To develop students abilities to plan and manage large engineering projects, and to develop skills required to effectively communicate with other company departments directly involved in such projects, namely: Finance, Manufacturing and Corporate Management.

What is a project: the 3 goals of a project. Project selection methods, project appraisal criteria, economic analysis, Project life-cycles The project managers role and responsibilities, leadership, professional project management, projects within organisations, the project team, motivation, teamwork, communications on projects. Project planning: Project Charter and scope, work breakdown structures (WBS), linear responsibility chart (LRC), multidisciplinary teams, concurrent engineering, interface management, Design Structure Matrix. Project Budgeting: Cost estimation for projects: Estimating resource, time and cost requirements and constraints; Life-cycle costs, detailed & parametric cost estimating models, Budget determination. Project management software, MS Project applications and examples. Project Scheduling: PERT and CPM networks, finding the critical path and critical time, milestone management, calculating slack, project uncertainty and risk management, probabilistic activity times, simulation, the Gantt Chart, additional diagramming methods. Project Resources: Expediting a project, crashing a project, resource loading and levelling managing scarce resources on one or several projects, multiple projects, Critical Chain project management. Project Control: Plan-Monitor-Control Cycle, Project reporting, Earned Value, Project control systems, Scope creep and project change control. Evaluating projects: Evaluation criteria, project auditing, project termination

Initiate and plan projects by developing Work Breakdown Structures, Project Charters, Project Scope Statements and Organisational Breakdown Structures. Calculate critical paths and use PERT techniques to determine the probability of completing a project within a given time. Use the Earned Value method to control project cost and schedule. Evaluate optimum project durations by crashing or levelling projects either manually or using appropriate software. Conduct an economic analysis of a project based on life cycle costs and use this information to determine which of a set of projects is the most profitable.

Discuss the following projects management issues: human resources, communications, leadership, teamwork, motivation and change. List the nine areas of project management defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and describe how these

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Students will learn through a combination of lectures, case studies, and lab exercises. There will be a focus on problem solving and practical applications of project management.

Ongoing research, in cooperation with the Centre for Project Management, will be incorporated into this module where applicable.