Project Design and Management, Technical Communication

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Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

The aim of this course is to get the students knowledgeable with all parts and phases of project management: starting from utilisation of various information resources, team work, technical communication, project goal specification. feasibility study, development process definition, risk analysis, capacity and resource planning, project timing, versioning, system of changes and its management, revisions, verifications, project qualification, and personal and financial project management. During the seminars the students will get a challenging chance to get basic practical skills with a sample project.

Requirements:

For successful completion of the course, it is necessary to present the results of the individual work to other students and explain the approaches used.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. The concept of a „Project“, its components; project life-cycle.

2. Formulation of an engineering problem, analysis and formulation of the task.

3. Bibliographical resources, and their use, library services.

4. Technical communication in writing, three-stage structure of the text, document structure.

5. Oral technical communication, lecture and its style, structure and formal properties of a lecture.

6. Team work, team structure, division of labour within the team, team member roles.

7. Individual project phases, project goals specification.

8. Risk analysis, feasibility study.

9. Project timing, technical documentation and agendas.

10. Design and development of a project.

11. Project versions and their systematic management, versioning tools, concurrent project verification, revisioning.

12. System of project changes, record-keeping and implementation of changes, relation to the versioning.

13. Personal project management. Project budgeting and capacity management.

14. Summary (spare space)

Syllabus of tutorials:

For the „individual projects“, small working groups of students will be established.

1. Organisational matters, seminars/labs detailed contents.

2. Sample individual projects assignment

3. Individual work on the sample individual project - part I.

4. Individual work on the sample individual project - part II.

5. Presentation of individual work partial results - requirement specification documents

6. Individual work on the sample individual project - part III.

7. Individual work on the sample individual project - part IV.

8. Individual work on the sample individual project - part V.

9. Presentation of individual work partial results - resource analysis and timing

10. Individual work on the sample individual project - part VI.

11. Individual work on the sample individual project - part VII.

12. Presentation of individual work results - discussion on results part I.

13. Presentation of individual work results - discussion on results part II.

14. Summary, (spare space)

Study Objective:

Study materials:

There is no text-book covering the course completely; any book on modern operating systems can be used. The lecturer will hint resources to particular topics.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

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• Computer Technology - Software Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - High-frequency and Microwave Technology- structured studi (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Technological Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Control Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Electronics - Electronic Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Biomedical Engineering- structured studies (compulsory course)
• Economics and Management in Electrical Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Electronics - Electronics and Photonics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Artificial Intelligence- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Measurement and Instrumentation Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Aeronautical Engineering and Control Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electric Drives- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electrical Engineering Applications- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Opto-electric Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Radio Communications, Navigation and Radar Systems- struc (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Multimedia, Sound and Television Technology- structured s (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Telecommunications- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - System Programming- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Computer Graphics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Computer Network and Internet- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Designing Digital Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)