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Course Introduction
Engineering Management is a multidisciplinary course designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively lead and manage engineering projects and teams. The course integrates key concepts from both engineering and management, covering topics such as project planning and control, resource allocation, leadership, decision-making, quality management, and organizational behavior. Students will learn how to apply engineering principles within the context of business environments, fostering innovation while ensuring efficiency and safety. By emphasizing both technical acumen and managerial capabilities, this course prepares future engineers to take on leadership roles in diverse industries.
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Project Management A Managerial Approach 8th Edition by Jack R. Meredith
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Chapter 1: Projects in Contemporary Organizations
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Q1) Who, according to the authors, has played a significant role in the development of techniques for project management?
A)European navigators
B)trader community
C)brokerage firms
D)the military
Answer: D
Q2) The military uses the term __________ to refer to an exceptionally large, long-range objective that is broken down into a set of projects.
A)task
B)program
C)subproject
D)campaign
Answer: B
Q3) The __________ of the project team is a crucial, but unstated, element of ancillary trade offs that the project manager must consider.
Answer: health
Q4) __________ is a subset of a project, consisting of work packages.
Answer: Task
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Chapter 5: The Project in the Organizational Structure
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Q1) A major purpose of the project management office should be to serve as
A)the central location for all clerical support
B)the critical disaster recovery support
C)a link between strategic management and project management
D)maintenance for the project management library
Answer: C
Q2) __________ engineering refers to the use of a design team that includes design and manufacturing engineers as well as staff from other relevant areas of the business.
Answer: Concurrent
Q3) This member of the project team is in charge of product design and development and is responsible for functional analysis, specifications, drawings, cost estimates, quality/reliability, engineering changes, and documentation.
A)systems architect
B)manufacturing engineer
C)project controller
D)support services manager
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Strategic Management and Project Selection
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Q1) The process of "carving away the unwanted reality from the bones of a problem" is called __________.
Answer: modeling the problem
Q2) The drawback of the __________ model is that it fails to consider cash flows obtained once the initial investment has been recovered.
A)payback period
B)average rate of return
C)discounted cash flow
D)profitability index
Answer: A
Q3) A project selected using the sacred cow model will be maintained until successfully completed or until __________.
A)the project exceeds its budget
B)the project falls behind schedule
C)the boss recognizes the project as a failure and terminates it
D)the project manager is terminated
Answer: C
Q4) Financial forecasts are reported as __________ financial statements. Answer: pro forma
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Chapter 3: The Project Manager
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Q1) __________ results when the demands made on an individual are greater than the person's ability to cope with them, particularly when the person has a high need for achievement.
Q2) During the buildup stage of a project lifecycle, __________ is the dominant goal of many project managers.
Q3) You are the project manager of a multi-national projects with stakeholders and team members on both sides of the Atlantic. You receive an email request from a stakeholder in the United Kingdom for information that is "needed by 4/3/05". You run into the stakeholder at a conference in the middle of March 2005 and he refuses to acknowledge you in any way. To what do you attribute this "weird" behavior?
Q4) According to the textbook, in Latin America, the __________ system leads a manager to give preference to relatives and friends when hiring.
Q5) The __________ states that to understand the system, we must understand the environment (or larger system)of which it is a part.
Q6) The aesthetic values of a culture are communicated through the culture's __________.
Q7) The structure of a society is determined by its __________.
Q8) The laws of the nation are often a product of the nation's __________.
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Chapter 4: Negotiation and the Management of Conflict
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Q1) Negotiating to a __________ solution is the key to conflict resolution in project management.
Q2) A party to a conflict will usually be satisfied when the level of frustration has been
A)increased by the domination of the other party
B)lowered to the point where no action against the other party is contemplated
C)lowered because the party realizes the hopelessness of continuing the conflict
D)eliminated because the party has surrendered to the other party
Q3) If a resource conflict arises between two high-priority projects, precedence is typically given to the project with the __________.
A)earliest due date
B)fastest completion time
C)biggest revenue stream
D)lowest cost to complete
Q4) During the main program phases of the project lifecycle, Thamhain et al say that conflict intensity is the greatest with respect to __________.
Q5) The process through which two or more parties seek an acceptable rate of exchange for items they own or control is called __________.
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Chapter 6: Project Activity Planning
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Q1) __________ is the tendency for the project objectives to be changed with little or no discussion with other parties actively engaged in the project.
A)Scope reference
B)Scope creep
C)Effectiveness
D)Hierarchical planning
Q2) During initial project planning, activities are identified and sorted. In completing this process, each level in the hierarchy should limit the number of activities to a range between __________.
Q3) According to the authors, the task of risk identification will be horrendous if the risk management system has no memory. Discuss the important elements of a risk management system that would compensate for alack of memory by the organization.
