Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues.

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Advanced Project Planning & Visualisation

Assignment

Submission deadline 7th May 2023, midnight

Your submission (including the front page and references) should not be longer than 10 pages A4. You must adhere strictly to this page limit. Writing beyond the specified page limit will be ignored.

 You should not use font size smaller than 11, line spacing smaller than 1, nor margins smaller than 2cm.

Marks will be awarded based on the following criteria:

  • Your understanding of the main themes of the lectures.
  • Evidence that you have read additional material and refer (using references) to the contributions from relevant authors in the field.
  • Clear structure and presentation of the software (MS-Project, Synchro Pro) outputs and their analysis.

Report Submission

  • You should submit on the Blackboard, No extension is given
  • Report should be submitted in a single .doc or .docx format file; pdf, .xls or other format is not accepted.
  • File name of the submission document should include your first and last names
  • All output from used software (MS Project, Synchro Pro) should be exported to your assignment document. No Excel, Project or Synchro files are accepted.

 The Assignment is worth 100% of the module. Each part of this assignment is worth 25% of the module.

 

PART 1 (25% of the assignment)

There is an increasing demand in the international market for high quality project managers to run multinational and multi-sites projects. As a Project Manager you have been given the task by an international company to identify qualities and attributes of project managers with emphasis on project planning and project organisation domain.

You need to include the following, backed-up with journals, books and references:

  1. Communications, with emphasis on a project manager working remotely with project team members. (9% of the assignment)
  2. Managing multi-cultural project stakeholders. (8% of the assignment)
  3. Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues. (8% of the assignment)

 

Part 2 (25% of the assignment)   

Augmented/Virtual/Mixed/Extended Reality

Discuss and analyse the practicality of AR/VR/MR/XR application in the industrial sector in which you have experience. Provide outline analysis of value and constraints of applying the approach. Use the following papers as example references for your bibliography (1000 words). You need to build a bibliography of at least 20 recent (within the last 5 years) references from a range of sources.

Dudhee, V. and Vukovic, V. (2021), “Building information model visualisation in augmented reality”, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-02-2021-0021

Alizadehsalehi, S., Hadavi, A., Huang, J. C. (2020), “From BIM to extended reality in AEC industry”, Automation in Construction, Vol. 116, No.103254, ISSN 0926-5805,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103254

 

PART 3 (25% of the assignment)

A Teesside PLC has won a contract to work on a major Project to start on 1st December 2023. As a Project Manager you need to develop and analyse the planning schedule for this project using MS-Project. Your project team has identified major activities of the project, their dependency and resources needed to run each activity (see Appendix 1).

Appendix 1 provides information about the project, which includes project logic (activity links and their relationship – finish to start (FS), start to start (SS), and start to finish (SF), activity durations, resource allocation and work breakdown structure (WBS).

You have been asked to perform the following planning and scheduling processes using Microsoft Project 2012 or later version.

 

A: CPM & WBS (10% of the assignment)

  1. Draw a Gantt-Chart and CPM network for the project. Calculate early start (ES), early finish (EF), late start (LS), late finish (LF) and total float (TF) based on As Soon as Possible (ASAP) method and identify critical path.
  2. Draw WBS for the project (must include Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4) and discuss the importance of WBS as a Project Management tool.
  3. Explain why identification of the critical path is important? Also comment on the changes to the Critical Path, if the project is developed using As Late as Possible (ALAP)

 

B: Resource Planning (10% of the assignment)

  1. Produce and draw smoothed resource histograms for the skilled labour resources used in the project. Critically assess the output identifying the maximum units of each resource required for this project.
  2. Carry-out resource levelling for Unskilled resource only (do not use automatic resource levelling) and discuss how activities might be delayed beyond the latest start time (LST) to cater for the limits on Unskilled resources as a result of levelling. Consider resource pool for unskilled resources as 7 units per day.
  3. Explain and discuss the process of resource levelling.

 

C: Cost Analysis (5% of the assignment)                                                 

  1. Calculate the cost of each activity in the project (level 3). Consider the standard cost of a skilled labour as £20/hr, unskilled labour as £10/hr and equipment as £50/hr.
  2. Produce cumulative cost-time curve for the project.

 

Note:

  • Start the project on 1st December 2023.
  • Use default UK working calendar (i.e. Saturdays and Sundays are non-working days, 8 working hours in a day, bank holidays should be considered as non-working days)
  • Use resource unit as decimal.
  • Use fixed duration and set unit as days.
  • Clearly identify each part of the answers to the questions.
  • Use header and footer to clearly indicate what the chart or graph is showing.

