文档介绍：IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, VOL. 51, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2004 407
50 Years of Engineering and Technology Management
Al H. Rubenstein, Life Fellow, IEEE
HIS is the fourth time since I retired as Editor of the IEEE in the recent tech-bomb bust. In general, however, such
T TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT that I external ventures appear to hold more promise than in-
have attempted to examine trends in the field (1985, 1994, and ternally sponsored ones.
1998). This time, e F. Farris, the new Editor-in-Chief, has 2) The role of corporate research labs (CRLs), except in a
asked me to take a bigger bite ment on trends in the few large pharma and panies has declined
field over the past 50 years. Of course, this has to be a crude cut, markedly over the past five decades. Even in the latter
since many things have happened and the fine details have to cases, the original post-WWII missions of broad cov-
be skipped over in favor of major milestones and salient trends. erage, long looks ahead, and keeping the product di-
Although nomenclature varies among authors and observers, visions programs “alive and honest” have shriveled in
I am using bined term “Engineering and Technology the face of cost cutting, mergers and acquisitions, out-
Management”(ETM) to describe a growing field that has many sourcing, and other moves disruptive to long-term, sci-
practitioner