OVERVIEW

This course deals with the issues of Project Management with particular attention to the case of Industrial Plant Projects

The course includes both lectures, classroom experiences, simulations and role plays conducted with industry experts

At the end the student acquires the ability to become a proactive and valuable element of a Project Team on Industrial Plant Projects

The Course material is available in Italian and English on www.itim.unige.it/pm

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students will acquire: knowledge of Project Management Techniques and Methodologies applied directly to industrial plants, ability to integrate specific Technical aspects within Project Management as well as a complete overview of Support Methodologies for project management of industrial plant. They will be able to: pursue the achievement of the project objectives by combining operational constraints and strategic choices, independently addressing overall management issues and identifying and implementing appropriate solutions.

They will be skilled in:

• Project Management
• Resource Management in Constrained Environment
• Project Management Innovative Techniques for Construction and Engineering
• Project Team Modus Operandi

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course does not create project managers, obviously, but transfers to trainee the whole competences for supportin PM (Project Management) by effective methodologies in order to become a valid Team member and to work on the development of Industrial Plant Projects.

Acquired skills includes:

- Project Integration Management

- Project Scope Management

- Project Time Management

- Project Cost Management

- Project Quality Management

- Human Resource Management within Projects

- Project Communication Management

- Project Risk Management

- Project Procurement Management

PREREQUISITES

This course does not have specific prerequisites, since it completely addresses each topic from the beginning and provides all the basic elements for using techniques and methodologies to support Project Management. An engineering background and mathematical and statistical foundations could be useful

TEACHING METHODS

The student's evaluation is based on group works related to case studies, interactive lessons and a final oral exam. The entire course is available in Italian and English and the language used in the lessons is based on the request of the students and the audience; all documentation including exercises guided by self-assessment agents are online at www.itim.unige.it/pm

The experiences in the classroom are both individual and group, both in cooperative and competitive ways and face real problems ranging from the proposal of plants, to the cooperative planning between engineering, purchasing, building site and installations, to the competition between teams that manage projects EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction)

All the documentation, including interactive exercise with IA for automated evaluation are online: www.itim.unige.it/pm

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Course provides competences on

• Project Management (Integration Management, Scope Management, SOW, WBS, PDM, PERT, CPM, GANTT, GERT, CPI, SPI, etc)
• Construction and Engineering Context
• Resource Management (Time Management, Cost Management, Human Resources, etc)
• Risk Management
• Team Working
• Problem Solving

The Course is based on Blended Education, Lectures & Exercises as well as Case study, experiences and Role Play Games individual and in teams. The whole Course and educational material is available in English or Italian, and lectures are provided in the languages on basis of the student demand and audience .

More details are available hereafter: www.itim.unige.it/pm

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Bruzzone A.G. (1998-2018) "Project Management for Industrial Plants", DIPTEM Press University of Genoa, Genova, Italy  - on line available on www.itim.unige.it/pm

Optional

• Kerzner H. (1998) "Project Management", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York
• Duncan W. (1996) "Project Management Body of Knowledge", Project Management Institute, Charlotte, NC, USA
• Pierce D.R. (1998) "Project Scheduling and Management for Construction, Means Co, Kingston MA
• Arcibald R.D. (1994) "Project management. La gestione di progetti e programmi complessi", Franco Angeli, Milan
• Willoughby (1995) "Project management for Builders & Contractors", Salal Press
• Navarrete P.F. (1995) "Planning, Estimating and Control of Chemical Construction Process", Marcel Dekker Inc.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

AGOSTINO BRUZZONE (President)

GIULIANO FABBRINI

ANTONIO GIOVANNETTI

MARCO GOTELLI

KIRILL SINELSHCHIKOV

FLAVIO TONELLI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/9269/p/studenti-orario

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The final evaluation is based on  Case studies (team works), Interactive Lectures with evaluation and a final Oral Exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Classroom exercises and oral summary of the whole program for those who attend the exercises

Oral extended throughout the program for people unable to complete the exercises in the classroom

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

there are no pre requisites therefore basics in Statistics and in Industrial Plants could be useful; medium level of understanding in English or Italian could be useful to follow the lectures