Title :
Educating engineers in the art, science and practice of project management: - A new course
Author :
Spowage, A.C. ; Chin, C.M.M. ; Chan, K.Y. ; Ting, K.N.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech., Manuf. & Mater. Eng., Univ. of Nottingham, Semenyih
Abstract :
After graduation engineers rapidly take on responsibility for the management of projects. This paper describes the development of a new project management (PM) course and associated roll-playing game. The course actively encourages students to practise their new technical and human skill sets in a competitive and realistic project environment. The paper presents an outline of the course structure and highlights some of the issues encountered during delivery of the course to undergraduate engineering students in the United Kingdom and Malaysia.
Keywords :
engineering education; project management; Malaysia; United Kingdom; engineering education; human skill; project management; technical skill; Art; Best practices; Buildings; Engineering education; Engineering management; Engineering students; Helium; Humans; Manufacturing; Project management; Project management; engineering education;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2329-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2330-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654383
