New Course IN TECH 50900Course Request Key Fields

Course Catalog Attributes

Course Attributes for Scheduling

Doc Nbr: 8956863 Status: ENROUTE

Initiator: phylton Created: Aug 3, 2011

1 . Requesting Campus: IN-IUPUI2 . Matching Course: No3 . School: TECH-Purdue School of Technology4 . Subject: TECH-Technology5 a. Course Number: 50900

b. Has course number been reserved with,ussscrct@indiana.edu, University

Student Services and Systems?

Yes

6 . Credit Type: Graduate7 . Is this a Purdue Course? Yes8 a. Course Title Motorsports Project Management

b. Recommended Abbreviation (30characters including spaces):

Motorsports Proj Mgmt

9 . Academic Career: Graduate10 . Effective Term (anticipated): Fall 201211 . Credit Hours: Fixed at 312 . Contact Hours: Fixed at 313 . Is S-F grading approval being requested? No14 . Is variable title approval being

requested?No

15 . Prerequisites/Corequisites (InformationOnly):

P: Permission of instructor.

16 . Course Description: This course focuses on organizational and engineering projectmanagement aspects specific to the operation of a race teamor other closely related business in the extremely fast movingworld of motorsports.

17 . Equivalent Courses: none18 a. Repeatable for Credit? No

b. Total Career Credit Hours Allowed:c. Total Career Completions Allowed:d. Allow multiple enrollments in term?

19 a. Type of Instructional Experience (Selectprimary component):

Lecture

b. Additional component(s) that apply: DiscussionReadings

20 . Instruction Mode (select all that apply): Face-To-Face21 . Instructor Name: Prof. Pete Hylton22 . Estimated Enrollment: 15

Additional Course Information

Essential Syllabus Information

23 . Estimated Enrollment Percent Expectedto be Graduate Students:

90

24 . Frequency of Schedule: Once Per Year25 . Course Typically Offered: Spring Term26 . Will this course be required for majors? No

27 . Justification for New Course: This course supports the new MS-TECH Motorsports Area ofSpecialization. It further prepares BS engineers orengineering technologists associated with the motorsportsindustry to advance their career in that industry.

28 a. Does this course overlap with existingcourses?

No

b. Please explain:c. Have you contacted the appropriate

department, school, etc. affected by theoverlap?

29 . Are the necessary reading materialscurrently available in the appropriate

library?

Yes

30 . Do you anticipate this course will requirea special fee? (Information Only)

No

ESI 1. Course Content: 1.Project scheduling of motorsports projects, accounting forthe unique pace of teams and businesses operating in themotorsports industrya.Toolsb.Philosophyc.Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)d.Managing a project by managing its schedule2.Cost estimating and budgets, including the integration ofthis aspect with the project schedule in order to oversee andmonitor the project progress and react to unexpected changesin requirements3.Design process steps and activities as they relate tofollowing a project from concept initiation through preliminarydesign, preliminary analysis, detailed analysis, detailed designand implementation including obtaining necessarymanagement approvals at required milestones.a.Concurrent vs. Serialb.Stages and steps4.Analysis Techniques, both preliminary (using handcalculations and approximations based on sound engineeringfirst principles) and detailed (using appropriate analysis toolsand testing methodologies).a.Application of fundamentalsb.Hand calculations and approximationsc.Finite Element Modeling (FEM)d.Detailed analysisi.Stressii.Thermaliii.Dynamiciv.Trade studies5.Probabilistic analysis and its use to determine reliability,failure probabilities, mean time between failures, and requiredmean time between replacement or service.6.Interface issues pertaining to the combination of multiplesystems as well as the interaction of discrete design teamsworking on multiple projects that must integrate to provide aviable resultant system7.Technical proposals, including the creation and presentationof proposed technical design efforts to either internalmanagement or external customers.8.Ethics, involving legal and moral implications of technicaldecisions, as well as personnel and people managementissues.9.Technical Presentations10.Technical Reports

ESI 2. Representative Bibliography orResources:

Hands-On Race Car Engineering, by John Glimmerveen,published by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), ISBN: 0-7680-0898-0Design Concepts for Engineers, 3rd edition, by MarkHorenstein, Published by Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-146499-X

IUPUI Campus Specific Questions

University Graduate School Specific Questions

ESI 3. Teaching and Learning Methods: This course focuses on engineering andorganizational project management aspects specific to thetechnical operation of a race team or other closely relatedbusiness in the extremely fast moving motorsports industry.The motorsports industry is unique in that the cycle time foran entirely new design of a complete competition vehicle ismonths rather than years and the time frame for a majorredesign of a significant system is weeks not months, and fora component or subsystem can be days rather than weeks.Additionally, the inevitability of unexpected events inmotorsports means that project scheduling must be in aconstant state of flux because any given weekend the resultmay be a successful winning car, a last place finish requiringmajor overhaul, or the complete destruction of the vehicle,requiring a complete change of redirection in efforts. Thedetermination of which scenario exists can be as little as fivedays before the vehicle is required to be operational again.This requires that engineers and technicians in themotorsports industry be constantly prepared for shiftingschedules, unexpected time lines, and changing requirements,and while the budget is likely constrained, the requirementsagainst that budget may change radically from initial plan tofinal implementation. While operating in this uniqueenvironment, motorsports businesses must contend with thesame ethical, financial, resource, leadership, personnel, andbusiness management problems faced by other industries.For all these reasons, there is a need to examine the projectmanagement issues of motorsports from a differentperspective than that used for traditional industries.

ESI 4. Learning Outcome/Objectives: 1.Students will demonstrate a recognition of the pace andprocess associated with motorsports project management andan ability to operate in that environment.2.Students will create integrated budgets and schedulesappropriate to management of motorsports projects.3.Students will assess and analyze technical risk andsynthesize engineering aspects of the design in order todevelop technical risk mitigation plans appropriate formotorsports projects.4.Students will communicate effectively, in both oral andwritten communications.5.Students will demonstrate the ability to operate effectivelyand interact appropriately with people in dynamic teams.

ESI 5. Learning Assessment: Individual Assignments/Projects (These will consist oftechnical problems to be solved on an individual basis usingskill sets covered in the course lectures OR individual essayswritten to expand upon topics covered in the course, researchtopics in more detail, or synthesize multiple aspects of thecourse. Assignments will vary from semester to semester.Assessment for each individual will be performed on the basisof the rubrics shown in syllabus) - 50%Team Project (This project will require a team-basedexamination of a particular technical problem related to themotorsports industry and proposed solutions to thatproblem. Assessment for each individual on a team will beperformed on the basis of the rubrics shown in syllabus.) -50%

IN1 a. PUL - Major emphasis (Mandatory)(Information Only):

b. PUL - Moderate emphasis (Optional)(Information Only):

c. PUL - Some emphasis (Optional)(Information Only):

Student Enrollment Services

UGS1 a. Is this a cross-listed course? Nob. Please list the cross-listed courses:

UGS2 a. Is this a joint-listed (combinedsection) course?

No

b. Please list the joint-listed (combinedsection) courses:

SES 1. Course ID:SES 2. Remonstrance List: