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organizations provide financial management will produce a series
information to their external Master of of deliverables. These deliverables
stakeholders (e.g., shareholders, include the project charter, project
creditors, governmental agencies, Project plan, and preliminary project scope
customers) for both informational statement.
and decision making purposes. This Management
course is designed to be consistent MPM 531 - Project Management
with this purpose and involves Professionalis
the study of the foundations of
accounting methods and systems, Core Courses Credit Hour: 3
including transaction analysis, the Pre-requisite: MEM 501
accrual system of accounting, the This course articulates an ethical
process of income measurement, MEM 501 - Project Management framework for Project Managers by
and the construction and analysis critically reflecting on their roles,
of financial statements. The primary Credit Hour: 3 duties, and practice. This course
focus of the course will be on the Pre-requisite: No Prerequisite examines the ethical challenges
users of accounting information. This This course covers the elements that confront Project Mangers in
course assumes no prior accounting of project management critical the engineering and technology
knowledge. to the success of engineering industries, especially those working
projects: project management within large organizations. This
framework, project selection and course considers issues such
initiation, project organization, scope as the social responsibility of
management, time management, engineers, project directors, and
cost management, resource program managers, truth-telling
management, risk management, and disclosure, whistle-blowing,
tradeoffs, and project closing. The professionalism, and risk-assessment.
course also integrates and clarifies Through case study, this course will
the practices and software tools used provide the tools to evaluate ethical
in project management through a decisions in the field of engineering
team project and case studies from a and technology projects.
variety of disciplines.
MPM 541 - Project Contract
MPM 521 - Project Planning, Management and Legal Aspects
Integration & Scope Credit Hour: 3
Management Pre-requisite: No Prerequisite

Credit Hour: 3 This course presents legal aspects of
Pre-requisite: No Prerequisite contract documents, specifications;
owner-service provider relationships
This course studies the techniques and responsibilities; bids and
for planning, integrating and contract performance; labor laws;
controlling the scope of multiple governmental administrative
projects run within the same and regulatory agencies; torts;
organization. Those projects business organizations; ethics
could be commissioned within the and professionalism. This course
organization and implemented with presents contract terminology and
the resources of the organization. conventions through engineering
The concepts and techniques are and technical problems. An in-depth
equally applicable to outsourced or comprehension of the complexities
subcontracted projects. Integration of professional liability, project
management is an element contracts, and contract law shall be
of project management that emphasized, as well as an awareness
coordinates all aspects of a project. and comprehension of the ethical
Project integration, when properly implications of engineering and
performed, ensures that all processes construction.
in a project run smoothly. Integration

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