TABLE OF CONTENTS Frank Muller
President, Metro
Mediation Services, Ltd.
New York, New York
Jay Gewirtzman
Vice President
URS Corp., New York
New York
Design management is concerned with an engineer s sphere of activity. It is therefore important to consider the variety and types of design activities to which professionals devote their efforts.
The engineer s basic role is to harness scientific principles and other knowledge to practical applications that benefit humanity. In fulfillment of this role, design management is concerned with proper utilization of human labor, energy, and technical skills to serve present and future needs of the economy.
The design manager s goal is to complete a project on schedule and within budget while meeting standards of quality in order to meet the client s needs.
Principal fields of employment for engineers include:
Academic ? For many engineers, the teaching profession is both the first and final career. Many others, however, devote to teaching a few years of their careers or sometimes part of their time, for example, teaching evening courses.
Many educators also serve as advisers to industry and consulting firms. Thus, they move into the designer s sphere of activity Furthermore, many university departments are retained by government and industry for research projects. As a consequence, the departments, in essence, act as private firms performing professional services. The university administrators have to work within budgets and have contracts to negotiate, reimbursable expenses to determine, and schedules to meet. They also have to contend with other...
