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Determining How To Teach Project Management Concepts To Engineers

Author(s) -

James Conrad

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

2006 annual conference and exposition proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--1433

Subject(s) - work (physics) , accreditation , project management , workforce , engineering management , curriculum , knowledge management , soft skills , program management , engineering , computer science , management , sociology , political science , systems engineering , mechanical engineering , law , economics , pedagogy

Project management is becoming a crucial skill in today’s work environment. Practicing engineers learned technical concepts in their university studies, but few actually learned project management concepts. These “soft skills” are often overlooked because they are not mandated by accreditation boards – yet. This paper proposes several options for including project management concepts in a university curriculum without sacrificing the time spent on technical concepts.

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