ENCN371-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Project and Infrastructure Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 7 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 23 May 2014

Description

Project and infrastructure asset management, procurement methods, estimating, finance and accounting, economic appraisal, uncertainty and decision-making.

Learning Outcomes

  • On completion of the course, students are expected to:
  • have knowledge of procurement methods in use in the construction sector;
  • be familiar with project management skills and techniques, and schedule simple projects;
  • have good knowledge of behavioural aspects of working in groups;
  • have an understanding of aspects involved in running a construction company;
  • have a good understanding of the complexity of construction management;
  • have basic knowledge of ways to estimate project costs;
  • have knowledge of engineering economics and accounting methods, as used in construction and infrastructure management, and be able to do economic appraisals;
  • have knowledge of risk analysis methods for making decisions involving uncertainty;

Restrictions

ENCI363, ENCI403

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Eric Scheepbouwer

Lecturers

Alan Nicholson and Bob Miller

Guest Lecturer

Professor David Scott (Curtin, Australia)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment Cost Estimating 5%
Assignment Project Mgmt Part I 5%
Assignment Project MgMt Part II 5%
final exam 20%
Enginuity Project 15%
Test 25% Economics and Procurement
Test 25% Organisational behaviour/accounting/DARM


The deduction for late submission of assignments will be 20% (of the available marks) for each day late, unless prior arrangement has been made. Please contact the course co-ordinator (preferably well in advance) if you have genuine difficulties meeting submission dates.

• To pass this course, you should achieve at least 50% of the total marks available in the course.
• For each test at least 40% of marks should be achieved.
o Failure to achieve a score of 40% in a tests will result in the compulsory resitting of the test. The grade for this resit is either a Pass or Fail. A Fail grade will result in a failure for the course. The initially obtained results will count towards the final course grade calculation.
• All assignments are compulsory.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $841.00

International fee $4,638.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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