COURSE OUTLINE

ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT (3+1 credit hours)

Fall 2017

Schedule Section A (Tuesday 8:00AM-9:20AM) Office Room # G13

(Thusrday 8:00AM-9:20AM)
Timing: Open Door Policy

Instructor Engr. Sabeeh ul hasnain Contact

Course Engineering Project Management prepares students for a professional role in the
Description management of engineering projects by providing students with an understanding of
both the people-related and technical requirements necessary for the successful
management of engineering projects, as well as the organisational and strategic aspects.
The programme also stresses the processes that are used to produce, process and service
engineering-based innovation projects from idea through relevant analyses to launch,
relate innovation to improvements in products, processes and competitive advantage and
explain how intellectual property is protected and exploited.

Expected  Describe the concepts of project definition, life cycle, and systems approach.
Outcomes
 Compare competency in project scooping, work definition, and work breakdown
structure (WBS).
 Solve the complex tasks of time estimation and project scheduling, including PERT
and CPM.
 Appreciate and manage the use of computers in project scheduling, especially a tool
like MS Project.

Textbooks REQUIRED:

AvrahamShtub, Jonathan F. Bard and ShlomoGloberson,“Project Management:

Processes, Methodologies, andEconomics” Second Edition, 2005, Prentice Hall, ISBN:
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Midterms A single midterm exam will be Quizzes/ Minimum three unannounced quizzes
conducted Assignments and three assignments will be taken.
 Lecture Plan

No. of Topics
lectures
3 Principles of management;
decision making;

4 stress management;
conflict management
3 crisis management;
leadership
2 motivation;
delegation of powers;

3 role of projects in organization’s

competitive strategy,
standard methodologies for managing projects,
project lifecycle
3 design implementation interface,
estimating,
contractual risk allocation
2 scheduling: PBS and WBS,
integration of scope,
Time, Resource and cost dimensions of a project;

3 evaluation of labor, material, equipment, and subcontract

resources;
Scheduling Techniques such as CPM/PERT and GERT,

2 Critical chain, solving real world project schedules,

Cost budgeting,

3 Cost baseline, cash flow analysis, earned value analysis

2 cost control, proposal presentation,
Application of software for project management