Engineering Management: Challenges in the New Millennium

This easy-to-read book prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities acquire useful business perspectives and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. The book is organized in three parts: Part I reviews the basic functions of engineering management; Part II provides backgrounds in cost accounting financial analysis financial management and marketing management; and Part III readies the reader for exercising leadership in managing technologies through discussions related to engineers as managers/leaders ethics web-based tools globalization and engineering management in the decades to come. For engineering professionals who have an interest in becoming managers and/or leaders in their field.