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Project Management
University of Galway - Direct Enroll Program
Galway, Ireland
Dates: late Aug 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Project Management
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: University of Galway
Location: Galway, Ireland
Primary Subject Area: Civil Engineering
Other Subject Area: Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: CE471
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 2.5
Contact Hours: 36
DESCRIPTION
Project and project management characteristics; Project stakeholders; Management and organisational concepts; Project life-cycle and its characteristics; Project financing, mechanisms for project financing and measures of project profitability; Project planning; Project delivery/procurement systems; Organisation structure diagrams; Networks, planning, scheduling and resource allocation; Computer based network analysis; Estimating; Project monitoring and control; Project changes, claims and disputes; Classification and distribution of costs; Quality.
Learning Outcomes
1.Define project management, project stakeholders and the key characteristics that comprise of
2.Relate to management and organisational concepts typically used in the management of projects
3.Describe project life-cycle and its characteristics
4.Understand the role of project financing, mechanisms for project financing and measures of project profitability
5.Recognise the function of each member of the project team, appreciating the need for effective communication and team work
6.Describe various project delivery (or procurement) systems
7.Reconstruct system diagrams and organisation structure diagrams
8.Recognise the key concepts of estimating and how the accuracy of estimating changes over the life-cycle of the project
9.Create a simple plan for a project and be able to describe the steps involved to build the plan
10.Identify the key components of effective monitoring and control, and how these link to the preceding and succeeding phases of a project
11.Recognise why changes occur during a project and the causes of claims and disputes
12.To understand the importance of quality and review in the project management framework
Learning Outcomes
1.Define project management, project stakeholders and the key characteristics that comprise of
2.Relate to management and organisational concepts typically used in the management of projects
3.Describe project life-cycle and its characteristics
4.Understand the role of project financing, mechanisms for project financing and measures of project profitability
5.Recognise the function of each member of the project team, appreciating the need for effective communication and team work
6.Describe various project delivery (or procurement) systems
7.Reconstruct system diagrams and organisation structure diagrams
8.Recognise the key concepts of estimating and how the accuracy of estimating changes over the life-cycle of the project
9.Create a simple plan for a project and be able to describe the steps involved to build the plan
10.Identify the key components of effective monitoring and control, and how these link to the preceding and succeeding phases of a project
11.Recognise why changes occur during a project and the causes of claims and disputes
12.To understand the importance of quality and review in the project management framework