 

 

PART 4 (25% of the assignment)

4D Planning

  1. Use Synchro Pro software and link the Building Project planning data with the given 3D CAD Building Model. Use both Assignment2.1.xml and Assignment2.2.xml with Assignment2.dxf. You will have two different models to review. Identify issues and conflicts with the proposed plans and changes. You should provide the pictures of the visualisation on your assignment. Briefly discuss the linking procedure carried out. (13% of the assignment).
  2. Define 4D planning. Discuss the purpose and benefits of 4D systems as a Project Management tool in an Engineering industry (12% of the assignment)

 

Create a five-level factorial design matrix in HiPPO and map to the real ranges for R = [0.02 to 0.2] m and t = [0.001, 0.01] m. Show your design matrix including both the normalized and real design variables along with the function values of M, G, and V for each design in your design matrix.

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Problem Set: Meta modeling Polynomial Regression

HW3-1: (30 points) For the design problem of the hollowed circular beam (shown below),

  • a. Create a three-level factorial design matrix in HiPPO and map to the real ranges for R = [0.02 to 0.2] m and t = [0.001, 0.01] m. Show your design matrix including both the normalized and real design variables along with the function values of M, G, and V for each design in your design matrix.
  • b. Create the quadratic PR models (with interactions) of M, G, and V in HiPPO and create the 3D plots of these three metamodels in Matlab. Briefly comment on the accuracy of the three metamodels by comparing to the true function plots in HW2-3.
  • c. Create the GimOPT input file for this optimization problem using the three metamodels and obtain the optimum solution. Report your solution and briefly comment on it by comparing to the true solution in

HW2-2. Note that these metamodels and their gradients can be saved to file in HiPPO. Also note that the two functions for G and V are not the constraint functions by themselves; you need to apply their limit values when creating the constraint functions for GimOPT.

HW3-2: (40 points) For the design problem of the hollowed circular beam (shown in the figure of HW3-1),

  • a. Create a five-level factorial design matrix in HiPPO and map to the real ranges for R = [0.02 to 0.2] m and t = [0.001, 0.01] m. Show your design matrix including both the normalized and real design variables along with the function values of M, G, and V for each design in your design matrix.
  • b. Create the quadratic PR models (with interactions) of M, G, and V in HiPPO and create the 3D plots of these three metamodels in Matlab. Briefly comment on the accuracy of the three metamodels by comparing to the true function plots in HW2-3.
  • c. Create the GimOPT input file for this optimization problem using the three metamodels and obtain the
    optimum solution. Report your solution and briefly comment on it by comparing to the true solution in

HW2-2. Note that these metamodels and their gradients can be saved to file in HiPPO. Also note that the two functions for G and V are not the constraint functions by themselves; you need to apply their limit values when creating the constraint functions for GimOPT.

Analyze stakeholder needs and requirements. Analyze system requirements. Analyze system operation. Analyze system functions. Analyze logical structure. Analyze system architecture.

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Reverse Engineering Project: Part 4 – System Analysis Assignment Instructions

Overview

In the Reverse Engineering Project, you will acquire a commercially available product (i.e., the system of interest – SOI), carefully disassemble it, develop a hypothesis concerning the purpose of the SOI (i.e., the Problem Statement), and conduct a thorough analysis of the SOI using the SysML modeling language, Visio modeling tool, and the Wasson MBSE modeling method. As part of the project, you will consider how the SOI fits into the CreationeeringTM paradigm and a biblical worldview.

Please note: This assignment is not due until Module 12. The Assignment Instructions are placed in an earlier module for you to preview as you will need to begin working on the assignment prior to the module in which it is due.

System Analysis Assignment Overview

In this assignment, you will develop a Wasson MBSE model of your reverse-engineered product SOi. These model viewpoints (stakeholder requirements, system requirements, system operation, system functions, logical structure, and system architecture) should collectively describe the system of interest using the SysML modeling language, Visio modeling tool, and the Wasson MBSE modeling method.

Instructions

  1. Analyze stakeholder needs and requirements.
    • specify stakeholder requirements using a Requirements Table and SysML Requirements Diagram
  2. Analyze system requirements.
    • specify system requirements using a Requirements Table and SysML Requirements Diagram
  3. Analyze system operation.
    • specify system operation using SysML Use Case Diagram
  4. Analyze system functions.
    • specify system functions using SysML Activity Diagrams
  5. Analyze logical structure.
    • specify logical structure using SysML Block Definition Diagram
  6. Analyze system architecture.
    • specify system architecture using SysML Internal Block Definition Diagrams
  7. Prepare a document of your activities based on the Reverse Engineering Project: Part 4 – System Analysis Template.
  8. Export/Upload the completed document as a pdf file.

