Management for Engineers 2

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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On completion of this subject students should have an appreciation of the legal, economic and financial framework within which engineers must practise and the effect these factors play in planning an engineering project.

Engineering decision making within the framework of macro and microeconomics, supply and demand, budgetary and monetary policy.

Financial evaluation and analysis, and accounting principles, ledgers, profit and loss statements, balance sheets applied to engineering systems. Financial evaluation of Research and Development and technological innovation.

Introduction to law, contact, tort, project delivery systems and engineering contracts, liability and intellectual property corporations law, environmental law. An introduction to systems management, systems analysis, mathematical and linear programming.

One three-hour written examination (70%) and assignments totalling not more than 5000 words, or equivalent (30%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities and commitment to them