An investigation into the impacts of th
An Investigation into the Impacts of the Engineering Management Training Programs in Saudi Arabia by Raed M. Othman
B.S. in Architecture, 1989, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
M.S. in Civil Engineering, 1992, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
A Dissertation Submitted to
The Faculty of
The School of the Engineering and Applied Science of the George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science
December 31, 2004
Dissertation Directed by
John R. Harrald, Ph. D.
Professor of Engineering Management and System Engineering
UMI Number: 3194586
Copyright 2004 by
Othman, Raed M.
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All Rights Reserved ii ABSTRACT
An Investigation into the Impacts of the
Engineering Management Training Programs in Saudi Arabia
Two-thirds of engineers are dealing with management activities. The need for engineers with the abilities to apply engineering principles and the skills to manage people and projects in technical organizations is rapidly growing. Training institutes all over the world have offered and continue to offer Engineering Management Training
Programs (EMTP) to thousands of engineers.
This descriptive study employed an integrated framework by combining the
EMTP with training evaluation in order to investigate the impacts of the EMTP and the affecting training factors that inhibit or facilitate the EMTP. The framework’s hypothesized impacts on engineers, projects, and organizations, and hypothesized associations between the affecting training factors and each evaluation level, were examined. The EMTP’s survey questionnaire was developed as
B.S. in Architecture, 1989, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
M.S. in Civil Engineering, 1992, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
A Dissertation Submitted to
The Faculty of
The School of the Engineering and Applied Science of the George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science
December 31, 2004
Dissertation Directed by
John R. Harrald, Ph. D.
Professor of Engineering Management and System Engineering
UMI Number: 3194586
Copyright 2004 by
Othman, Raed M.
All rights reserved.
UMI Microform 3194586
Copyright 2006 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code.
ProQuest Information and Learning Company
300 North Zeeb Road
P.O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
© COPYRIGHT 2004 by Raed M. Othman
All Rights Reserved ii ABSTRACT
An Investigation into the Impacts of the
Engineering Management Training Programs in Saudi Arabia
Two-thirds of engineers are dealing with management activities. The need for engineers with the abilities to apply engineering principles and the skills to manage people and projects in technical organizations is rapidly growing. Training institutes all over the world have offered and continue to offer Engineering Management Training
Programs (EMTP) to thousands of engineers.
This descriptive study employed an integrated framework by combining the
EMTP with training evaluation in order to investigate the impacts of the EMTP and the affecting training factors that inhibit or facilitate the EMTP. The framework’s hypothesized impacts on engineers, projects, and organizations, and hypothesized associations between the affecting training factors and each evaluation level, were examined. The EMTP’s survey questionnaire was developed as