30 Mayıs 2008 Cuma
Correlation
What does sequential mean?
What does iterative mean?
What does a life circle mean?
What is a process?
What is an event?
What does relevance mean?
What does reliability mean?
What does significance mean?
What does validation mean?
What is waterfall diagram?
What is snowball effect?
What is a model?
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_%28macroeconomics%29http://www.ichnet.org/glossary.htm
What is control?
What is plan?
A plan is used for getting one set of circumstances to another. Plans are used for moving from present situation to another one which is aimed. Plans can be used in careers, diplomacy, economic development…A plan is more detailed than a strategy. Plans are used by many different areas like architecture too. Plans are used for improving the situation in business life and doing it in a more effective way. That’s why planning is one the jobs which are done by industrial engineers. In conclusion in business life, plans generally are used for getting one set of circumstances to better one and it is more detailed and more complex than a strategy. Moreover production planning, capacity requirements planning, manufacturing resource planning, material requirements planning are different types of plans which are done by industrial engineers.
http://www.emsozluk.com/index.asp?id=70&sayfa=1&ara=plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan
What is strategy?
What does paradigm mean?
What does hypothesis mean?
What does theory mean?
What does methodology mean?
http://www.lillytrials.com/docs/terminology.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/methodology
http://www.dmreview.com/glossary/m.html
What does method mean?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method
What is a problem?
29 Nisan 2008 Salı
30 Mart 2008 Pazar
ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION
WHAT DO ENGINEERS DO?
TYPES OF ENGINEERS
References
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BChendislik
http://www.engineeringfullyloaded.org.au/as_a_career/types_of_engineering.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_engineers#Lists_of_notable_engineers_by_discipline
BEGINNING OF THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION
References
http://www.kenthaber.com/Arsiv/Haberler/2005/Aralik/09/Haber_107011.aspx
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html
ORIGINS OF ENGINEERING
29 Mart 2008 Cumartesi
My Preference
MAX WEBER(21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920)

Men may engage in purposeful or goal-oriented rational action
Men’s rational action may be value-oriented
They may act from emotional or affective motivations
They may engage in traditional action.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is his most famous essay. His most significant contribution to the sociology of politics and government is his Politics as a Vocation essay. According to Weber, a politician must not be the man of true christian ethic.Weber distinguished three types of political leadership.
Charismatic domination
Legal domination
Traditional domination
He simply wants to answer this question. Why did capitalism appear in West protestan countries? Because according to Protestan ethic, god likes people ,who work a lot. Moreover people are instruments of god. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, Ancient Juadism, The The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism are his other studies about religion and socialogy.
Quotations from Max Weber
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
References
ABRAHAM MASLOW(April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970)

Psychological needs: These include oxygen, water, protein, salt, sugar, calcium, and other minerals and vitamins at first because people can not be alive without them.Also pH and temperature is very important to live.Moreover , people need to sleep ,rest other instinctive needs.
The safety and security needs: Human being starts to look for safety places and circumstances after he/she found the first conditions above.The fear and anxiety starts to appear at this step.
The love and belonging needs :When people found psychological needs and safety need, they start to look for friends, love, children.However if we look at this step negatively loneliness and social anxieties can increase at this step
The esteem needs: According to Maslow, there are two types of esteem needs,the lower one and higher one.The lower one is the need of respect of others.But the higher one is more important because it includes the self esteem, indipendence and freedom.
Self-actualization:It includes morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts.Maslow did a research for self-actualization.He looked a group of people’s biographys, writings, acts which include Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Adams, William James, Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Spinoza, and Alduous Huxley.Then he developed a list of qualities that seemed characteristic of these people.He saw that these people were reality-centered,which means they can differentiate fake and genuine.They were also problem-centered .According to them the journey is more important than end.Democratic and ethical values also arise at this step
According to Maslow a self-actualizer, who wants to be happy, needs to follow these;
Truth, rather than dishonesty
Goodness, rather than evil
Unity, wholeness, and transcendence of opposites, not arbitrariness or forced choices.
Aliveness, not deadness or the mechanization of life
Uniqueness, not bland uniformity.
Perfection and necessity, not sloppiness, inconsistency, or accident.
Completion, rather than incompleteness.
Justice and order, not injustice and lawlessness.
Simplicity, not unnecessary complexity.
Richness, not environmental impoverishment
Effortlessness, not strain.
Playfulness, not grim, humorless, drudgery
Self-sufficiency, not dependency.
Meaningfulness, rather than senselessness.
Maslow’s theory is a very important theory for many areas of life.It showed us the order of presedence clearly.Therefore it influenced production, sell, finance and many other areas of business life.He died in a heart attack in 1970.
Quatations from Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
References
28 Mart 2008 Cuma
The GILBRETHS

