Unit of Study Descriptions
Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Project Management
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Project Management are required to gain credit for the Project Management core units of study set out below. Any additional credit necessary to satisfy the degree requirement of not less than 96 credit points in Project Management shall be gained by completing additional elective units of study, as recommended by the School.
Core units of study
First Year
MATH1001 Differential Calculus
Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prohibitions: MATH1011, MATH1901, MATH1906, MATH1111, ENVX1001 Assumed knowledge: HSC Mathematics Extension 1 Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
MATH1001 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit of study looks at complex numbers, functions of a single variable, limits and continuity, vector functions and functions of two variables. Differential calculus is extended to functions of two variables. Taylor's theorem as a higher order mean value theorem.
This unit of study looks at complex numbers, functions of a single variable, limits and continuity, vector functions and functions of two variables. Differential calculus is extended to functions of two variables. Taylor's theorem as a higher order mean value theorem.
Textbooks
As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook.
MATH1002 Linear Algebra
Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prohibitions: MATH1902, MATH1014 Assumed knowledge: HSC Mathematics or MATH1111 Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
MATH1002 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit of study introduces vectors and vector algebra, linear algebra including solutions of linear systems, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
This unit of study introduces vectors and vector algebra, linear algebra including solutions of linear systems, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Textbooks
As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook
MATH1003 Integral Calculus and Modelling
Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prohibitions: MATH1013, MATH1903, MATH1907 Assumed knowledge: HSC Mathematics Extension 1 or MATH1001 or MATH1011 or a credit or higher in MATH1111 Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
MATH1003 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.This unit of study first develops the idea of the definite integral from Riemann sums, leading to the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Various techniques of integration are considered, such as integration by parts.The second part is an introduction to the use of first and second order differential equations to model a variety of scientific phenomena.
Textbooks
As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook
MATH1005 Statistics
Credit points: 3 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prohibitions: MATH1015, MATH1905, STAT1021, STAT1022, ECMT1010, ENVX1001, BUSS1020 Assumed knowledge: HSC Mathematics Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination, assignments and quizzes (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
MATH1005 is designed to provide a thorough preparation for further study in mathematics and statistics. It is a core unit of study providing three of the twelve credit points required by the Faculty of Science as well as a Junior level requirement in the Faculty of Engineering.
This unit offers a comprehensive introduction to data analysis, probability, sampling, and inference including t-tests, confidence intervals and chi-squared goodness of fit tests.
This unit offers a comprehensive introduction to data analysis, probability, sampling, and inference including t-tests, confidence intervals and chi-squared goodness of fit tests.
Textbooks
As set out in the Junior Mathematics Handbook
ENGG1850 Introduction to Project Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hr Lectures per week, 2hr Tutorial/Lab per week. Prohibitions: CIVL3805, QBUS2350 Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), Final Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Organisations today are heavily reliant on projects as part of their daily operations. A project is a temporary endeavour undertaken with limited resources to achieve organisational goals that are linked to broader organisational strategies and missions. Project management is therefore the process of planning, scheduling, resourcing, budgeting and monitoring the various phases of a project.
"Introduction to Project Management" is an introductory course that teaches students essential principles and concepts of project management, its application and related technologies. Students will learn about the project organisation, its structure, and role of the project manager, project sponsor and project committee. In addition, students will also learn how to identify business problems that require project-based solutions, how to select and evaluate projects, develop a business case, and manage the project at a basic level.
At completion of the course, students will have a high-level understanding of project management concepts, which equips them with basic technical and managerial skills required for project-based organisations.
"Introduction to Project Management" is an introductory course that teaches students essential principles and concepts of project management, its application and related technologies. Students will learn about the project organisation, its structure, and role of the project manager, project sponsor and project committee. In addition, students will also learn how to identify business problems that require project-based solutions, how to select and evaluate projects, develop a business case, and manage the project at a basic level.
