Construction Management & Entrepreneurship detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU CIVIL 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU CIVIL 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for construction management & entrepreneurship is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Management: Characteristics of management, functions of management, importance and purpose of planning process, types of plans. Construction Project Formulation: Introduction to construction management, project organization, management functions, management styles. Construction Planning and Scheduling: Introduction, types of project plans, work breakdown structure, Grant Chart, preparation of network diagram- event and activity based and its critical path-critical path method, PERT method, concept of activity on arrow and activity on node.
Module 2
Resource Management: Basic concepts of resource management, class of lab our, Wages & statutory requirement, Labour Production rate or Productivity, Factors affecting labour output or productivity. Construction Equipments: classification of construction equipment, estimation of productivity for: excavator, dozer, compactors, graders and dumpers. Estimation of ownership cost, operational and maintenance cost of construction equipments. Selection of construction equipment and basic concept on equipment maintenance Materials: material management functions, inventory management.
Module 3
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Module 4
Introduction to engineering economy: Principles of engineering economics, concept on Micro and macro analysis, problem solving and decision making. Interest and time value of money: concept of simple and compound interest, interest formula for: single payment, equal payment and uniform gradient series. Nominal and effective interest rates, deferred annuities, capitalized cost. Comparison of alternatives: Present worth, annual equivalent, capitalized and rate of return methods, Minimum Cost analysis and break even analysis.
Module 5
Entrepreneurship: Evolution of the concept, functions of an entrepreneur, concepts of entrepreneurship, stages in entrepreneurial process, different sources of finance for entrepreneur, central and state level financial institutions.
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME): definition, characteristics, objectives, scope, role of MSME in economic development, advantages of MSME, Introduction to different schemes: TECKSOK, KIADB, KSSIDC, DIC, Single Window Agency: SISI, NSIC, SIDBI, KSFC.
Business Planning Process: Business planning process, marketing plan, financial plan, project report and feasibility study, guidelines for preparation of model project report for starting a new venture. Introduction to international entrepreneurship opportunities, entry into international business, exporting, direct foreign investment, venture capital.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- P C Tripathi and P N Reddy, Principles of Management, Tata McGraw-Hill Education
- Chitkara, K.K, Construction Project Management: Planning Scheduling and Control, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi.
- Poornima M. Charantimath , Entrepreneurship Development and Small Business Enterprise, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., Licensees of PearsonEducation
- Dr. U.K. Shrivastava Construction Planning and Management, Galgotia publications Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
- Bureau of Indian standards-IS 7272 (Part-1)- 1974 : Recommendations for labour output constant for building works:
Reference Books:
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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 5th Sem Civil Engineering, visit (CIVIL) 5th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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