PCH112 PROJECT ENGINEERING AND
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Course Objective:
To
understand the principles associated with effective project management and application
of these principles in avoiding common difficulties associated with project
management.
Introduction: Foundations of
project management, Project life cost analysis, Project environment, Project
selection, Project proposal, Project scope, Work breakdown Structure.
Networks: Scheduling, Critical path method, Program evaluation
and review technique, Planning and scheduling of activity networks, Assumptions
in PERT modeling, Time-cost trade-offs, Linear
programming and network flow formulations, PERT/COST accounting, Scheduling
with limited resources, Resource planning, Resource allocation, Project
schedule compression, Project scheduling software, Precedence diagrams,
Decision CPM, Generalized activity networks, GERT.
Projects: Estimation of project
costs, Earned value analysis, Monitoring project progress, Project appraisal
and selection, Recent trends in project management.
Recommended Books:
1.
Dunn, S.C., Project
Engineering, Skinner (Anthony) Management
Limited (1990).
3.
Frederick, L., and Blanchard,
F. L., Engineering Project Management, M. Dekker (1990).
4.
Sinha,
A.K., and Sinha, R., Project Engineering and Management,
Vikas Pub. (1983).
5.
Nigel, J., and Smith,
N. J., Engineering Project Management, Wiley-Blackwell (2002).
6.
Kenneth, K., and Humphreys,
J., Cost and Optimization Engineering, McGraw-Hill (1991).