The objective of this course is to furnish the learner with the skills and knowledge the learner needs to effectively plan and schedule a project. Once the work is underway, the learner will use the control systems to monitor, forecast, and solve problems as they occur. Time plans or work schedules are management tools used to communicate valuable information about a project such as what work needs to be performed, when will various work activities start and end, and who will perform the work.

Managing projects has become one of the most important characteristics of the organizations nowadays. In any organization, it is common to organize tasks as projects. This serves to focus responsibility and authority to achieve the organizational goals and retain better control, coordination, communication and customer relations. These advantages encourage organizations to become project oriented. Therefore, project scheduling and control is becoming important in organizations. For engineering students it is an advantage to learn project scheduling and control techniques. This course, Project Scheduling and Control, covers the process of planning, scheduling, and understanding control measures and systems to effectively manage a project. Project planning and control tools used in managing and delivering projects will be explained in depth. The topics covered in this course are project scheduling basics and models, project monitoring and control tools, and project risk analysis tools, work breakdown structure, critical path method and scheduling logic, activity durations, status reports, resource allocation and control and PERT.