文档介绍：398 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, VOL. 51, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2004
A Perspective on 50 Years of the Engineering
Management Field
Edward B. Roberts, Life Senior Member, IEEE
I. PERSONAL PROLOGUE basis for informing them, and they certainly questioned how
N 1954, when the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Trans- much performance improvement might result from reading
actions on Engineering Management (TEM) began, I was a the TRANSACTIONS. Some related journals were even outright
I Research Management
sophomore in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Insti- hostile to academic contributors. , the
then periodic publication of the . Industrial Research
tute of Technology (MIT). I had in fact just joined the student
chapter of the IRE (targeted for us electronic engineering types), Institute, had an editorial policy that strongly preferred to
joined its Engineering Management section (because I already publish transcripts of speeches by industrial R&D VPs, and
sensed that I was more interested in the management aspects of did not believe that university management research could be
meaningful for senior technical managers. Fortunately, both
engineering than in doing real engineering), and may well have
begun receiving the TEM soon thereafter, but I really do not for academics in the field, as well as senior managers, under
remember. I do