Engineering Management Syllabus

Group A

Management and Organizations

Management process : Definition, planning, organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating, types of management.

Organization: Definition, planning, design and development, types of organizations.

Management planning and control: Classical, new classical and modern principles. General management, scientific management, engineering management, systems management.

Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, goals, policies and procedures.

Control : Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or evaluation, monitoring and controlling, types of control.

Human resource planning and management. Selection, recruitment, training, skill development, competence development, promotion and career development, participative management, trade unions, and collective bargaining.

Management of Physical Resources

Plant : Site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. Layout - types and relative merits and demerits. Maintenance - objectives, different types of associated decisions, strategies for effective maintenance  , computer applications.

Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control including inventory models with or without storage costs, price break ( excluding dynamic and probabilistic considerations). Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Planning (MRP).

Group B

Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of financial statements, i.e., balance- sheet, profit and loss, and income statement. Fixed and current asset items. Fixed and current liability items. Linkage of two successive balance sheets through income or profit and loss statement. Funds flow statement. Financial ratios and their implications.

Managerial economics : Concepts, theory of production, marginal productivity and cost. Introduction to theory of firm.

Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, quality control and quality management. Total quality management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality control techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling.

Marketing management. Consumer behavior, market research, product design and development, pricing  and promotion.

Project management. Introduction. Concept of a project, project management concepts, project formulation, cost of project and means of financing, economic evaluation criteria of the project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, project control (PERT, CPM techniques including crashing), project evaluation.

Information technology and management. Role of information, management information system and decision support system. Information technology - introduction to e-business, e-commerce and integration tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP).