Development of Quality, Risk, and Project Management Systems 1

2024/2025

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • Have gained knowledge of theories of quality control; business processes and supply chains
  • Have gained knowledge of project planning and control as well as techniques for this
  • Have gained knowledge of IT-systems for project planning and control
  • Have gained knowledge of financial control of activities in engineer/manufacture to order companies with long project durations.

Skills

  • Be able to understand quality control in relation to the company’s business processes and analyse an organisation’s need for quality control emphasising the supply chain, as well as give suggestions to changes and improvements of parts of or the entire system
  • Be able to understand financial control of activities in engineer/manufacture to order companies. This includes: liquidity control, financial capacity control and calculations for planning, control and follow-up on the company’s order-based production
  • Be able to understand resource-constrained project management problems and plan the execution of projects under constraints (e.g. budgetary, time, resource), including the use of methods for project planning and control
  • Be able to understand how IT-systems can support business processes and work flows in project-driven companies.

Competences

  • Be able to design quality and project management systems in companies with order based production while taking into account how such systems interact with a company’s core activities and other control systems, especially the financial control systems
  • Be able to specify projects and constraints as well as problems which may arise in project-driven companies
  • Be able to use the attained knowledge in regards to how companies develop quality control systems.

Type of instruction

The course consists of a number of lectures as well as the student’s independent learning effort. The form and extent of the course is determined and described in connection with planning the semester. The lesson plans, literature etc. are created in connection with this. The course is conducted as a combination of single-disciplinary, problem-oriented and cross-disciplinary fields of study, and it is structured from a work and evaluation form which combines skills and reflection:

  • Lectures
  • Class work
  • Project work
  • Workshops
  • Exercises (alone and in groups)
  • Teacher feedback
  • Reflection on content
  • Portfolio work.

Extent and expected workload

Since it is a 5 ECTS course module the expected workload is 150 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams

Name of examDevelopment of Quality, Risk, and Project Management Systems 1
Type of exam
Written or oral exam
ECTS5
Permitted aidsInformation about allowed helping aids for the examination will be published in the description of the semester/module.
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingInternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the module

Danish titleUdvikling af kvalitets-, risiko - og projektstyringssystemer 1
Module codeM-OSM-K1-4
Module typeCourse
Duration1 semester
SemesterAutumn
ECTS5
Language of instructionEnglish
Empty-place SchemeYes
Location of the lectureCampus Aalborg
Responsible for the module

Organisation

Study BoardStudy Board of Production
DepartmentDepartment of Materials and Production
FacultyThe Faculty of Engineering and Science