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What Makes a Great Engineering Manager?

Design News special

Ask any group of individual contributors what they think about the skills, or lack thereof, of engineering managers, and you're liable to get an earful. We turned the question from problem-oriented to solution-focused and asked the denizens of the Systems & Product Design Engineer group on LinkedIn to tell us how they define great technical leaders.

Bill Devenish, a Design News guest blogger and president of The Devenish Group, says: "I have noticed that great engineering leaders are those people who can provide a clear and concise vision. They can read between the lines, take seemingly contradictory requirements, and communicate an objective that everyone understands."
As our imaginary group of jawboning engineers would tell you, technical ability doesn't necessarily confer the skills to oversee people. Bill Losapio, a mechanical engineer in Florida, distinguishes between a good manager and great leader. He says Steve Jobs and Richard Branson qualify as great corporate leaders. However, perhaps counter-intuitively, he believes greatness in an engineering manager is tougher to define. Soft skills are a big part of the latter's charter, he believes, including "less tangible concerns such as ensuring the competence of his department, disseminating knowledge, and stroking feathers that get out of joint."
Chuck Blevins, a design engineer near Huntsville, Ala., says that the best managers he's worked for were not great engineers in the technical sense. "They were certainly great communicators," he adds. "A technical lead needs communication skills but only to other engineers. Managers have to communicate to the whole organization. Good managers and leaders must show confidence in themselves and their teams -- they cannot be risk averse."
If successful managers are made rather than born, consultant Joe Jenney has some thoughts about how they get that way. "When I started out it was easier," he says. "Young engineers were given significant responsibilities; older engineers took time to mentor them. There were many management positions so that capable people could expect a new post with greater responsibility every couple of years."
Jenney, himself a retired aerospace executive and author of The Manager's Guide for Effective Leadership, notes that such progressive seasoning is no longer widely available. "I contend that today's young must take responsibility for self training to achieve positions they want," he says.

Our own always-thoughtful contributing editor Jon Titus believes that true leadership requires both backbone and restraint. "Leaders must listen carefully, even if the speaker has things to say the leader doesn't agree with," he says. "Leaders give their people the tools to do their jobs properly. They keep an eye on projects, but don't micromanage. Leaders stand up for their people and ensure [they] get proper credit."

Meaning of 'Extrovert' from about.com

Definition: Most people believe that an extrovert is a person who is friendly and outgoing. While that may be true, that is not the true meaning of extroversion. Basically, an extrovert is a person who is energized by being around other people. This is the opposite of an introvert who is energized by being alone.

Extroverts tend to "fade" when alone and can easily become bored without other people around. When given the chance, an extrovert will talk with someone else rather than sit alone and think. In fact, extroverts tend to think as they speak, unlike introverts who are far more likely to think before they speak. Extroverts often think best when they are talking. Concepts just don't seem real to them unless they can talk about them; reflecting on them isn't enough.

Extroverts enjoy social situations and even seek them out since they enjoy being around people. Their ability to make small talk makes them appear to be more socially adept than introverts (although introverts may have little difficulty talking to people they don't know if they can talk about concepts or issues).

Extrovert behavior seems to be the standard in American society, which means that other behavior is judged against the ways an extrovert would behave. However, extroverted behavior is simply a manifestation of the way an extrovert interacts with the world. Extroverts are interested in and concerned with the external world.

Transportation woes of Kerala

hahaha...........the main problem is, we Keralites don't know what we want exactly for a transportation point of view. Earlier, a north - south expressway was mooted. Now, we are locking horns with NHAI to reduce the width or something like that. Also, we thought of a high speed rail link from TVM to Kasargod. Always we talk about things that won't happen really. The truth is, neither we don't know whether to implement as scheme nor we don't know which one is the best.

Always scientific studies are conducted for the project. But the final proposal will be in the favor of bureaucrats only. So, what is that exactly we want for a better transportation?????

The core needs of the project are:

1. non polluting
2. high speed and reliable
3. limited access
4. affordable
5. should carry large volumes of traffic including containers
6. non interruptive and efficient
7. less accident prone
8. least area should be consumed

the probable solutions of the above points are,

1. electric trains are best
2. high speed electric trains (HSET)
3. HSET or a limited access expressway
4. HSET with various types of classes viz. AC, non AC, and general
    Buses are not affordable in Kerala.
5. Again electric trains. they can carry the ultimate amount of containers. Container trucks are not suited to Kerala.
6. Again HSET. expresswayrailwas are not suited to Kerala.
7. HSET. highways in Kerala are famous for accidents.
8. HSET. GoK is in tussle with NHAI for reducing width to 30 m.

So, what is the conclusion??????


A state like Kerala should not waste land and money for a 45m wide highway. let the NHAI decide where to go for 45m and where for 30m with least possible eviction. Then, we can go for a high speed rail link that is tailor made only for Kerala like the case of Air India express. GoK can hold a 45-50% share of a newly formed JV with Indian Railways for running HSETs in the State.
What more, it will be obvious to get a new zonal HQ in Kerala for Kerala!!!!!!

New HSETs can be proposed for running from Nagarcoil in the south to Mangalore in the north covering the two extreme boundaries of Kerala.

Two tracks should be laid in addition to the existing rails in all lines to run the new trains.

The tracks should be like the ones for a metro rail: concreted basement with extra long rails.

All district HQs along with 2 or 3 additional stations in each district should be the boarding and alighting points. Trains can run at an average speed of 90kmph. Top speeds can go up to 120kmph.

the existing NHs can be used for intra district movement and not for long distances. Even if they are NHs, they don't serve the purpose of a NH in Kerala unless we go for a 45-60m wide roads consistently.

Moreover, our economy is highly dependent on oil prices. So, minimum container trucks should ply on the highway.