CVEN 4320 – Engineering Project Management
Fall 2005 Semester
2006-2008 Catalog Data: CVEN 4320: Engineering Project Management. Principles governing the effective and efficient management of engineering projects including the application of comprehensive planning, scheduling, and cost estimation procedures. Presentation of oral and written design reports. Prerequisite: Senior Standing.
Textbook: Precedence and Arrow Networking Techniques for Construction; Harris
References: Building Construction Cost Data; Means
Construction Management Fundamentals; Schexnayder and Mayo
Project Management for Construction: Hendrickson and Au
Critical Path Methods in Construction Practice 4th Ed.; Antill and Woodhead
Productivity Improvement in Construction; Oglesby, Parker and Howell
Project Management with CPM and PERT; Moder and Phillips
Construction Contracting; Clough and Sears
Team Work and Project Management; Smith
Construction Performance Control by Networks; Ahuja
The Critical Path Method; Shaffer, Ritter and Meyer
Construction Estimates from Take-Off to Bid; Foster, Trauner, Vespe, and Chapman
Estimating Construction Costs; Peurifoy and Oberlander
Construction Planning, Equipment, & Methods 7th Edition; Peurifoy, Schexnayder, and Shapira
Instructor: Enno “Ed” Koehn, Professor of Civil Engineering
Goals: (1) This course is developed to provide Civil Engineering students with a working knowledge of the basic functions of planning, scheduling and cost estimating in design and construction. Contemporary issues, economic factors, reliability, aesthetics, social and legal ramifications, and ethics are taken under construction. (ABET Outcomes # a and j)
(2) A major comprehensive group team design project is assigned which illustrates the planning, scheduling and cost estimating procedures involved with construction work. Professional responsibility, economic factors, reliability, aesthetics, social and legal ramifications, and ethics are taken into consideration, as applicable. This also includes an oral and written presentation of the final results. The use and application of scheduling and cost estimating computer program is required. (ABET Outcomes c, k, and l)
Prerequisites by Topics: None – Senior Standing Required
Topics:
1. Project breakdown, design of activity durations, scheduling computations for arrow networks (5 classes)
2. Communicating the schedule, project control and design, reliability (5 classes)
3. Scheduling computations for precedence networks (4 classes)
4. Design of time-cost adjustments (4 classes)
5. Resource, design, scheduling, leveling, and reliability (4 classes)
6. Program design, evaluation & review techniques, probabilistic effects, legal aspects, overlapping networks (5 classes)
7. Introduction to design estimating, overhead and profit, aesthetics, and cost indices (4 classes)
8. Contracts, bonds and other cost, labor productivity, social and legal aspects (4 classes)
9. Earthwork-quantity calc., and methods; equipment cost and productivity (2 classes)
10. Measurements, wants, voids, mean perimeter (1 class)
11. Presentation of team projects (2 classes)
12. Examinations (2 classes)
Computer usage:
1. Assignment utilizing an elementary scheduling software package
2. Assignment utilizing an advanced scheduling software package (Microsoft Project)
3. Assignment utilizing an advanced scheduling/cost estimating software package (PRIMAVERA)
4. Comprehensive design project utilizing scheduling software
Contribution of course to meeting the professional component:
This course contributes to the engineering science and engineering design component.
ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:
Engineering Topics: 3 credits or 100%