EAS 590 Case Studies in Engineering Management Dr

EAS 590: Case Studies in Engineering Management Dr. Robert E. Barnes February 14 th, Spring 2007

Case # 2 – Org Chart President CEO Executive Vice President COO CFO VP Finance VP Marketing VP Production Manufacturing CMO VP Engineering Case #2 Chief Information Officer CIO VP R&D VP Human Resources

The View from an Engineering Manager Core Competencies 1. 2. Lecture from William Delnicki, Praxair A word about an article on tonight’s topic

William Delnicki, Praxair n n BS - Chemical Engineer 1962, Brooklyn Polytechnical Praxair 1962 – 1997 Military, Corps of Eng 1963 – 1965 Work Experience: • • Air Separation Process Design Distillation Technology/Process Engineer Technical Management Product Manager – Distillation, Heat Transfer and Cryo. Process Tech/World-Wide • Associate Director – Energy Systems • Associate Director – R&D • Director Design Engineering

Your Case #2 has two parts -n n n For Part 1 – Tables 1, 2 and 3 of article are critical. This part is based on the article Dynamics of Core Competencies in Leading Multinational Companies – two of the authors are UB IE grads – Alok Baveja and Mamnoon Jamil. They postulate three Core Competencies: • • • Technological Know-how Reliable Process Close Relationship with External Parties

Table 1 n In the authors characterized the firms in their study – they use terms like: • Primary industry • Country of origin • Outstanding characteristics

Tables 2 and 3 n n In Table 2, they state the specifics of CCs for each company. Table 3 is related to #2. In 3 they state how the companies arrive at the CCs listed in #2.

For Part 2 - Mr. Delnicki’s presentation – n n n Praxair and its core competencies Characteristics of an engineering manager 3 cases • Jack Welch problem • $23 M project that needed to be $20 M; came in at $21 M and became most profitable system • first automated plant n n Recruitment Sayings

Case # 1 n n n Good job first time around Orals – need work to communicate what you want within time limit, also practice so that you are more at ease Written - Need better Executive Summaries – telling concisely what happened; main concepts could use more elaboration in places; saw too many places within the reports that looked similar to other groups

Next week you present again n n Oral with visuals* – up to 10 minutes each Written – one integrated report* – 4 to 5 pages each, page count does not include: title page, table of contents, executive summary, tables, figures, references, appendixes Peer evaluations – grades will not be given without them White paper – due electronically – email or course web site – no later than Noon, Friday, 2/23 - Paper copy in class and electronic copy to me -