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CODE 86666
ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-IND/17
LANGUAGE English
TEACHING LOCATION
  • SAVONA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

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

The course aims to provide a significant background to EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction about the job manage) Project Managers starting from the overall definition of the methodology based on international standards (PMI/IPMA) and focusing to bidding phase with associated economic risks evaluation (contingencies). The student will learn to achieve an optimized management of the project ranging from the construction phase, to the suppliers selection and qualification up to the final commissioning according to corporate policies. The proposed models, which use the Monte Carlo simulation, Design of Experiments and other appropriate business tools, will enable students to acquire the skills needed to deal with the difficulties arising from acting in stochastic regime.

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)

The whole 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 in 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)

MATTEO AGRESTA

GIULIANO FABBRINI

MARCO GOTELLI

ROBERTO REVETRIA

KIRILL SINELSHCHIKOV

LESSONS

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 follow

Oral extended throughout the program for no way to complete the exercises in the classroom

Students with SLD, disability or other regularly certified special educational needs are advised to contact the instructor at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and examination methods that, in compliance with the course objectives, take into account the individual learning requirements

 

 

 

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
27/12/2023 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
27/12/2023 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
05/06/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
05/06/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
12/06/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
12/06/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
19/07/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
19/07/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
05/09/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale
05/09/2024 11:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale

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

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