Cost Engineering: A Separate Academic Discipline?
作者:
PATRICK SIK-WAH FONG,
DODO KA-YAN IP,
期刊:
European Journal of Engineering Education
(Taylor Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 1
页码: 73-82
ISSN:0304-3797
年代: 1999
DOI:10.1080/03043799908923539
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
This paper assesses whether cost engineering is an academic discipline or not. Cost engineering is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the scientific approach towards management issues in engineering. It is still in a dynamic stage in that its domain is revised periodically. Despite the rapid expansion of its role in practice, it is found that cost engineering is not an academic discipline. In particular, it possesses most of the key attributes that an academic discipline should uphold, but it lacks attributes that are vital for an academic discipline: the expression of human imagination, and a generalized syntactical and conceptual structure. More work is therefore needed to establish cost engineering as an academic discipline. Apart from cultivating the vital attributes, partnerships between the cost engineering industry and academia can also be introduced.
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