Project management - planning the inputs and the outputs of a project and establishing reasonable time frames for specific tasks, including the critical path for completion. Team management - working with others to meet a common goal, identifying and working with an individual's strengths and weaknesses, working through conflict, and establishing a management structure to obtain consensus. Professional presentations - using your access to the client's limited time, defining your audience, how to assure that your data and perceptions and those of the client agree before the presentation. The schedule below will be changed to fit the needs of the projects undertaken. Sept. 11 Project descriptions distributed.
Students submit project preferences.
Team assignments posted on course website by September 14. Sept. 18 Review of syllabus. Discussion of the time table, proposals, reports and presentations. Discussion of problem definition and analysis. Students contact client this week to schedule first meeting.