Management for Engineers

1. interpret the concept and basic principles of management
2. understand management functioning in a military system
3. understand planning and implementation processes of engineering projects
4. understand the methods for decision making
5. explain the basic characteristics of the intellectual property
6. participate in a team to make military engineering project

Teaching is organized in two cycles. The first cycle includes of 6 weeks of teaching and mid-term exam, and the second cycle includes of 7 weeks of teaching and final exam. Teaching is executed in 15 weeks with two hours of teaching per week.

Within the course the excercise will be organized with total of 15 hours during semester.

During the exercises, students will independently and in a team solve practical tasks related to the course content.

Writting project documentation

1. Lectures: Introduction to management
2. Lectures: Management and managers
3. Lectures: Engineering profession
4. Lectures: Engineering and managerial ethics
5. Lectures: Engineering approach to problem solving
6. Lectures: Intellectual property and protection
7. Midterm exam
8. Lectures: Teamwork
9. Lectures: Project and project management - definitions and features
10. Lectures: Project initiating and planning
11. Lectures: Project executing, monitoring and controlling, closing
12. Lectures: Risk management in projects Seminar: Teamwork on the project - a case study
13. Lectures: Conflict management and decision making
14. Lectures: Agile trends in project management
15. Final exam