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January 2005
PREREQUISITES
MATH 152
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Don Smith Phone: 845-5459
Zachary 237A E-Mail: dr-smith@tamu.eduTEXTBOOK AND ADDITIONAL COURSE MATERIAL
Management of Engineering, by F.L. Bennett, John Wiley & Sons 1996
COURSE SCHEDULE
DATE TOPIC* ASSIGNMENT
1/13 Introduction
1/15 Scope of Engineering Management 1-21
1/17 Managerial Roles notes
1/22 Planning and Forecasting notes
1/24 Organizational theory 22-40
1/27 Informal organization 41-48
1/29 Informal org. cont.
1/31 TQM 49-79
2/3 TQM cont. 82-118
2/5 Motivation 120-128
2/7 Motivation cont.
2/10 Case II
2/12 Case III
2/14 FIRST TEST
2/17 Leadership 129-145
2/19 Leadership cont.
2/21 Case IV
2/24 Case V
2/26 Creativity Notes
2/28 Creativity cont.
3/3 Creativity cont.
3/5 Case VIa
3/7 Team building
3/10 Case VIb
3/12 Conflict resolution
3/14 Communication 147-168
Spring break
3/24 Systems Engineering
3/26 Systems Life cycle
3/28 SECOND TEST
3/31 Project Control 169-190
4/2 Cost estimating
4/4 Project selection
4/7 Project planning
4/9 Case VIII
4/11 Scheduling and control 191-224
4/14 Case IX
4/16 Engineers and the Law 224-253
4/18 No class
4/21 Case X
4/23 Ethics 383-449
4/25 Ethics cont.
4/28 Wrap up and summary
4/29
5/6 FINAL EXAM Tuesday 3:30-5:30 p.m.
NOTES: * Subject to change as deemed necessary by the instructor.
CASE STUDIES
The class will be divided up into teams. Each team will be assigned as many cases as there are team members. Each student will serve as team manager for the preparation and presentation of 1 case and as a team member for the other cases. The team will prepare a 15 minute presentation of their analysis and proposed solution for the case utilizing the most applicable concepts discussed in the text and found in the literature. Teams are urged to seek out information that might be helpful from sources other than the class text.
Presentations should not be merely a summary of the case. Rather they should include an analysis and identification of the basic problem or problems, suggested recommendations for solution of the problem or problems, the theoretical justification for the recommendations and the expected results if the recommendations are followed. Visual aides are encouraged where appropriate.
The preparation and presentation of these case studies will constitute 25% of each student's final grade. This will be determined as follows:
Evaluation of student as manager by teammates 2.5%
Evaluation of student participation by managers 2.5%
Evaluation of team presentations by class * 10%
Evaluation of team presentations by instructor * 10%
* In the latter two categories, each member of the team (manager and team members) will receive these grades i.e. the whole team is being graded by the class and instructor, not just the presenter.
