Maintaining Effective Engineering Leadership

Ray Morrison is the President and Principal Consultant of the Marietta, GA. based consulting firm, ACETS. He has a distinguished career working in engineering education, including work for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company's Lockheed Technical Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the States of Georgia and Arkansas and University of New Mexico. He is the recipient of the EPDA National Fellowship; awarded by the U.S. Department of Education, the State of New Mexico and the University of Missouri, for excellence and scholarship in Technical Education. He has been an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Society for Manufacturing Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education, where he is a Fellow and recipient of the Distinguished Service Award. Dr Morrison's publications include Developing Effective Engineering Leadership published by the IET.

Chapter 1: A good process gone bad: setting the stage with the Columbia disaster
Chapter 2: The importance of processes
Chapter 3: Leadership is guiding a process-oriented organisation
Chapter 4: Maintaining product vigilance and the need for change
Chapter 5: The financial impact on process and operations
Chapter 6: How do we change - what do we need to do?
Chapter 7: Individual capability
Chapter 8: Recommendations for process and capability in today's industries
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