At completion of the course, students will have a high-level understanding of project management concepts, which equips them with basic technical and managerial skills required for project-based organisations.
ENGG1801 Engineering Computing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 2 hour of lectures and 2 hours of computer laboratory sessions per week. Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), Final Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
The unit will introduce students to fundamental principles of programming. The language used will be Matlab but the principles taught are readily portable to other languages like C and Java. The unit material will be presented in a manner which will help students to draw a connection between programming constructs and real engineering applications. The unit will use engineering inspired case-studies : especially from Civil, Chemical, Aerospace and Mechanical streams, to motivate new material. There will be a major project which uses programming to solve a real world engineering problem. The extensive Matlab library for visualization will also be introduced. Matlab will cover two-thirds of the unit. The remaining one-third will be devoted to the use of Excel in engineering scenarios. Furthermore, cross integration between Matlab and Excel will also be highlighted.
BUSS1040 Economics for Business Decision Making
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prohibitions: ECOF1005 Assessment: written assignment (15%), on-line quizzes (10%), mid-semester exam (20%), and final exam (55%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Note: This unit of study is a compulsory part of the Bachelor of Commerce and combined Bachelor of Commerce degrees.
Economics underlies all business decisions, from pricing, to product development, to negotiations, to understanding the general economic environment. This unit provides an introduction to economic analysis with a particular focus on concepts and applications relevant to business. This unit addresses how individual consumers and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets. It also introduces a framework for understanding and analysing the broader economic and public policy environment in which a business competes. This unit provides a rigorous platform for further study and a major in economics as well as providing valuable tools of analysis that complement a student's general business training, regardless of their area of specialisation.
PSYC1002 Psychology 1002
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Caleb Owens Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: Three 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week, plus 1 hour per week of additional web-based (self-paced) material related to the tutorial. Assessment: One 2.5 hour exam, one 1250 word research report, multiple tutorial tests, experimental participation (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Psychology 1002 is a further general introduction to the main topics and methods of psychology, and it is the basis for advanced work as well as being of use to those not proceeding with the subject. Psychology 1002 covers the following areas: human mental abilities; learning, motivation and emotion; visual perception; cognitive processes; abnormal psychology.
This unit is also offered in the Sydney Summer School. For more information consult the web site:
http://sydney.edu.au/summer_school/
This unit is also offered in the Sydney Summer School. For more information consult the web site:
http://sydney.edu.au/summer_school/
Textbooks
Course Coordinator will advise
Second Year
ENGG2850 Introduction to Project Finance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hrs Lectures per week, 2hrs Tutorial/Laboratory per week. Prohibitions: CIVL3812 Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), Final Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
This is a theory and case study based UoS providing students with a unified approach to the analysis of project value, supported by explicit methods for ranking and selection of projects on the basis of returns and sensitivity. The UoS uses "Project Finance" as a vehicle for descibing the fundamentals of project management financing and contrasts it with "Direct Financing", a more traditional approach to funding projects.
ENGG2851 Data Analytics for Project Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hrs Lectures per week, 2hrs Tutorials/Laboratories per week. Prerequisites: ENGG1850 AND (MATH1001 OR MATH1901) AND (MATH1002 OR MATH1902) AND (MATH1003 OR MATH1903) AND (MATH1005 or MATH1905) Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), Final Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Project Management Data analytics (DA) provides extensive coverage related to examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information. It is used in many industries to allow companies and organization to make better business decisions and in the sciences to verify or disprove existing models or theories. Here, we focus our effort on providing in-depth knowledge and skills to students focusing on inference, process of deriving a conclusion based solely on what is already known by the project manager.
