Engineering Management: Sustainable Project Initiation & Execution

This report delves into the critical aspects of engineering management within the context of sustainable projects, specifically focusing on project initiation, planning, and execution. The analysis begins with an annotated bibliography, exploring key journal articles, websites, government publications, industry reports, and other grey literature. These sources provide a foundation for understanding the complexities faced by engineering managers, including project goal clarity, schedule design, scope management, team skills, communication, risk management, and conflict resolution. The report highlights the importance of quality management, sustainable practices in construction, smart city planning, and dispute resolution. Key strategies for achieving effective sustainable engineering management practices are discussed, such as selecting environmentally friendly construction materials, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and enhancing vehicle emission quality. The conclusion emphasizes the need for engineering managers to possess both engineering expertise and managerial skills to successfully implement sustainable projects.

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ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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Table of Contents
Annotated bibliography..............................................................................................................1
1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................1
2.0. Journal Article 1..............................................................................................................2
2.1 Journal Article 2...................................................................................................................2
2.2 Web site 1.............................................................................................................................3
2.3 Government publication.......................................................................................................4
2.4 Industry report......................................................................................................................4
2.5 Other Grey literature............................................................................................................6
3.0 Things that engineering managers need to do to achieve effective Sustainable Engineering
Management practices in construction.......................................................................................7
4.0 Conclusion............................................................................................................................8
References:.................................................................................................................................9

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Annotated bibliography
1.0 Introduction
The modern day organizations are facing the need of managing their organizations in
accordance to the scientific management policies. In order to achieve that, the management of
the organizations are observed to focus on the identification of the effective sustainable
engineering management practices. According to Kerzner and Kerzner (2017), in order to
increase the effectiveness of the engineering management practices, the managers need to
realize the complexity of controlling the organizational resources along with proper
identification of the factors that have the potential to influence the effective project staffing.
Along with that Goetsch and Davis (2014), commented that for the managers of the modern
day organizations must have the knowledge of application of the concept of Total Quality
Management in order to increase sustainability of the engineering management practices.
Alias et al. (2014), confirmed that the managers are in need to understand the importance of
the factors like the project management action, external issues, project procedures along with
human factors in forming the linkage between critical success factors and the project
performance. From the Smart City Plan and Engineering Competency, it is visible that the
mangers are in need to be open to the existing innovative ideas along with further researches
in order to achieve new ideas regarding emerging technologies as well. Engineering
managers’ guide is significant in specifying that the managers are in need to follow some
basic steps like creation goals, creation of an effective plan to achieve the goals, monitoring
the progress in the implementation of the plan, reducing the impact of the barriers in the
implementation of the plan along with maintain the desired level of transparency. Dispute
Resolution Board is able to confirm that the managers need to achieve the desired

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competencies for addressing the challenges of the conflict and must gain the knowledge of
operation of the establishment phase and the operational phase of a project.
2.0. Journal Article 1
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
The authors have discussed about the complexities that the project manager usually
faces when managing a project. Some of the issues or complexities that the authors have
pointed out are lack of clarity in project goal, poor project schedule design, scope-creep, lack
of team skill, lack of coordination due to poor communication, poor risk identification and
risk mitigation leading to poor risk management, conflict and issue within team leading to
less productive team work and poor project performance. Now for each of the complexities
the authors have included proper strategy to deal with them effectively.
In order to deal with project complexity due to lack of clarity in project goal, the
authors have recommended to organize kickoff meeting with team members to clarify
requirement and goal of project to avoid any confusion. Next for project schedule related
complexity, the authors have suggested effective project planning, communication regarding
project progress to all the team members in real time. Next for scope related complexity, the
authors have suggested systematic estimation of cost, schedule, and quality, for team skill
related complexity core skill documentation, assessment of team members in terms of
strength and weakness and arrangement of training has been suggested.
2.1 Journal Article 2
Goetsch, D.L. and Davis, S.B., 2014. Quality management for organizational excellence.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

