Project Planning and Control

Course aim

To provide students with knowledge and analytical skills of planning and management techniques required to develop and implement an engineering project into a business organisation.

Course content

Project initiation, project organisational structure and work breakdown structure, project screening and evaluation using inputs from organisation’s strategy and cost evaluations, project risk management, project time and cost estimation, scheduling and planning, budget and resource management, project control and monitoring, project termination. Case studies.

Textbook(s)

Jeffrey K. Pinto 2020, Project management : achieving competitive advantage, 5th, Global edition, Pearson education Publisher

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Seminar	3 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Examination, Report, Test/Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.