Postgraduate Course: Engineering Project Management (MSc) (PGEE10012)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Project Management is the application of management principles to deliver a project to a specified timescale, budget and quality. This course will consider the principles of the management of engineering projects with respect to the life-cyle of the project, the parties, planning, estimating, contractor selection and contract management.
While there are no pre-requisites for this course it is recommended that students who enrol have a prior knowledge of engineering projects and their construction. |
| Course description |
Lectures: Titles & Contents
1. Introduction and project definition; definition of project management; project objectives & compromises.
2. Project Life Cycle: what the various stages of an engineering project are, from conception to commissioning to decommissioning.
3. Parties to a project: who the main players in an engineering project are and what are their roles. Project breakdown and Work Breakdown Structures.
4. Project planning. Networks, Gantt charts & network techniques.
5. The Critical Path Method as a way of analysing precedence networks and determining the critical path and activity floats.
6. The planning & estimating role and introduction to the estimating process
7. Financial resources. The role of cash flow and the concepts of liability, earning, profit, surplus and expenditure.
8. Elements of cost and cost data; the all-in rate; estimating methods: global, factorial and labour-hours methods.
9. Further estimating methods: unit-rate estimating and operational estimating.
1 . Further issues in estimating: conversion to tender bid; learning & forgetting; estimating accuracy; budgeting.
11. Introduction to contract management and contract law.
12. Types and classifications of engineering contracts. Contracts can be classified in three ways and this lecture will look at the differences between these classifications and why they are used.
13. Contract planning & contractor selection. The stages in the lead up to appointing an appropriate contractor for the project and how this is undertaken.
14. Contract award and conditions of contract. The procedures for awarding an engineering contract and how such contracts are administered through Conditions of Contract.
15. Conditions of contract continued and the Engineering & Construction Contract.
16. Contract management case studies.
17. Project Monitoring and Control. Understanding the principles of Milestone Monitoring and Earned Value Analysis
18. Project Monitoring Worked Examples.
19. Teams & Leadership: Subject to time, this lecture will cover the elements that make up a successful team in Engineering Project. Meredith Belbin¿s Team Roles theory will also be introduced.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 30 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 22,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
72 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% degree examination, 2 hours long, 3 questions from 4. |
| Feedback |
Students will be given the opportunity to provide Stop, Start and Continue feedback and comments on this will be provided back by the course lecturer.
Detailed Exam Post-Mortem comments will be provided. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Engineering Project Management (MSc) | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Recognise the constituent parts of a project life cycle and the relevant parties involved
- Demonstrate understanding of the importance project demand and client responsibility in project success
- Be able to analyse basic project cost and time information and produce simple estimates and plans
- Distinguish between different contractual and procurement methods for engineering projects
- Appraise project information and critique a project's likely success
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Reading List
BOOK: Smith, N (Ed.) Engineering Project Management, Blackwell Science, Oxford, 3rd Edition, 2007. [TA190 Eng]
BOOK: P.D. Gardiner, Project Management - A Strategic Planning Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. [HD69.P75 Gar. - note, main library, 1 copy]
BOOK: J.R. Meredith and S.J. Mantel Project management: a managerial approach (9th Edition), Wiley, Chichester, 2015. [HD69.P75 Mer] |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | projects,project management,procurement,planning,case studies |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Simon Smith
Tel: (0131 6)50 7159
Email: Simon.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk |
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