Taught courses that include: Project Management, Principles of Management, and Project Management Systems.
MGMT303 – Principles of Management
This course examines fundamental management theories and traditional managerial responsibilities in formal and informal organizational structures. Planning, organizing, directing, controlling and staffing are explored.
MGMT404 – Project Management
This course enhances students’ ability to function in a project leadership role.
While 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.
PROJ586 – Project Management Systems
With an emphasis on planning, this course introduces project management fundamentals and principles from the standpoint of the manager who must organize, plan, implement and control nonroutine activities to achieve schedule, budget and performance objectives.
Topics include project life cycles, organization and charters; work breakdown structures; responsibility matrixes; as well as planning, budgeting and scheduling systems. Planning and control methods such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, earned value systems, project management software applications and project audits are introduced.
Guided students to function in a project leadership role by teaching them the following concepts:
- Project life cycle
- Project planning and control methods (PERT/CPM, Gantt charts)
- Budget and timeline management
- Project scheduling
- Risk management
- Resource management
- Project audits
- PMBOK® Guide and Standards
- Waterfall and agile
- Microsoft Project