Q4) The success of the project launch meeting is dependent on the existence of
A)a project charter
B)the project's scope statement
C)a well-defined set of objectives for the project
D)project planning templates
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Chapter 7: Budgeting and Cost Estimation
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Q1) The __________ charge is composed of the costs of senior management, the various data functions, and any other expenses not included in overhead. Often, these charges are a fixed percentage of either the direct costs or the total of all direct and indirect costs.
Q2) The pattern of deviations in cost and usage used for exception reporting to management is called __________.
A)simulations
B)assumptions
C)variances
D)summaries
Q3) Suppose that a person requires eight hours to complete a work element on the first attempt. That person has a learning rate of 90 percent for this work element. This person should require __________ hours to complete this work element on the fourth attempt.
Q4) You have been asked to estimate the costs for a project to build an industrial power plant. Based on historical data, the steam turbine accounts for 30 percent of the total costs for the plant. If the steam turbine costs $300,000, the expected top-down estimated cost for this project would be __________.
Q5) Describe the bottom-up budgeting process.
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Chapter 8: Scheduling
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Q1) Task F has duration of 10 days and an earliest start date of 20 days. Based on the given data, determine the early finish duration for task F.
A)10 days
B)20 days
C)30 days
D)5 days
Q2) A(n)__________ is a specific task or set of tasks that are required by the project, use up resources, and take time to complete.
Q3) It is important to good project management to be meticulously __________ in estimating the time required to complete each of the various tasks included in the project.
A)accurate
B)honest
C)well-timed
D)clear
Q4) The authors define __________ as the time an activity can be delayed without affecting the start time of any successor activity
Q5) The _________ was developed by Henry Gantt in 1917.
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Chapter 9: Resource Allocation
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Q1) When we change technology, we may also be changing the level of __________ in carrying out the activity.
Q2) Discuss the advantages obtained from resource leveling.
Q3) The two fundamental approaches to constrained allocation problems are
A)heuristic approaches and rules of thumb
B)linear programming approaches and optimization models
C)heuristic approaches and optimization models
D)goal programming and trial and error
Q4) The tasks that logically precede a particular task in time are referred to as
A)successors
B)followers
C)predecessors
D)priorities
Q5) With respect to project scheduling, __________ is the amount of work waiting to be processed because there is a shortage of some resource.
Q6) List some of the common priority rules utilized when following heuristic solution methods.
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Chapter 10: Monitoring and Information Systems
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Q1) The most common mistake made when monitoring data is to gather information that is clearly related to project performance but __________.
A)is so volatile that trends cannot be detected
B)has little or no probability of changing significantly between collection periods
C)is too unusual to use
D)cannot be captured in the mechanized PMIS
Q2) Monitoring, as an activity, should be kept distinct from __________, which uses data supplied by monitoring to bring actual performance into approximate congruence with planned performance.
A)recording
B)controlling
C)collecting
D)reporting
Q3) If EV = $500, AC = $450, PV = $475; CPI = __________.
Q4) EV - PV = __________.
Q5) List the four conventions used to aid in estimating percent completion.
Q6) If EV = $500, AC = $475, PV = $450; SV = $________.
Q7) In earned value analysis, BAC refers to the __________.
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Chapter 11: Project Control
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Q1) Physical asset control requires control of the __________ of physical assets and is concerned with asset maintenance, whether preventative or corrective.
A)use
B)location
C)storage
D)repair
Q2) The __________ controls take the form of testing to see if some specific precondition has been met.
Q3) The cybernetic control system that acts to reduce deviations from standard is called a __________.
Q4) The most important rule for any subordinate is the Prime Law of Life on any project:
Q5) __________ are directed towards improving chances for future projects to meet their goals.
Q6) Identify some of the factors that can cause a project to require control of cost.
Q7) The most common type of control system is the __________, or steering control.
Q8) A(n)__________ is a monitoring system that forewarns the project manager if trouble arises.
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Chapter 12: Project Auditing
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Q1) Managerial audits look at __________ and their use.
Q2) Project morale may suffer if the project audit report is not written with a __________.
Q3) Discuss some of the problems associated with finding the ancillary goals of a project.
Q4) Research by Walker et al argues that __________ is essential for management's ability to assemble information that is both timely and accurate.
Q5) Contact between the a/e team and the __________ are not made without clearance from senior management.
Q6) During the audit, the auditor/evaluator must maintain __________ and treat all materials gathered as confidential until the audit is formally released.
Q7) __________ is defined as a standard for performance, commonly established early on for later comparisons.
A)Audit
B)Baseline
C)Evaluation
D)Summary
Q8) A typical detailed audit is conducted when __________ is required.
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