Educating engineers in the art, science and practice of project management: - A new course

Abstract

After graduation engineers rapidly take on responsibility for the management of projects. This paper describes the development of a new project management (PM) course and associated roll-playing game. The course actively encourages students to practise their new technical and human skill sets in a competitive and realistic project environment. The paper presents an outline of the course structure and highlights some of the issues encountered during delivery of the course to undergraduate engineering students in the United Kingdom and Malaysia.