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CE18: Knowledge and abilities to organize and manage projects. Know the organizational structure and functions of a project office.
Subject framed in the subject of Projects. The course aims to train students in the realization of engineering projects, both in the development processes of the technical solution and in the management of the different phases of the project. In this subject the final phases of the life cycle of an engineering project are studied, in particular the detailed engineering and the execution of the project. In addition to the theoretical contents studied, students develop an industrial project in groups, based on the preliminary project developed in the subject of Project Management I of third year.
The subject consists of 3 hours a week of face-to-face classes in the classroom (large group), where the theoretical contents will be developed and practical exercises and problems will be solved, and of 10 hours per laboratory practice course (small group). where practical aspects of the activities of the subject will be worked.
The laboratory sessions (small group) are of compulsory attendance (necessary condition to concur to the evaluation of the corresponding activity), and will develop grouping the students in groups of 2 to 6 people according to the activity. Each activity needs a previous preparation that will be realized, a part in the face-to-face classes in the classroom, and another one will have to realize the students in the time of independent learning. These activities, however, will be temporarily extended beyond laboratory hours, and students will need to complete them during the autonomous learning time. The first three activities correspond to the development of a complete project that will have to be presented and defended publicly the first working day following the realization of the last examination of the course, with compulsory assistance of all the students.
Whenever deemed appropriate, activities of a completely optional nature will be made available to students to help them prepare and prepare for those of a compulsory nature.
Title content 1: Project strategy and closure of basic engineering
Content title 2: Advanced project planning
Content title 3: Development of detail engineering
Content title 4: Execution and control
Title content 5: Technical Office II
Title of the activity 1: Detailed project development: Optimization of project planning and budget
Title of the activity 2: Detailed project development: The technical solution
Title of the activity 3: Detail project development: Project closure
Title of the activity 4: Examen
For each activity, teachers will report on the particular rules and conditions that govern them. This information will be communicated in the physical classroom and / or published in the virtual classroom.
One-on-one activities presuppose the student's commitment to carry them out individually. All activities in which the student does not fulfill this commitment regardless of their role (origin or destination) will be considered suspended.
Likewise, the activities to be carried out in groups presuppose the commitment on the part of the students who make it up to carry them out within the group. All activities in which the group has not respected this commitment regardless of its role (origin or destination) will be considered suspended. The responsibility for the results of the work lies with the group, and not with the individuals who make it up. In any case, teachers can, based on the information they have, customize the grade for each member of the group.
Any undelivered activity will be considered scored with zero points. Failure to attend a laboratory session automatically excludes from the evaluation of the corresponding activity, being considered scored with zero points.
It is optional for teachers to accept or not deliveries outside the deadlines indicated. In the event that these late deliveries are accepted, it is up to the teacher to decide whether to apply a penalty and the amount thereof.
The final grade is the weighted sum of the grades of the activities
Activity 1: 15%
Activity 2: 35%
Activity 3: 10%
Activity 4: 40%
Attendance at the theoretical and laboratory sessions, and the delivery of the corresponding reports of activities 1, 2 and 3 is a necessary condition for the evaluation of the subject.
It will be up to the teachers of the subject to decide on the possibility of adding activities that allow the recovery of the suspended activities.
It is compulsory to carry out all the activities to obtain the final grade of the subject. The grade calculation algorithm only applies if the grade for Activity 4 is greater than or equal to 4, otherwise the subject is suspended.
The resit exam only gives the option to pass the subject with a grade of 5, except in the case where the weighted average grade of the first 3 activities is equal to or greater than 8. In this case the final grade will correspond to the weighted average mark of all the activities of the subject (the resit exam corresponds to activity 4, and its mark must be greater than or equal to 4).
For activities 1, 2 and 3, if the result of their evaluation is not satisfactory or the teachers consider it opportune, they will be able to summon the members of a group to the realization of a test of individualized evaluation.
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