Students will be given general information about project management. They will be aware of the situations they will encounter in their professional lives and will create opportunities to meet with professional practice in the construction site environment.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
Attendance is important (at least 70%). In terms of course content; It is better to take classes 3. and 4.
Instructor(s)
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Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
The course is not offered this semester.
Office Hour(s)
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Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lectures, ppt presentations are supported. Two technical excursions are scheduled during the semester for on-site information. A project manager is invited to meet with the students.
Principle Sources
1. PMI Standards Committee - Duncan, W.R., A Guide To The Project Management Body Of Knowledge, USA, 1996.
3. Emmitt, S. (2007) Design Management for Architects, Blackwell Publishing, UK.
4. Efil, İ. İşletmelerde Yönetim ve Organizasyon, Alfa, İstanbul, 1999.
Other Sources
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introducing and Course Description
Presentation, Discussion
2. Week
Introduction to Project Management
Presentation, Discussion
3. Week
Project Processes I and II
Presentation, Discussion
4. Week
Project Processes III and VI
Presentation, Discussion
5. Week
Project Management Process Groups
Presentation, Discussion
6. Week
Student Group Presentations
Presentation, Discussion
7. Week
Construction Site Trip
Technical tour
8. Week
Student Group Presentations
Presentation, Discussion
9. Week
Student Group Presentations
Presentation, Discussion
10. Week
Construction Site Trip
Technical tour
11. Week
Student Group Presentations and General Review
Presentation, Discussion
12. Week
Guest and Discussion
Presentation, Discussion
13. Week
Midterm exam and evaluation
Examination and Evaluation
14. Week
Feedback
Evaluation and Discussion
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
25
Quizzes
5
15
Attendance
1
10
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Critical Thinking: Ability to inquire, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions.
PO-2
Communication: Ability to use appropriate representational media to transmit essential formal elements at design process.
PO-3
Investigation: Ability to gather, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within design processes.
PO-4
Design: Ability to reproduce the design information in the creative thinking process, to reach new and original results through universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
PO-5
World Architecture: Understanding world architecture in terms of their historical, geographical and global factors.
PO-6
Local Architecture / Cultural Diversity: Understanding the architectural formations and samples of a geography through its historical and cultural context. Understanding the divergent canons of cultural values, behavioral, social and spatial patterns.
PO-7
Cultural Heritage and Conservation: Understanding of conservation discourses and methods, and the subjects of cultural heritage, conservation awareness, environmental concerns and ethical responsibility.
PO-8
Sustainability: Ability to design projects by using the information regarding the natural and built environment to reduce the undesirable environmental impacts on future generations through means.
PO-9
Social Responsibility: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility about protecting the commonweal, having respect for historical/cultural and natural resources and improving the life quality.
PO-10
Nature and Human: Understanding of the relationship between human, the natural environment and the design of the built environment.
PO-11
Geographical Conditions: Understanding the relationships of site selection, settlement and building design by considering the cultural, economical and social properties as well as the natural characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation and watershed.
PO-12
Life Safety: Understanding the basic principles of security and life-safety systems in the conditions of natural disasters, fire, etc. through building and environment scales.
PO-13
Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-14
Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of physical environmental systems’ design such as lighting, acoustics, climatization and the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-15
Building Envelope Systems: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate application of building envelope systems and associated assemblies.
PO-16
Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic design principles of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
PO-17
Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles utilized in the appropriate selection of construction materials, products, components and assemblies, based on their inherent characteristics and performance, including their environmental impact and reuse.
PO-18
Integration of Building Service Systems: The ability of assessing, selecting and integrating the structural, environmental, security, envelope and service systems of the buildings for building design.
PO-19
Programming and Evaluation: Ability to prepare and evaluate an architectural project program by considering the public benefits in regards of client and user needs, appropriate examplers, space and equipment requirements, financial limitations, site conditions, relevant codes, laws and design principles.
PO-20
Comprehensive Project Development: Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project that demonstrates to make design decisions across various scales.
PO-21
Considering Building Costs: Understanding the fundamentals of building construction and use costs.
PO-22
Architect-Client Relationship: Understanding of the responsibility of the architect to elicit, understand, and reconcile the needs of the client, owner, user groups, and the public and community domains.
PO-23
Collaboration: Ability to work in collaboration with others and in multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design projects.
PO-24
Project Management: Understanding of the methods for competing for commissions, selecting consultants and assembling teams, and recommending project delivery methods.
PO-25
Practice Management: Understanding the basic principles in the architectural practice processes like financial management, business planning, quality management, risk management, discussion and reconciliation.
PO-26
Leadership: Understanding of the techniques and skills architects use to work collaboratively in the building design and construction process and on environmental, social, and aesthetic issues in their communities.
PO-27
Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture.
PO-28
Professional Practice: Understanding and fulfillment of employer and intern rights and responsibilities for development of profession.
PO-29
Ethics of Profession: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in profession regarding social, political and cultural issues in architectural design and practice.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Having basic statistical and probability knowledge.
LO-2
Being able to develop basic principles and steps in planning.
LO-3
Cost, capacity, time and quality; being able to relationships among these criteria.
LO-4
First degree Markov chain; being able to developing the controling process.
LO-5
Being able to fulfill the linear programming.
LO-6
Being able to develop a program by using computer.
