Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
EE50105: Project engineering |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters |
| Period: | Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment:
| CW 30%, EX 70% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take EE50104 |
| Description: | or equivalent. Aims: To provide students with an understanding of project management and to define a project's objectives, plan the enterprise, execute it and bring it to a successful conclusion for all parties involved. Learning Outcomes: After completing this module, students should be able to: define the projects objectives and the roles of the key participants; produce a project plan; design and control and management procedures; and explain the procedures required to bring that project to a successful conclusion. Skills: Application of the information, techniques and methods detailed in the unit material, to the proposal of, and the carrying through of, appropriate solutions to engineering problems in project engineering. Taught, facilitated and tested. Content: Project definition: Principal types of project. Project outline. Roles of key participants. Defining objectives. Project planning: Defining sub-projects. Time scheduling. Costings. Defining resource requirements. Standard planning techniques. Computer planning techniques. Risk assessment and analysis. Project control: Quality standards. Setting milestones. Progress monitoring. Management information systems. Variance analysis. Communications handling. Changes to specification. Corrective action. Project completion: Customer acceptance. Project audits. |