1. Critically evaluate recognised techniques for controlling costs and schedules on projects (AHEP4: B3, B4, B15)
2. Critically evaluate recognised techniques for managing project risks (AHEP4: B9)
3. Critically evaluate approaches to managing project quality (AHEP4: B4, B15)

Coursework assessing all learning Outcomes.
Report of 3000 words (70%) assessing all Los (AHEP4: B3, B4, B9, B15)
Presentation (30%) assessing LO3 (AHEP4: B4, B15)

Ensuring Project Quality: requirements capture and management, benefits management and the business case
Scope Management: Work Breakdown structures
Project Scheduling and Resourcing: network analysis and Gantt Charts, Milestones and deliverables
Monitoring progress and performance against plan
Project Change Control and Risk Management
Measuring performance in terms of performance, schedule and cost
Project success and quality

This module will develop your understanding of the methods for managing activities and measuring and reporting progress on engineering projects.

Students will use the VLE and will work through the module material provided on the VLE at a pace suggested within the module. The material will include activities and review questions that allow students to assimilate the concepts and skills required by the module.

Student journals will be available to discuss the learning directly with the tutor, the tutor will also provide a weekly opportunity to discuss the module and answer any questions. Students are encouraged to discuss relevant aspects within discussion forums that are part of the VLE. The forums will allow discussion with the student's peer group as well as the module tutor. This is a Distance Learning module only using the Blackboard VLE and the use of libraries and on-line research.

Students will be expected to engage with independent reading, which should include texts, journals, websites that are pertinent to the learning outcomes and the issues or areas that form the focus of the module. Indicative texts:-

Forth, S. and Lock, D (2020) The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls, Routledge, 1st Edition.

Larson, E W and Gray, C F, (2017) Project Management: The Managerial Process, Mc Graw Hill 7th Edition

Wright, A. and Lawlor-Wright, T. (2018) Project Success and Quality: Balancing the Iron Triangle, Routledge, 1st Edition.

Blackboard VLE Library facilities
Office 365
Excel

Must have attended a Course Briefing Day and be approved by the Course Leader