Fundamental concepts and techniques for project acquisition and procurement are presented. Students are introduced to the PMBOK Guide six-step procurement process and expected to develop an in-depth understanding of project evaluation, planning, ... financing, contracting, negotiation, and procurement execution. It will also cover emerging methods, principles, and practices in infrastructure project procurement, including Public-Private Partnerships, Carbon project procurement, and Clean Development Mechanism.
Restriction: Must be in the (ENGR: Graduate Certificate in Project Management) program; or must be in one of the following programs (ENGR: MS/PhD-Civil Engineering (Master's); Master of Engineering-Project Mgmt (Master's); ENGR: MS/PhD-Civil Engineering (Doctoral); Master of Engineering (Master's)) ; or permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department.

The course is suitable for project managers both in the government, military, and private sectors, including engineers, architects and other design professionals, consultants, developers, real estate professionals, facility owners in the private ... and public sectors, as well as non-technical professionals interested in the latest advances in sustainable project management. Addresses the fundamentals of sustainability for project managers including best practices of modern sustainable construction and project management. Commercial and residential buildings consume about 40 percent of the energy used in the United States. Therefore, emphasis will be on the application of the sustainable development standards to the built environment, including the practical operational aspects of sustainable facility project management.

Basic scheduling calculations and network development methods will be covered. Students will learn how to create, calculate, update and revise schedules. In addition, students will be introduced to basic concepts of the contractual, managerial ... and legal aspects of project scheduling. This course teaches the basics of project scheduling and the various scheduling approaches that are currently being used in the design and construction industry. Project planning techniques will be covered and basic scheduling methods will be taught including the use of bar charts. Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation and Review (PERT) and Linear Scheduling (Line of Balance) methods.

Learn how and why Agile project management is the fastest growing and most successful project management philosophy today. This course updates the principles of ENCE665, Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment, to expand on the principles ... of Simultaneous Management with cutting edge techniques drawn from Agile frameworks. Learn the mechanics of how to design and facilitate projects using "pure" Agile Scrum and Lean Kanban techniques; and the trade-offs of using hybrid techniques such as Lean Startup, Scaled Agile For the Enterprise (SAFe), and Disciplined Agile Development. Then go beyond these frameworks to the science beneath with essential principles to ensure you get the best benefits of Agile project management methods: Speed, Innovation, Leadership, and Kanban (Change for the Better). By the end of this course, students should be able to clearly explain how Agile techniques address faults in Traditional project management techniques, the tradeoffs (benefits and risks) of these approaches, and when it's best to apply Agile approaches to maximize value to the organization.

Learn the fundamentals of communications for project managers. Emphasis is on interpersonal and group communications; through voice, electronic, and written messages; project cycle and reports and presentations during this cycle; and communications ... for employment.

Students entering the field of construction, and seasoned professionals alike, need an education in modern automation techniques. To stay competitive, they need an understanding of industrial robotics that aid redesign and partial or full automation ... of construction processes. Course resources will include repositories of the proceedings of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction compiled annually since 1984, Automation in Construction, an international research journal published since 1992, monograph book titled "Robotics in Civil Engineering", and additional materials from a variety of technical resources provided by the instructor.

Summer 2023 Tu 6:00pm - 7:30pm Kenneth O'Connell
A Combination of lecture and hands-on use of software to develop advanced knowledge and skills necessary to master advanced scheduling techniques for project management and control will be used. No software purchase is necessary. ...
Two hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENCE423 or ENCE662; and permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department. Credit only granted for: ENCE623 or ENCE688S.

Summer 2023 TuTh 1:00pm - 2:30pm Neil Schulman
The principals of project administration procedures from the viewpoint of a resident project manager or project engineer specifically addressing their responsibilities in the engineering, design, or construction industries are examined. ... The course is suitable for students, engineering and design professionals, project managers, experienced contract administrators, and owners interested in the special administrative problems or construction.

Analytic techniques to estimate and control project costs, including site investigation, quantity takeoff, work analysis and bid preparation. Systematic cost control as related to job production and historical data. ...
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.

This course addresses the breadth of managing software engineering projects. It will help in transforming inspiring software engineers to software project leaders. The course will impart advanced principles, methods and tools for management ... of software projects in a realistic software engineering context. An Integrated Lean Project Management (ILPM) framework which is an implementation-oriented hybrid of traditional Project Management Institute (PMI) and Agile project management paradigms will be coached. After completing this course, students will be able to: select & justify software engineering projects by establishing relevant business cases, manage customer requirements, develop key components of software engineering project plan and the planning process, identify software project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies, develop a project team to build and deliver the product, understand and apply methods for solving and avoiding common difficulties associated with managing software engineering project, perform post implementation review, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of software development projects.

This course provides an overview of project management within the context of systems engineering. Topics include: organizational structures; leadership; team dynamics; life cycle models; systems engineering processes and products; the management ... implications of implementing model-based systems engineering; proposals, contracts, and the acquisition process; project planning; cost estimation and modeling; scheduling (PERT, CPM, and Gantt charts); project measurement, assessment and control (including earned value management and technical performance measurement); risk management; configuration management; quality management; and maturity models.