Engineering Management: Managing Effectively in Technology-Based Organizations

By Hans J. Thamhain

Invaluable reference offering important, current concepts and applications necessary to manage today's technology. Combines engineering methods and fundamentals of industry management to effectively produce both products and major projects as well as retain control and manage technological developments, engineering and R&D personnel. Packed with checklists, forms, a handy reference manual and practical guidelines for applying ideas covered in the text, it is ideal for busy managers who fear they are losing out in modern developments taking place in their field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471828017
• ISBN13: 9780471828013
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Overview of Mangement in Engineering

"Engineering Management" by Hans J. Thamhain is an outstanding introduction to management in engineering contexts. It explores all the major areas of engineering management including organizational structures; planning and executing engineering projects; management tools such as work breakdown structures, task matrixes, project schedules, and earned value systems; information management; marketing; bid proposal development; team building; and conflict resolution. It is a very useful overview of all of these issues and areas to help engineering managers create value and gain competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment.