Considering Project Management Activities for Engineering Design Groups

Project Selection, Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Engineering Design Groups

This dissertation examines a profit-maximizing project selection and scheduling problem. Assume that a set of potentially profitable projects are available, yet limited available resources may not allow all of them to be pursued. Profit profiles for projects are assumed to be non-increasing functions of project completion times, i.e. profit returns are sensitive to time-to-market. Decision need...

An Analytic Model for Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams

 The Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams has been analyzed in an Iranian Engineering firm. Adapting and analyzing the latest readiness model, experts’ opinions were received by questionnaires and main criteria of the readiness have been identified. The considered readiness criteria are: Infrastructure, Deliverables (Drawings, Reports, Minutes of Meeti...

Supporting Engineering Design Communication through a Social Media Tool – Insights for Engineering Project Management

Engineering Design Knowledge Management for Conceptual Design

The early stages of engineering design are critical, as the highlevel decisions made at this point have the most impact on the final product’s design, cost, and success. However, little software is available to support engineers during the initial, conceptual design phase. In addition, at this and all other stages of design, engineers are increasingly tasked with utilizing unwieldy collections ...

Engineering Design Knowledge Management

In recent years, greater global competition is pressuring organizations to produce industrial products with the shortest possible lead times, high quality, and lowest costs. The lifecycle of a product includes many phases such as requirement definition, conceptual design, production, operation, maintenance, and so forth. Each phase in the lifecycle would involve the product information, for exa...