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Dean:	Dr. Ármann Gylfason
Email:	ru@ru.is
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MSc in Financial Engineering
Semesters:	4
Years:	2
ETCS:	120
About major	Fjármálaverkfræði er þverfagleg grein sem samþættir fjármálafræði við verkfræðilegar aðferðir, stærðfræðileg líkön, tölfræði, aðgerðagreiningu og hagnýta tölvunarfræði. Nám í fjármálaverkfræði hentar þeim sem hafa áhuga á t.d. áhættustýringu, afleiðuviðskiptum eða fjárstýringu. MSc námið er mótað að kröfum Verkfræðingafélags Íslands um fullnaðarmenntun í verkfræði.
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Education cycle	2

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Vorönn/Spring 2024

Energy Financial Assessment

SE-833-FA2

ECTS 6

Engineering Optimization

T-423-ENOP

ECTS 6

Sleep

T-424-SLEE

ECTS 6

Decision Analysis for Management

T-603-AKVA

ECTS 6

Internship in Engineering I

T-706-INT1

ECTS 6

Internship in Engineering II

T-706-INT2

ECTS 6

Systems Biology

T-765-SYBI

ECTS 8

Project Management and Strategic Planning

T-803-VERK

ECTS 8

Year

1. year

Semester

Spring 2024

Level of course

4. Second cycle, introductory

Type of course

Elective

Prerequisites

No prerequisites.

Schedule

Taught for 12 weeks.

Lecturer

Þórður Víkingur Friðgeirsson

Content

The use of projects and project management continues to grow in our society and its organizations. We are able to achieve goals through project organization that could be achieved only with the greatest of difficulty if organized in traditional ways. Business regularly uses project management to accomplish unique outcomes with limited resources under critical time constraints. In the service sector of the economy, the use of project management to achieve an organization’s goals is even more common. A relatively new growth area in the use of project management is the use of projects as a way to accomplishing organizational change.The course of project management quickly moves from theory to practice, allowing students to expand their knowledge base of projects in the context of managerial perspective. The classroom activities include both the traditional lecture approach along with problem based learning techniques where students solve cases in teams.

Learning outcome - Objectives

Knowledge1.     To understand the principles of traditional and Agile project management as discipline.2.     Learn to apply the tools, methods and techniques of project management and related disciplines in context of diagnosing, preparing, planning, executing, controlling, changing and closing a project.3.     Learn to place projects within organizations in context of organizational behaviour and the project lifecycle.4.     To understand the systems governing the project lifecycle in different situation.5.     To understand group dynamics.6.     To understand how to deal with risk and uncertainty in projects.7.     To understand the importance of “customer value” in projects.8.     To understand PM maturity models in a real life situation.
Skills1.     To be able to lead project preparation and execution in teams.2.     To be able to participate in teams in a productive manner.3.     To be able to communicate results and other relevant information in a project.4.     To be able to prioritize and select options from point of rational thinking.
Attitude1.     To understand and respect the value of professionalism and integrity.2.     To understand the value of authentic leadership.

Course assessment

Reading material

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Teaching and learning activities

Language of instruction

English

Derivatives and risk management