EEE 3111-Project Design and Management

1. EEE 3111-Project Design and Management Prof. S.M. Kang’ethe, MSc EEE,JKUAT, samuel.kangethe@jkuat.ac.ke

2. Course Objectives After completing this unit, you will be able to: • Understand the discipline of project management and its application in business environment. • Define project management and relate it to contract management and academic research. • Understand and use the various planning methods in engineering projects. • Use the different techniques and tools for Project management. • Communicate effectively with key stakeholders to ensure project success

3. Indicative Content • Review of planning methods; Comparison of systems. Design, Planning and control; Network Planning using critical path method, activities sequencing, event and activity time. • Critical Path Analysis (CPA) bar chart; Control Path Method (CPM) bar chart; Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT); Precedence Networks; Graphic evaluation and review Techniques (GERT); Planning Methods and use of tools; Planning procedures. • Operation and maintenance of engineering projects: Planning, routine sequences, organization and management. Resource allocation: Cash flows forecasting; Plan organization and cost budgeting. • Research project: Identification, selection, development and appraisal. Participatory approach to research project proposal development; donor agencies; financial organizations. Dissemination of project results; workshops, seminars, conferences and publications

4. Teaching Methodology/Assessment The course will be conducted using several approaches: • Lectures to elaborate and reinforce the assigned textbook material • Group/class discussions • Assignments • Group Presentation • ASSESSMENT • The Unit is assessed through continuous assessment consist of assignments, CATs and assigned projects and group work. The CA mark constitutes 30% and the final examination 70%.. • PASS MARK • The pass mark is 50% NOT 40%. • Maximum units allowed for supplementary is 2 Units  You MUST OWN the LEARNING PROCESS

5. TextBooks/Recommended Readings • R. Burke, 2003. Project Management: Planning and Control Techniques”, • Samuel J. Mantel, Meredith, 2004, Shafer & Sutton, Core Concepts: Project Management in Practice, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-22965-2Supplementary Materials • Keith Lockyer and James Gordon, Project management and Project Network Techniques, 6th Ed., Prewntice Hall, HD 69.P75, L62

6. Why PM is Importrant to YOU • Most of us get to where we are by some technical or specific set of skills • If you want to get things done, you need a good blend of • Business knowledge • People management • Knowledge of organizational politics • AND an area of technical expertise These are the things that make things happen!

7. What is the Role of Engineer Today? • Society • Culture aspects • Development agenda • Leadership: Not just support staff involved in production • Business and Economic Value • Products and services must be based on changing needs, business competition (value proposition, benefits).. • Engineering profession • Role in building the profession: quality products and services, • Changing Role of Engineer: Re-engineering engineering • Continuous professional development • Academic • Research for development • Development of content • Dissemination and Publication

8. ENGINEERS AND SOCIETY . SOCIETY BUSINESS IN SOCIETY BUSINESS ENGINEERING FOR SOCIETY ECONOMIC DEVLPMT ENGINEERING FOR BUSINESS ENGINEERS

9. What is the Role of Engineer Today? • Society and Development • Changing Role of Engineer in: • Job and wealth Creation: Entrepreneurs • Sustain environment (Education for Sustainable Development) • Develop innovative solutions in society • Energy , automation, ICTs, Intelligent Robots, Transport • Need of two way communication? • Government: • Society : Community involvement, services • Engineers: Reposition themselves in society Role • Active (not passive) Recipients of Knowledge and instructions

10. RequiredEngineering Skills Today? • Hard Skills: • Products( Intelligent equipment, software), services, • Tools and methods of making work easier, faster, convenient: e.g. Mpesa • Data collection on performance of products, user and equipment/tool • Soft Skills- People orientation not just machines • Leadership, communication, management, marketing, legal, accounting • Business Skills • Entrepreneurial Engineer • Business development and management  Creating the 21st Engineer

11. Innovative Engineers? • The term innovation refers to a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. • innovation is the successful introduction of something new and useful, for example introducing new methods, techniques, or practices or new or altered products and services • In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. • The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. • Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.

12. Innovations • "All innovation begins with creative ideas . . . We define innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization • "Innovation, like many business functions, is a management process that requires specific tools, rules, and discipline."Davila et al. (2006),

13. Innovations Vs Invention • Distinguishing from Invention and other concepts • “Invention is the first occurrence of an idea for a new product or process, while innovation is the first attempt to carry it out into practice" (Fagerberg, 2004 • Innovation typically involves creativity, but is not identical to it: innovation involves acting on the creative ideas to make some specific and tangible difference in the domain in which the innovation occurs

14. Research Thesis • It is important for your MSc Thesis project • We are preparing the ground and seeds • A meaningful project must be innovative and solve academic 0r development problem • Must be Relevant, Solve a problem in society: not just academic. • Green energy and environmental impact • Integrated energy: Central heating, cooling, distributed, • Waste disposal and management: electrical engineering solutions

15. Research Concepts • Education for sustainable development • Research project – • individual and • group

16. ECONOMY PEOPLE ENVIRONMENT Education for Sustainable Development .

17. EXERCISE • Go out in: • Community and Business and come with problems that can use Engineering Knowledge and skills to be used as Study cases/ possible Research projects. • ICTs: to solve local and development problems • Green energy: generation, distribution, consumption (bulb), availability, Central heating/cooling, • Agriculture, Food: Preservation • Waste disposal: electronic waste, monitoring, • Define the problem and Write a a one page concept paper • (2 weeks-Due ………………..)