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Engineering Management Field Projects: Recent submissions
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Intranet Resource for the Mechanical Engineering Department at Green Industries
(2009-05-15)The mechanical engineering department at Green Industries has grown substantially over the past several years to keep up with the company’s overall growth. With this growth has come a reduction in the ratio of experienced ... -
How to Successfully Implement a Knowledge Management System for the Mechanical Engineering Department at Gating Incorporated
(2009-05-15)Gating Incorporated is a leader in design and manufacturing of consumer products. What began as a brainstorming session around a card table by a handful of engineers has evolved into a collaborative effort of hundreds of ... -
Developing Standard Logic for a Detailed Engineering Project Schedule in the Process Industry
(2009-05-15)A good schedule is critical to the successful execution of any project. This is especially true in the process industry, where construction schedule overruns can be costly to the client due to lost production capability. ... -
Sporting Good Manufacturing Company: Optimal Manufacturing and Shipping Cost Through Linear Programming Models
(2009-05-15)Sporting Good Manufacturing Company (SGMC) needs assistance in defining a linear programming model to find out the minimal cost to manufacture and ship their products to their nationwide distributors. These specialty ... -
Business Plan for a New Engineering Consulting Firm in the Electrical Utility Market
(2009-05-15)Author’s note: The set forth business plan presented was developed as a hypothetical start-up firm. Despite being a hypothetical business plan, the data and facts are accurate. Due to sensitive and confidential information, ... -
The Use of Standard Forms by a Small to Mid-Size Consulting Company
(2009-05-15)The benefits of standards forms are widely promoted and acknowledged by project owners, design professionals and contractors. But, are they being used as intended? The documents seem particularly beneficial to small and ... -
Feasibility of SOA in a Legacy Environment
(2008-12-19)Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is currently viewed as the “silver bullet” solution for all of the integration issues that a business faces in this very competitive world. SOA technologies vendors would also like ... -
Re-organizing XYZ Corporation Assembly Department Management Structure after a 50% Loss of Personnel
(2009-05-15)Changes in organizational structure are being used by many corporations today to try and create and edge over their competitors. Reorganization may be beneficial, but it isn’t accomplished easily. Simply changing to a new ... -
Opportunities and Threats of Green Building Design for ABC Engineers, Kansas City
(2008-12-19)“If your next project is not a green building, one that is certified by a national third-party rating system, it will be functionally outdated the day it’s completed and very likely to underperform the market as time ... -
Evaluating Mercury Concentrations in Midwest Fish in Relationship to Mercury Emission Sources
(2008-12-19)Mercury serves as one of the most visible forms of inorganic pollution in the public eye and is most commonly associated with contaminated fish. For many years pregnant women and women of child-bearing age have been ... -
Challenges for Growing Engineering Services within a Large Construction Company
(2008-12-19)PKS is a construction company with annual revenues of 6 billon dollars. Some engineering services already exist in the company, yet the author believes that there is capacity for growth in engineering services; specifically ... -
Green Buildings: Construction Design Firms' Implementation of Sustainable Design Standards
(2008-12-19)This paper is written to show the importance of green buildings and therefore the need for sustainable design. The paper describes why a construction design firm must take the steps necessary to properly integrate these ... -
Managing the Business Continuity of Information Technology
(2008-12-19)This field project is intended to provide a guide to overcoming the challenges to business continuity planning in IT. The need for business continuity planning is very real, yet this need is largely unfulfilled for many ... -
GMP Compliance for Pharmaceutical Excipients in the Glycerin Industry
(2008-12-19)After the events of September 11, 2001, the United States enacted the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act) to protect the public from terrorist attacks on the ... -
Marketing Plan for Orbund, LLC
(2008-12-19)School administration software are becoming popular all over the US, and, in some cases, also beyond its borders. At the same time, there’s increasing need for the stakeholders of a school to communicate with each other. ... -
Quality of Service (QoS) in Enterprise WAN Networks
(2008-12-19)Enterprise IT organizations started to face issues related to managing applications over the slow speed Wide Area Network (WAN) circuits a few years ago with the appearance and use of file-sharing applications over their ... -
Contingency Planning and Execution. Planning for the Modern Battlefield
(2008-12-19)The United States Marine Corps is the world’s premier fighting force and has been in action against our Nation’s foes for over 200 years. As successful as the Marines have been on the battlefield, the current planning ... -
Implementing Agile Software Development for Small - Medium Business
(2008-12-19)Software projects have a long history of delivering projects over budget, behind schedule, and not meeting expectations. Software development teams have typically tried to follow the “waterfall” or building paradigm of ... -
Post-Acquisition Integration: The Cultural Side of the Ferguson Paper Company, Inc. Acquisition of Seastrand Oil Company, Inc.
(2008-12-19)Over the years, Ferguson Paper Company, Inc. has acquired several companies, and envisions additional acquisitions to: accelerate the attainment of strategic objectives, increase technical capabilities, assess new markets ... -
Maintaining Client Relationships with Municipal Governments
(2008-12-19)In the competitive industry of civil engineering, consultants must continually market their services to the private sector as well as to the public sector. Various engineering management reference materials state that the ...