UGRD-ENG6301 Engineering
Management
(All Quizzes, Lab & Exams)
By: DARKX
Level one are those with minimal engineering job like retailing firms.
ANSWER: True
Level three firms provide the biggest opportunity for an engineer to become the president or
general manager.
ANSWER: True
Qualitative evaluation refers to the evaluation of alternatives using any technique in a group
classified as rational and analytical.
ANSWER: False
Research is the area where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a product concept to
a finished physical item.
ANSWER: False
Management may be defined as the “creative problem solving-process of planning, organizing,
leading, and controlling an organization’s resources to achieve its mission and objectives.”
ANSWER: True
After a decision has been made, implementation follows.
ANSWER: True
After the alternatives has been evaluated, the decision-maker must now be ready to make a
choice.
ANSWER: True
Engineers are expected to perform a variety of tasks depending on their specialization and job
level.
ANSWER: True
Forecasting may be defined as the “collection of past and current information to make
predictions about the future.”
ANSWER: True
John B. Miner, developed a psychometric instrument to measure objectively on individual’s
motivation to manage.
ANSWER: True
Managerial behaviour refers to the capacity of an engineer manager to achieve organizational
objectives effectively and efficiently.
ANSWER: False
Linear Programming is a quantitative technique that is used to produce an optimum solution
within the bounds imposed by constraints upon the decision.
ANSWER: True
Proper evaluation makes choosing the right solution less difficult.
ANSWER: True
Nickles advises that, “particular effort should be made to identify all significant consequences of
each choice.”
ANSWER: False
In decision making the engineer manager is faced with problems which may be hard.
ANSWER: False
Simulation is a model constructed to represent reality, on which conclusions about real-life
problems can be used.
ANSWER: True
The engineer manager may be assigned to head a small engineering unit of the firm, but there
will not be too many firms which will have this unit.
ANSWER: True
Higgins indicates at least three general preconditions for achieving lasting success as manager.
ANSWER: False
If a manager wants to make an intelligent decision, his first move must be to identify the
problem.
ANSWER: True
Engineering management refers to the activity combining “technical knowledge with the ability
to organize and coordinate worker power, materials, machinery, and money.”
ANSWER: True
One created for a short-term purpose and have limited life.
ANSWER: Ad hoc committee
It is a permanent committee that deals with issues on an ongoing basis.
ANSWER: Standing committee
The opportunity for the development of general management skills is provided.
ANSWER: Product or market organization advantage
To maximize mistakes in decision-making planning is undertaken.
ANSWER: False
Each employee reports to both functional or division manager and to a project or group
manager.
ANSWER: Matrix organization
A quantitative or qualitative measuring device designed to help monitor the performances of
people, capital goods, or processes.
ANSWER: True
Too little resources in terms of either quality or quantity will be wasteful.
ANSWER: False
Aldag and Stearns, on the other hand, define planning as “the selection and sequential ordering
of tasks required to achieve an organizational goal.”
ANSWER: True
The intermediate plan is designed to support the strategic plan.
ANSWER: True
When structuring an organization, the engineer manager must be concerned with the following
EXCEPT:
ANSWER: Interdisciplinary
The last task of the engineer manager is to provide a sense of direction to his firm.
ANSWER: False
High conflict between division and functional interests.
ANSWER: Matrix organization disadvantage
Those individuals providing needed staff services for the whole organization.
ANSWER: Specialized staff
Those individuals assigned to a specific manager to provide needed staff services.
ANSWER: Personnel staff
The output of strategic planning is the strategic plan which spells out “the decision about short -
range goals and the course of action to achieve these goals.”
ANSWER: False
Managers who plan are afforded with the opportunity to carefully analyze situations which
directly contribute to effective decision-making.
ANSWER: True
Without the plan, some minor tasks may be afforded major attention which may, later on, hinder
the accomplishment of objectives.
ANSWER: True
It is a form of departmentalization in which everyone engaged in one functional activity
(engineering or marketing).
ANSWER: Function organization
A manager’s right to tell subordinates what to do and then see that they do it.
ANSWER: Line authority
There are many instances when managers are overwhelmed by various activities which at times
becloud his judgment.
ANSWER: True