ENGG2852 Project Based Organisational Behaviour
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hrs Lectures per week, 2hrs Tutorials/Laboratories per week. Prerequisites: ENGG1850 AND PSYC1002 Assessment: Through semester assessment (60%), Final Exam (40%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Project based organisational behaviour focuses on human behaviour in organisational and project based context, with a focus on individual and group processes and actions. It involves an exploration of organisational and managerial processes in the dynamic context of organisation and is primarily concerned with human implications of project based activity. In this UOS, we offer a succinct, lively and robust introduction to the subject of organizational behaviour. It aims to encourage critical examination of the theory of organisational behaviour whilst also enabling students to interpret and deal with real organisational problems in project management and combines relative brevity with thorough coverage and plentiful real-world examples.
ENGG2855 Project Quality Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hrs Lectures per week, 2hrs Tutorials/Labs per week. Prerequisites: ENGG1850 Assessment: Through semester assessment (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Project Quality Management offers a specific, succinct, step-by-step project quality management process. It offers an immediate hands-on capability to improve project implementation and customer satisfaction in any project domain and will help maintain cost and schedule constraints to ensure a quality project. This UOS introduces tools and techniques that implement the general methods defined in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge-Third Edition (PMBOK) published by the Project Management Institute (PMI), and augment those methods with more detailed, hands-on procedures that have been proven through actual practice. This UOS is aimed at providing students an explicit step-by-step quality management process, along with a coherent set of quality tools organised and explained according to their application within this process that can be applied immediately in any project context. It further introduces a Wheel of Quality that codifies in one complete image the contributing elements of contemporary quality management. It also help in understanding the process for establishing a new quality tool, the pillar diagram, that provides a needed capability to identify root causes of undesirable effects.
Third Year
ENGG3853 Project Risk Mgnt Tools & Techniques
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hr lectures per week; 1hr tutorial per week. Prerequisites: ENGG2851. Prohibitions: CIVL4810 Assessment: Through semester assessment (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Project risk management is considered to one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as also developed by ISO/IEC 31010 (The International Organization for Standardization and The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)): Risk management - Risk assessment techniques. Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose significant technological and sociological challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources and understanding of the risks involved at varying scales and different times. This UOS covers most relevant tools and techniques for identifying and managing project risk from a theoretical and practical perspective so that possibility of failure in critical projects can be minimised - e.g. through failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA). It offers students a step by step systematic approach through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every stage in the process. Drawing on real-world situations and examples, this UOS outlines proven methods, demonstrating key ideas for project risk planning and showing how to use system-level risk assessment tools. It further offers guidance related to analysis aspects such as available resources, project scope, and scheduling, and also explores the growing area of Enterprise Risk Management.
PMGT3858 Complex Project Coordination
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hr Lectures per week; 1 hr Tutorial per week; 1 hr Laboratory per week Prerequisites: ENGG1850 AND ENGG2852. Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), Final Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Note: Students are expected to have an good understanding of the standard project management methodologies, yet are willing to learn new theoretical and practical approaches to complex project management. The theoretical approach will stem from the complex adaptive systems theory. The practical and analytical approaches will use social network theory in analysing the coordination mechanisms. Students are expected to read about both: Complex systems and social networks.
In a complex and intertwined world, dependencies are exponentially increasing for any task. Management practices are also changing to reflect these complexities. You can no longer consider that each project has a predefined standard set of tasks and deliverables. Most of the large projects these days are interdepend and multi-discipline which require new ways of theoretically approaching them as well as tools to analyse them as a necessary prerequisite to manage. So being a successful project manager in future means that you won't be satisfied with existing standard tools so as to use those to coordinate complex projects. Most probably those tools will fail. In the near future, project managers are expected to be innovators in the way they approach project understanding, analysis and management.
This UOS will open new ways for looking at complex projects where you will be a leading the stakeholders to look at the project from a new view: complex systems view. This will help you to analyse the project's complex interdependencies and use new methods to manage them, which will lead to project's success.
This UOS will open new ways for looking at complex projects where you will be a leading the stakeholders to look at the project from a new view: complex systems view. This will help you to analyse the project's complex interdependencies and use new methods to manage them, which will lead to project's success.
