Project Management (Summer School)
Academic Study Board of the Faculty of Engineering
Teaching language: English
EKA: T900006102
Censorship: Second examiner: Internal
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Summer school (autumn), Summer school (spring)
Level: Bachelor of Engineering
Course ID: T900006101
ECTS value: 5
Date of Approval: 31-01-2020
Duration: Intensive course
Version: Archive
Course ID
Course Title
ECTS value
5
Internal Course Code
Responsible study board
Administrative Unit
Date of Approval
Course Responsible
| Name | Department | |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Pedersen | chpe@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Engineering Operations Management, Institut for Teknologi og |
Teachers
| Name | Department | City | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karsten Lund | klu@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Engineering Operations Management, Institut for Teknologi og |
Programme Secretary
| Name | Department | City | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susanne Fogtmann | sfo@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Studieadministration, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
Offered in
Level
Offered in
Duration
Recommended prerequisites
At least two years of engineering or natural science studies and have an interest in project management.
Overall learning objectives
By the end of the course the student should be able to:
- formulate the project purpose and objectives
- structure the project in main course and effort areas
- work out a milestone plan
- conduct a stakeholder analysis
- conduct an uncertainty/risk analysis
- work out detail plans for the project
- plan the financial issues of the project
- establish procedures for following-up on the project progress (including performed work, time schedule, and budget)
- work out a quality assurance plan for the project
- make suggestions for the organizing of the project
Learning objectives - Knowledge
- Identify and implement the four aspects of a project: The technical, the organizational, the business and the political aspects
- Develop teamwork in working groups
- Describe the roles to be played in teamwork
Learning objectives - Skills
- Assess the basis organization and a project organization in a company
- Analyze a project and its elements
- Make the main plan of a project
- Do detail planning and follow-up in Gantt, Network and PMS
- Do the budgeting and follow up as a part of project management
- Do project risk management
- Do successive calculation of the budget and schedule
Learning objectives - Competences
- Do planning and description of a project
- Behave and act as a project manager
- Behave and act as a team player
- Do a formulation of the company's: Mission, goals and strategy
- Use a contract concept for buying in projects
Content
The purpose of the course is to enable the student to analyze projects and project processes, and as a result, contribute to the accomplishment of the project. The aim is that the student builds up a substantial methodological competence so that he/she understands how he/she is able to promote a good accomplishment by applying appropriate methods and tools and applying appropriate behavior.
The student will obtain insight into the project management discipline and its’ concepts and assumptions, and will be able to independently employ/utilize the knowledge obtained to work out a project mandate with matching analyses and plans, and also to be able to evaluate project descriptions, analyses and plans worked out by other people. Furthermore, the student will be able to independently follow-up on analyses and plans, and in the light of these provide proposals for an appropriate management effort.
The student will attain knowledge about how to guide a process in which more persons are involved in accomplishing the abovementioned activities. Furthermore, the student will be able to employ this knowledge to make suggestions on how activities concerning project planning and following-up can be organized.
The student will attain knowledge on how a person’s behavior related to project management may have a hampering or a promoting effect on the accomplishment of the project, and will be able to independently apply this insight to (1) propose suggestions on his/her own, appropriate behavior in relation to the work on a single projects, and (2) be able to analyze and offer interpretations of the appropriateness of the behavior in project courses, where others are involved.
Competence in project management is in the course understood as a generic competence, which can be applied in all project types and in the private as well as the public sector. The student will, therefore, in principal become able to contribute to management of any project. Examples and cases will be drawn from projects relevant to the participants attending the course.
Time of classes
Summer (2 weeks in August)
Summer (2 weeks in August)
URL for Skemaplan
Teaching Method
Number of lessons
hours per week
Teaching language
Examination regulations
Exam regulations
Name
Exam regulations
Examination is held
At the end of the course.
Tests
Examination
EKA
T900006102
Name
Examination
Description
Examination conditions:
During the course there will a large case work. The case work should be documented in a report and handed in on time, according to the lecture plan
Evaluation:Final evaluation is based on an overall assessment of:
- Attendance (80%)
- The written report
Form of examination
Written examination
Censorship
Second examiner: Internal
Grading
7-point grading scale
Identification
Student Identification Card
Language
English
ECTS value
5
Additional information
Enrollment is limited to 30 students. If more applicants than places, applicants who meet the mandatory requirements are prioritised according to the below selection criteria:
- International applicants (bachelor level, third year or higher)
- Exchange students (partner universities)
- Guest students
- International applicants (master level)
- Exchange students (partner universities)
- Guest students
- Applicants from other Danish educational institution (bachelor level)
- Applicants from other Danish educational institution (master level)
- International applicants (PhD level)
- Exchange students (partner universities)
- Guest students
- Applicants not enrolled on an educational institution
- Other students
Note: Applicants from engineering or natural sciences will take priority. If remaining places, applicants with another academic background will be assessed according to the same selection criteria