This course develops skills related to the management tasks of planning, organizing, leading, controlling, and the human element in technology-based organizations. The course focuses on the entire project environment and long-term issues critical to project success. Topics include project selection, roles and responsibilities of the project manager, planning the project, budgeting the project, scheduling the project, allocating resources to the project, monitoring and controlling the project, evaluating and terminating the project, risk assessment and management, organizational structure and human resources. Case studies illustrate problems and how to solve them. Course assignments are designed to help students learn and apply project management techniques taught in the course. The class design project will provide students with the opportunity to integrate project management software, Microsoft Project, into the preparation of an Engineering Management Project Plan. Cadets spend eight to twelve lessons in a computer lab environment.
