Project Work 1
Component code / course code: BP 6.3-1
Semester: winter / summer
ECTS credits: 7
Lecture hours per week (SWS): 4
Lecturer: Topic specific
Course language: English
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the first stage of studies and at least 7 out of 9 modules of the modules PB08 to PB16 (see SPO § 28, (3) Construction project management/civil engineering).
Objectives (Learning Outcome): Students learn to organize themselves in project teams and to work independently on a given project and an individual task. In order to solve the holistic task, the students use the knowledge and skills they have acquired during their studies and practical semester in a targeted manner.
After completing the “Project work structural engineering 1”, the students are able to organize small project teams and structure and implement structural engineering projects in these teams and develop independent solutions.
Lecture topics (content): The results are submitted in the form of two written papers and presented to the participants in presentations and represented in colloquia.
A wide variety of content is developed, which is to be worked on with the skills al ready acquired from the studies. These include, among others:
- Target definition
- Project structuring
- Project organization
- Contract management
- Cost and risk management
- Schedule management
- Special topics (depending on the project)
- Design Thinking
- Application competence BIM
- Visualization
- Application of various software
- Cooperation with a partner of Biberach University of Applied Sciences
- Timing and technical structuring of infrastructure projects
- Structural and procedural organization
- Development of procedural or plant engineering planning
- Resource planning
- Quality management
- Variant and process comparison and their holistic evaluation
- Analysis of legal aspects and prerequisites
- Prepare and conduct meetings and presentations
- Preparation of written documents (minutes, decision papers, reports)
- Independent source research and information procurement
- Presentation and visualization of the result
The results are prepared both in writing and orally, and are to be presented at the respective end of the semester on the so-called “P-day” in front of a colloquium.
Teaching format (e.g. online/in person lecture/Seminar/Lab etc.): Project
Examination: Project work (graded seminar paper and presentation)
