Showing papers on "Project engineering published in 2013"

Engineering Quality while Embracing Change: Lessons Learned

Abstract: In an increasingly complex technical environment, failure is accepted as a way of maximizing potential, a way of growing up. Experience can be utilized to improve designs, advance product maturity, and at the same time, can increase team's training and education. It is not enough to understand the development tools to ensure a project's success. Understanding how to plan, measure, communicate, interact, and work in teams is mandatory to make a project successful. A manager cannot enforce a process of good communication between team members. Project teams have to work together in supporting each other and establish a constant communication environment. This paper presents lessons learned during the development process of operations research software. The team members have matured and learned during the process to plan successfully, adapt to changes, use Agile methodologies, and embrace a new attitude towards failures and communication.

Development of a scenario-based project management system construction in enterprises with the functional organizational structure

Abstract: Commonly accepted point is that functional organization structure is a poor environment for project management The scenario repository approach is designed especially to support project management in environment with great amount of operational activity taking into account, that in such cases, project tasks have their reflection in the tasks of business-processes Creation of a special project and operation task management tools set allows to create a new approach in change management in enterprises with functional organization structure, optimize the processes, involved in project management activities, compile the knowledge base of project and operational task management using the project task - operational task mapping to reveal the bottle necks of both

A safety risk management database for metro construction project

Abstract: This research focuses on the build of a new kind of database, named metro safety risk database MSRD), which integrates the accident case library and engineering information library to provide more practical and valuable safety information for the project participants, so that we can take effective measures to prevent the tragic accident from happening again. The use of modern database technology with powerful project data processing capability has aroused the attention of builders, but there are still many things have to be done to improve the database. Therefore, it is extremely important to analyse the database composition, the data acquisition process and the database functional design. in this research, an effective tool to improve on-site safety performance has been developed from historical data and project engineering information

Undergraduate Research: A Step Toward Innovative and Creative Solutions in Engineering

Abstract: An undergraduate research project provides the future engineer with extensive skills and knowledge related to the theme of the developed project and to the scientific methodology used to plan and perform it. Moreover, it introduces the student into the research world, putting him in contact with experienced researchers and scientific literature. In addition, the student has the opportunity to present to the academic community the results of his work through seminars, lectures, and papers, also developing his skills of reading, writing, and oral communication. In this context, the methodology proposed in this article to plan and execute an undergraduate research project is of paramount importance for engineering students. In the case study presented, the students involved in the development of the project achieved a reasonable synthesis of knowledge on image and video processing as well as in prototyping digital circuits using programmable logic devices and hardware description language, themes only partially addressed (and not necessarily with a connection to each other) during the undergraduate course. Thus, students can avail themselves of these concepts in future applications in these areas, whether as a professional at a design company or as a researcher. The interconnection between the issues approached by the project and the theoretical fundamentals acquired during the studies is always a goal, which reinforces the importance of constructing a solid conceptual foundation to lead to the success of the research project. The project developed in GEPSIN completely achieved its goals as well as the ability to continuously contribute to ongoing and future projects on image and video processing. Future research on the subject will take advantage of the platform to verify the achieved performance under real constraints.

Motivation and Approach to Establish a Comprehensive Community in Project Engineering

Abstract: Project engineering covers all technical related activities, processes and tools to realize a customer specific solution (e.g. industrial plant or factory) from conceptual design to commissioning. Consequently, project engineering deter-mines both, costs and quality of customer-specific projects. Due to growing com-plexity of industrial projects and rising cost pressure caused by new players in the market, companies specialized on project engineering have to improve quality and reduce costs of their engineering results continuously. This paper shows how engineering companies can be supported in mastering these challenges by joining together in an ‘Engineering Community’. Therefore, a community model consisting of the three key variables ‘content & activities’, ‘stakeholders’ and ‘infrastructure’ has been developed.

Study on mechanism of bid evaluation of hydropower project construction based on approximation ideal value

Abstract: This paper constructs a project bidding and evaluation mechanism based on engineering value for an equilibrium of investment,quality and time limit,to ensure engineering value maximization with reasonable project cost at the stage of hydropower project implementation.In the mechanism design,approximation ideal value method is used to optimize goal function under constraints of commercial proposals,time limit and technology review.The tender provides quadratic optimization of the function weights through analytic hierarchy process variable weights,and finds the best solution from the alternatives of function weights by approximations to ideal solution ranking and by calculation of bidding project engineering value and the largest value of engineering.Through case analysis,the mechanism can meet the goal of engineering value maximization and it is better operative and more suitable for medium and large-scale complex projects.

Study on Three-dimensional Self-evaluation Model of Environment Influence for Urban Rail Transit Project

Abstract: Urban rail transit project has active role on promoting city development,moreover,it also has a series influences on environment.In order to exactly evaluate the influence of urban rail transit project on environment,3 dimensions including full life cycle process,project engineering activities and environment influence factors were considered.Through taking 2-grade refinement for the three-dimensional index and combining with expert scoring model,the three-dimensional effective combination analysis on environment influence was provided for urban rail transit project,so as to reduce unnecessary works of environment influence analysis and increase the working efficiency of environment influence analysis on the project.

A Three-layer, Four-pipeline Service-driven Organization Architecture for Evaluating Large Project Clusters

Abstract: This Managing and evaluating large engineering project clusters, especially those collaborating multiple heterogeneous functional units or subcontractors, represents one of the biggest challenges in Project Management, Operation and Service science. To effectively manage and evaluate the performance during the project life cycle, managers need to have clear project architecture of functional units and comprehensive evaluation architecture. Here we introduce a two-way dynamic interactive mapping model based three-layer four-pipeline service-driven organization architecture for evaluating performance of large engineering project clusters. We had developed it from our practical applications. We argue that our architecture is comprehensive and effective from our empirically application to five large engineering project clusters.

Global Engineer: A Springboard for the Next Decade

Abstract: Over the last decade, major engineering organizations have been competing to attract the best engineering students. For instance, Shell need top-class Project Managers and Project Engineers to fulfill this ambition; not only to execute their current projects but also to have an eye on future ventures needing to be developed in an equally safe and sustainable manner. Managing in today’s environment provides many challenges and project engineers will be confronted with situations which challenge the traditional ways engineering projects have been managed. Terms such as responsive graduate engineer and innovative engineer are increasing in popularity, however, dealing with the mutual inconsistency these two terms provides a challenge to most of today’s global engineering organizations. In spite of recent extensive research, there has been little consideration given to how to develop a global project engineering curriculum. This examined how a global project engineering curriculum should be developed to address needs of global engineers. Using two case studies, the results have been summarized under the following headings of: defining the process of developing a global engineering curriculum and the most important factors for successful implementation of a global project engineering curriculum. This provided a comprehensive assessment of factors that will influence curriculum development in project engineering.