Do you have an engineer available for a project? How do you know? What tasks are they working on? Are they over-worked? Or under?
There are answers to all these questions. Scroll down and watch this video for some ideas.
Get a bar chart of upcoming work an engineer is assigned to. How is the chart built? It comes from projects the employee is assigned to, and specific tasks.
Here are a few other videos to learn more:
http://www.stdtime.com/videos/resourceallocation.htm
http://www.stdtime.com/videos/employeeavailability.htm