ENGG3854 Negotiating and Contracting
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr lectures per week; 1hr tutorial per week; 1 hr lab per week. Prerequisites: ENGG1850 AND ENGG2850 AND ENGG2852. Prohibitions: CIVL3813 Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), FInal Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
In this UOS, we draw on examples on project negotiation and contracting from "real-life" business situations and provide practical information on what to do and what not to do. Student would be exposed to the complexity involved in negotiation and contracting from initiation to formalization of final form of contract which is agreed upon and executed by all parties. Students will be taught how to understand each party's interests and then working towards reaching a common goal. In particular, dealing with complex characters including situations will be covered.
We will provide a basic understanding of commercial contracts and all their ramifications every step of the way. This UOS also explains the basics of commercial contract law, highlights how to spot potential issues before they become a problem and then how to work with a lawyer more effectively if things go wrong which is intended for corporate managers rather than lawyers. This UOS further contains coverage on forming contracts, restitution, contract interpretation, modification and dispute resolution. We also discuss remedies, performance, and third-party beneficiaries.
We will provide a basic understanding of commercial contracts and all their ramifications every step of the way. This UOS also explains the basics of commercial contract law, highlights how to spot potential issues before they become a problem and then how to work with a lawyer more effectively if things go wrong which is intended for corporate managers rather than lawyers. This UOS further contains coverage on forming contracts, restitution, contract interpretation, modification and dispute resolution. We also discuss remedies, performance, and third-party beneficiaries.
PMGT3855 Project Variance and Analysis
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr Lectures per week; 1 hr Tutorial per week; 1 hr Laboratory per week Prerequisites: ENGG2851 Assessment: Through semester assessment (50%), Final Exam (50%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Project variance analysis uniquely shows project managers how to effectively integrate technical, schedule, and cost objectives by improving earned value management (EVM) practices. Providing innovative guidelines, methods, examples, and templates consistent with capability models and standards, this UOS approaches EVM from a practical level with understandable techniques that are applicable to the management of any project. It also explains how to incorporate EVM with key systems engineering, software engineering, and project management processes such as establishing the technical or quality baseline, requirements management, using product metrics, and meeting success criteria for technical reviews. Detailed information is included on linking product requirements, project work products, the project plan, and the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), as well as correlating technical performance measures (TPM) with EVM.
Honours Year
The following units of study will be available for students wishing to enter the BPM Honours program in 2015.
PMGT4850: Project Management Honours Project A
PMGT4851: Project Management Honours Project B
Select 24 cp from the following list of electives:
PMGT5875 Project Innovation Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Session 1 : Block mode ; Session 2: Online Assessment: Through semester assessment (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: On-line
This course focus on the impact of innovation into the project management practice. Important trends in innovation in project organisation, management and delivery are identified and their implications for project management explored. Major topics include: trends, such as ``open source``model rather than protected intellectual property innovation structure; impact of the open innovation structure on organisational project management; improved understanding of the client requirements and achievement of quality goals through tools and methodologies based on an user driven approach; distribution of innovation over many independent but collaborating actors; and the importance of diverse thinking toolkits(for example: design thinking, systems thinking, integrative thinking, and hybrid thinking) that empower users to innovate for themselves.
PMGT5876 Strategic Delivery of Change
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Session 1: Block Mode; Session 2: Online Prohibitions: WORK6026 Assessment: Through semester assessment (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: On-line
Welcome to PMGT5876 Strategic Delivery of Change. This course is designed to foster and promote critical thinking and the application of good theory to inform good practice in the strategic delivery of organisational change. The philosophy underpinning this course is design thinking. You will learn quite a bit about this idea over the duration of the course, and why it is increasingly important to change management. The course develops capabilities that will differentiate you from the average project manager and change agent, and which are in high demand in forward thinking organisations.