Recommendations

  1. Refer to the Systems Engineering Handbook, Chapter 4 section on writing good requirements.
  2. Use Visio to create the required SysML diagrams.
  3. Verify traceability between model perspectives (i.e., Requirements, Operations, Behavioral, Physical).
  4. Elaborate on how the SOI fits into the CreationeeringTM paradigm and a biblical worldview. -How does this SOI show evidence of something God created (i.e., biomimicry)? How could this SOI be used in a ministry application? What Scripture passages relate to this SOI or this stage of the project?

Note: These are minimal requirements. To achieve a higher grade on this assignment, you must exceed these requirements. See the grading rubric for further details.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

What is the concentration of salt in the effluent 4.1 days after flow begins? Use the full and abbreviated forms of the Ogata-Banks Solution. Do they give different answers?

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Hydrology 08

1. A saline (salt) solution with a concentration of 370 mg/L is introduced into a 3.0-m-long sand column in which the pores are initially filled with distilled water. The solution drains through the column at an average linear velocity of 0.79 m/d and the longitudinal dispersivity of the sand column is 15 cm. In answering the following, assume there is no retardation of the saline solution and assume that molecular diffusion is not important.

  • a) How long will it take for the advective front to reach the effluent (end) of the column?
  • b) What is the concentration of salt in the effluent 4.1 days after flow begins? Use the full and abbreviated forms of the Ogata-Banks Solution. Do they give different answers?

2. The contents of a canal are leaking into a shallow aquifer. The water in the canal is suddenly polluted by a discharge of industrial waste that contains a non-degradable chemical and non-retarded chemical: 1,4-dioxane. The concentration of 1,4-dioxane in the canal is 0.90 mg/L. The aquifer has an average linear velocity of 1.25 ft/d.

  • a) Use the Xu and Eckstein relationship to estimate the longitudinal dispersivity for a plume length of 30 ft.
  • b) What is the concentration of 1,4-dioxane at a distance 75 ft from the discharge after 50 days? (D* = 1.0 ×10−9 m2/s). Assume the system can be approximated as 1-dimensional flow.
  • c) What is the concentration at a distance of 150 ft after 70 days?
  • d) In b) and c), are you behind or ahead of the advective front?
  • e) Plot the concentration as a function of time at a monitoring well that is directly downgradient of the discharge and 300 ft away. Be sure to use times that are large enough so that eventually, the plot reaches C = C0.

3. A manufacturing facility prints circuit boards using TCE. The TCE washwater spills into a shallow groundwater at a steady rate such that it creates a continuous source of 10.0 mg/L. The groundwater beneath the site has an average linear velocity of 1.0 ft/d. The fractional organic carbon content of the soil is 0.012. The bulk density of the soil is 1.6 g/mL. The porosity is 0.35 and effective porosity is 0.18.

  • a) What is the retardation coefficient for TCE in this system?
  • b) Estimate the longitudinal dispersivity using a plume length of 600 feet using the Xu and Eckstein relationship.
  • c) What is the concentration of TCE at a well 75 feet directly downgradient of the spill after 200 days? Use the full Ogata-Banks solution with retardation. Assume no degradation of TCE.
  • d) If the TCE did not adsorb to the soil what would the concentration be at this well after 200 days? Assume no degradation of TCE.
  • e) Recalculate the concentration at 200 days assuming TCE is retarded and degrades according to a first order rate with coefficient of 0.01 /d.
  • f) What is the concentration of TCE at this well once the plume has reached steady state? Assume retarded transport and that degradation of TCE at a first order rate with coefficient of 0.01 /d.

Make orthographic drawings of your design with dimensioning, welding specifications and a parts list with identification labels.

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Mechanical Engineering Drawing

The triangular swivel gusset is to be fixed on the open end of the U-frame. The U-frame has been built by welding the two horizontal arms on the vertical web on the left end, while the edge b of the gusset is to be fixed between the arms on the right end using non-permanent fasteners. The gusset is permitted to swivel a maximum angle of 1800 in and out of the plane of the U-frame under the effect of force P. Equal and opposite forces F act vertically on the right ends of the two horizontal arms, tending to bend the arms inwards. Design the joint using appropriate, standard fasteners to permit the swivel under the force P on the gusset, while also being able to withstand the compression under the vertical forces F. For better stability of the connections, you may need to machine or add flat blocks at the tips of the gusset. The welding of the two horizontal arms on the vertical web also needs to be strengthened to prevent any possible cracking. You may choose to strengthen it by attaching reinforcement brackets or gussets, or building up on the surface by weld deposit, or remaking the U-frame from scratch as an assembly of individual arms and web joined using standard fasteners

1. Make orthographic drawings of your design with dimensioning, welding specifications and a parts list with identification labels.