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Here the authors mentioned some of the most important quality management aspects
that the mangers needs to deal with to efficiently manage various context of project
management. According to the authors quality management in project plays a critical role in
product quality and stakeholder satisfaction which helps in organizational excellence. The
authors have listed key steps that helps to achieve quality in project. the first and foremost
requirement according to the author for ensuring quality in a project is to have a proper
planning for the quality with detailed analysis of quality deliverables with reference to the
stakeholder requirements. Once the quality planning is done, then it is required to employ
quality assurance into the project through planned and systematic activities so that quality
requirements set for any products or services is properly met. Along with quality assurance
quality control have to be integrated as well. According to the authors, all of these three steps
have to be properly integrated into the project so that quality management is proper and
organizational excellence is achieved by the organization properly.
2.2 Web site 1
TechBeacon. (2018). Engineering manager's guide: 30+ resources for leading developers |
TechBeacon. [Online] Available at: https://techbeacon.com/engineering-managers-guide
In this paper the authors have discussed about the concept of engineering management
like what the roles of an engineering manager are, what should be approach to execute the
post of engineering manager and what are the strategy for perfection. According to the
authors, engineering management is the functional transition of professional from the position
of an engineer working in a team to manager managing and leading the team. As the
transition of post is significant, it brings some additional responsibility as well. The first and
foremost duty of an engineering manager is to provide direction for the team so that the team
work is effective and it meets project requirement and goal. Part form managing and leading
a team the manager has to design detailed plan for achieving goal and progress has to be

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measured against the set goal. Stakeholder management is another important role that the
manager needs to done with perfection. As the role is diverse, only the technical knowledge
is not enough, managerial qualities are also needed. However the engineering and technical
knowledge is helpful in managing technical projects and it provides an advantage compared
to-non technical or non-engineering professionals. Hence a skilled engineer might not be
necessarily an efficient manager.
2.3 Government publication
Smart City Plan and Engineering Competency. (2018). [ebook] Available at:
https://infrastructure.gov.au/cities/smart-cities
/plan/files/Smart_Cities_Plan_submissions_report.pdf
The paper has looked in details the factors that impact the sustainability goal of smart
city projects. According to the authors the most import aspect of sustainability in a smart city
project is to ensure that the fact of environment sustainability has been properly addressed in
project planning and strategic implementation of the project plan. Some of the most important
factors that need to be addressed in the aspect of project sustainability is to reduce pollution
through alternative choice for building materials which have less energy consumption,
alternative way of lighting like prioritization of alternative energy like solar energy, reduction
in pollution due to polluted gas emitted by vehicles which might be done through
prioritization of alternative fuel or electric car that has less pollution rating. In ensuring all of
these like choice of alternative material for building, choice of fuel for less pollution,
implementation of solar energy for smart cities, engineers have a major role to play. Hence
engineers with effective management knowledge is preferred by the organization to ensure
sustainability in the smart city projects.

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2.4 Industry report
Dispute Resolution Board. (2018). [ebook] Available at:
https://www.constructors.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2003/07/Dispute-Resolution-
Boards-Avoiding-conflict-Before-it-Occurs.pdf
The manger has to have the ability to identify issues and classify it as internal and
external. If the issue is external then has to be resolved. External conflict is conflict between
project organization and stakeholders. Now there might be several reason for that. However
the most common and significant issues are variation in schedule, variation in budget and
variation of product quality. Internal conflict creates difference within team and between
team members. Issues and conflict not only creates difference in team, but affects
collaboration between the team members as well. Hence knowledge transfer and knowledge
sharing is also hampered. Hence these need to be resolved as well for effective project
execution and ensure project success.
In order to avoid external conflict, dispute resolution board is designed and employed for
the project as well. Dispute resolution board, has some distinguished feature like:
 The purpose of the dispute resolution board is to resolve issues within the project so
that it does not affect the project execution and progress
 in dispute resolution board, each party of the contractors nominates one industry
expert with mutual approval
 two panel members that are nominated for the board by the contractor needs to make
sure that they are not inclined towards any of the parties to avoid biasness in decision
making procedure
 fees and expenses as associated with the members have to be shared by both the
parties equally

