ME1402 Project Management for Chemistry Engineering Students

Completed upper secondary education.

The course deals with the following subjects:

• Project process: a project goal and typical lifecycle
• The environment and stakeholders of a project
• Project planning
• Team and group dynamics

Throughout the course different industrial projects from the chemical industry are presented

To give the students basic knowledge about project management i different industrial operations. The goal is that the students are well prepared to be a part of industrial projects in their respective technology area after the course.

After the course the student shall know how to:

• Describe the basic concepts and models of project management
• Formulate project goals that are realistic and possible to evaluate
• Describe a typical project lifecycle and give the basic principles behind the most common project models
• Describe the usual methods for structuring and time planning a project and choose among these tools in a project situation
• Develop a project plan with the help of these methods
• Use tools for project risk management
• Describe the most common group dynamic models relevant for project work
• Describe the relation between project organizations and permanent organizations and describe what solutions there are for the built-in problems in this relationship
• Explain the relationship between projects and their external environment and apply a stakeholder analysis for a particular project
• Analyze practical problems with the help of the tools and concepts of project management and give recommendations for how management of a project can be improved
• Reflect on the group composition and groupdynamic aspects of team work.