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Project Planning and Management Assignment (Reflection Paper)
Project Planning and Management Assignment
Use MS Project for Gatt Charts and Network Diagrams where necessary
Assessment Details
A: Summative Assessment: Individual Reflective Report on Project (100%,
compulsory).
Based on the given project scenario, write a 5,000 words (including appendix and
references) project planning report addressing the following project tasks. Please note that
you may work in groups with your fellow students for discussions but the report has to be
completed individually.
Project Scenario: as the chief student representative in the Business Strategy class, you have
been given a total £5,000 budget from the Faculty of Business, Greenwich University to organise
an academic conference on the topic of ‘Towards sustainable business model innovation in 2020’.
All the students in your class are requested to work in groups to prepare the presentation slides
and to dress formally to present their ideas. Their audience include both the academics from the external universities and business experts from external industries who are invited by the Faculty
of Business. However, as the organiser, you and your project team must prepare a list of potential
audiences; once it is approved by the Faculty of Business, you need to prepare the invitation card
and send them out on behalf of the Faculty. A small scale of prize-giving ceremony is also needed
at the end of the competition.
In your project planning report, you are required to provide details of the following six tasks:
1. Prepare Project Scope Statement to state the project’s objectives, deliverables, technical
requirements and milestones.
2. Prepare Work Breakdown Structure (WBS, to include at least 10 activities) for the project.
3. Based on the work breakdown structure (WBS) above, create a Gantt Chart, a network
diagram and indicate the critical path by using MS Project software.
4. Explain who your stakeholders are and how would you manage them.
5. Discuss what your project risks might be and how would you manage them.
6. Explain how you would evaluate this project in terms of key project success factors.
Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM)
Importance of additive Manaufacturing in Improving Production of a Product (In this case, Jet Engine Turbine Blades)
Instructions
Here are the guidelines for your course paper this semester. I want this paper to add value to your career, using additive, and the most important thing to learn is how to adapt design and engineering thinking to take advantage of 3D printing. We refer to this adaptation process as Designing for Additive Manufacturing or DfAM. Therefore the paper topic is DfAM.
Paper Topic: Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM)
Formatting: 10 pages, without images.
Double spacing, 3/4 inch margins.
Arial or Times New Roman font, 11 point.
Deliver it as a Microsoft Word document please
Background: Additive Manufacturing makes complexity free (sort of), so take advantage of it. Curved surfaces, pockets and undercuts are very expensive to produce in subtractive manufacturing, but relatively “free” in AM. How can you take advantage of “free” complexity in a product that you choose from your local environment? What are the advantages, technical and economic, of choices you would make in redesigning your chosen product.
Select an object or product that interests you, perhaps something from your work, research or a class. Choose something that makes sense to produce using AM compared to other methods of production manufacturing (subtractive or formative). It could be an assembly of more than one component. Discuss why you think this product could be improved using AM, and how. Provide images or drawings of your object(s), with a few representative annotations that show what you think are “critical” dimensions.
Discuss user/customer requirements for the object(s) you chose. What color, surface finish, durability/duty cycle, temperature, chemical resistance, etc. are you envisioning will be required for your object(s)?
***VERY IMPORTANT *** Consider how you would design or redesign this object to take best advantage of AM. Discuss how could and would take advantage of the power of additive manufacturing in this object. Be specific – what features could be made better and how? Which of the requirements you listed above would be better addressed because you have additive?
What would you design differently if you have AM as a tool? How did you think and design differently to take advantage of AM? Be specific.
Which AM process(es) would be better or not for your design/object? Select an additive process for your object. Discuss your thought process – why did you choose this process? How would you create the object using the process you have selected, considering the strengths and limitations of AM in producing your object? What tradeoffs will you have to accommodate because of your selection? What orientation and scale trade-offs do you consider important for the particular AM process you selected and why? What material would you choose and why?
