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Project Planning and 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. 

INTENDED AUDIENCE
 UG/PG/Industry Participants

PRE-REQUISITES
 Basic Mathematics with Probability and Statistics

INDUSTRIES THAT WILL VALUE THIS
 All leading construction companies

5230 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

Week 1. Introduction, Course Context, Construction Project Management
Week 2. Time Management, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Gantt Charts
Week 3. Duration Estimation, Network Representation & Analysis -1
Week 4. Network Representation & Analysis -2; Two-Span Bridge: Scheduling, Network Analysis and Application
Week 5. Time-Cost Trade-off (Crashing)
Week 6. Resource Scheduling
Week 7. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), Project Monitoring & Control
Week 8. Project Monitoring & Control (Earned Value Concepts), Uncertainty in Project Schedules (PERT), Course Summary

Certification Exam

*The exam is optional for a fee. (Exams will be on 24 Sep 2017).
*Time: Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
*Anyone shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
*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 needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

Certificate

*Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
*25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 6 out of 8 assignments.
*E-certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name ,photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.
*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".