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
1X
2
3
4X
5X
6
7X
8
9X
10X
11
12X
13