SEN723 - Managing Engineering Projects
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online Trimester 2: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Siva Krishnan Trimester 2: Bre-Anne Sainsbury |
| Cohort rule: | Must be enrolled in S652, S751, S752, S756, S757, S758, S759 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | SEB723 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2 hour studio per week. |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Online independent and collaborative learning including a 1 x 2 hour studio per week. |
Content
An Engineering project is an intellectual and practical endeavour that is undertaken to produce the results that are expected from the requesting party. It begins with understanding the social needs, conceiving solutions and predicting how they will work. The procedures used for managing engineering projects vary from one organisation to another and even among individuals within an organisation. Yet, project management requires planning and organising teamwork and coordination of people who have the ability to detect and solve problems, and resources that are necessary to complete the project on time and within agreed budget constraints. In SEN723 you will develop systematic project management approaches and methodologies for designing, implementing and evaluating engineering projects. You will learn skills to manage interactions within an organisation and among functional areas and take responsibility to define, scope, cost, plan and schedule a project and track its progress for a handover.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Analyse business needs, gather requirements from stakeholders, and identify options to define a project. | GLO4:Critical Thinking |
| ULO2 | Apply project management approaches to scope, plan and develop project design with estimations of resources, time and cost. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Respond to stakeholder needs and apply management techniques to deal with internal and external variables that influence project delivery. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO4 | Develop strategies to measure project performance and prepare project management plan for handover. | GLO5: Problem solving |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year.
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learning portfolio | Portfolio consisting of project planning deliverables, project performance monitoring and measurement deliverables, management action plan, deliverables reflections, and a learning summary report. | 100% | Weekly task submissions with a final submission |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must meet certain milestones as part of the portfolio.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEN723 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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