2. The rationale for the design should be neatly handwritten/typed-up and appended to the drawing sheet/s.

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Using the Borough of Demarest Municipal Limiting Schedule and the Zoning Map, prepare a comprehensive zoning analysis (table format) that lists all the zoning restrictions.

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Zoning analysis

Assignment involves developing a zoning analysis for the architectural project described and based on the analysis, prepare plans and elevations of the new house as follows:

• Analysis: Using the Borough of Demarest Municipal Limiting Schedule and the Zoning Map, prepare a comprehensive zoning analysis (table format) that lists all the zoning restrictions.

Other information are provided to the attached documents below:

  • https://www.studypool.com/questions/download?id=2801184&path=uploads/questions/2630871/20230408220929assignment_2__zoning.pdf&fileDownloadName=attachment_1

What is the mathematical proof for the Pythagorean Theorem? Give one detailed proof of the Pythagorean Theorem involves using the areas of squares with areas a^2, b^2, and c^2. Proof both sides equal.

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Aerospace Engineering Question

What is the mathematical proof for the Pythagorean Theorem? Give one detailed proof of the Pythagorean Theorem involves using the areas of squares with areas a^2, b^2, and c^2. Proof both sides equal.

Discuss your propellant tanks here. Include a discussion of material, size, shape, etc. Determine the type of propellant feed system.

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Part V. and Part vii

Discuss your propellant tanks here. Include a discussion of material, size, shape, etc. You will also need to determine the type of propellant feed system. You will need to calculate the thrust-to-initial weight ratio. For pressure fed systems and blowdown systems, you need to determine the mass of feed gas and the type of feed gas. You will need to discuss the tank in which the feed gas is stored if applicable which you can find it in the textbook and the attached lecture notes for part vii There are two options: active cooling and passive cooling (radiation only). You need to perform a heat transfer analysis using only radiation cooling. Determine if there is sufficient cooling by radiation to prevent the combustion chamber/nozzle from becoming too hot. If not, you then have to discuss a possible cooling system. You do not have to fully design the cooling system.

Develop an analytic model with equations which describes the cooking process. Solve the equations and determine the following: What is the surface temperature of the lamb if the center of the lamb’s meat is 165°F?

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Heat Transfer Project

Pictured below is a traditional method of roasting a whole lamb.
A motor turns the lamb. Assume the lamb weighs 30 pounds and will be cooked to 165°F (74°C) in the center of the meat. The lamb can be modeled as a cylinder (Please consider: is there meat in the center of the lamb?) For the first 30 minutes the lamb will be 4 inches from the coals, then the lamb should be raised higher from the coals.

For the spit method you are to:
1) Develop an analytic model with equations which describes the cooking process (this may include conduction, convection and radiation).

2) List your assumptions and parameters— they must be reasonable.

  • a. The height above the coals.
  • b. The internal temperature of the lamb.
  • c. The dimensions of the cylinder used as a model for the lamb.
  • d. The RPM of the motor.

3) Solve the equations and determine the following: What is the surface temperature of the lamb if the center of the lamb’s meat is 165°F?

4) Write your results as an engineering report. (Introduction, assumptions, equations, analysis, results and conclusions). See below

5) You will be graded on the accuracy and completeness. There is no definitive “correct” answer—your thought process in solving the problem is very important.

Engineering Report:
Report Format and Content

Do not cut and paste equations from other sources. Do not scan and use jpegs or other image formats of the equations you use. (Part of the assignment is learning to write/type the equations and symbols correctly.) When needed please use the Greek symbols for properties or variables.

Table of Contents: List the sections of your report. Your table of contents and all other text you include in your report should be 12 font and no larger than 1″ margins.

Problem Statement: Type out the problem you are solving.

 

For each of the three myths below, provide a written rebuttal that uses the peer-reviewed literature as your primary source.

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Chemical Engineering Question

The assignment is to debunk common climate change myths using peer-reviewed science. For each of the three myths below, provide a written rebuttal that uses the peer-reviewed literature as your primary source. Your response to each question can be no longer than 200 words (brevity is good). Make sure you include at the end of your answer the full bibliographic information for the article(s) you cite (not included in the word count).

Myth 1: There has always been natural variation in Earth’s climate, going back millennia. In fact, before there were humans on Earth, there were periods warmer than we have today. Therefore, today’s climate is just part of natural variations (including variations in the solar cycle) that have always occurred.

Myth 2: Extreme cold weather events, rare snow events, etc. disprove a warming climate. The most notable example came when Senator James Inhofe (Oklahoma) gave a speech on the Senate floor in 2014 where he cited such evidence.

Myth 3: Climate change might be happening but it’s not a big deal (in fact, it might actually have net benefits). People are resilient and adaptable. We can shift crop production north and go on with life essentially “as is”.