the Author [Go to Page]