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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Introduction to engineering design -- Teams -- Defining the project or problem -- Background -- Design phases -- Summary -- Project management overview -- Project management knowledge areas -- Project life cycles and project phases -- Product life cycles -- Organizational structures -- Project management job functions -- Project integration management -- Project plan development -- Project plan execution -- Project controlling process and change control -- Change control system -- Configuration management -- Need for top management commitment -- Project scope management -- Project scope management processes -- Selecting projects -- Weighted scoring model -- Project charters -- Work breakdown structure -- Approaches to developing work breakdown structures (WBSs) -- Personal and project time management -- Personal time management -- Work smarter, not harder -- Project time management -- Project time management processes -- Project network diagrams -- Precedence diagramming method (PDM) -- Estimation of activity times (duration) -- Schedule development -- Critical path method (CPM) -- Program evaluation and review technique (PERT) -- Project cost management -- Project cost management processes -- Resource planning -- Cost estimating -- Cost estimation techniques -- Problems in cost estimation -- Cost budgeting -- Guidelines for preparing budget -- Cost control -- Earned value analysis -- Work breakdown structure (WBS) -- Calculating earned value -- Earned value management system (EVMS) -- Tools and techniques -- Project quality management -- Project quality management processes -- Quality planning -- Quality assurance -- Quality control -- Improving project quality -- Cost of quality -- International organization for standardization -- Good manufacturing practice -- Project procurement management -- Project procurement management processes -- Procurement planning -- Solicitation planning -- Solicitation -- Source selection -- Contract administration -- Contract closeout -- Project human resource management -- Managing people -- Improving effectiveness: Covey's seven habits -- Summary -- Project communications management -- Project communications management processes -- Communications planning -- Information distribution -- Span of control -- Performance reporting -- Project risk management -- Project risk management -- Types of project risks -- Risk quantification -- Risk responses -- Causes of risk -- Risk management plans -- Risk response control -- Summary -- Project closeout -- Closing processes and outputs -- Outcomes assessment meeting -- Outcomes assessment report -- Transition planning -- Project documents to be archived -- Critical success factors -- Summary -- Project design reviews -- Prelude to conducting a design review meeting -- Entry criteria for design review -- Conducting the design review -- Design review output -- Exit criteria -- Making technical decisions -- Group decision-making process -- U.S. navy executive decision-making framework -- Decision matrix or utility function -- Factor weights -- Grading scale -- Summary -- Management of team conflict -- Giving feedback -- Conflict resolution methods.

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This lecture book is an introduction to project management. It will be of use for engineering students working on project design in all engineering disciplines and will also be of high value to practicing engineers in the work force. Few engineering programs prepare students in methods of project design and configuration management used within industry and government. This book emphasizes teams throughout and includes coverage of an introduction to project management, project definition, researching intellectual property (patent search), project scope, idealizing & conceptualizing a design, converting product requirements to engineering specifications, project integration, project communications management, and conducting design reviews. The overall objectives of the book are for the readers to understand and manage their project by employing the good engineering practice used by medical and other industries in design and development of medical devices, engineered products and systems. The goal is for the engineer and student to work well on large projects requiring a team environment, and to effectively communicate technical matters in both written documents and oral presentations.

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