the evolution of engineering management education
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The evolution of engineering
management education
Piera Centobelli*, Roberto Cerchione**, Emilio Esposito***, Mario Raffa****
Department of Industrial Engineering - University of Naples Federico II
P.le Tecchio, 80 - 80125 Naples - Italy
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to cite this paper: Centobelli, P., Cerchione, R., Esposito, E., Raffa, M.
The evolution of engineering management education (2016) International
Journal of Engineering Education, 32 (4), pp. 1813-1822.
to link to this paper: ISSN: 0949149X
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Agenda
The origin of Engineering Management - Why start from the experiences overseas?
- The most exemplary cases
The Italian answer to changes overseas - Some Italian pioneering experiences
- The first degree course
The first European followers in the 1970s - Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Scotland
Knowledge and skills evolution in the professional role of the engineer
The recent evolution of Engineering Management Education
R. Cerchione, E. Esposito, M. Raffa, The Evolution of Engineering Management Education Mario Raffa
The origin of Engineering Management: Why start from the experiences overseas?
Henry R. Towne
“…to provide business to grow it was necessary for
the management and organization of productive work
was entrusted to people who had a good executive
skills and a knowledge of the various types of
production processes, but also that they had the
skills on how to observe, record, analyze and
compare salaries, supplies, expenses and whatever
else was going to affect the economy of production
and the cost of the finished product.”
Yale and Towne Manufacturing
Company
Source: H.R. Towne, 1886. The Engineer as an Economist
The origin of Engineering Management: Why start from the experiences overseas?
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Henry R. Towne
Yale and Towne Manufacturing
Company
Philadelphia
“It is only through enforced standardization of methods,
enforced adoption of the best implements and working
conditions, and enforced cooperation that this faster
work can be assured. And the duty of enforcing the
adoption of standards and enforcing this cooperation
rests with management alone.”
Mario Raffa Inaugurazione Anno Accademico 2015-2016 del Corso di Studi in Ingegneria Gestionale, 11 dicembre 2015
Source: F.W. Taylor, 1911. Principles of Scientific Management
The origin of Engineering Management: The most exemplary case was the administrative engineering course at MIT, which was established in
1913 and later became after the Second World War, the Sloan School of Management
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 4
MIT Sloan School of
Management
The Italian answer to changes overseas: Some Italian pioneering experiences
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 5
1934: School of
policy and business
organization
1960: Center for the
study of economics
applied to engineering
(CSEI)
The Italian answer to changes overseas: Some Italian pioneering experiences
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II 6
1934: School of
policy and
business
organization
1960: Center for the
study of economics
applied to engineering
(CSEI)
1974: Group of
economics and
systems (GES)
The Italian answer to changes overseas: Some Italian pioneering experiences
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 7
1960: First degree course
in technical-economic
engineering
The first European followers in the 1970s: Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Scotland
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 8
Technical
University of
Denmark in
Kongens Lyngby
Catholic
University
of Louvain
Technical
University of
Czestochowa
University
of Glasgow
Knowledge and skills evolution in the professional role of the engineer
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 11
Source: Cerchione et al. (2016) to cite this paper: Cerchione, R., Centobelli, P., Esposito, E., Raffa, M. What is the engineering management? Exploring the emerging knowledge and skills for engineers (2016) Advanced Science Letters, 22 (5-6), pp. 1535-1537.
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 12
Management skills
Transversal knowledge
Methodological knowledge
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Balance
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Knowledge and skills evolution in the professional role of the engineer
Source: Cerchione et al. (2016) to cite this paper: Cerchione, R., Centobelli, P., Esposito, E., Raffa, M. What is the engineering management? Exploring the emerging knowledge and skills for engineers (2016) Advanced Science Letters, 22 (5-6), pp. 1535-1537.
Knowledge and skills of the engineer: an overview
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 13 Mario Raffa 12 Inaugurazione Anno Accademico 2015-2016 del Corso di Studi in Ingegneria Gestionale, 11 dicembre 2015
Cluster of skills Definition Fields, specific skills
Methodological knowledge base
Knowledge of the traditional engineering basic disciplines
Chemistry, economics, physics, mathematics, operations research, statistics, systems theory
Technological skills
Specialized technological know-how and the ability to use it to solve specific problems
In accordance with the specific engineer specialization
Organizational and managerial skills
Managerial skills for the management of technical-economic systems concerning the application of planning and control, the decision support, and innovation management of product and process
Analytical accounting, management control, finance, innovation management, personnel management, marketing, organizational behaviour, operations management, project management
Transversal skills Transversal skills necessary to efficiently integrate the other categories of skills in professional and organizational contexts
Ability to work in a team, communication skills, knowledge of foreign languages, awareness of their professional and ethical responsibilities, problem solving, analytical thinking, ability to model problems
The recent evolution of Engineering Management Education
Areas of professional opportunities for graduates in engineering management have a significant
variety: there isn’t in fact only the industry (which constitutes about 50%), but also a very strong
component of the services sector, particularly in the advanced services, accompanied by an
interesting trend in growth towards the future career in public administration;
Economic crisis that concerns our country to some extent also affects graduates in engineering
management: the number of employed graduates one year after graduation, although high, has
declined slightly in recent years.
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014 14
As for the other degree courses in engineering, the
number of graduates in engineering management
that at the end of the course create a new company
becoming entrepreneurs appears to be growing.
This phenomenon now affects even the majority of
Italian universities in the coming years and will
require a more "entrepreneurship-oriented"
university.
Speaker: Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II - 1st International Conference on the History of Engineering, Naples May 19th - 20th 2014
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Conclusions
The establishment of a degree program in engineering management was the
result of a long process that began in the United States in the early decades of the
twentieth century and later spread in several European countries including Italy.
The engineering education did not seem to suit the role that engineers assume in
companies at the end of their degree course.
On the basis of what had happened in the United States, some Italian universities
proposed to improve the curricula of engineers, introducing the teaching of a
range of disciplines capable of increasing the knowledge of the students in the
subjects of economics, organization and theory of the firm.
In line with the articles found in the literature on the topic, this paper identifies and
classifies the set of knowledge and skills required for the engineers. Furthermore,
all these contributions are combined and correlated with both the theory of firms
and the economic system.
Roberto Cerchione
University of Naples, Federico II 30 - 10th Doctoral Workshop on Purchasing and Supply Management, Bologna 15 October 2014
Roberto Cerchione
ROBERTO CERCHIONE
University of Naples Federico II
E-mail: [email protected]
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to cite this paper: Centobelli, P., Cerchione, R., Esposito, E., Raffa, M.
The evolution of engineering management education (2016)
International Journal of Engineering Education, 32 (4), pp. 1813-1822.
to link to this paper: ISSN: 0949149X
The evolution of engineering
management education