FINAL REPORT ON STRATEGIC PRIORITY AWARD

SCHOOL OF ELECTRONIC, COMMUNICATION AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Title: The Online Student Individual Project Management System 2.0

ORIGINAL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

- To evaluate and promote the benefits in using the project management system to

other schools within UH and wider engineering disciplines.

- To identify needs from other disciplines and cater for specific implementation of the

online project management system within the schools.

- To further develop the system, incorporating the needs identified above.

- To extend the existing project management system to incorporate the need of other

faculties.

- To facilitate management of project for international partners

- To repackage the project management system as a complete software solution made

available to other HE establishments.

Expected Outcomes

- Project management web applications capable of managing a diversity of student

projects for other disciplines.

- More consistent approach to managing student projects involving partner institutions

- Run support workshops and seminars to members of academic and technical staff on

the usage and capability of the system.

- A project management web application that can be promoted as a generic project

management tool to other HE institutions, applicable to engineering as well as other

disciplines.

- OSIPMS to be available to other schools and HE establishment at no cost.

- Support for OSIPMS provided initially by the school, extending to a self-sustaining

community in the future.

WORK UNDERTAKEN AND OUTCOMES ACHIEVED

- A revisit and redesigned of the system was achieved using .NET platform, enabling

dynamic marking templates. This was necessary due to the wide ranging practice of

project management activities within FEIS.

- A seminar and discussion panel was carried out with project tutors and FAQEC to

discuss the adoption and implementation of OSIPMS within the faculty. PAM to start

in September 08, AADE & CS to follow in September 09.

- Identified specific needs and practice in project activities within the School of

Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (PAM) and the workflow is implemented in

OSIPMS.

- OSIPMS is now implemented in PAM for the start of September 2008. The system

will be used by students and staff for this academic year.

- Ongoing project that will span beyond this academic year. Further report and

dissemination of practice will continue through conferences/journals/workshops.

FEEDBACK AND EVALUATION

- The funding provided the opportunity to implement an establish practice in project

management to other schools within the faculty of EIS. The system is now in place

for PAM and evaluation of the system is currently ongoing. A full evaluation will be

carried out towards the end of Semester B 2009 with staff and students within PAM.

- The ongoing evaluation will provide a strategy and case study to engage with AADE

and CS for the start of September 2009. This should encourage staff to participate in

the change of practice with an online project management system.

DISSEMINATION OF THE PROJECT AND TRANSFER TO OTHER AREAS

- A full presentation was made at the 2007 Blended Learning Conference, and well

received by a substantial audience.

- A full paper and presentation was made at the 2007 First International Malaysian

Education Technology Convention and was well received by a substantial audience.

- A full paper and presentation presented at the Higher Education Academy

Engineering Subject Centre Conference in 2008 and was well received by a

substantial audience.

- Development and implementation of OSIPMS to Physics, Astronomy and

Mathematics (PAM) School in September 2008

- To run and conduct tutorial workshops to staff within PAM.

- Continuous development and implementation to Aerospace, Automotive and Design

Engineering and Computer Science in September 2009

- Continuous development and enhancement to provide support on mobile platform.