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Is an Engineering Project Management Degree Worth it? Developing Agile Digital Skills for Future Practice

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  • Dacre, Nicholas
  • Senyo, PK
  • Reynolds, David

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Engineering managers are progressively tasked with leveraging digital technologies and innovations which have yet to be fully developed, to seek out opportunities and challenges in complex project contexts. However, there is a disparity between knowledge gained from engineering development programmes, and the rapidly changing landscape of modern project practice, which requires professionals to effectively engage and deploy relevant agile digital skills in practice. For example, complex engineering projects increasingly employ dynamic digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR / VR), 3D Printing, and Digital Twins, which require managers to quickly adapt to changing constraints through agile digital skills. Therefore, this paper seeks to focus on exploring the role of engineering project management programmes in developing knowledge and agile digital skills relevant for future project practice. Through an outline review of project management development programmes, this research paper suggests that their inherent value for engineering project managers, is largely dependent on a combination of applied research, engagement, and agile digital skills development for future practice.

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  • Dacre, Nicholas & Senyo, PK & Reynolds, David, 2019. "Is an Engineering Project Management Degree Worth it? Developing Agile Digital Skills for Future Practice," SocArXiv 4b2gs, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:4b2gs
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4b2gs
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    1. Kockum, Fredrick & Dacre, Nicholas, 2021. "Project Management Volume, Velocity, Variety: A Big Data Dynamics Approach," SocArXiv k3h9r, Center for Open Science.
    2. Dacre, Nicholas & Kockum, Fredrik & Senyo, PK, 2020. "Transient Information Adaptation of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Sustainable Data Processes in Complex Projects," SocArXiv pagbm, Center for Open Science.
    3. Gkogkidis, Vasilis & Dacre, Nicholas, 2021. "How to use Lego Serious Play as a Gamification Teaching and Learning Framework? A Responsible Management Approach," SocArXiv vdzsu, Center for Open Science.
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    5. Gkogkidis, Vasilis & Dacre, Nicholas, 2020. "Exploratory Learning Environments for Responsible Management Education Using Lego Serious Play," SocArXiv ek7th, Center for Open Science.
    6. Tite, Caroline N J & Pontin, David & Dacre, Nicholas, 2021. "Embedding Sustainability in Complex Projects: A Pedagogic Practice Simulation Approach," SocArXiv b4gya, Center for Open Science.
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