Florida International University



Florida International University

Engineering Management Program

ESI 6455 Advanced Engineering Project Management

Summer 2012 (revised on 5/23/2012)

Catalog Description:

This course covers entire phases of project management including selection, planning, budgeting, scheduling, monitoring, and control. It focuses on the management of engineering projects through case studies and independent research assignment

Textbook:

Gray, Clifford and Larson, Erik, Project Management: the Managerial Process, 5rd Edition, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011

Instructor:

Dr. Chin-Sheng Chen (EAS 3110, 305-348-3753, chenc@fiu.edu)

Website:

Class hours: Fridays

Office hours: 12-5pm

Classroom: EC 2420

Schedule

Session Date Topic C HW

1 5/11 Modern project management 1 P19: Case

1 5/11 Organization strategy & project selection 2 P51: P2-4, P7

2 5/18 Organization: structure and culture 3 P94: Orion System (A&B)

2 5/18 Project definition 4 See “Team project description 2a”

3 5/25 Project times & costs estimation 5 P147:E1

3 5/25 Project plan development 6 P193:E19

3 5/25 Risk management 7 P247Case Part A

4 6/01 Team project I (requirements & guidelines) - hands-out

4 6/01 Scheduling resources and costs 8 P285:E4

4 6/01 Project duration reduction 9 P326:E5

5 6/08 Midterm test (chapters 1-7)

5 6/08 Leadership and managing project team 10, 11 P371: Case, P409: Case

5 6/08 Outsourcing 12 P441: Case

6 6/15 Progress & performance measurement 13 P486:E6

6 6/15 Project closure & oversight 14, 16

6 6/15 PM career paths 18

7 6/22 Team project presentation

7 6/22 Final test (Chapters 8-18 excluding 5+17)

Grading:

Midterm test 30%

Final test 30%

Project presentation & report 25%

Homework 15%

Notes:

• There will be no credits for late homework, project presentation and report; no extra work for extra credits.

• Please check your Panthersoft email address regularly for this class.

Team Project Description

1. Project outline with the following items:

• Project title,

• Brief description of the (customer) company.

• Brief problem description,

• Objective,

• Deliverable item(s),

• Brief technical specifications (requirements) for each deliverable,

• An guesstimate of total project duration & budget,

• Brief contractor’s minimum qualification,

• Brief description of a generic technical approach to solving the project’s problem,

• Major work breakdowns of a deliverable (only for the first tier).

2. Notes

a. Each student needs to submit a project outline with the above items, for his/her chapter 4 HW assignment.

b. Pick an engineering project you know with sufficient technical details enough for write an engineering project proposal. If you can prepare an outline as above, then it is considered detail enough.

c. The project can be one you (your company or your friend) did before, are doing or plan to do. It can be a project with sufficient technical documented in the literature. You may scale down its scope, if necessary.

d. About six project outlines will be selected as team projects for this class. Each selected proposer will serve as the team leader, who will lead the team effort and evenly distributes work among its members.

e. Each team needs to develop the outline to a full-fledged project, orally present/defend with PP slides, and submit the final proposal in written form.

f. A project format template and evaluation forms will be posted later.

g. Each audience team must ask a meaningful technical (or managerial) question to the presenting team.

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