ME50336: Engineering project management (MSc)
[Page last updated: 27 October 2020]
![]() | 2020/1 |
![]() | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
![]() | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
![]() | 120 |
![]() | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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![]() | CW 100% |
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Description: | Aims: To enhance the ability of students to deal with managing projects in engineering organisations, including projects that involve organisational change. To deepen their appreciation of how project management fits into a wider context including strategic management, contemporary engineering practice and organisational factors. To build project management skills that can influence industrial competitiveness and technology management practice in industry. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit the student will be able to: * Explain what a project is * Describe the importance of project management, including organisational change * Apply the tools of project and change management to a given project, using an appropriate lifecycle approach. * Outline alternate models of project and change management * Explore an aspect of project anc change management linking theory and practice. Skills: * Acting effectively in different team roles [T,A] * Communication skills (written) [F,A] * Communication (range of audiences) [F,A] * Analysing complex systems and dealing with incomplete data [T,A] * Applying concepts, models and tools to project management scenarios [T,A] * Self-development including reflection [F] * Problem solving [T,A]. Content: * Models of project and change management * Strategic context * Project lifecycle and stages * Time and cost estimation; Critical path methods; probability assessment * Uncertainty & Risk Management * Project Monitoring and Control * Managers, Leaders and Teams * Organisational Change Management * Stakeholder and Communications. |
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ME50336 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
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