Poznań, Poland

Engineering Management

Master's
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⇑Engineering Management at PP

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.put.poznan.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Engineering Management the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A production line is behind schedule and the engineers blame the suppliers. How do you approach it?

2. How do you feel about leading a team of engineers who know more about the technology than you do?

3. You must choose between two machines: one is cheaper to buy, the other cheaper to run. What do you do?

4. A key project milestone is at risk. How would you use tools like Gantt charts or critical path analysis?

5. Seminars are in English, with engineers and managers from many countries. How do you feel about that?

6. How do you feel about introducing lean or Six Sigma methods to reduce waste and defects?

7. A new safety regulation means changing a process that staff are used to. How do you handle resistance?

8. How would you feel about writing a Master’s thesis analysing innovation or quality management in a real company?

9. Your board asks whether to invest in automation. What would you prepare?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Engineering Management?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Engineering Management
Engineering management is the application of the practice of management to the practice of engineering.
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Engineering
When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after its ancient heritage, that its masters have perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them
Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas, 11th century; Translated and cited at leonardo3.net/bookofsecrets/index, 2015
Engineering
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
Thomas Tredgold (1828), used in the Royal Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) published in: The Times, London, article CS102127326, 30 June 1828.
Management
The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
Akio Morita (1987). Made in Japan, p. 154
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