Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ETM 3820 - Contemporary Project Management
Students learn skills, tools, and strategies needed for technical projects. The focus of the course will be on key project management phases such as initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects as well as topics such as project integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, human resource management, communications management, and risk management.
Requisites: ETM 2030 and MGT 2000 and WARNING: No credit for both this course and the following (always deduct credit for first course taken): ETM 3830 or ISE 4190 or ISE 4490 or MGT 3250
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe the different types of matrix organizations and they will be able to describe the role of the project manager in each type of organization.
- Students will be able to develop an appropriate communications plan given the different types of stakeholders and discrete information about the project.
- Students will be able to describe the phases of a project as defined by the Project Management Institute, and the role of the Project Manager within each of these phases.
- Students will be able to select a project that a company should pursue based on the financial gain versus effort to execute the project.
- Students will be able to calculate the critical path, early, late and slack activities within AON/AOA charts.
- Students will be able to modify AON/AOA charts to optimize the project path.
- Students will be able to create strategies for building high-performance teams within scenario-based exercises.
- Students will be able to identify appropriate documentation from discrete data provided to them.
- Students will be able to use software to develop standard documentation using project charting methods.
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