engineering project mgt vs engineering management
engineering project mgt vs engineering management
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pls can anyone tell me the difference between engineering management and engineering project management and which would be better for a masters program





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Here's what I see. CAUTION, just my opinion and experience and since I turned in my PMP, I'm no longer a professional? (I'm a PE).
Todays Project Managers do not have to know anything about the product, they just analyze the info from the different disciplines and keep mamagement appraised. They are trained book keepers that know all the control tools.
Managers over a disicpline have really know whats going on. They need to know everything the PM does, plus the nuts and bolts. They have to hire and fire people. Create the budget. They are or should be paid more than the PM. Thats how it worked at the last place I worked.
RE: engineering project mgt vs engineering management
The engineering manager does not oversee a project, takes care of the designs, scopes, conceptuals and such.
The engineering manager manages engineers (consultants or staff) and the project manager manages contractors. Both roles have a point of interaction when the design for construction is passed from the engineering manager to the PM.
RE: engineering project mgt vs engineering management
Each project, if it is any size at all, then has a PM, a CM, and an EM - which are staffed by the functional organization.
Functional organizations like this are pretty common on the oil & gas project world.
Greg Lamberson, BS, MBA
Consultant - Upstream Energy
Website: www.oil-gas-consulting.com
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I would dispute the notion that a PM can be completely untechnical. That can only work if the engineering manager is absolutely onboard with the PM, otherwise, a litany of minor overruns on minor tasks results in the "Costco Effect," lots of little things adding up to a big bill.
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The functional managers are responsible to the division mgr, Operations Mgr, what ever you want to call the guy in charge of all the projects. They will (or should ) have metrics to determine their effectiveness. Once an eng is assigned to a project, he is responsible to that PM and/or Eng PM, and has a dotted line at most to the functional mgr.
Greg Lamberson, BS, MBA
Consultant - Upstream Energy
Website: www.oil-gas-consulting.com
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My boss, primarily functional manager, reports to Director of Engineering.
Project managers report to Director of Engineering.
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We have functional engineering managers that all engineers ostensibly report to, and who report to the VP of engineering. We have chief engineers for each project, who report to the program manager, and are only dotted line to the VP of engineering.
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