1-2 Compare how well engineering and management satisfy the several part of definition of a profession.

By definition of engineering requiring application of science and mathematics that people could logically apply quantifiable knowledge for example academic knowledge, practical training, experience and work-study to satisfy the use and convenience of man. However, management indicates the term of managing, training, or directing. Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving savvy of engineering and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of management in order to oversee complex enterprises from conception to completion that comprehended as a profession which require the special knowledge and often long and intensive preparation to satisfy high standard of achievement and conduct and committing for its primes propose to rendering of public service.

1-4 Comment on the sensitivity of U.S. engineering employment to a major change in the department of defence budget. What types of engineering would be especially affected?

According to the U.S Department of Labor, in 20006 it illustrated that civil engineering was the highest number of employment. The probability of building any infrastructures might be reduced because of the cutting budget.1

1-6 How does the job of supervisor or first-line manager differ from that of higher-level manager?
For first line manager they make short range operating plans governing what will be done tomorrow or next week, assign tasks to their workers, supervise the work that is done, and evaluate the performance of individual workers. Indeed, they must provide the “linking pin” between upper management and the working level, representing the needs and goals of each to the other.

1-9 From the 10 managerial roles provided by Mintzberg, choose three or four that