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6	Contents
16	Preface to the Second Edition
20	Preface to the First Edition
24	List of Abbreviations
28	Chapter 1: Introduction Definitions of Engineering
31	Definitions of Management Similarity of Engineering and Management
32	Definition of Engineering Management Steps of Engineering Management Leadership, Management, and Production: Deciding, Directing, and Doing
34	Leadership Management and Production Defined The Traditional Pyramidal Segregated Organizational Model
39	The Shared Responsibility Organizational Model The Focus of This Book: Management
41	The Engineer as Builder
42	Common Sense and Common Practice
43	Exercises
52	Chapter 2: Management of Self The New Work Environment: Culture Shock? No Partial Credit
54	Little Tolerance for Tardiness Assignments Are Not Graded Schedules Are More Complicated Higher Grooming and Dress Expectations
55	Teamwork Is Standard Operating Procedure Expect and Embrace Change Employment or Graduate School?
57	Full-Time Graduate Study Full-Time Employment
58	Learn From Potential Employers Time Management Time Is a Resource
59	Roles, Goals and Then, and only Then, Time Management Time Management: The Great Equalizer
60	Time Management Tips
72	A Time Management System Key Ideas About Management The First Few Months: Make or Break Time Recognize and Draw on Generic Qualities and Characteristics
74	Never Compromise Personal Reputation
75	Learn and Respect Administrative Procedures and Structure Do All Assignments Well in Accordance with Expectations
76	Get Things Done Trim Your Hedges
77	Keep Your Supervisor Informed Speak Up Dress Appropriately
78	Seek Opportunities To Develop Communication Skills
80	Seize Opportunities for You and Your Organization Choose To Be a Winner
82	Summing It Up Managing Personal Professional Assets: Building Individual Equity Personal Professional Assets Annual Accounting
83	Careful Management of Personal Professional Equity Continuing Education
84	Involvement in Professional Organizations: Taking and Giving
86	Licensing Licensing Process
89	Thoughts on Taking the Fundamentals Examination While in Engineering School Comity
90	License Renewal Exercises
92	Chapter 3: Communicating To Make Things Happen
95	Listening
96	Be Attentive Verify Understanding
98	Use What Is Learned Three Distinctions Between Writing and Speaking Single-Channel vs. Multi-Channel One-Directional vs. Two-Directional
100	Conveying vs. Convincing Report Writing Tips: A Chance To Shine Define and Write to Likely Audience or Audiences
101	Ask About Written Report-Writing Guidelines and Standards
103	Start Writing on Day 1 Outline and Incubate
104	Retain Some of the Outline in the Report Write “Easy” Parts First Write in Third Person
105	Employ a Gender-Neutral Style Write in an Active, Direct Manner Rather Than a Passive, Indirect Manner Use Rhetorical Techniques Avoid Tin Ear
106	Adopt a Flexible Format for Identifying Tables, Figures, and References Use Lists
107	Design a Standard Base Map or Diagram Use Format Writing
108	Establish Report Milestones Produce an Attractive and Appealing Report Cite All Sources
109	Read One More Time Concluding Thoughts Speaking Tips: How To Make an Effective Presentation
110	Conquer Reluctance to Speak Define the Audience and the Setting
111	Prepare the Script Prepare the Graphics
113	Practice Out Loud
115	Arrange For and Verify Audio-Visual Equipment
117	Suggest a Proper Introduction Deliver the Speech
118	Prompt Post-Speech Questions and Answers
119	Follow-Up Take Extra Care with International Audiences
120	Body Language
122	Chapter 4: Management of Relationships with Others
124	Types of People
125	Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
126	Theories X and Y
128	Definitions Perspective Applications of Theory X and Theory Y Knowledge
129	Probable Dominance of Theory Ys Delegating
