Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Essentials of Project Planning: Owner's Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Project planning, especially from the owner's point of view, is a relatively new field. After more than a decade of intensive development, it is still difficult to point to significant progress in the understanding of ... -
Effective Progress Scheduling and Control for Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Guidelines for progress scheduling and control of department‐of‐transportation (DOT) construction projects are presented. The guidelines are based on best current practices and management techniques and are modified to ... -
Life‐Cycle Considerations in Urban Infrastructure Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace? These are the choices when decisions are to be made about upgrading deteriorating transportation systems to meet urgent needs in older urban areas of the United States. ... -
Consulting Engineer's View of Governmental Overhead and Audits
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Present audit rules, guidelines, and regulations used by governmental agencies are in some cases discriminatory and in most cases adversely impact the financial stability of consulting engineering firms. These agencies ... -
Quantifying Variations in Project‐Cost Estimates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Traditional methods of estimating project costs do not attempt to assess the magnitude of the variation inherent in the estimate. As a result, there is a risk that decisions on strategy selection will be based on a high ... -
Pricing Hazardous‐Waste Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)A procedure is presented to analyze and price the risk from engineering or construction contracts involving hazardous‐waste projects. The procedure is based upon using a newly developed computation to assign a defined ... -
Setting and Meeting Requirements for Quality
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)In consulting engineering, quality management is an ongoing process of establishing requirements for each project and its tasks; communicating those requirements to all members of the project team; providing the leadership, ... -
The Liability Crisis‐Revisited
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Since the “liability crisis” burst upon the scene, the picture has changed in significant respect in the form of legislative activity dealing with key aspects of liability exposure, more emphasis on dispute resolution short ... -
Financial Issues in Engineering Management: Interview
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)This interview of D. Hugh Taylor by Mel Hensey addresses four financial issues that engineering managers must understand and address through their accounting staff to collaboratively provide for effective financial management ... -
Management Forum
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Entrepreneurs in Engineering Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)Entrepreneurs in engineering organizations are oftentimes misunderstood. Recognition of their characteristics and qualities can promote more productive lives and professional accomplishments. In any organization, the ability ... -
Managing for Increased Design and Construction Innovation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)Innovation is a growing competitive necessity and management responsibility. This paper describes actions by managers to increase innovation in design and construction firms, based on an investigation of over 20 examples ... -
Model for Owner Prequalification of Contractors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)A decision model for contractor prequalification has been developed to aid construction owners and architects/engineers in the decision process associated with the prequalification of contractors. Construction professionals ... -
Discussion of “<i>Simulation Game for Contract Negotiations</i>” by William Dudziak and Chris Hendrickson (April, 1988, Vol. 4, No. 2)
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Productivity Measurements: Untangling White‐Collar Web
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)This paper presents a model for measuring work in predominantly white‐collar organizations. The model, based on Saaty's “analytical hierarchy,” allows for quantification of complex, highly interactive factors influencing ... -
Margin of Profit: Teamwork
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)The writer believes that profitability is essential to professional success in consulting engineering, and that professional staff should understand that fundamental. So believing, it follows that management is responsible ... -
Operations Management in Engineering Office
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)This paper documents a comprehensive operations anslysis with the objective of improving production levels at the engineering division of a public agency. The work content and the nature of the problem are representative ... -
Private Sector Risk Analysis: Applied to Dam Safety
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)Although risk‐analysis is currently gaining acceptance in the decision process among engineers involved in public safety of water resources projects, the “state‐of‐the‐art” tool is still difficult to apply. This paper ... -
Editor's Letter
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Management Forum
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