ENCH497-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

Process Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

Engineering economics, project management, professional report writing, project research methods, and safety in process industry.

Restrictions

ENCH460

Co-requisites

ENCH496 from 2012.

Lecturers

Peter Gostomski and Chris Williamson

Colleen Fry is also a Lecturer for ENCH497

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Internal Assessment 30% From Dr Fry's lectures
Internal Assessment 10% From Dr Gostomski's lectures
Internal assessment 10% From Dr Williamson's lecturers
Final exam 50%


Grades will be based on assessment of:
Internal assessment is 50% in total (30% on Colleen Fry's material, 10% on Peter Gostomski's material and 10% on Chris Williamson's material.
Final exam is 50%

No extensions are permitted for individuals except on certifiable medical or compassionate grounds.

Notes

Course Content

Project Management (23 Lectures)
The main area covered is that of microeconomics as applied to industrial operations, including capital and operating cost estimation and investment appraisal with tax and depreciation effects. Financial calculations and time-value of money. If time allows, a Strategic Management section may include selected topics in long-term (strategic) planning, marketing, organizational behaviour and management structures. Time management and teamwork skills will also be covered.

Design (7 Lectures)
The concept of plant-wide process control will be covered.  In addition the details of the reading and preparation of P&ID diagrams will be introduced.

Hazard and Risk Identification (8 Lectures)
Preliminary hazard analysis (PHA) and hazard and operability study (hazop) will be introduced as techniques to identify hazards in the process industry.

Two lectures on use of Endnote and library databases (preparation for research projects).

Relation to Other Courses
There are no pre-requisited.  ENCH497 is a compulsory course and is a pre-requisite to ENCH494.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $808.00

International fee $4,550.00

* 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 Chemical and Process Engineering .

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