COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ENM 5040 PROJECT MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BILGE BILGEN

Offered to

M.Sc. Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT- NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM)
Metallurgical and Material Engineering

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to introduce and discuss the basic project management and control issues and goals.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   An ability to have to have an understanding of modern project management.
2   An ability to to plan a project, and to schedule a project by collecting numerical data about the stages of the project.
3   An ability apply the project management and scheduling techniques on a practical problem
4   An ability use Microsoft Project Software (or other project management software) in performing various project management planning and scheduling tasks

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Modern Project Management, Organization Strategy and Project Selection, Organization: Structure and Culture
2 Defining the Project
3 Developing Project Plans, Critical Path Method (CPM) (AOA)
4 Developing Project Plans (AON), A Network Model for Optimizing a Project Time-Cost Tradeoff,
5 Program Evaluation and Review Techniques (PERT)
6 Managing Risk
7 Scheduling Resources and Costs
8 Reducing Project Duration , Using Linear Programming to Make Crashing Decisions
9 Managing Project Teams, Outsourcing
10 Mid-Term Exam
11 Project Audit
12 Project Presentations
13 Project Presentations
14 Project Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

C.F. Gray, E.W. Larson. Project Management - The Managerial Process, 2007, McGraw Hill, 4th Edition.
Shtub, A., Bard, J.F., Globerson, S. Project Management Proceses, Methodologies, and Economics, 2005, Prentice Hall.
Meredith, J.R., Mantel, S.J., Project Management A Managerial Approach.,2003 John Wiley & Sons.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The presentations which are prepared by using books, articles and proceedings as well as class board will be used in the scope of the course programme.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 176

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1232
LO.223
LO.3232
LO.423