Content, progress and pedagogy of the
module
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- Must have knowledge of the collection and analysis of empirical
data.
- Must have knowledge of analytical methods for contracting order
process.
- Must have knowledge of project management theories and
methods.
- Must have knowledge of modelling processes.
Skills
- Analyse a construction order process with emphasis on design
and manufacturing issues.
- Process empirical project data.
- Explain the production, quality and cost issues in the order
process.
- Interpret the relationship between activities in production
through the construction of whole models and detailed models that
describe these conditions.
- Analyse process flows and value creation.
- Reasoning between the project and the organization's
structural, technical and resource building.
- Interpret the interaction between the parties involved in a
project or contract manufacturing company's various
organizational units.
- Argue by using precise production-related
terminology.
Competences
- Must be able to assess the proposed systems and their
sensitivity to changes in e.g. customer demands, regulatory,
quality, etc.
- Must be able to establish operational production models. The
models can be based on a deterministic, stochastic or heuristic
basis.
- Must be able to assess the impact on the company or the project
if the current conditions are changed and the supposed changes are
implemented. The changes should be evaluated by for example
economical, organizational, social and technical
consequences.
- Must be able to assess the importance for the company or the
project of changing the current situation and introduce the
proposed amendment, which must be assessed from e.g. economic,
organizational, social and technical consequences.
- Must be able to prepare and reflect on concrete implementation
plans
- Must be able to communicate the results obtained from the
project work in a project report.
- Must be able to work around the problem field project and make
a joint presentation of the project results.
Type of instruction
Project work with teacher feedback supplemented with lectures,
workshops, presentation seminars and more.
Extent and expected workload
Since it is a 15 ECTS project module, the workload is expected
to be 450 hours for the student.
Exam
Exams
Name of exam | Project Management and Production in Construction |
Type of exam | Oral exam based on a project
Oral examination based on presentation seminar and project
report. |
ECTS | 15 |
Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
Type of grading | Internal examination |
Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination
Policies and Procedures |