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Title: A certifiable manager: an ASME program, expected to begin next year, addresses the particular needs of engineers in the management seat.
Author: Jean Thilmany
Publication: Mechanical Engineering-CIME (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Volume: 126 Issue: 3 Page: S12(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Engineers become managers to broaden their horizons, to learn new job skills, and to reap increased rewards that go along with management jobs. Many have no specific training in management skills. And unless they have an MBA, they have few credentials.
A new effort by ASME has as its goals an objective measure of engineering managers' skills and a certification of their abilities.
Chor Tan, the managing director of education at ASME, is coordinating the work of practicing experts who will create an evaluation mechanism, a test that will assess the abilities of managers. Engineers who pass the test will become certified in writing.
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