ENCN371-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Project and Infrastructure Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 October 2018

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:

- be familiar with project management skills and techniques, and be able to schedule simple projects;
- have knowledge of procurement methods in use in the construction sector;
- have good knowledge of behavioural aspects of working in groups;
- have a good understanding of the complexity of construction management;
- have basic knowledge of ways to estimate project costs;
- have knowledge of engineering economics, as used in construction and infrastructure management;
- have knowledge of risk analysis methods for making decisions involving uncertainty;

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENCI363, ENCI403

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Eric Scheepbouwer

Lecturers

Brian Guo and Daniel van der Walt

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1 5%
Assignment 2 20%
Assignment 3 5%
Reading assignment on learn 5%
Exam 45%
Test 1 (material presented in week 1-4) 20%


The deduction for late submission of assignments will be 50% (of the available marks) for each day late. Please contact the course co-ordinator 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.
" All assignments are compulsory.

Textbooks / Resources

There is no required text for this course, but course notes and other course material will be made available online on Learn.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $937.00

International fee $5,125.00

* 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 .

All ENCN371 Occurrences

  • ENCN371-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018