Civ E 300 Civil Engineering Project

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Civ E 300 Civil Engineering Project

• T. Hegazy
• Department of Civil Engineering

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Outline

• Course Objectives
• Course Procedure and Requirements
• Team, Project Topic
• Meeting, Reporting, and Presentation
• Course Evaluation
• Course Schedule

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What Is Civ E 300 About?

• You will select and work on a project to address
  a specific design problem
• You will Learn
• How to analyze problems
• How to search for related information
• How to identify and develop appropriate solutions
• How to evaluate the solutions
• Other Skills You will Learn
• How to be a team player
• How to give effective presentations
• How to write proposals and reports
• How to manage a project

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How Does It Work?
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Project Team

• Each team should include 34 students
• Each team must have a Project Manager for
• tasks, schedule, work
• meetings
• Each team must decide a project topic and sign up
  (course website) before Jan. 13 (next Tuesday)

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Project Topic

• What is a Good Project Topic?
• Not too big or too small
• Not too complex or too simple
• Make use of what you have learned (2A, 2B and 3A)
• Reflect the common interests of the team members
• How to Develop and Select a Project Topic?
• Have a brainstorm session
• Approach a professor

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Technical Advisor ?

• Roles of Technical Advisor
• Give advices on the topic you selected
• Suggest references/information sources
• They are very busy! consultation time should
  not exceed 2 hours over your project life.

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Client-Team Meetings

• I will be the Client who has hired you (Team)
  for the Job
• Each Client-Team Meeting will discuss
• What have been done so far?
• What are the problems encountered?
• What is the plan for the following week(s)?
• Each meeting will take app. 10 minutes.
• Each team must submit a one-page Progress Summary
  for each meeting.

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Schedule for Client-Team Meetings

• See Schedule of events
• You can choose your teams meeting time

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Project Reporting

• Each Team is Required to Write Three (3) Reports
• Project Proposal (Week 4)
• Final Report (Week 10)
• Administration Report (Week 11)

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Oral Presentations

• Each team is required to give three oral
  presentations
• Proposal (Week 4) in Dr. Hegazy office
• Progress (Week 8) in Dr. Hegazy office
• Final (Week 11) in Classroom
• Each presentation is limited to 10 minutes, plus
  2 minutes for questions
• In the final presentation only, presenter will be
  selected at random from his team
• Look at Guidelines for Effective Presentation

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Course Requirements Evaluation

1. A formal written proposal (25)
2. A formal oral presentation of project proposal
   (5)
3. Interim Client-Team Meetings/Reports (10)
4. Final client report (30)
5. A formal oral presentation of final report (15)
6. An administration report (5)

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Course Website

• www.civil.uwaterloo/tarek/hegazy300.html

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Your Tasks for This Week?

• Find partners and form a team
• Develop a project topic and find a tech. advisor
• Sign up as a team (Due next Tues.)

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Project Proposal?

• What Is a Project Proposal?
• 15 pages plus appendices
• References
• Guidelines for Writing Project Proposals
• Project Proposal Format
• Other References (listed on the Course Website)

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Issues in Project Proposals

• Very good overall
• Appearance Format/Tables/Figures
• Logical order
• Management/Budget
• Major issues
• Not sufficient background
• Not clear what is the exact problem (project
  need)
• Too much vague statements or lack of quantitative
  support (Statistics)
• Mixed up between Introduction (problems),
  Objectives and Approach
• Little literature review
• Lack of details on Technical Approach

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Progress Report

• 23 pages
• It should include
• Briefing on the activities performed to-data
• Discussion on any additions / deletions to the
  scope
• New improvement ideas, etc.
• Revised Plan (Schedule / Cost)

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Project Administration Report

• 35 pages (Required at the end of the term)
• It should include
• Discussion on the differences between the planned
  project schedule/budget (from proposal) and the
  actual schedule/costs (from Records of project
  activities)
• Discussion on how team performance would be
  improved if you were asked to do it again
• Minutes of team meetings
• Project Manager Duties

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Project Administration Report

• Using Microsoft Project
• Define tasks and durations
• Assign resources
• Save Baseline
• Tracking
• Reports

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Final Report

• 1520 pages of text figures and tables
• Objectives
• Define a problem.
• Define a method to solve the problem.
• Define budget, resources, time costs.
• Develop a solution within the budget.
• Conclusions and recommendations.