130	Reasons To Practice Effective Delegation Reluctance To Delegate
131	Delegation Isn’t Always Down
132	Delegation Tips
133	Three Possible Outcomes Managing Meetings
135	Reasons To Meet When Not To Call a Meeting
136	A Dozen Tips for Successful Meetings
141	Dealing with Difficult People and Situations at Meetings
143	Miscellaneous Thoughts Appreciating and Working with Support Personnel
144	Essential Members of the Organization Challenges Unique to Working with Support Personnel
146	Tips for the Entry-Level Technical Professional
148	Selecting Co-Workers and Managing Your Boss Carefully Select Co-Workers and Your Boss Seek a Mutually Beneficial Relationship
150	Avoid Being a Yes Man/Woman
151	Caring Isn’t Coddling
152	Coaching Coaching Defined Coaching Tips
153	Concluding Thought Team Playing
154	Effective Conference Attendance Learning About the Conference
155	Before the Conference
156	At the Conference
159	After the Conference Looking Ahead
160	Chapter 5: Project Management Broad Definition of Project
161	Project Management Defined
162	All Things Are Created Twice
166	The Centrality of Project Management
169	Relevance of Project Management to the Entry-Level Technical Professional Project Time and Task Management
170	Chronological List
172	Gantt (Bar) Chart Critical Path Method
183	Review of Earlier Questions
184	Key Ideas Project Management Software
185	Project Plan Project Team Kickoff Meeting
186	Client Kickoff Meeting Project Plan Format
187	Project Plan Avoidance Syndrome Project Monitoring and Control
189	Project Post-Mortem Client Input
190	Team Meeting Closure: Common Sense and Self Discipline? Exercises
196	Chapter 6: Total Quality Management
197	Quality Defined Quality as Opulence Quality as Excellence or Superiority
198	Quality as Meeting Requirements
199	Stakeholders
200	Total Quality Management Defined
202	Principles of Total Quality Management
205	Comments on Some of Deming’s “14 Points for Management”
207	Tools and Techniques
208	Metrics
209	Written Guidelines
211	Flow Charting
212	Fishbone Diagrams Pareto Analysis Brainstorming Sessions
215	Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Process Benchmarking
217	Partnering
219	Stakeholder Input Results of Total Quality Management
220	Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Closing Thoughts
221	Exercises
222	Chapter 7: Design The Design Function
224	Interaction “Back-of-Envelope” Sketches and Calculations
225	Contrasting Planning and Design Hard and Soft Results The Disproportionate Impact of the Design Function
227	Design in Terms of Deliverables
228	Drawings Technical Specifications Non-Technical Provisions
232	Design as Risky Business
233	Design as a Creative, Satisfying Process
234	Creating a Creative Atmosphere The Word “Engineer” and Creativity
235	Concluding Statement
236	Chapter 8: Decision Economics
238	Broad Applicability of Decision Economics Tools Distinction Between Economic Analysis and Financial Analysis
239	Steps in the Decision Economics Process Step 1: Determine Physical and Economic Lives of Project Components
242	Step 2: Diagram Revenue and Construction, Manufacturing, Replacement, and Operation and Maintenance Expenditures
246	Step 3: Select Interest Rate
247	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
248	Single-Payment Simple-Interest Factor
250	Single-Payment Compound- Amount Factor
253	Single-Payment Present-Worth Factor
255	Series Compound-Amount Factor
258	Series Sinking-Fund Factor Series Present-Worth Factor
261	Capital-Recovery Factor
263	Gradient-Series Present-Worth Factor
267	Summary of Discounting Factors Benefit-Cost Analysis Alternatives with Variable Costs but Identical Benefits
270	Alternatives with Variable Costs and Benefits
273	Alternatives With Variable Costs and Benefits and with Significant Intangibles Concluding Thoughts Sensitivity of B/C to Interest Rate
