The Special Features of Engineering Management

A number of attractive MBA courses exist, but tend to concentrate on management as a subject in itself rather than, as this handbook does, as an extension of the engineer s own skills. There is the further important point that engineering management is difficult for non-engineers, because of the way in which the engineering discipline pervades many of the problems to be tackled.  

So what is it that characterises and motivates engineers This cannot be a definite list with absolute rankings, nor apply universally to aU engineers, but some of the important motivations are 

In Lock, D. (ed.) Handbook of Engineering Management. Heinemann Newness (1989) 

The purpose of applying the system concept to engineering is the same as for any other application - to handle the complexity of the subject matter by structuring it in a manner most suitable for processing by the brain. But before we look into how this could be achieved, we need to be clear about the nature of this complexity we want to handle what are the sources of it, why has it become more 

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