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[jasleen]

Management engineering is a professional field that combines engineering knowledge with business knowledge and management experience. Management engineers provide the bridge between the technical world of engineering and the business world by providing good technical knowledge and effective problem solving skills, as well as supervisory management and project management skills. This is invaluable in many companies where project falter due to the inability to manage both technical and business aspects effectively. In the real world, it is often difficult for strictly business oriented people to understand the language, technical aspects, and difficulties of engineering, and vice versa for technically oriented personnel. This can lead to frustration in communication, implementation issues, projects not completed on time and on budget, and a host of other problems. Management engineers are trained in both engineering and
Business, so they are able to use a wider variety of tools, solves complex problems, work in a team environment with many different types of people, and manage technical projects that might challenge someone not trained in both areas. Statistics show that
Within a few years of graduation, many management engineers are working within the management ranks, rather than just a strictly technical job. Formal education in business – the areas of economics, statistics, budget and project management, and cost analysis, is often essential for bridging the technical versus business world and for success in the management field. Many engineering schools now offer a bachelor's degree in Engineering Management that provides graduates with a good technical engineering foundation, as well as a grasp of business concepts and tools. Many schools also offer graduate business degrees to engineers that want to augment their technical knowledge.
With their broad base of knowledge, management engineers are invaluable in the project management field, especially on projects that require engineering supervision and technical expertise. Since failed, late, or over budget projects are quite problematic in corporations, a person trained in both technical and business applications, as management engineers are, can help ensure a much higher rate of success, especially on the more complex engineering projects. Many management engineers are available through consulting firms. These consultants often offer a wide range of expertise and experience that may not be available in a company where those skills are not Developed or available. A consultant's experience and knowledge can often make the difference between project failure and success, and is often well worth the investment. Choose a consulting firm who has a great track record, and make sure to ask how many projects similar to yours have been completed in the past 2 years, on time, and on budget. References are a must. Make sure to research and compare consulting companies, so that you retain the very best for your business.
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[ankur2061]

Jasleen,

The site you are mentioning gives links to unauthorized and pirated versions of engineering books. This kind of soliciting and advertising about a website which brazenly practices piracy of copyrighted books is illegal and tantamounts to stealing. This forum strictly prohibits this kind of postings.

I am requesting the forum authorities to delete your post ASAP.

[Art Montemayor]

Jasleen:

I have now had time to investigate what you are proposing and fostering for our student members, and I can confirm what Ankur is stating and alerting us all to. The website you recommend is A DEN OF THIEVES. What Mr. Gurleen Singh is sponsoring and propagating is out-and-out stealing of intellectual property. He and anyone who cooperates with him should be arrested and placed in a jail cell. They are no better than the common thief that steals from anyone – especially the poor – for his/her personal gain. Copyrighted material such as the “Natural Gas Engineering Handbook” and “Chemical Engineering Design, vol. 6” by Coulson & Richardson is protected by law. Even articles by Phil Leckner (“Relief Valves: What can go wrong scenarios”) and Chris Haslego (“Basics of Industrial Heat Transfer”) require at least the approval of the authors before being reproduced.

We professional engineers are bound, by our ethics, to contribute positively to the development and maintenance of our society – not to bring it down to the level of common thieves and hoodlums. We cannot allow criminal and illegal activities in our midst. To do so is to tacitly become thieves ourselves. I have been repeating this very theme throughout the years I’ve acted as administrator on this Forum, trying to warn students –such as you – to steer clear of such illegal operations. To get involved is to ruin your reputation and possibly your career as an engineer. No one will trust you with a responsible position – and rightfully so.

I have deleted any reference to the website you identified and I am also advising our site owner, Chris Haslego to consider taking action against this type of irresponsible and illegal actions. This is not about money, but about ethics and morals that will be required of future professional engineers who will be entrusted with the future welfare of their societies.

What do you think would happen to the infrastructure of India if all Indian professional engineers proceeded to practice stealing, cheating, lying, and taking graft from others? Do you seriously believe that India (& other developing countries) could sustain and profit from such a corruption of ethics and morals? This theme is one of the most important ones that our professional members – like Ankur Srivastava – try to teach and instill in our student members in order to re-enforce the integrity and SERIOUSNESS of our future Chemical Engineering force and contributions.

I am not deleting this thread – just yet. I would like our students to read and carefully contemplate the seriousness and the importance of this subject. I do not want to play act and make believe that it doesn’t exist and pretend it will go away by itself. The morals and ethics of our profession are what ensure that we can be trusted and will be allowed to function in society as some of its leaders and important decision-makers. Once we lose the trust of society, we are totally ineffectual and useless as engineers. This is not my opinion. This is FACT.

I don’t know who you are in reality, since you have not completed your personal background information. I hope you are merely another, ignorant and naïve Chemical Engineering student who somehow believes that you can get a “free ride and a free lunch” through life without paying in effort and hard work. If you are really Gurleen Singh or one of his/her agents, then I would request your removal from our Forums.

[PLCMentor.com]

Ok, maybe this will help with a real online text that is legal. This book concerns different aspects of Automation which may be helpful to students:

http://sites.google....cturingsystems/

Maybe we can get this thread back on the right track.


Russell