ABET Course Syllabi for IE 415: Project Management
1. Course number and name IE 415: Project Management
2. Credits and contact hours: 3 credit hours, 4 hours per week
3. Instructor’s name (or course coordinator's name) : Mohamed Mostafa
Mahmoud
4. Text book, title, author, and year
Meredith, Jack R. and Mantel, S. J. Jr. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: A
MANAGERIAL APPROACH, 7th ed., John Wiley and Sons, (2008), ISBN13:9780470226216.
i. Other supplemental materials: Instructor Handouts
5. Specific course information
i. Brief description of the content of the course (catalog description):
Introduction to engineering project management. Planning successful projects.
Specifying, budgeting, implementing, executing, scheduling, delivery options, and
closeout. Scheduling tasks and resources. Resource leveling. Common characteristics
of projects. Network tools for project planning and monitoring. Cost optimization to
meet project objectives. Project crashing, time-cost trade-offs. Risk analysis. Software
for project planning and scheduling.
Prerequisites or co-requisites: IE 256
i. Required, elective, or selected elective course in the program: Required.
6. Specific goals for the course
This course enhances students' ability to function in a project leadership role. While .7
exploring the project life cycle, they gain experience in budget and timeline
management. Project management software is used to design project schedules using
methods such as bar charts, program evaluation review technique (PERT) and critical
path method (CPM) to produce project plans to apply to the solution of case studies.
i. Specific outcomes of instruction
By completion of the course, the students should be able to:
1. Understand the role of project managers in a developing country
2. Learn how to initiate a project determining project goals and deliverables.
3. Acquire practical knowledge on managing project scope, schedule, and
resources, document constraints, assumptions.
4. Define budgets, refine time and costs, estimates, and establish project
controls.
5. Measure performance, take corrective action, evaluate its effectiveness, and
ensure plan compliance.
6. Get acquainted with popular software used by project management
professionals.
7. Facilitate closure, preserve product records and tools and release resources.
8. Create a network diagram that takes resource constraints into account.
9. Explain resource leveling
10. Discuss resource-limited scheduling
ii. explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes listed in Criterion 3 or
any other outcomes are addressed by the course.
a) An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering
b) An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret
data
e) An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
g) an ability to communicate effectively
i) A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
k) An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for
engineering practice.
Brief list of topics to be covered
 Project Conception and Appraisal
 Project Planning
 Project Crashing & Resource Consideration
 Project Implementation
Course Learning Objectives
(C.L.O.)
Student Outcomes
IE 415: Project Management
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b
1. Understand the role of
project managers in a
developing country
2. Learn how to initiate a
project determining project
goals, deliverables, and
process outputs.
3. Acquire practical knowledge
on managing project scope,
schedule, and resources,
document constraints,
assumptions.
4. Define budgets, refine time
and costs, estimates, and
establish project controls.
5. Measure performance, take
corrective action, evaluate its
effectiveness, and ensure plan
compliance.
6. Get acquainted with popular
software used by project
management professionals.
7. Facilitate closure, preserve
product records and tools and
release resources.
8. Create a network diagram
that takes resource constraints
into account.
9. Explain resource leveling
10. Discuss resource-limited
scheduling
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3 = High = Synthesis & Evaluation levels, 2= Medium = Application & Analysis Levels, 1= Low = knowledge & Comprehension Levels.
DA1 = Attendance (0), DA2 = Homework (10), DA3 = Quizzes (10), DA4= Individual Reports (5), DA5 = Team Report (5), DA6 = In-class activities (10),
DA7= Midterm Exams 1 and 2 (20), DA8= Final Exam (40).
Indirect assessment for IE 415: Project Management
Course
The course serves an important part of my degree objectives
The required prerequisite are adequate and justified
The course provides a balance between theory and applied experience
The sequence of course topics reinforce my learning experience
The textbook and reference materials, if any, are useful and adequate
Instructor
The instructor is well prepared
The combination of lecture and visual presentations helps me better understand the course material
The instructor encourages student questions and manages classroom interaction
The instructor is available to students who are in need of help
I highly regard the instructor's performance in teaching this course
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Midterm Exam
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and learning tools used in this course.
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tools was in helping you attain the course
learning objectives.
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1. Understand the role of project managers in a developing
country
2. Learn how to initiate a project determining project goals,
deliverables, and process outputs.
3. Acquire practical knowledge on managing project scope,
schedule, and resources, document constraints, assumptions.
4. Define budgets, refine time and costs, estimates, and
establish project controls.
5. Measure performance, take corrective action, evaluate its
effectiveness, and ensure plan compliance.
6. Get acquainted with popular software used by project
management professionals.
7. Facilitate closure, preserve product records and tools and
release resources.
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