50 Years of Engineering Management Through the Lens of the IEEE Transactions

Tracing the frequency of occurrence of various topics contained in the pages of the Transactions provides an interesting history of the field that the authors call Engineering or Technology Management.

Abstract

As the IEEE (nee IRE) Transactions on Engineering Management celebrates its 50th anniversary, we look back to see how the journal has progressed over the years... Begun as an outlet for the thoughts on management of IRE members primarily from industry, the Transactions soon became a recognized scholarly journal. At the same time, in the opinion of the authors, it has retained its relevance to practitioners, while maintaining academic rigor. Tracing the frequency of occurrence of various topics contained in the pages of the Transactions provides an interesting history of the field that we call Engineering or Technology Management. It is interesting to see how different subjects grew and occasionally receded in interest.