Instructor: Dr.
George L. Donohue
Lecture: Robinson
B120
Time: MW
Office Hours: Monday
Wednesday
Prerequisites: Stat
344 and SYST 301, Co-requisit SYST 302
Text: Mantel, Meredith, Shafer and Sutton, “Project Management in
Practice, 2nd Ed. 2005.
Objective: Systems 371 is designed to provide the systems engineer with management and project control skills required to formulate and manage large complex projects. The first half of the class will be devoted to the development and demonstration of each individual students ability to use the tools of engineering management and control to effectively trade off performance, cost and time. The final third of the class will be devoted to team competition on a common engineering project proposal. Based upon individual performance on the mid-term exam and homework performance, team leaders will be chosen who will select their team members. All teams will be given a common engineering management problem and they will bid for the contract at the end of the semester. I will act as the acquisition executive of a large company that has requested the proposal and will assign final grades based upon each proposal’s overall merits.
Grading: Each student’s final grade will be determined as follows:
25% Team Final Proposal
Presentation
25% Final Project report (written)
25% Mid-Term Exam
15% Homework
10% Timesheets and team self-evaluation
Semester
Schedule:
January 23. Review Spring Semester Schedule
HW problems 18-23, due Jan 30. In class statistics exam. Distribute Time Sheets.
January 25. Chapter 1 the Manager, Meyers Briggs, NPV, etc.
HW: take the Meyers Briggs test at
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
Submit results with your name on
the computer printout on Jan. 30.
January 30. a management personality game, HW problems due.
Feb. 1. Chapter 2
Organization and the Team
Feb. 6. Chapter 2 Conflict Management
Feb. 8. Chapter 3 Project Planning
HW: John Wiley and Sons case study, due Feb. 15
Feb. 13. Chapter
3 WBS
Feb. 15. Chapter 4 Budgeting
Feb. 20. Chapter 4 Cost Estimating and Learning Curves
HW: use Crystal Ball to do prob. 1, 2, and 3. What is the First Unit Cost @ 80% LC and 30,000 units per year? What are year 6 production costs? Due Feb. 27.
Feb 22. Chapter 4 Risk Management
Feb 27 Chapter 5 Scheduling PERT and CPM
March 1. Chapter 5 Simulation and Gantt Charts
HW: do problems 25, 27, 28; due March 6.
March 6. Chapter 6 Resource Allocation, Goldratts Critical Chain
March 8. Chapter 7 Monitoring and Control
March 12-19 Spring
Break
March 20. Chapter 7 Earned Value Management
March 22. Chapter
8 Evaluation and Termination, MT exam
hand out
March 27 Mid Term Exam (open book, take home) due
March 29. Pass back Exam and Individual team formation
April 3. video on the design problem, Q&A on Project Design Proposal
April 5. Individual team discussions of project status
April 10. Individual team discussions of project status
April 12. Individual team discussions of project status
April 17. Individual team discussions of project status
April 19. Individual
team discussions of project status
April 24. Final
written Project Proposals due, Final Proposal Presentations* (1)
April 26. Final Proposal Presentations (2)
May 1. Final Proposal Presentations (3)
May 10. Final Exam (lessons
learned discussion and course evaluation)
* Actual presentation order will be determined by random
draw