From: Rob Gaddi on
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
HardySpicer <gyansorova(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering
> degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up
> later?
>
>
> Hardy

They're having a hard enough time teaching any engineering in an
undergrad engineering degree. God help us all if they try to teach
some 21 year old who's never touched a soldering iron how to run the
show.

--
Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology
Email address is currently out of order
From: Jerry Avins on
Rune Allnor wrote:
> On 15 Mar, 20:35, HardySpicer <gyansor...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering
>> degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up
>> later?
>
> Engineers *should* learn *some* management. Basic economy,
> legal aspects of contracts, some group psychology.

Basic economy, legal aspects of contracts, and some group psychology are
tools managers should have. So should engineers, shopkeepers, parents,
ministers, and rabbis. They don't constitute management /per se/. The
only people I worked for who actually studied management as
undergraduates were among the worst managers I had.

> I am
> sure one could debate how much of each they should learn,
> but students should learn *something*. If for no other
> reason, so to get "managment" or "economy" on the CV.
>
> Stupid as it sounds, that entry alone can make or brake
> a job application. But then, we are talking about managment
> decisions...

I question applicants I interview about what they claim to know. I'm
less concerned about what they may lack than about what they claim they
know but don't.

Jerry
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From: Tim Wescott on
Jerry Avins wrote:
> Rune Allnor wrote:
>> On 15 Mar, 20:35, HardySpicer <gyansor...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering
>>> degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up
>>> later?
>>
>> Engineers *should* learn *some* management. Basic economy,
>> legal aspects of contracts, some group psychology.
>
> Basic economy, legal aspects of contracts, and some group psychology are
> tools managers should have. So should engineers, shopkeepers, parents,
> ministers, and rabbis. They don't constitute management /per se/. The
> only people I worked for who actually studied management as
> undergraduates were among the worst managers I had.
>
>> I am
>> sure one could debate how much of each they should learn,
>> but students should learn *something*. If for no other
>> reason, so to get "managment" or "economy" on the CV.
>>
>> Stupid as it sounds, that entry alone can make or brake
>> a job application. But then, we are talking about managment
>> decisions...
>
> I question applicants I interview about what they claim to know. I'm
> less concerned about what they may lack than about what they claim they
> know but don't.

I'd rather work with an idiot who can dig a straight ditch and won't
attempt a curved ditch because he knows it is beyond him, than to work
with a genius who thinks he's God.

Same principle, different directions.

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com
From: brent on
On Mar 15, 3:35 pm, HardySpicer <gyansor...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering
> degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up
> later?
>
> Hardy

Zip. Engineers that want to go into management will already be smart
enough to learn the "technical" aspects of management, and the people
aspects of management cannot be taught at the college level.
From: steveu on
>How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering
>degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up
>later?

Management is a pretty broad term. If I look at what my wife's MBA course
covered, I'd say some of the law material should be compulsory in
engineering courses.

When I was at college we considered the Law for Engineers option to be for
people who couldn't face the tougher alternatives. I later realised this
was a silly attitude. All engineers bump against legal issues regularly. If
you are doing the deepest of technical work, you'll still bump against
patent, copyright, trademark and liability issues, that few engineering
graduates, even today, seem to have been given much grounding in. If you go
into more customer facing work you'll bump against a variety of commercial
laws.

Steve

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