GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
PROJECT MANAGEMENT/5051307
Course Title: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Prof. Cevriye GENCER
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  w3.gazi.edu.tr/~ctemel/
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  ctemel@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  INTRODUCTION: The concept of project and project management, Project life cycles, The classification of project.
2. Week  PROJECT PLANNING: Usefulness of planning, Project control, Establishing the project team,
3. Week  ORGANIZATION CONCEPTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT : Evolving principles of organizations, various forms of organizations, planning the matrix organizations
4. Week  TIME SCHEDULING: Gantt charts, Definitions PERT and CPM, Difference PERT and CPM
5. Week  NETWORKS: The rules of drawing network, activity on arc and activity on node
6. Week  CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CPM), COMPUTATION OF EARLY EVENT TIME AND LATE EVENT TIME: Finding a critical path and critical activity
7. Week  FLOATS: Total float, Free float, Independent float and safety float
8. Week  EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECNIQUE (PERT): Difficulties of PERT and PERTs calculations
9. Week  MIDTERM EXAM
10. Week  PROJECT RESOURCE PLANNING: Definitions, Methods
11. Week  PROJECT MONEY PLAN: Finding to T-day project deadline and cost
12. Week  PROJECT MONEY PLAN: Finding to T-day project deadline and cost
13. Week  LP MODEL FOR PROJECT PLANNING: Using linear programming to find a critical path
14. Week  PROJECT PRESENTATION
15. Week  PROJECT PRESENTATION
16. Week  PROJECT PRESENTATION
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  1. Cleland, D. I. and King, W.R., (1998), Systems Analysis and Project Management, Third edition, MGMT (Textbook)
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  In this course, project is prepared as application homework.
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
30
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
1
30
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
60
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
4
8
32
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
4
10
40
 Preparing Presentation
1
10
10
 Presentation
1
2
2
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
20
20
 Final and Studying for Final
1
30
30
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
176
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.04
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Ability of development of necessary methods for identifing, modelling and solving the advanced problems in the field.X
2Ability of considering and teaching the scientific and ethical values in the stage of collection, analysis and interpretation of the data related with the field.
3Ability of accessing to information related with scientific and technological developments and continuous renewal.
4Ability of transmitting of knowledge, sufficiency and experiences in the field to interdisciplinary practice.X
5The ability of integrating the knowledge in different areas and solving complex problems.X
6Ability of determination the research topics that contributes the literature according to the reqirements of technology and industry.
7Ability of making a scientific innovation/developing a new scientific method/implementing an objective and creating a roadmap for a scientific study.X
8Ability of written/oral presentation of results of scientific and technological studies in Turkish and foreign language.
9Effective working and leading ability in inter/multi diciplinary teams.X
10Ability of doing original studies/individual researchs that contribute to literature.X
11Ability of discussing the applicability and implementation of researh findings to industry.
12Ability of submitting national/international projects and ability of working in those projects.X
13Awareness about legal rights and legal consequences in execution of researchs and dissemination of their findings.