Is MBA a good tool in Engineering department management?

Mina Mikhail,

I agree with the fact that MBA studies do help a person to be more aware of the situations were financial matters comes into effect with man management skills the person becomes more potent for handling diverse situations like the tight scheduled projects & SCM and Marketing but in some specialties like Project Management the MBA person must have an engineering back ground which will obviously help him in making more drastic decisions which are long lasting and more economically feasible. 

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

Nowadays Techno commercial people are preferred so Having a Management qualification apart from core engineering is need of today.

MBA is quite necessary to optimise and improve  any engineering administraction process

Why not! Every bit of knowledge will help you at some stage of your life.

MBA helps really in engineering department management in many ways with respect to sequence, preference, staffing, understanding individual and team behaviours, knowing organization behaviour, inventory methods etc.

Yes. having an extra qualification is always advantagious, gaining expertise in different professions, will enable you to take lead in this competative environment.  

yes adding more knowledge to give good leadership skills & management 

Any knowledge will only add to the person expertise only. An engineer going above the ladder will require managements skill thought in MBA programmes to effectively implement the strategies, moreover in a team handling profiles it will definetly add to the concerned.

simply and power is success because MBA is quite necessary to optimise  

Yes it could be useful in business and managements purposes.

Any kind of additional studies certainly play a positive role but in my opinion based on meeting many successful Engineers / Engineering Manager its not necessary to be a business graduate. Competency in respect engineering & basic sense of time & work studies along with good leadership skills are more than enough. By the way MBA is nothing to do with developing leadership skills.