PMGT5879 Strategic Portfolio & Program Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Session 1: Block Mode;
Session 2: On-line Assessment: Through semester assessments (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Block Mode
This unit specifically addresses the selection and prioritisation of multiple programmes and projects which have been grouped to support an organisation's strategic portfolio.
The allocation of programmes of work within a multi-project environment, governing, controlling and supporting the organisation's strategy, are considered. The aim is to formulate and manage the delivery of the portfolio of strategies using programme management. Students will learn and practice the issues to be considered in selecting an effective organisation portfolio and how to implement a Portfolio Management Framework. Also they will encounter the many conflicting issues facing Program Managers as they seek to implement organisation strategy through programs and learn how to balance these to obtain desired outcomes.
The allocation of programmes of work within a multi-project environment, governing, controlling and supporting the organisation's strategy, are considered. The aim is to formulate and manage the delivery of the portfolio of strategies using programme management. Students will learn and practice the issues to be considered in selecting an effective organisation portfolio and how to implement a Portfolio Management Framework. Also they will encounter the many conflicting issues facing Program Managers as they seek to implement organisation strategy through programs and learn how to balance these to obtain desired outcomes.
PMGT5886 System Dynamics Modelling for PM
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: Session 2 : 3hrs per week - evening Assessment: Through semester assessment (60%), Final Exam (40%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Evening
Students should achieve an understanding of the roles of statistical methods, coordinate transformations, and mathematical analysis in mapping complex, unpredictable dynamical systems. Systems Thinking is a more natural and better way to think, learn, act, and achieve desired results. Effectively implemented, it can dramatically improve a manager`s effectiveness in today`s complex and interconnected business world. This course provides managers with many practical new Systems Thinking tools and the main concepts of Systems Thinking to enhance individual, team, and organizational learning, change, and performance.
PMGT5893 Statistical Methods in PM
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3hrs Weekly (evening) Assessment: Through semester assessment (40%), Final Exam (60%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Evening
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Aims: Students should achieve an understanding of the applications of statistical methods in project environments.
Objectives: Students should be able to:
- Conduct hypothesis test and draw conclusions;
- Apply regression analysis to examine relationships between variables;
- Explain the relationships between variables;
- Describe the distributions of variables;
- Draw conclusions based on results observed in a sample;
- Discuss the application of statistical model for project selection;
- Appl the statistical techniques learned to a range of different "real world" situations;
- Apply R in analyzing and evaluating statisitcal information.
By the end of this unit of study, students should be able to:
- Discuss the applications of statistical methods;
- Evaluate a project situation based on statistical results; and
- Apply simple statistical methods to problem-solving in project management.
Objectives: Students should be able to:
- Conduct hypothesis test and draw conclusions;
- Apply regression analysis to examine relationships between variables;
- Explain the relationships between variables;
- Describe the distributions of variables;
- Draw conclusions based on results observed in a sample;
- Discuss the application of statistical model for project selection;
- Appl the statistical techniques learned to a range of different "real world" situations;
- Apply R in analyzing and evaluating statisitcal information.
By the end of this unit of study, students should be able to:
- Discuss the applications of statistical methods;
- Evaluate a project situation based on statistical results; and
- Apply simple statistical methods to problem-solving in project management.
PMGT6867 Quantitative Methods: Project Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Session 1: 3 hours per week (evening); Session 2: 3 hours per week (evening) & on-line Assumed knowledge: Expect the basic understanding of the organisational context of projects and limited experience of working in a project team. Also, familiarity of different quantitative methods applied in the context of different project environments. Assessment: Through semester assessment (40%), Final Exam (60%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Evening
Methods studied in this unit are used in a wide range of project management tasks and problems. The unit explains why and where particular methods are used and provides examples and opportunities to apply these methods in practice. This UoS will also facilitate the understanding of the mechanics of these methods and their underlying theory.
Notes
1. The Honours program is completed as an additional year. Students are required to achieve a minimum 65% average mark in the Intermediate and Senior units of the above program to be eligible for entry to Honours.
