Agenda

Registration:                        8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:                8:30 – 11:45 am

Lunch (On your own):         11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Afternoon Session:             12:45 – 5:00 pm

Role of Scheduling in Project Planning and Cost Control

    Planning and scheduling
   Project control
   Scheduling and project management
   Increased productivity and cost control

Bar (Gantt) Charts

   History and development of bar charts
   Advantages and disadvantages
   Creating bar charts

Introduction to Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling

   Development of CPM
   Introduction to main features
   Advantages and disadvantages
   Finding the critical activities and the critical path

Creating a CPM Logic Diagram

   Understand the project goals, components and processes
   Use a work breakdown structure
   Identify the activities
   Calculate durations
   Find start and finish dates
   Find the critical path

Fine-Tuning and Changing the Schedule

   Resource allocation and resource leveling
   Materials management
   Scheduling and cost control
   Working with floats and with lags
   Handling delays
   Crashing the schedule

Software, Reports and Presentations

   Computerized scheduling
   Working with standard scheduling programs:
   Primavera, Microsoft Project, others
   Preparing reports and presentations
   Getting project participants to conform to the schedule

Credits

Professional Engineers
     7.0 PDHs

Architects
     Non-Credit in Ohio
     7.0 AIA Learning Units

Contractors
     Non-Credit Continuing Ed.

 Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 PDHs to professional engineers in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Ohio.

This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity for Ohio architects. The subject matter of this course does not meet the HSW definition in Ohio or the American Institute of Architects. The American Institute of Architects has approved this program for 7.0 Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.

This course offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing entity for licensing maintenance.

Attendance will be monitored and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.

Speakers

Adedeji Badiru

Airforce Institute of Technology

Professor at Airforce Institute of Technology
Dr. Badiru is a professor of Systems Engineering at the Airforce Institute of Technology (AFIT). He was previously professor and head of systems engineering and management at AFIT, professor and department head of Industrial & Information Engineering at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, and professor of industrial engineering at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is a registered professional engineer (PE), a certified project management professional (PMP), a fellow of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers, and a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. He holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering, an M.S degree in Mathematics, an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Tennessee Technological University, and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Professor Badiru’s areas of interest include mathematical modeling, project modeling and analysis, economic analysis, systems engineering, and efficiency/productivity analysis & improvement. He is a prolific author, with over 35 books, over 30 book chapters, over 130 journal and magazine articles, and over 200 conference presentations. He is a member of several professional associations and scholastic honor societies. He has been recognized with several awards for his teaching, research, and administrative accomplishments.

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