"Engineering Management" is still engineering. Nobody outside of the engineering department is telling the engineering department how to manage their work. This

"Engineering Management" is still engineering. Nobody outside of the engineering department is telling the engineering department how to manage their work. This is what it means for engineers to manage their own work. If your engineering department is being heavy-handed in how they apply project management to all their projects, then that's on them. But realize it is their job to ensure the work is getting done.