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MPM 561 - Project Scheduling and information technologies. It
and Time Management Project Management also explains how to become an
entrepreneurial leader by defining
Credit Hour: 3 Elective Basket and developing opportunities and
Pre-requisite: MEM 501 bringing together the resources
The course teaches how to design Theme 1: Managing Innovation & and capabilities needed to make
and build schedules from the basic Technology Projects it happen. Topics covered include:
building blocks (WBS, method disruptive technologies, strategic
statements, work productivity, MPM 571 - E-tools for Project management of technology, new
and work logic) of projects using Management product development, technological
a variety of graphical techniques Credit Hour: 3 change management, corporate
including PDM, Bar charts, CPM Prerequisite: MEM 501 entrepreneurship and innovation,
and PERT. It also covers scheduling diffusion of innovation, and chain of
techniques such as the critical chain This course introduces electronic innovation activities. The knowledge
methodology and the Line of Balance technologies that have been and skills acquired in this course
for repetitive work. There will be advancing our capability to manage will be applied in a term project that
a focus on resource constrained greater more information for includes, as an essential component
scheduling and techniques to projects. New project environments of the project, the ethical issues
schedule projects based on the are more complex and chaotic related to intellectual properties of
availability of limited resources. than before, and this encourages innovative ideas. The project will be
Other topics include project schedule us to move towards new E tools presented at the end of the semester.
crashing/acceleration, and delay that enable us to manage change,
analysis for claims. A study of the communicate critical data, and deliver
relationship between schedules and quality project work more efficiently.
cost, and the use of schedules in the Web-based project management;
Earned Value Analysis is covered as Enterprise Resource Planning,
well. broadband wireless internet;
smart tablets and communication
MPM 581 - Project Costing and tools; GIS, virtual teams, RFID for
Financial Management supply chain management; Project
Management Simulation Games,
Credit Hour: 3 Wikis, Discussion boards; mind
Pre-requisite: MEM 501 mapping; scheduling software;
This course investigates two document management software; E
interrelated topics; Finance and commerce perspectives; knowledge
costing for projects. In the finance management and E learning will be
part, course reviews and analyzes included in the discussions. Copyright
financing structures, schemes, and and patent issues are also discussed
options for projects. In the costing as well as the ethical dilemmas that
part course studies the methods of arise from using E tools and how to
developing project estimates during address them.
the planning stages, and updating MEM 510 - Innovation and
the estimates throughout the project Entrepreneurship
life cycle. Tools and techniques used
in monitoring, reporting, controlling, Credit Hour: 3
and managing project cost and Prerequisite: No
procedures used in managing project Prerequisite
resources to optimize cost of the
project are discussed. Relationships This course focuses on coverage
between project cost and other of the topics of managing
project parameters including scope, technological innovations for
time, quality, procurement and risk products and services and creating
are discussed. successful organizations. It aims
at providing rich exposure to
the students on management
of innovation in manufacturing

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