Master of Engineering in Project Management

Degree Requirements

Master of Engineering: 30 Credits or 10 Courses

Core courses for this option are offered by the Project Management Center for Excellence. In addition to recommended core courses, students may select technical electives as part of an integrated program of students that are approved by the academic advisor. There is no research or thesis required for this degree.

Graduate Certificate in Engineering: 12 Credits or 4 Courses

Students pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Engineering in Project Management must take the two core courses and 2 elective courses from the Project Management preapproved course offerings.

Courses

ENCE602 Project Procurement Management (3 Credits) | Elective

Fundamental concepts and techniques for project acquisition and procurement are presented. Students are introduced to the PMBOK Guide's six-step procurement process and expected to develop an in-depth understanding of project evaluation, planning, financing, contracting, negotiation, and procurement execution. It will also cover emerging methods, principles, and practices in infrastructure project procurement, including Public-Private Partnerships, Carbon project procurement, and Clean Development Mechanism.

Restriction: Must be in the (ENGR: Graduate Certificate in Project Management) program; or must be in one of the following programs (ENGR: MS/PhD-Civil Engineering (Master's); Master of Engineering-Project Mgmt (Master's); ENGR: MS/PhD-Civil Engineering (Doctoral); Master of Engineering (Master's)); or permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department.

ENCE604 Sustainability Fundamentals for Project Managers (3 Credits) | Elective

The course is suitable for project managers both in the government, military, and private sectors, including engineers, architects and other design professionals, consultants, developers, real estate professionals, facility owners in the private and public sectors, as well as non-technical professionals interested in the latest advances in sustainable project management. Addresses the fundamentals of sustainability for project managers including best practices of modern sustainable construction and project management. Commercial and residential buildings consume about 40 percent of the energy used in the United States. Therefore, the emphasis will be on the application of sustainable development standards to the built environment, including the practical operational aspects of sustainable facility project management.

ENCE606 Graduate Introduction to Project Scheduling (3 Credits) | Elective

Basic scheduling calculations and network development methods will be covered. Students will learn how to create, calculate, update, and revise schedules. In addition, students will be introduced to basic concepts of the contractual, managerial, and legal aspects of project scheduling. This course teaches the basics of project scheduling and the various scheduling approaches that are currently being used in the design and construction industry. Project planning techniques will be covered and basic scheduling methods will be taught including the use of bar charts. Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation and Review (PERT), and Linear Scheduling (Line of Balance) methods.

ENCE607 Mastering Agile Project Management (3 Credits) | Elective

Learn how and why Agile project management is the fastest-growing and most successful project management philosophy today. This course updates the principles of ENCE665, Managing Projects in a Dynamic Environment, to expand on the principles of Simultaneous Management with cutting-edge techniques drawn from Agile frameworks. Learn the mechanics of how to design and facilitate projects using "pure" Agile Scrum and Lean Kanban techniques; and the trade-offs of using hybrid techniques such as Lean Startup, Scaled Agile For the Enterprise (SAFe), and Disciplined Agile Development. Then go beyond these frameworks to the science beneath with essential principles to ensure you get the best benefits of Agile project management methods: Speed, Innovation, Leadership, and Kanban (Change for the Better). By the end of this course, students should be able to clearly explain how Agile techniques address faults in Traditional project management techniques, the tradeoffs (benefits and risks) of these approaches, and when it's best to apply Agile approaches to maximize value to the organization.

ENCE614 Communications for Project Managers (Graduate) (3 Credits) | Elective

Learn the fundamentals of communications for project managers. Emphasis is on interpersonal and group communications; through voice, electronic, and written messages; project cycle and reports and presentations during this cycle; and communications for employment.

ENCE622 Construction Automation & Robotics (3 Credits) | Elective

Students entering the field of construction, and seasoned professionals alike, need an education in modern automation techniques. To stay competitive, they need an understanding of industrial robotics that aids in redesign and partial or full automation of construction processes. Course resources will include repositories of the proceedings of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction compiled annually since 1984, Automation in Construction, an international research journal published since 1992, a monograph book titled "Robotics in Civil Engineering", and additional materials from a variety of technical resources provided by the instructor.