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878, Oakland, California )
She was the first industrial psychologist and one of the first working female engineers.She was more humanity side of industrial organizations and studies.She was the mother of 12 children, Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank Jr., William, Lillian, Fred, Daniel, John, Robert and Jane.She lived 48 years after his husband death.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth: (July 7, 1868, Fairfield, Maine - June 14, 1924, Montclair, New Jersey)
Frank Bunker Gilbreth was an assertor of scientific management ,a pioneer of motion study and supporter of Taylorism.That’s why,there are a lot of similarities between Frederic Taylor and The Gilbreths.He also is best known as the father of Cheaper by Dozen.Time and motion study is a business efficiency technique.Time study was done by Frederick Taylor .Motion study was done by Frank and Lilian Gilbreth.This technique is the major part of scientific management.A time and motion study’s aim is increase productivity by reducing the number of motions.The most important example of usage of this study is bricklaying.Frank Bunker Gilbreth reduced the number of motions in laying a brick from 18 to 5.The Gilbreths also developed Therbilgs(reverse of Gilbreth) which is a classification plan to comprise 18 basic hand motions.These hand motions are
Search
Find
Select
Grasp
Hold
Position
Assemble
Use
Disassemble
Inspect
Transport loaded
Transport unloaded
Pre-position for next operation
Release load
Unavoidable delay
Avoidable delay
Plan
Rest to overcome fatigue
These are the fundemental motions required for a worker to perform an manual operation task.There are two major contributions to the world by The Gilbreths .The first one is The introduction of the surgical nurse as 'the caddy' (in Gilbreth's words) to the surgeon, who hands the doctor operating surgical instruments as called for.The second one is The standard techniques used by armies around the world to teach recruits how to rapidly disassemble and reassemble their weapons even blindfolded or in total darkness.
Motion Study:A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman
Cheaper by the Dozen
Are some books written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth As I Remember: An Autobiography was written Lillian Gilbreth.He died because of his heart problem in 1924
References
http://www.businesspme.com/uk/articles/economics/11/Frank-Bunker-Gilbreth.html
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/frank-bunker-gilbreth/
http://www.amazon.com/As-Remember-Autobiography-Lillian-Gilbreth/dp/0898061865
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Frank%20Bunker%20Gilbreth&page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bunker_Gilbreth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_studies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Moller_Gilbreth
HENRI FAYOL(1841-1925)

Planning Organizing Commanding Coordinating Controlling
But these functions have been reduced five to four .Planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, controlling by many of today’s management texts. According to Henri Fayol ,there must be only one direector for each person in an organization.Fayol also is the father of modern operational management theory.His ideas are related with Frederick Taylor’s ideas.But according to Claude George (1968)the fundemental difference between Fayol and Taylor is that , Fayol viewed management processes from the top down ,Taylor viewed it from the bottom up. Taylor’s theory was related with workers more than management.Fayol proved that this system can be applied in management too.According to Fayol, skills of managers depend on the place of the manager in hierarchic system.There are fourteen main principles of management.
Division of work – work and tasks should be perform by people specialized in the work and similar tasks should be organized as a unit or department.
Authority – delegated persons ought to have the right to give orders and expect that they be followed.
Discipline – workers should be obedient and respectful of the organization
Unity of command – employees should receive orders from only one person with authority
Unity of direction – the organization and employees are dedicated to one plan of action or set of objectives.
Subordination of individual interests to the general interest – organizational conflict should be limited by the dominance of one objective.
Remuneration – although Fayol provides no guidance on pay, the organization must recognize the economic value of employees and that their economic interests are important.
Centralization – whether an organization should be centralized or decentralized depends upon such factors as communications and the importance of who should make the decision.
Scalar chain – authority in an organization moves in a continuous chain of command from top to bottom.
Order– everything, people and resources, has a place that it belongs.
Equity – fairness is important in management-employee relations
Stability of tenure of personnel – turnover is disruptive; shared experience is important
Initiative – Workers are exhorted to be productive and motivated.
Esprit de corps – there is a need for harmony and unity within the organization
He died in 1925 in Paris
Quotation from Henri Fayol
To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control
References
23 Mart 2008 Pazar
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR(March 20, 1856-- March 21, 1915) & SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

Taylor proposed the four following principles of scientific management.
Replace the rule of thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of tasks
Scientifically, select train and develop each worker rather than passively leaving them to train themselves
Cooperate with workers to ensure that the scientifically developed methods are being followed
Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks
Relationship with Henry Ford
Frederick Taylor had a close relationship with Henry Ford. Henry Ford generally applied the methods of Frederick Winslow Taylor. He applied the assembly line method of Taylor in modern ways. Before Henry Ford, Taylor’s assembly line system was not accepted by everybody
Development of Scientific Management
With the advancement of statistical methods, the approach was improved and referred to as quality control in 1920s and 1930s.Scientific management also evolved into operation research and management cybernetics during 1940s and 1950s. Since 1980s, total quality management has been a part of work life as an arm of scientific management. Today's Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing could be seen as new names for scientific management
Some Quotations From Frederick Taylor
It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor
http://www.nedirbul.com/nedir-kimdir/Frederick-Winslow-Taylor/
http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/taylor/sciman.htm
http://www.kimkimdir.gen.tr/kimkimdir.php?id=150
http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/scientific/
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/frederick_w._taylor/
21 Mart 2008 Cuma
HENRY FORD(July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) & DIVISION OF LABOR

He died in 1947 and he was buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.
Some Quotations From Henry Ford
People can have the Model T in any colour , so long as it is black.
I am looking for a lot of men who have infinite capacity to not to know what can not be done.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that's it:Make the best quality of goods possible at lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.