Curriculum:
Total 45 Credits
PROJ 501 – Intro to Project Management
This course will prepare students to manage scheduling, supply management, project team recruiting, resource allocation, time/cost tradeoffs, risk assessment, task coordination, team-building, progress monitoring, and post-project assessment through a comprehensive overview of project management. Case studies are used to illustrate the principles and tools of project management as a process.
PROJ 502 - Project Planning & Scheduling
This course will prepare students to master concepts in project planning, scheduling and control. Project scheduling methods are covered including: critical path systems, critical chain scheduling, statistical analysis and PERT, linear scheduling, resource leveling, and legal ramifications on contracted projects.
PROJ 510 Project Quality Management
Quality management is related to project management. Examines basic quality concepts and explores the three sub-processes of quality management: quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control as they relate to project management.
PROJ 515 Project Estimation & Cost Mgmt
This course will provide an overview of project financial and economic principles involved in product and system development. It is intended to familiarize project managers with methods in project accounting, budgeting, cost estimation, financial management, design optimization, and economics.
PROJ 520 Project Risk Assessment & Mgmt
Examines the risk factors throughout every phase of a project. Looks at the overall project planning process, explores the use of high-level risk assessment tools, and describes key ideas for project risk planning. Models for risk analysis, assessment, and classification are presented.
PROJ 525 E-Tools for Project Management
This course will examine the use of electronic tools as a means of creating a virtual workplace. Issues related to the use of the e-tools for collaboration and decision making for project management will be explored and tested.
PROJ 530 Managing Multiple Projects
Examines the complex and simultaneous management principles and techniques required to manage multiple projects. Emphasis is place on a theory and practice of project management that is rigorous and disciplined, yet flexible.
PROJ 535 International Project Management
Examines the uniqueness and adaptations of project management when operating in an international context. Details the investigation of cultural, legal, and regulatory environments as the context of international project management.
PROJ 603 Project Management Leadership
Examines the environments required for building and maintaining successful project management teams. Prepares and guides project managers to use human resources effectively and confidently through good management and wise leadership.
PROJ 695 Applied Project
Provides an opportunity for the student to successfully integrate knowledge and skills acquired during their masters program in Project Management. Students will evaluate the project management practices in an organization and create a report that identifies strengths and weaknesses in an organization and recommend strategies for improvement.
PROJ 690 Special Topics in Project Management
Provides courses in topics of current interest to faculty and students. Topic for study must be approved, in advance of registration, by the program advisor, the supervising faculty and the associate dean. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
PROJ 699 Independent Study in Project Management
Provides opportunities for individual students to work under the supervision of a faculty member on a topic of interest and relevance to the field of Project Management. Topic for study must be approved, in advance of registration, by the program advisor, the supervising faculty and the associate dean. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
