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UGRD-ENG6301 Engineering Management (Overall) Prelim

This document contains answers to multiple choice questions about engineering management. It addresses topics like levels in engineering firms, qualitative evaluation, research, definitions of management, decision making processes, types of committees, organizational structures, planning, and managerial roles and responsibilities. The document quizzes the reader on their knowledge of these engineering management concepts.

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UGRD-ENG6301 Engineering Management (Overall) Prelim

This document contains answers to multiple choice questions about engineering management. It addresses topics like levels in engineering firms, qualitative evaluation, research, definitions of management, decision making processes, types of committees, organizational structures, planning, and managerial roles and responsibilities. The document quizzes the reader on their knowledge of these engineering management concepts.

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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

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