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 all the panel members have to be experienced and they should be respected by all the
members of both the party
 any decision regarding nay dispute have to be agreed by both the party and they
should follow the suggestion as recommended by the board
2.5 Other Grey literature
Alias, Z., Zawawi, E.M.A., Yusof, K. and Aris, N.M., 2014. Determining critical success
factors of project management practice: A conceptual framework. Procedia-Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 153, pp.61-69.
The paper has identified and discuss about some of the important factors that are
critical to the success of the engineering project manager. According to the authors, proper
knowledge about these factors are important as knowledge about these factors are essential to
ensure that sustainable project management principles are followed for construction project.
The features that are recommended by the authors are proper knowledge about clients’ role in
the project, superior quality and standard in workmanship, strategic direction with reference
to the project scope and goal, proper control over project progress and activities, effective
design of health and safety protocol, compatibility with rules and regulation related to
construction industry are some of the most essential factors to ensure sustainability in project
through effective project management.

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3.0 Things that engineering managers need to do to achieve effective Sustainable
Engineering Management practices in construction
Smart city although aimed at improving the quality of life through innovation
technology sustainability has an import role to play in this projects as the focus is to protect
environment through development so that these projects transform society through
sustainable development. Here the engineer management has a major role and needs to follow
some strategy to ensure effective Sustainable Engineering Management practices. One of the
strategies is to selection of material for construction of building. It needs to be environment
friendly so that pollution is reduced. This might include integration of green roofs and walls
for building, support for modular construction, selection of solar energy instead of traditional
electricity choice. All of these are important for sustainable practise in smart city projects.
Another import consideration for the sustainable smart city project is to reduce
emission of both greenhouse gas and carbon credit as well as both of these gas are harmful
for the environment, hence mechanism to reduce emission of these gas means better
management of the sustainability aspect of the project. This could be done through
modification in public and commercial lighting, reducing energy consumption of building.
Another effective way to reduce pollution though these gases is to enhance the emission
quality as well as emission technique of the vehicles so that vehicles become more efficient
and helps in pollution reduction strategy. As an engineering manager, one should be able to
review these strategy and integrate that successfully into the smart city project so that it can
successfully meet the sustainable qualities and features.

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4.0 Conclusion
The paper concludes that the role of an engineering management is a complex one as
it involves both engineering as well as managerial qualities. A successful engineer should be
able to find balance between both of these roles and need to execute both of them with
perfection. As modern project management emphasis on scientific management policies,
there is need of more and more accomplished engineering management as integrating
sustainability with project has become an important aspects of every organization. Hence
organizations look for professional who are able to solution regarding sustainability through
application of engineering knowledge and manage project knowledge areas as well. Project
knowledge areas include effective team management, project planning, risk identification,
risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and resource planning and resource allocation for
the project. Resource planning for sustainable project needs application for engineering
knowledge along with managerial skill. Because effective selection of materials for smart city
project has a lot of impact on the sustainability aspect of the project. In order to assess the
resources with reference to the sustainability aspect like energy savings, cost saving and
environmental aspect proper engineering knowledge is required. Hence engineering
management is preferred by the organizations in modern style of project management.

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References:
Alias, Z., Zawawi, E.M.A., Yusof, K. and Aris, N.M., 2014. Determining critical success
factors of project management practice: A conceptual framework. Procedia-Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 153, pp.61-69.
Dispute Resolution Board. (2018). [ebook] Available at:
https://www.constructors.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2003/07/Dispute-Resolution-Boards-
Avoiding-conflict-Before-it-Occurs.pdf
Goetsch, D.L. and Davis, S.B., 2014. Quality management for organizational excellence.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Smart City Plan and Engineering Competency. (2018). [ebook] Available at:
https://infrastructure.gov.au/cities/smart-cities d 18 Nov.
2018]./plan/files/Smart_Cities_Plan_submissions_report.pdf
TechBeacon. (2018). Engineering manager's guide: 30+ resources for leading developers |
TechBeacon. [online] Available at: https://techbeacon.com/engineering-managers-guide