Managing Projects in Engineering Organizations Using Interorganizational Teams

2006 ◽  
pp. 445-483
Author(s):  
Karen L. Higgins ◽  
Joseph A. Maciariello
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Organizations ◽  
Interorganizational Teams

Concurrent Designing of Airframes: State of the Art and Trends

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Petiau
Keyword(s):  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Mathematical Optimization ◽  
Multidisciplinary Optimization ◽  
Design History ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Engineering Organizations ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Parametric Cad

Abstract We will first recall that the organization of airframe designing stands in direct relation to the performance capabilities of available tools, which is, in fact, what determines the number and the nature of project iterations. We then present and analyze an organization type which can nowadays be recommended in view of the currently available CAD, computation and mathematical optimization means. This leads to a first design which is followed by experimental verification, with a key role for flight tests. The final design is checked with the aid of computation models that have been calibrated with the results of the performed tests. We will then examine new tools, since they are factors in the future evolution of the design methodology, including: • availability of the “design history”, as a set of all data of the whole process, • structure optimization with parametric CAD and multidisciplinary optimization • “feature” modeling • enhancement of the computation methods As a conclusion, we show that significant gains in terms of productivity and quality can be expected from these new products, both at design and at production level. What remains, however, to be found, are the most appropriate concurrent engineering organizations that are best suited to these new tools.

EXPRESS: Coauthoring collaborative strategy when voices are many and authority is ambiguous

2021 ◽  
pp. 147612702110688
Author(s):  
Ellen Nathues ◽  
Maaike D. Endedijk ◽  
Mark van Vuuren
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Interorganizational Teams ◽  
Do So ◽  
Strategy Making

In interorganizational teams, processes are more complex and structures less clear than in intraorganizational settings. Different perspectives come together and authoritative positions are often ambiguous, which makes establishing what to do problematic. We adopt a ventriloquial analytical lens and pose the question: How exactly do interorganizational team members build a collaborative strategy under these conditions, in their situated interactions? Our findings show how many different voices (individual, organizational, team, and other) shape members’ strategy-making and reveal these voices’ performative authoritative effects: Members established their team’s strategy and produced the needed authority to do so through three coauthoring practices, namely the proposition, appropriation, and expropriation of voices. When members switched between the practices and different voices, these voices were either woven together or moved apart. We sketch a conceptualization of strategy as a relational assemblage and develop a process model of strategy coauthoring to illuminate these dynamics.

scholarly journals Role of Leningrad architects in last-recovery repair of center of Sevastopol and problem of preserving their heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 05016
Author(s):  
Nikolay Vasiliev ◽  
Elena Ovsyannikova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
The State ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Engineering Organizations ◽  
Post War

Destroyed in Sevastopol in 1945, it was restored by architects from Leningrad engineering organizations: Centroamerica, Langosteira and Logoinstant, as well as architects from Moscow and other Russian cities. The purpose of the study: to show the influence of representatives of the Leningrad architectural school on the formation of the post-war image of Sevastopol. Methods: publication of historical data not previously entered into scientific circulation, based on the materials Of the state archive of Sevastopol. Results: archival materials about the work of Leningrad architects in Sevastopol were identified, and their implemented projects were reviewed.

scholarly journals Leadership Development Programs for Women in Engineering Industry

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mavriplis ◽  
Elizabeth Croft
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Leadership Development Programs ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Women In Engineering ◽  
Engineering Organizations

Many engineering organizations are realizing the benefits of diversity for innovation in their product development and team dynamics. While women remain a minority in the classroom and the workplace when it comes to engineering, they have registered significant gains. Despite decades of increases in percentages of women at lower levels however, gender diversity at high levels remains woefully low. Without integrating diversity at all levels of an organization, the full benefits of diversity cannot be reached. Furthermore, highly trained and experienced workers become dissatisfied and/or eventually leave if they cannot see a path to career advancement. Leadership development programs for women have recently sprung up in a number of engineering organizations to reap the full benefits of these companies’ investments in a diverse workforce. At Pratt & Whitney Canada, in 2007, a committee was struck to develop a Women’s Leadership Initiative that has been vibrant ever since, registering successes such as promotion of several women to Vice President status. In 2011, the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, BC and Yukon sponsored six introductory Leadership Development workshops developed by the Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology hosted at engineering workplaces across British Columbia. The presentation and paper will discuss the need for such programs, their essential ingredients and provide a preliminary assessment of their effectiveness.

scholarly journals The Approach of Hierarchical Linear Model to Exploring Individual and Team Creativity: A Perspective of Cultural Intelligence and Team Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chenhan Huang ◽  
Changqing He ◽  
Xuesong Zhai
Keyword(s):  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Interorganizational Teams ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Team Trust

How to promote the creativity of interorganizational teams has always been the focus among scholars and management practitioners. From the perspective of leadership, this study explores the influence of shared leadership on creativity in interorganizational teams. Specifically, this study integrates leadership perspective with trust perspective and explores the mediating role of team trust between shared leadership and creativity at both team and individual level. In addition, this study examines the moderating effect of the leader’s cultural intelligence between shared leadership and team trust based on the perspective of leadership situation. The data comes from 275 employees within 54 interorganizational teams. The results show that shared leadership will promote team trust and team trust plays a key mediating role between shared leadership and creativity. Moreover, the relationship between shared leadership and team trust is moderated by the cultural intelligence of leader, such that the positive relationship will be stronger with high cultural intelligence and weaker with low cultural intelligence.

Dynamic Modelling For Re-Engineering Organizations

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J. De Vreede ◽  
D.T.T. Van Eijck ◽  
H.G. Sol
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Modelling ◽  
Engineering Organizations

Thermo Mechanical Modeling of Selective Inhibition Sintered Thermoplastic Parts

2015 ◽  
Vol 813-814 ◽  
pp. 791-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Arunkumar ◽  
Esakki Balasubramanian ◽  
U. Chandrasekhar
Keyword(s):  
Selective Inhibition ◽  
Spot Size ◽  
Powdered Material ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Thermal Gradients ◽  
Selective Inhibition Sintering ◽  
Engineering Organizations ◽  
Near Net Shape

Contemporary product design and development efforts of various engineering organizations have experienced the emergence of Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing technology as a competent fabrication option for converting digital data into physical parts without using part-specific tools or fixtures. This paper presents the results of coupled field structural thermal analysis carried out on an innovative variant of AM technology called selective inhibition sintering wherein near net shape parts are fabricated through sintering of thin layers of powdered material while inhibiting the boundaries. Thermal gradients that are inherent to the process cause significant residual stresses affecting the part stability. Hence this study evaluates the effect of layer thickness and heater spot size on temperature gradient, displacement and thermal stress of two different polymers is assessed by numerical analysis. Results of the current study are relevant to enhancing the quality of sintered polymer parts with reference to dimensional fidelity and stability.

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