Engineering Project Management.

Catalog description

The course introduces knowledge and skills required for project management, including communication, cost management, estimating, earned value, planning & scheduling, and risk management. Students will explore the role of project managers within the matrix structure of an engineering enterprise, and understand how individual projects fit into a company’s portfolio of work, where clients and projects may come and go. Students will read requests for proposals, write proposals, and learn how to decide whether to bid or not. Students will apply project management process assets: artifacts such as the scope, budget, project charter / opener, risk register, quality management plan, work breakdown structure (WBS), schedule, Gantt chart, and network diagram; methods such as benchmarking, earned value management (EVM), estimating, forecasting, and SWOT; and models such as Cynefin. Student teams will engage with cases based on real public filings from the licensing and permitting of complex, interdisciplinary engineering projects. Teams will develop and present a comms plan, cost estimate and analysis, engineering risk matrix, construction risk matrix, execution plan, and schedule. (Fall) Prerequisite: none.