Lewis Barbe is an expert in many areas of Safety and fire protection engineering, but one of his most notable professional specialties is product engineering design and management. He has extensive knowledge when it comes to product, component and material environments. Lewis Barbe also the person behind writing ergonomic standards for the ASTM organization, and formerly worked for firms including Westinghouse Electric.
As an experienced engineering manager, Lewis Barbe specialized in a form of management that is concerned with the application of engineering principles to business practice. Engineering management is an area of expertise that must bring together the technological problem-solving part of engineering with administrative, organizational and planning abilities of business management in order to oversee complex enterprises from beginning to end.
To become a successful engineering manager one must typically have training and experience in business and engineering. Engineering Management programs typically include instruction in finance, economics, project management, accounting, systems engineering, mathematical modeling and optimization, management information systems, quality control, safety, operations research, human resources management, industrial psychology and health. Managers who lack technical skills tend to be deprived of support by their technical team, and managers who lack experience on the commercial end tend to lack commercial acumen to deliver in a market economy. As a highly skilled engineering manager, Lewis Barbe is a driven, entrepreneurial thinker, who has the necessary people skills to coach, mentor and motivate technical professionals.
As an experienced engineering manager, Lewis Barbe specialized in a form of management that is concerned with the application of engineering principles to business practice. Engineering management is an area of expertise that must bring together the technological problem-solving part of engineering with administrative, organizational and planning abilities of business management in order to oversee complex enterprises from beginning to end.
To become a successful engineering manager one must typically have training and experience in business and engineering. Engineering Management programs typically include instruction in finance, economics, project management, accounting, systems engineering, mathematical modeling and optimization, management information systems, quality control, safety, operations research, human resources management, industrial psychology and health. Managers who lack technical skills tend to be deprived of support by their technical team, and managers who lack experience on the commercial end tend to lack commercial acumen to deliver in a market economy. As a highly skilled engineering manager, Lewis Barbe is a driven, entrepreneurial thinker, who has the necessary people skills to coach, mentor and motivate technical professionals.