2.1)Charles Babbage's work is considered to be far ahead of its time. Discuss this statement with examples.

2-2. How would faulty designs produced or approved by engineers today affect their career? Provide examples from news reports or case studies you have come across. Was the situation any different for engineers in ancient times?

2-3. Discuss Frederick W. Taylor's 4 principles of scientific management by providing examples from a firm you are familiar with.

2-4. The development of cotton and woolen mills in the mill cities of England, and later New England, caused tremendous sociological change as potential workers (especially women) swarmed from rural areas to the growing industrial cities. Cite examples of similar occur- rences in more recent times in developing countries.

2-5. What is the importance of motion study techniques? Apply motion study techniques to any task that involves a series of motions. Use a task that you are familiar with in an organization of your choice.

2-6. Fayol developed a set of 14 general principles of administration, which are meaningful even today. Discuss any 7 of these principles and explain why you consider them important.

2-7. What was the positive value of Max Weber's model of "bureaucracy'?

2-8. The essence of the Relay Assembly Test Room Experiments at the Hawthorne Works was that expected correlations between productivity and physical factors such as rest periods were not demonstrated. What other factors could explain the regular productivity increases observed in these experiments?

2-9. Read at least part of In Search of Excellence, and elaborate on one significant finding of Peters and Waterman.

2-10. As made clear in this chapter, engineers and engineer managers have made strong con- tributions to management theory and practice. List the engineers and engineer managers identified in this chapter together with their contributions, and add any others you may know of.