CS-4, Engineering Management

abilities to communicate and collaborate in coordination with others as on their technical skills and knowledge. Engineers will struggle to apply their technical skills and expertise without developing key interpersonal, managerial and leadership competencies. Engineering management and leadership knowledge include: understanding the context and purpose of their organization, its customers, markets, and strategies; navigating organisational policies, practices, and norms; managing projects and processes; developing products, and services; balancing opportunity with risk and dealing with internally and externally imposed change; optimizing the use of human and financial resources; communicating with technical and non-technical audiences using oral, written, and visual means; collaborating with others through interpersonal interaction and teamwork; motivating and mentoring others through professionally relevant leadership; giving and receiving constructive and appreciative feedback and respectfully managing conflict; enhancing professional and social responsibility through everyday professional practice. Textbooks (most recent edition is recommended): Primary Text: American Society for Mechanical Engineers. Guide to the Engineering Management Body of Knowledge, American Society for Mechanical Engineers. Secondary Text: Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), Project Management Institute (pmi.org). Kouzes & Posner. The Leadership Challenge, Jossey-Bass. Secondary Text in French: Guide du Corpus des Connaissance en Management de Projet (PMBOK), Project Management Institute (pmi.org). Web Resources: Keywords: Leadership, project management, engineering management, financial management, strategic management, resource management, operations management, engineering communications Organizations: American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Canadian Society for Engineering Management, Project Management Institute, American Society for Engineering Management BC Campus, https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8678fbae6724-454c-a796-3c6667d826be