How will you define “quality” for your object? What parameters of quality do you think will matter most for your object? Consider these parameters as quality requirements. How will you validate the quality of your object according to these requirements when its produced?
***VERY IMPORTANT*** – What are the cost trade-offs you will make using AM to produce your object vs. another method of manufacture? What types of post-processing will you have to accomplish to deliver your object in its final form (per requirements above)? What does “complexity is free” mean with respect to your object(s), or doesn’t it?
Transportation Problem in Health Care
Instructions
Here are just a few examples of empirical analysis, original research, review of the literature or practice that could comprise a final project:
- Using the NHTS, OHAS or some other travel data source, examine the amount of active transport that people engage in terms of total miles and minutes of activity. What percentages meet the minimum recommended amount for health? Who (by different demographic, geographic or other category) is getting the recommended amounts? What does this say about the possibility of active transport as a health intervention?
- Explore crash data available for Florida or some other location using various statistical analyses. What kinds of crashes appear to be the most prevalent? When? Where? By whom? By what mode? How severe are they? Based on your findings, what policies to your recommend to address these?
- Similar to the above, examine crashes by one particular mode or one specific demographic group to have a more in-depth and focused analysis.
- Review planning or engineering documents to see how they are responding to health concerns (generally, or a specific issue we’ve discussed in class). What cities are states are more advanced in their planning efforts? How might those lagging behind be encouraged to engage more with health issues?
- Of late, much has been made of Portland’s preparedness (or lack thereof) for “the big one” – a large subduction earthquake predicted for our future. What is Portland doing relative to other cities in the US and the world? How would you assess the innovation with respect to transportation relative to these other places? What opportunities exist to be better prepared from a transportation point of view.
- Much has been make of the link of our diet with our health outcomes. But the transportation connection is sometimes overlooked as a critical component, particularly for those with limited means. How might transportation and land use planning address this issue? What are the limits to how transportation policies might help? Is this only a problem that impacts those with transport disadvantage?
- We lack robust measures of risk exposure to unsafe conditions to help guide decision making, as planners/engineers and as individuals. This is true whether we are talking about traffic safety (how should we evaluate crash risk?) or exposure to poor air quality. Pick one health aspect and focus on what measures exist, how they could be improved and what kind of data, monitoring and dissemination is needed to address this deficit.
- Health impact assessments are potentially powerful tool to help integrate health into transportation and other types of decision making. But to date, there is no federal mandate to include health assessments in federally funded projects. Some cities, however, have made great strides, such as San Francisco. Review the practice and discuss how these tools could be used, their shortcomings and debate whether adding them as a requirement (federally, statewide, etc.) is a good idea.
Guide
Your final project or paper for the term should focus on a narrowly defined topic with a well-thought out research question or methodology that you wish to investigate. You are to research this question using a careful review of the academic and practical literature, empirical methods, and/or other appropriate approaches throughout the term. The form of the finished project is up to you: students may choose a more traditional term paper or project but innovative projects, such as computer programs, websites, survey designs, applications, etc, are also welcome but must be pre-approved. For those choosing a more traditional route, the following guidelines are required:
- The paper must be written in a consistent and readable font (≥11 pt) with 1.5 line spacing.
- All secondary sources must be properly referenced in the text and cited in a footnote, endnote or bibliography. The format of the citation is up to you but it must be consistent throughout the paper.
- There is no maximum page length requirement. However the substance of the paper must reflect the weight of a term project. In general, papers earning an A grade tend to be within 15- 25 pages, not including citations. Papers prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board serve as good examples for the length of a term paper. • Please number your pages.
- Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you have questions about the appropriate methods of citing others work, please consult with me or a writing reference. Any plagiarized work will be given an F for the final project.
- I intend to grade based upon the relevance of your research question, robustness of your ideas, and the thoroughness of your research. It is difficult to separate these criteria from the presentation of your work, in terms of the quality of writing, graphics and other techniques used to communicate your points. While this is not an English course, I do have high expectations and your grade will include an assessment of your writing