Course overview
This course will provide students with knowledge and analytical skills of planning and management techniques required to develop and implement an engineering project into a business organisation. Project initiation, project organisational structure and work breakdown structure, project screening and evaluation using inputs from organisation's strategy and cost evaluations, project risk management, project time and cost estimation, scheduling and planning, budget and resource management, project control and monitoring, project termination. Case studies.
Course learning outcomes
- Apply evaluation analysis and selection methods to recommend the best project management strategy for an engineering problem under certain constraints and requirements. (PO1, 4, 9) (EA 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4)
- Competently plan and manage medium sized industrial projects with consideration of the stakeholder needs, scope, time, cost, and resources. (PO 2, 4) (EA 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Create an appropriate organisational breakdown structure and work breakdown structure for a given project. (PO4, 5) (EA 2.2, 2.3)
- Develop a project schedule to implement the project with consideration of budget and resource constraints. (PO 2, 4) (EA 1.4, 2.2, 2.3)
- Develop and apply suitable management tools to critically monitor and control the progress of a project (PO 1, 2, 4) (EA 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4)