ENCE623 Advanced Project Scheduling (3 Credits) | Elective

Summer 2024 Tu 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Kenneth O'Connell

A combination of lectures and hands-on use of software to develop advanced knowledge and skills necessary to master advanced scheduling techniques for project management and control will be used. No software purchase is necessary.
Two hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENCE423 or ENCE662; and permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department. Credit is only granted for ENCE623 or ENCE688S.

ENCE625 Project Administration (3 Credits) | Elective

Summer 2024 TuTh 1:00pm - 2:30pm Neil Schulman

The principles of project administration procedures from the viewpoint of a resident project manager or project engineer specifically addressing their responsibilities in the engineering, design, or construction industries are examined. The course is suitable for students, engineering and design professionals, project managers, experienced contract administrators, and owners interested in special administrative problems or construction.

ENCE627 Project Risk Management (3 Credits) | Core

Introduction to identifying, analyzing, assessing, and managing risks inherent to engineering projects. Includes: probability modeling, choice and value theory, schedule and cost risk, risk mitigation and transfer, and contract considerations of project risk. Examples are drawn from construction, software development, systems integration, and other large engineering projects; and cover probability basics, subjective probability, statistical data analysis, introduction to decision theory, Monte Carlo simulation, the value of information, and risk-based decision-making.

Note: ENCE 627 replaces ENCE 667 as a core course, with students beginning the program before 1505 being grandfathered in.

ENCE661 Project Cost Accounting and Finance (3 Credits) | Core

Summer 2024 Class time/details on ELMS James Myers

This course reviews the fundamentals of accounting; examines project cost accounting principles, applications, and impact on profitability; examines the principles of activity-based costing; covers the elements involved in cash management; introduces the framework for how projects are financed and the potential impact financing has on the projects; and a framework for evaluating PC based systems and what resources are needed for an effective project cost system.

ENCE662 Fundamentals of Project Management (3 Credits) | Core

Introduction to project management including overview and concepts of project management (principles, body of knowledge, strategies); planning successful projects (defining, specifying, delivery options, scheduling, budgeting); implementing (organizing the team, work assignments, team building, effective leadership); executing (performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management); and closeout(performance measurement, maintaining the schedule, adjustments/mid-course corrections, record keeping, status reporting, communications, managing conflict, time management).

ENCE664 Legal Aspects of Engineering Design and Construction (3 Credits) | Core

Examines ways in which the legal system affects the design and construction process. Focuses on contract types and the relationships between the parties in different delivery systems. Covers the basics of procurement protocols along with negotiating techniques and strategies. Topics include contract law, the relationships between the parties, tort and negligence law, and the statutory principles affecting construction.

Prerequisite: Permission of ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering department.

ENCE665 Managing Project Teams: Improving Individual and Team Performance (3 Credits) | Core

Experience has shown that excellent project managers are not only technically competent but that they have above-average skills in human relations and communications. The course will prepare project managers to optimize the utilization of their most important resource: people. Relying primarily on a wide range of research and experience in the Project Team, this course will help guide project managers in building the other skills needed to be truly successful in the competitive Project Team.

Restriction: Must be in a major in ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering; and permission of ENGR-A. James Clark School of Engineering.

ENCE666 Cost Engineering and Control (3 Credits) | Elective

Analytic techniques to estimate and control project costs, including site investigation, quantity takeoff, work analysis, and bid preparation. Systematic cost control as related to job production and historical data.

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.

ENPM637 Managing Software Engineering Projects (3 Credits) | Elective

This course addresses the breadth of managing software engineering projects. It will help in transforming inspiring software engineers into software project leaders. The course will impart advanced principles, methods, and tools for the management of software projects in a realistic software engineering context. An Integrated Lean Project Management (ILPM) framework which is an implementation-oriented hybrid of traditional Project Management Institute (PMI) and Agile project management paradigms will be coached. After completing this course, students will be able to: select & justify software engineering projects by establishing relevant business cases, managing customer requirements, developing key components of software engineering project plan and the planning process, identifying software project risks, and developing risk mitigation strategies, develop a project team to build and deliver the product, understand and apply methods for solving and avoiding common difficulties associated with managing software engineering project, perform the post-implementation review, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of software development projects.

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