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Engineering Management Masterclass: From Practicing Engineer to Engineering Leader

10:59:59·intermediate·13 modules·79 lessons

Design and Engineering ManagementEngineering Management
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About this course

Turn practicing engineers into confident engineering managers who can plan, organize, lead, and control technical work — and defend the decisions that come with it.

What you will cover

  1. 01Your Transition to Engineering Leader

    • Welcome & the Course Promise
    • What Is Engineering Management — and Why the Shift Is Hard
    • The Work: Practicing Engineers vs Engineering Managers
    • Management Theory: Taylor to Drucker — What Survives
    • Why New Engineering Managers Struggle
    • The Masterclass Map & Personal Goals

  2. 02Module 1 · Management Foundations for Engineers

    • The Four Functions — Engineering Edition
    • What Engineering Managers Actually Do — Roles & Skill Mix
    • The Engineering Organization as a System
    • Ethics & Professional Responsibility — The Baseline
    • Knowledge Work & the Modern Engineering Organization
    • Module 1 Wrap-Up & Manager's Toolkit

  3. 03Module 2 · Planning & Organizing the Engineering Work

    • Planning: From Strategic Intent to Monday Morning
    • Types of Planning & Who Should Do It
    • Planning Tools: Forecasting, Scheduling & the Toolbox
    • Organizing: Structures, Spans & Delegation
    • Cross-Functional Work & Organizational Interfaces
    • Planning Your Own Workplace & Time
    • Module 2 Case Clinic & Quiz

  4. 04Module 3 · Leading Engineers & Engineering Teams

    • Leadership Styles & the Matching Decision
    • Motivating Engineers — What Actually Works
    • Selecting & Developing Engineering Talent
    • How Teams Form — and Where Managers Break Them
    • The Multi-Generational Engineering Workforce
    • Ethics Under Pressure — Global & Corporate Dilemmas
    • Module 3 Case Clinic & Quiz

  5. 05Module 4 · Strategy & Strategic Management

    • What Strategy Is — and What It Is Not
    • Industry Analysis & Competitive Positioning
    • Strategy Execution: The Balanced Scorecard
    • Hoshin Planning — Cascading Direction
    • Strategy Audits & course correction
    • Module 4 Case Clinic & Quiz

  6. 06Module 5 · Money: Cost, Accounting & Engineering Economics

    • Cost Concepts for Engineers
    • Breakeven & Operating Leverage
    • Reading the Three Financial Statements
    • The Time Value of Money
    • Project Evaluation: NPV, IRR, Payback, EAW
    • Cost Estimation & Budgets for Engineering Work
    • Make-or-Buy & Financial Decision Traps
    • Module 5 Case Clinic & Quiz

  7. 07Module 6 · Project Management for Engineering Managers

    • The Project Lifecycle & the Engineering Manager's Role
    • Scope & the Work Breakdown Structure
    • Schedule: CPM, Float & PERT
    • Earned Value: Reading Project Health
    • Engineering Risk Management
    • Contracts, Claims & the Manager's Legal Perimeter
    • Module 6 Case Clinic & Quiz

  8. 08Module 7 · Decision Analysis & Operations Research

    • Deciding Under Uncertainty — the Decision Tree
    • Multi-Criteria Decisions — AHP
    • Multi-Objective Decision Analysis — Trade-off Discipline
    • Optimization Thinking for Engineering Managers
    • Queues, Simulation & Waiting-Cost Decisions
    • Module 7 Case Clinic & Quiz

  9. 09Module 8 · Systems Engineering & Systems Thinking

    • The Systems Engineering Lifecycle
    • Requirements: Where Systems Succeed or Die
    • Systems Thinking — Loops, Delays & Unintended Consequences
    • The Digital Backbone: Informatics, ERP & Data Decisions
    • Module 8 Case Clinic & Quiz

  10. 10Module 9 · Quality Management

    • What Quality Management Really Is
    • The Seven Basic Quality Tools
    • Statistical Process Control in Production & Field
    • Quality Systems, ISO 9001 & Audits
    • Lean Thinking & Waste Elimination
    • Module 9 Case Clinic & Quiz

  11. 11Module 10 · Intellectual Property & Innovation

    • The IP Landscape for Engineering Organizations
    • Patents: What Qualifies and What It Buys
    • Trade Secrets & Confidentiality in Practice
    • Licensing & IP Commercialization
    • Building the Innovation Pipeline
    • Module 10 Case Clinic & Quiz

  12. 12Module 11 · Supply Chain & Operations

    • Supply Chain Thinking for Engineering Managers
    • Procurement & Supplier Relationships
    • Inventory Management & ABC Classification
    • Just-in-Time & Flow in Engineering Operations
    • Logistics, Distribution & the Last Mile of Projects
    • Module 11 Case Clinic & Quiz

  13. 13Module 12 · Capstone: The Engineering Manager as Integrator

    • The Integrated Case: Harborline Terminal Expansion
    • The Executive Decision Package
    • Integration Reflection & Next Steps

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