283	The Sensitivity of B/C to Economic Life
284	Sensitivity of Costs to Load, Capacity, or Other Measures of Service
286	Analytic and Empirical Approach
287	Computer Simulation Approach
290	Empirical Approach Concluding Statement Rate of Return or Return on Investment
293	Life Cycle Analysis
294	Exercises
304	Chapter 9: The Organization of Organizations
305	The Concept of a Team
307	Legal Forms of Business Ownership Sole Proprietorship Partnership
308	Corporation Organizational Structures
309	Functional Organizational Structure
312	Regional Organizational Structure
313	Client Organizational Structure
315	Matrix Organizational Structure
319	Neat on Paper, Messy in Practice
320	To Reorganize or not To Reorganize: That Is the Question Single vs. Dual Ladder Advancement Systems
327	Virtual Teams
328	Exercises
332	Chapter 10: Business Accounting Methods Why Do Accounting?
333	The Balance Sheet: How Much Is It Worth? Personal Balance Sheet
335	Business Balance Sheet
337	The Income Statement – Introduction
338	Personal Income Statement Business Income Statement
342	Relationship Between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement Financial Ratios
343	Liquidity Ratios Leverage Ratio
345	Activity Ratios Profitability Ratios
346	The Impact of Time Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio on Profitability in the Consulting Business
347	Profitability and the Determining Factors
349	Sensitivity Analyses
352	The Multiplier
353	The Income Statement as Part of the Business Plan for a Consulting Firm
354	Project Overruns: Implications for Profitability and Personnel
359	Exercises
362	Chapter 11: Legal Framework The Entry-Level Professional and Legal Considerations
365	Legal Terminology Changing Attitudes: Added Burden on the Technical Professional Liability: Incurring It
371	Liability: Examples of Failure and Lessons Learned Collapse of Hotel Walkway
373	Collapse of Supermarket Roof
374	Collapse of Scoreboard Collapse of Bridge Section During Construction
375	Other Failures Liability: Minimizing It Insurance: Financial Protection
376	Preventive Practices
383	Danger Signals Damage Control
384	Maintaining Perspective on Liability Minimization
385	Exercises
386	Chapter 12: Ethics
387	Enviable Reputation of Engineering and Allied Professions
389	Defining Ethics Teaching Ethics
392	Academia: A Corner on Ethics?
393	Legal and Ethical Domain
395	Codes of Ethics Limited Power
397	Bureaucracy Self-Serving Difficulty Obtaining Consensus Evolution
398	Conflicting Provisions Codes of Ethics of Professional Societies Engineering Societies
399	Non-Engineering Societies
400	Codes of Ethics of Other Professional Organizations Business Codes of Ethics
401	Government Codes of Ethics Federal Government Executive Branch
403	Other Federal Entities State Government Local Government
404	Applying Codes of Ethics Advice of Experienced Personnel
405	A Nine-Step Process A Systematic Group Process
407	Application of Moral Imagination
408	Looking Ahead: Less Ethics or a Different Kind? Three Possible Future Directions
411	Key Ideas Seeing Sermons
412	Exercises
418	Chapter 13: Role and Selection of Consultants
419	Why Retain a Consultant?
421	Characteristics of Successful Consultants
422	Consultant Selection Process
423	Cost vs. Quality Fee-Based Selection
425	The Ideal Selection Process
428	Negative Consequences of Fee-Based Selection Qualifications-Based Selection Steps in the Selection Process
434	Welcome Exceptions Closing Thoughts on the Consultant Selection Process
436	Chapter 14: Marketing Technical Services
437	The Financial Motivation for Marketing Technical Services
438	Definitions of Marketing and Some Observations Marketing Research and a Case Study
442	Research Case Study
445	Concluding Observations Suggested Working Model for Planning and Implementing a Marketing Program
448	Tools and Techniques
454	Closing Thoughts Exercise
456	Chapter 15: The Future and You The Changing World of Engineering and Other Technical Work
457	Who Will be Available To Do Engineering and Other Technical Work? Who Will the Future Engineers and Other Technical Professionals Serve?
458	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?
459	Recap of the Changing World of Technical Work The Future—Can You Spare a Paradigm?
461	Anticipative and Reactive Modes Definition of Paradigm Examples of Paradigms
463	Some Characteristics of Paradigms
464	Examples of Paradigm Shifts
467	Some Possible Future Paradigms
468	Individual and Organizational Implications The Elements of Leadership
469	Honesty and Integrity The Vision and Mission: Preach, Teach, and Reach
470	Set Goals, Establish Strategies and Tactics To Achieve Them, and Follow Through
471	Always a Student
473	Courageous
474	Calm in Crisis and Comfortable with Chaos
475	Creative, Synergistic, Imaginative, Innovative
478	References
500	Appendix A: Special Features of Civil Engineering
502	Appendix B: Ethics Ordinance for the City of Valparaiso, IN
508	Bibliography
514	Index A B
515	C
516	D E
517	F G H I
518	J K L M
519	N O P
520	Q R
521	S
522	T U V
523	W X Z
524	About the Author

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