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Courses » Project Planning & Control

Project Planning & Control

ABOUT THE COURSE
 This course will cover the basic concepts in Project Planning and Control with a focus on construction projects. The course is relevant to Civil Engineering senior level undergraduate as well as post-graduate students in the area of construction management. Practicing engineers who are part of the planning team on construction projects will also benefit from the concepts covered in the course.

EVALUATION PATTERN
Weekly Assignments : Best 5 out of 8 - 50%
Final Exam : 50%

INTENDED AUDIENCE
 UG/PG/Industry Participants

PRE-REQUISITES
 Basic Mathematics with Probability and Statistics

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL VALUE THIS
 All leading construction companies

4295 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR


Dr. Koshy Varghese is a Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). Dr. Varghese earned his Doctoral Degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow for a year after which he joined IIT Madras. Dr. Varghese is a pioneer in construction management education and research in India and has taught courses in Construction Planning and Control to undergraduates / postgraduate as well as to industry.
COURSE LAYOUT

 1. Introduction and Network analysis
2. Time Cost Trade-off
3. Resource Management
4. Monitoring and Earned Value Analysis
5. Probabilistic Scheduling



Certification Exam

The exam is optional. Exams will be on 20 March 2016 and 27 March 2016.
Time: 2pm-5pm

Tentative list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.

Certificate

Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam.

It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.


SUGGESTED READING

(1) Saleh Mubarak, "Construction Project Scheduling and Control". Wiley Publications., 2nd ed., 2010. 

(2) Michael T. Callahan, Daniel G. Quackenbush and James E. Rowings, "Construction Project Scheduling". McGraw-Hill, Inc., International Edition., 1992.

(3) K K Chitkara, "Construction Project Management - Planning, Scheduling and Controlling". Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd., 2nd ed., 2013.

(4) Kumar Neeraj Jha, "Construction Project Management- Theory and Practice". Pearson Education India., 2011.

(5) BIS, "IS 15883 -1 (2009): Construction Project Management- Guidelines, Part 1: General".

(6) BIS, "IS 15883 -2 (2013): Construction Project Management- Guidelines, Part 2: Time Management".