Abstract
Engineering Managers utilize many tools to manage their work throughout their organizations. A common tool in the engineering management arsenal used to accomplish their work is modeling, which allows practitioners to collect their ideas in one place and communicate them to stakeholders. While effective, many of these modeling processes depend on inconsistent timeframes or individual stakeholder views, and it is difficult to rigorously capture individual contexts, which limits the model's general applicability and ability to merge with other models or processes. Applied Category Theory contrasts with these modeling processes by remaining agnostic towards stakeholder perspectives and generalizable enough to accommodate inconsistent timeframes and multiple bodies of knowledge. Applied Category Theory is also mathematically rigorous, allowing models to be universally communicable to all stakeholders and provide a clear structure for integrating new knowledge and updating current-state models. This research will illustrate the use of applied category theory in modeling a small organizational setting in pursuit of collecting information and diagnosing organizational problems. This research will also detail a selection of the mathematically rigorous concepts utilized for modeling via applied category theory with suggestions for future research directions that may be needed for more complicated cases. Utilizing this research, engineering managers will be able to examine scenarios within their organizations and model them in a generalizable and universally communicable way. Through utilizing applied category theory modeling, practitioners will also ensure that as many stakeholders as possible can utilize a shared and holistic perspective when addressing organizational challenges.