Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

ETM 3830 - Enterprise Project Management


Students will learn the skills, tools, and strategies needed to meet the needs of managing engineering projects. The topics in the course include initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects as well as project integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, human resource management, communications management, and risk management.

Requisites: (ETM 1030 or ISE 1100 or CE 2010 or MIS 2010 or 2011 or CS 2400 or ET 2100) and (MGT 2000 or 2100 or 3000 or 3200 or 3400 or 3500 or CE 2160) and WARNING: No credit for this course and (deduct credit for first course): CE 2160, ETM 3820, ISE 4190, 4490
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
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 decide on 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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