James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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EG5302:02

Project Management and Development

Townsville

26 lectures, 13 tutorials. Two week vacation block mode. First or second semester.

Available to students enrolled in the Master of Engineering Management course and to other students at the discretion of the Head of School of Engineering.

Project initiation and development; planning networks and review techniques; functional analysis modelling; resource optimisation; projects and company organisational structures; project planning and scheduling; risk and uncertainty; practical considerations; case studies.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to provide a critical understanding of special characteristics of projects;
  2. to enable successful development of projects from conception to termination phase;
  3. to develop effective project organisational structures;
  4. to learn to apply the networking techniques in planning, scheduling, managing and controlling projects.

Assessment by assignments (50%); projects (50%).


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