Course Title: Manage an engineering project

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6066

Course Title: Manage an engineering project

Portfolio: SET

Nominal Hours: 40.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
CIVE5624	City Campus	TAFE	130T Infra, Electrotec & Build Serv	Face-to-Face	Term1 2008

Course Contact: Tony Skinner Program Coordinator

Course Contact Phone: (03) 9925 4444

Course Contact Email: tony.skinner@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit covers the competency to apply the principles and concepts of project management to the engineering context. It includes typical documentation requirements, and procedures associated with commissioning and finishing a project and to draw up a Critical Path Method network for a project.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

EDX010 – Communicate and apply standard industry procedures and policies in an engineering designoffice.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	EAX080 Manage an engineering project
Elements:	Apply the concepts, specific technical terms and procedures used in project management
	Demonstrate an understanding of procedures for tracking project progress
	Demonstrate an understanding of the procedures associated with finishing and commissioning a project.
	Demonstrate knowledge of typical project documentation
	Draw up a network diagram and Gantt Chart and calculate the critical path for a project/process
	Use project management software

Learning Outcomes

Apply the concepts, specific technical terms and procedures used in project management

Demonstrate an understanding of procedures for tracking project progress

Demonstrate an understanding of the procedures associated with finishing and commissioning a project.

Demonstrate knowledge of typical project documentation

Draw up a network diagram and Gantt Chart and calculate the critical path for a project/process
Use project management software

Overview of Assessment

This unit will be assessed in the classroom environment using holistic assessment, based on typical workplace activities.

Assessment will comprise :
1. Two assignments related to the the more practical exercises carried out in class, e.g. Gantt chart, Critical Path and use of project management software.
2. One two-hour end-of-semester examination based upon the more theoretical topics of each element.