Project Management Inside and Outside of the Curriculum at the Ohio State University

Students typically gain exposure to project managem ent (PM) techniques through capstone senior design projects, however, many students woul d benefit from a greater depth of study. This has been indicated through student surveys and industry feedback. To support this, three departments within The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Engineering have developed complementary courses that cover topics in project management. In addition, students engaged in extra-curricular student projects, such as the E coCAR 3 project, must practice project management techniques to manage multi-person teams on deliverable-oriented projects. This paper offers a review of these three courses within Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Integrate d Systems Engineering. An overview of the techniques applied by the EcoCAR 3 project are also included as a proxy for the many student engineering projects that are on OSU’s camp us.