• Introduces principles, methods, and tools for project management and teamwork in engineering. Lessons cover historic approaches and contemporary skills for establishing, planning and managing complex projects. Topics include target setting and charters, stakeholders, project architecture, scope estimation, resource allocation, schedule forecasts, and risk mitigation. Project concepts covered include flow-based, waterfall, set-based, spiral, and agile approaches. Lessons include exercises to apply methods learned. Student teams select and design a project approach to apply in areas such as aircraft modification, factory automation, flood prevention engineering, solar farm engineering, enterprise software deployment, and disaster response. IAP version: 4-day off-campus format with preference given to students in the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. H3 version: on-campus. Preference given to students in the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program for IAP session.

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