Key skills

a. Critical thinking and creativity:

• identification and diagnosis of project success requirements and construction of related adequate project management.

b. Problem solving and decision making:

• establishing criteria for successful projects and project management.

c. Information and knowledge:

• definition and construction of effective and efficient project scorecards.

d. Numeracy and quantitative skills:

• identification and characterization of success metrics for each project, and assurance these characterization will be met.

e. Effective use of Communication and Information Technology (CIT):

• practical approach of project scheduling software tools (both freeware tools or commercial ones).

f. Two-way communication:

• consideration of key stakeholders in projects and identification of adequate communication protocols before, during and after projects.

g. Personal effectiveness:

• for each student, development of one’s own specialization (for example, either definition scope management, or plan development, or any of the addressed module) for an application field (oil & gas, aerospace, nuclear, etc).

h. Effective performance within a team environment and the ability to recognise and utilise individuals' contributions in-group processes:

• part of the application work is to be performed in teams.

i. Leadership and performance management:

• design and improvement of decision  making processes to control or direct projects.

j. Ethics and value management:

• academic environment is mainly aimed at developing ethical and organisational values to project situations.

k. Ability to conduct research into business and management issues.

l. Learning through reflection on practice and experience.