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EGM381 Assignment Assignment Course : EGDF17 – Diploma in Engineering with Business Module : EGM381 – Project Engineering and Management INSTRUCTIONS 1 This is an assignment based on individual and independent effort

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EGM381 Assignment Assignment
Course : EGDF17 – Diploma in Engineering with Business Module : EGM381 – Project Engineering and Management

INSTRUCTIONS 1 This is an assignment based on individual and independent effort. Plagiarism once detected will be penalized. 2 For calculation questions in Section B, please include your working steps in your answers for every question.

EGM381 Assignment

Section A (50 marks)

Module Learning Plan and Progress Management

Managing your learning journey of a module in a semester is like managing a project: You

have your expectations/goals to achieve at the end of the semester, you have limited time

and other resources during the journey, and you may face some uncertainties and constraints along the way to achieve your goals.

A successful project management starts with a good management plan and controlling of the

project progress also plays a critical role in determining the success of the project. In this

part of the assignment, you are required to

1) create a module learning plan for EGM381 in the semester, and

2) monitor and control your learning progress during the semester

Details of requirements for the above two tasks are as follows:

1) Create module learning plan

A learning plan is a description of how you intend to achieve your desired outcomes/goals

in learning development over a period of time. A good learning plan should clearly show

the progresses in your learning journey and it can help to ensure that your learning

activities are orderly and efficient.

Generally, your learning plan should be based on a SMART model (Specific, Measurable,

Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound), which will be able to help you to achieve your

learning goals. A good learning plan is a well-defined document with the following

components:

a) Goals/Outcomes

A set of 'learning goals' that you hope to achieve within a specific period of time. For

example, you may have an overall goal of “A” grade for the module at the end of the

semester. It is often useful to divide overall goals into more manageable sub-goals

that can be achieved within days or weeks, for example, to score 80 marks and above

for weekly quiz.

b) Actions/Activities

Each learning goal (or sub goal) should have a series of concrete steps or actions

that you will take to move towards the goal. Actions refer to actual behaviors and

activities. For example, to revise lecture notes every week is an action.

Actions/activities are usually planned on time basis, for example, activity plan using

Gannt chart.

c) Resources

Each action or activity should be associated with one or more resources and with

evidence. Resources refer to anything that can be used to realize the actions to be

taken towards the learning goal. For example, lecture videos, lecture notes, tutorial

questions are all considered as resources for your learning. As another example,

learning plan templates and references available on internet are resources for you

when you create your own learning plan.

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The design of a learning plan can vary from very flexible to very planful and orderly. A

planful and orderly learning plan might be more meaningful and easier to monitor and

control your learning progress, and eventually to ensure your learning goals can be

achieved. In general, there is no perfect or standard format for a learning plan. Your plan

should suit your own nature and needs. To start creating your personal learning plan,

you may search for some references and templates from internet and modify to suit your

needs.

2) Monitoring and controlling of your progress

Monitoring and controlling your progress along time plays an important role to ensure the

planned goals and outcomes can be achieved. In general you need to set a number of

control gates/points to evaluate your performance in achieving short-term goals,

measure and reflect on actions/activities performed, analyze and improve your strategies

in performing the planned activities and actions if your performance is found below

expected. You may set multiple control gates such as topical quizzes, report submission,

mid-semester result, etc. For example, if your topical quiz result is below your planned

goals or your team project is delayed, you will need to look at your planned activities and

measure how these activities are performed. A reflection on the strategies in carrying out

your learning activities will help you to achieve the next learning goals.

In this part of the assignment, you are required to do a self-management of your learning

plan and submit a report (to be submitted together with Section B of this assignment) at the

end of the semester including 1) your original learning plan and 2) monitoring and controlling

report. You may design your own template or adopt any template your find appropriate to

suit your needs.

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Section B (50 marks)

Question 1 (24 marks)

Assuming you are the project manager of a special project to make two types of widgets for

the year-end event. Your project is scheduled for 10 months from January to October and a

budget with estimates of what it will cost to produce both widgets (shown in the table). The

project is planned to make 200 widgets A and 100 widgets B every month in order to meet

the total target number of widgets for the event

Total Total Time Number of Widgets | Cost

Target Budget Elapsed Completed Spent

Number

Widget A | 2000 $100,000 $45,000

Widget B | 1000 $100,000 $40,000

At the end of June, your project team is six months into the project. Please evaluate the

project progress using earned value analysis and answer the following questions.

a) Earned Value (EV) b) Actual Cost (AC)

c) Planned Value (PV) d) Cost Variance (CV)

e) Schedule Variance (SV) f) Cost Performance Index (CPI)

g) Budget at Completion (BAC) h) Estimate at Completion (EAC)

i) Estimate to Complete (ETC) j) Variance at Completion (VAC)

k) Schedule Performance Index (SPI) |) Estimated Project Completion Time
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Question 2 (26 marks)

For the given project activity precedence diagram below, determine the Early Start (ES),

Early Finish (EF), Late Start (LS), Late Finish (LF) & Total Float (TF) of all activities, and

indicate the critical path of this project in the diagram.

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