ASSESSING ADVANCED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES

The process of evaluating new technologies significantly affects their development, diffusion and adoption. While academic literature review s on the assessment of advanced manufacturing technologies have been c ompleted, there is insufficient understanding of the actual processes for evaluating advanced engineering technologies in the professional w orld. This paper reports on the results of a survey of US engineering managers and their knowledge, experiences and perceptions of the proce ss by which advanced engineering technologies are evaluated in their f irms, and compares these results with those of prior, notable surveys. The engineering managers surveyed are members of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) which generously pre-screened and p rovided the member database.