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CVEN 349 Civil Engineering Project Management

CVEN 349 Civil Engineering Project Management. Module 00-1: Introduction Last Modified: 12/30/2002. My Semester’s Purpose:. Create a learning experience that will: Be a significant influence on your future career, and

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CVEN 349 Civil Engineering Project Management

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  1. CVEN 349Civil Engineering Project Management Module 00-1: Introduction Last Modified: 12/30/2002 Maxwell - CVEN 349

  2. My Semester’s Purpose: Create a learning experience that will: • Be a significant influence on your future career, and • Expose you to the concepts and tools necessary to excel as project managers on large and small projects. • Convince you that “construction” is a rewarding career for those who are willing to take risks. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  3. My Responsibility • Provide a meaningful Learning Experience. This does NOT mean spoon-feed the information to you. • Walk the Participants through the project related process steps. • Give the Participants some practice in the use of project related analytical tools. • Expose the Participants to the opportunity to develop requisite leadership and teaming skills. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  4. Your Responsibility • Participate fully in the class activities, both as individuals and as team members -- 30% of your grade is just showing up. • Be individually responsible for learning the required material -- the other 60% • Be willing to demonstrate the “work ethic” required of all successful engineering professionals. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  5. Some Ideas that We Will Work on this spring. First, you-all have to realize that I like to experiment with new ways to do things. • ACL – Active Collaborative Learning • TAL – Technology Assisted Learning • ILC – Inclusive Learning Community Consider yourselves warned. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  6. Active Collaborative Learning (ACL) • Lectures, Discussion, and Dialogs -- there is a difference! • Team Instruction -- Team Learning. • Team Projects with Individual Accountability -- just like industry. “After 2,500 years or more of lectures, let’s try something different.” Maxwell - CVEN 349

  7. Purpose: • This is what I am trying to accomplish during the presentation of this Module. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  8. Learning Objectives: • These are what I expect you to be able to do upon completion of each Module. • I will determine how well you met these objectives by: • Pop Quizzes or RATs – Progress and Role Checks • Class Exercises – Team and Individual • Homework – Team and Individual • Hour Exams • Final Maxwell - CVEN 349

  9. Class Assessment • At the end of most classes you will have the opportunity to give me some feedback on what were the “muddiest” topics covered in the module. • Remember, you will be quizzed over the learning objectives and you should make sure that you can accomplish each of them before the next exam. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  10. ACL Process Maxwell - CVEN 349

  11. Technology Assisted Learning (TAL) - This is a “hot topic” • The use of technology to enhance the learning process. We are just getting started with this idea. • Document interchange over the web – CEnotes • On-line Gradebook – CEnotes • Interactive modules – Dr. Lowery and I are working on this. • Streaming video – I plan to try this this spring. • Distance learning – Continuing Education. In today’s world you can’t know too much about computers. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  12. Inclusive Learning Community (ILC) Inclusion of Industrial Partners in the teaching/learning process. A few of the folks that I’ve used in the past. • Ron Kelling, P.E. Black & Veatch, Houston • Dave Lockwood, P.E., Project Management Consultant, Houston • George Thomas, Hirschfeld Steel Co. • Jeff Nobel, TXU Dallas • Lanny Garner, Grant Garner’s father. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  13. Show the Bechtel Video • Leave about 30 minutes. Maxwell - CVEN 349

  14. Bechtel Video • What project management activities were demonstrated by the Bechtel Team? • What diversity issues did you observe? • How would you have handled the “hostile natives” problem? Maxwell - CVEN 349

  15. Things that you need to take care of ASAP. • Register with the CENotes Site, so that I can get your e-mail address. Use the e-mail address that you check often: TAMU, Yahoo, HotMail, etc. • Read the DISC Module before Friday Maxwell - CVEN 349

  16. Class Assessment • Any questions on what we covered today? Maxwell - CVEN 349

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