Role of The Chief Engineer

Description

This course introduces the series that leads to a JACMET Chief Engineer Certificate. Although titles vary according to individual company practice, all major business have technical leaders who face very similar challenges across all industry sectors. The Certificate is a response to the reality that senior engineers have to manage an increasingly wide range of strategic technical issues and communicate their conclusions effectively at all levels of the company.
The Role of the Chief Engineer course provides an overview of the functions that senior engineers have to carry out and shows how the other more specific topics covered in the Certificate contribute. The scope of the course is:

• What the job entails – interviews with Chief Engineers and analysis of their role.
• The product life cycle and the contribution of the Chief Engineer at all levels.
• Skills and competencies for the job – contributions of the other Certificate courses.
• How the job is evolving with pointers to future skills and challenges.

Objectives

• Capture the scope and challenges of the job
• Provide a series of guidelines for personal development
• Examine current practice and deduce key features.

Intended Audience

• Experienced engineers who may wish to become a Chief Engineer and Engineering leaders who need to strengthen their technical skills.

When & Where

• The course is taught for 2 days (16 hours total) in a classroom.

Course Testimonials

When asked what they liked most about this course, past participants commented on the following:

• Interface between technical, business and personal
• Road map
• Good review of self
• Up to date info
• Knowledge of Non-Technical aspects of the Chief Engineer job
• Worldwide perspectives and discussions
• Broad class experience
• Seeing the relationships to other industries
• Exposure to other industries
• Relevance to business environment
• Pace of the course was appropriate
• Personal perspectives of instructor and students
• Industry examples
• Succinct course material
• Course is continuously evolving
• Video by Ron Carsten
• Student interaction with one another
• Chance to meet potential future peers
• Slides were well prepared, pertinent and helpful
• Course met the stated objectives
• CE Attributes – assessing yourself
• CE interactions with group
• Case studies
• Design Review considerations
• Panel discussion with Chief Engineers
• Course met the stated objectives
• Location was good
• Experience of the Instructor
• Instructors ability and balance in blending the course material effectively in discussions
• Instructor stimulated participation
• Great ex-industry knowledge of the instructor and great delivery by the instructor.

Additional comments include the following:

"John is an excellent and dynamic instructor!" -- Howard Patterson, General Dynamics

"Very effective format and information" -- Fred Missel, Boeing-Apache

"Excellent course and material"

"Very valuable experience for exposing some of the mysteries around the Chief Engineer life" -- Tom Wolcott, Harley-Davidson

Course Information

Instructor

• John Robertson, Arizona State University.

Cost

• Please visit the following web site for the cost of classes: How To Join
• (please note that one day of class = 8 hours)

How to Register

• Please register online or contact the JACMET office at 480/727-1519.