Florida International University
Engineering Management Program
ESI 6455 Advanced Engineering Project Management
Fall 2012 (updated on 8/22/2012)
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, )
Website: http://web.eng.fiu.edu/chen
Class hours: Wednesdays
Office hours: W: 12-5pm
Classroom: EC 1115
Schedule
Session Date Topic C HW
1 8/22 Modern project management 1 P19: Case
2 8/29 Organization strategy & project selection 2 P51: P2-4, P7
3 9/05 Organization: structure and culture 3 P94: Orion System (A&B)
4 9/12 Project definition 4 See “Team project description”
5 9/19 Project times & costs estimation 5 P147:E1
6 9/26 Project plan development 6 P193:E19
7 10/03 Risk management 7 P247Case Part A
8 10/10 Scheduling resources and costs 8 P285:E4
9 10/17 Midterm test (chapters 1-7)
10 10/24 Project duration reduction 9 P326:E5
11 10/31 Leadership and managing project team 10, 11
12 11/07 Outsourcing 12
13 11/14 Progress & performance measurement 13 P486:E6
14 11/21 Project closure & oversight & PM career 14&16&18
15 11/28 Oral presentation by each project team
16 12/05 Final test (Chapters 8-18 excluding C15&17)
Grading:
Midterm test 30%
Final test 30%
Project presentation & report 30%
Homework 10%
Notes:
1 Each home work will be submitted in class in hard copy, in the following week after finishing the chapter. Need to type (or print neatly), labeled clearly with student name, panther ID, chapter number problem number.
2 There will be no credits for late homework, project presentation or report; no extra work for extra credits, either.
3 Please update or check your Panthersoft email address regularly for class announcements.
Team Project Description
1. Guidelines
a. Each student will submit a project concept as outlined below, as a homework assignment for chapter 4.
b. For the project outline, each student will pick an engineering project of which one has sufficient knowledge, for preparing an engineering project proposal for this class’ team project.
c. The engineering project can be one that you (your company or someone else) completed before, are doing, or entertaining. It is one you can acquire sufficient technical details or one with sufficient information documented in the literature. You may scale down its scope, if necessary.
d. About one quarter of project outlines will be selected as team projects for this class. If yours is not picked, you will be a team member on a select project. If picked, the project proposer will serve as project team leader, who will lead the team effort and distributes work among its members.
e. Each team will further develop the project outline to a full-fledged project proposal, orally present/defend the proposal, and submit the final proposal in accordance to the format given in class. The project format template will be posted for the class later, along with an evaluation form.
f. At the oral presentation, each audience team will ask a meaningful technical (or managerial) question to the presenting team.
2. Project concept outline:
· Project title
· Brief description of the (customer) company
· Brief description of the problem
· Project objective
· Deliverables (itemized)
· Brief description of a technical solution approach to the problem
· Brief description of the contractor’s minimum qualification
· A guestimate of its cost and duration
· Major work breakdowns of the first deliverable (into a list of major tasks).