2. For core units of study offered by other than the Faculty of Engineering, any assumed knowledge, prerequisite and corequisite requirements will be as prescribed by the Faculty.
3. Most Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science units of study offered by the Faculty of Science can be replaced by equivalent advanced level units of study subject to prerequisite conditions (as required by the Faculty of Science) being met. Students considering doing advanced options should seek advice from the relevant department before enrolling.
Project Management Recommended Electives
In addition to the core units in the above table, students will need to complete 12 credit points of electives to gain a total of 96 credit points as required for the degree. The following list are recommend units.
PMGT2854 Implementing Concurrent Projects
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hrs lectures per week, 2hrs tutorial/laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ENGG1850 AND ENGG2850 Assessment: THrough semester assessment (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
What is concurrent engineering? What are the different components? Why do we need to get products to market fast? What really matters? Starting with a vision, creating great teams that work and creating processes that work effectively around the teams. Teams need to complement processes, and processes need to complement teams. Individuals and teams also evolve processes. In fact great systems are those that can evolve and adapt without a centralised management. The artist that creates a great system is the one that can make a sustainable design.
PMGT3856 Sustainable Project Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hr Lectures per week; 1hr Tutorial per week Assessment: Through semester assessment (100%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The concepts of sustainability and corporate responsibility are gaining importance in our globalised economy. They have been increasingly influencing business and project objectives and it is becoming imperative that they are incorporated into the practice of project management.
This unit of study embraces this new reality by providing students with an expanded understanding of value creation and how this is delivered through projects. The emphasis is on using projects to deliver value in terms of economic capital whilst also developing social capital and preserving natural capital. These will be underpinned by an appreciation of the standards, principles and frameworks that exist, both in Australia and internationally, to govern the preservation of the environment and increase the development of social capital.
Case studies will be used to create learning processes as students consider and confront the dilemmas that project managers face as they strive to deliver shareholder value via fiscal project objectives as well as face increasing pressure to deliver to reduce environmental impacts. Cases discussed in this UOS will allow students to explore both the opportunities and pitfalls companies and non-government organisations face in targeting sustainability issues and how their values and core assumptions impact their business strategies.
Concepts such as corporate responsibility, the triple bottom line, the business case for sustainability, supply chain management and responsible purchasing and knowledge management will be discussed and students will consider how these influence project delivery.
This unit of study embraces this new reality by providing students with an expanded understanding of value creation and how this is delivered through projects. The emphasis is on using projects to deliver value in terms of economic capital whilst also developing social capital and preserving natural capital. These will be underpinned by an appreciation of the standards, principles and frameworks that exist, both in Australia and internationally, to govern the preservation of the environment and increase the development of social capital.
Case studies will be used to create learning processes as students consider and confront the dilemmas that project managers face as they strive to deliver shareholder value via fiscal project objectives as well as face increasing pressure to deliver to reduce environmental impacts. Cases discussed in this UOS will allow students to explore both the opportunities and pitfalls companies and non-government organisations face in targeting sustainability issues and how their values and core assumptions impact their business strategies.
Concepts such as corporate responsibility, the triple bottom line, the business case for sustainability, supply chain management and responsible purchasing and knowledge management will be discussed and students will consider how these influence project delivery.
PMGT3857 International Project Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr Lec per week; 1hr Tut per week; 1hr Lab per week Assessment: Through semester assessment (60%); Final Exam (40%) Campus: Camperdown/Darlington Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Day
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This UOS provides specific guidelines for achieving greater international project success. It addresses the need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. It provides opportunity to students to have orientation towards lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. The critical success factors for managing international projects together with management issues related to vendors and outsourcing across national boundaries are also discussed. It further deals with managing businesses effectively address cross- cultural, social, and political issues.
Alternative elective units may be taken with approval of the Head of School.
For a standard enrolment plans for the various Project Management streams visit http://cusp.sydney.edu.au/engineering