UXH411 Programming and Scheduling

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

This unit develops your knowledge, skills and resource planning techniques in the process of time management. Controlling time and resources is an essential task in construction project management. This unit provides students an understanding in time management and real world practical skill sets in preparing project programs. This unit occurs in the final year of your course as it consolidates skills you have develped in the area of construction and project management.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Promote the creation and realisation of value through design thinking and management of design, planning and controlling resources in construction case scenarios.
2. Initiate and make professional judgments using appropriate planning and control techniques to produce scheduling analysis.
3. Effectively communicate complex resource allocations and schedules through effective report writing skills as part of delivering a detailed project plan.
4. Work as part of a team in developing and applying professional judgement in the preparation of detailed resourced project time management schedules using industry standard scheduling software in construction project scenarios.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit employs problem-based learning to provide opportunities for you to apply design thinking to the creation and realization of value and the planning and controlling of resources.

Your participation in the unit will include:
• Independent review of online lecture recordings to introduce new concepts
• Attendance in lectures to review and provide feedback on your independent learning
• Engagement in tutorial workshops to provide opportunities to apply your design thinking and critical analysis skills to real world problems

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Continuous formative assessment in the form of assistance and feedback will be offered by teaching staff during the course of lectures and tutorials to answer your questions. Regular exercises will be undertaken in class to enable you to assess your progress in the unit through comparison with model answers.

Assessment

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Project (applied)

You are required to work in a group to produce a project report for a residential or commercial building refurbishment or construction project.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Examination (written)

Final written examination covering both theories and project examples.

“If campus access is restricted at the time of the central examination period/due date, an alternative, which may be a timed online assessment, will be offered. Individual students whose circumstances prevent their attendance on campus will be provided with an alternative assessment approach.”

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

All commencing SEF students are required to complete the Mandatory Safety Induction

There are no extraordinary risks associated with the classroom/lecture activities in this unit.

When working in laboratories and workshops, you will receive specific hazard and risk related instructions from your tutors and/or technical staff, which may include personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements. Participation in this local induction and correct use of PPE is compulsory.

Course Learning Outcomes

EN55 Master of Professional Engineering

1. Apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability.
   Relates to: Project (applied), Examination (written)
2. Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
   Relates to: Project (applied), Examination (written)
3. Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project.
   Relates to: Project (applied)
4. Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non specialist audiences.
   Relates to: Project (applied)
5. Organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently, and collaboratively demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering decision making and professional accountability.
   Relates to: Project (applied)

EN60 Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering

1. Demonstrate and apply specialised knowledge and technical skills in at least one Engineering discipline.
   Relates to: Project (applied), Examination (written)
2. Critically investigate real world engineering issues and solve complex problems drawing on specialised creative skills, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, theory and practice.
   Relates to: Project (applied), Examination (written)
3. Employ effective written and oral professional communication skills across social, cultural and discipline domains.
   Relates to: Project (applied)
4. Exercise responsibility and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice including working independently, ethically and collaboratively.
   Relates to: Project (applied)