Project Management

Explores technical and managerial challenges of project management in general. The topics addressed in this course range from project selection techniques, project planning, budgeting, risk analysis, resource management to project monitoring and termination. The goal is to understand how project management decisions are reached, what tradeoffs are made, and how outcomes depend on the underlying situation. Decision analysis tools such as linear/non-linear programming and spreadsheet simulation are utilized. Software packages used are Microsoft Project, Risk Solver/ Crystal Ball and Excel Solver.