Like many of you who have already discussed your ideal career plans on this thread, I would also like to start my professional career as an engineer and work my way into management as my career progre...

I definitely suffer from this same "tunnel vision" issue when it comes to the simulations. Because there are many variables that can be changed during the experimental process, I also find it hard to ...

I do believe the project manager's level of motivation has a large and direct impact on the rest of the project team. Team members look up to the manager as their leader and the culture of the team ul...

It makes sense that exciting and challenging work is what keeps people motivated to continue working, especially when their work is their passion. But I can also see how this correlates with the #1 re...

As I am still an undergraduate student and have no experience in industry, I am very grateful to have taken this course before I graduate. Most, if not all, of my classes up until this point have been...

For individual work and projects, my motivator is a desire to get better and make progress each day. It is easier to be motivated when you are working towards something that you are passionate about, ...

The three main purposes of human resource management include organizational planning, staff acquisitions, and team development. Organizational planning includes identifying and assigning project roles...

Quality assurance includes the activities performed within the quality system and answers the question of whether or not a project is equipped to handle the quality standards and requirements. Some in...

Communication is crucial for the progress of any project regardless of whether the project consists of 2 team members of 5 different departments and should serve as a two way street between management...

Before a team is selected, management should be made aware of any planned absences of any project team members so that they can plan the timeline of the project accordingly and adjustments can be made...

1. Agreeing on the project goals is important to overall team success, and most importantly, chemistry. Team work is the main component of all projects, and if team members do not agree on the overall...

The cost of each task within a project, which as already mentioned in this thread, can directly relate to the duration of each individual task. Therefore, certain costs, such as earned value, play a b...

Increasing risk in order to decrease the length of a task, and subsequently the project as a whole, is a tactic that should be strictly situational, depending on the type of risk and amount of risk in...

During the Closing Phase, contracts must be closed, all payments must be completed, final performance reports must be given, lessons learned from the project must be logged, and the project must be ha...

My personal experiences regarding logging work are very similar to many of the replies on this thread. For my capstone project last semester, we had to test all of our components of the project in a r...