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There currently exist a large number of project management technologies, of various types and serving different project scopes. Traditional desktop-based tools are intended for large, organizationwide, structured projects. More recently, smaller and more agile web-based project management tools have become popular, in large part owing to their ability to function on mobile platforms and to enable real-time communication between team members. Traditionally, capstone design courses have prescribed the types of project management documents students must produce and favored industry-grade desktop-based tools such as Microsoft Project. In a recent offering of a capstone design course in a management engineering program the instructor did not set any constraints on the type and format of project management documents and tools students were expected to use. Instead, only high-level coaching on the components of good project management was provided. Student teams avoided desktop-based tools altogether and instead chose a variety of web-based tools, favoring those that enabled cloud-based document sharing and task progress monitoring.  \nKeywords: project management, web-based, technology, communication  \nCorresponding Author: Ada Hurst, [adahurst@uwaterloo.ca](adahurst@uwaterloo.ca)  \nIntroduction  \nCapstone design projects provide an excellent opportunity for students to practice and for engineering programs to evaluate student project management skills. To aid with the management of complex, multistakeholder projects, there exist a large number of project management software tools available to engineering students and professionals alike. Compared to traditional desktop-based tools, modern web-based tools emphasize and enable real-time, online progress tracking and social-network functionalities that facilitate team member coordination.  \nIn a most recent offering of the capstone design course in a management engineering program, students were encouraged to research, select, and use available project management tools that best suited their project needs. This paper outlines a set of project management technologies that were most commonly chosen by students.  \nBackground  \nThe Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board has identified project management as one of the twelve attributes an engineering student must possess upon graduation1. While engineering programs may provide some project management instruction to students  \nthroughout the curriculum and as early as first year (instep with an increased emphasis on design2), the most significant ‘practice’ of these skills is achieved in finalyear design courses. Thus, capstone design projects provide an excellent opportunity for students to develop and for programs to assess student project management skills. In a 2005 US survey of capstone design programs, project planning and scheduling, economics, and risk assessment were taught in 72%, 61%, and 29% of programs, respectively3. Enabling students to practice project management skills and to maintain project ownership is also important when a capstone project directly addresses a client company’s design problem4.  \nTraditional project management assumes the project manager (PM) handles complex projects by logically deconstructing project objectives into simpler, manageable tasks. The PM is assumed to be able to determine how best to schedule tasks using a formalized risk management tool and to integrate tasks into a finished product at the project’s completion. Current project management approaches expect PMs to have a good understanding of the project task structure break","cbCaihe6M11aJ2oy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihe6M11aJ2oy","pdf",136010,"English","# Introduction\n# Background\n## Project management as an accreditation attribute\n# Trends in project management tools\n## Desktop-based tools\n## Web-based tools","[{\"question\":\"What tool approach did students take in the recent capstone course offering?\",\"answer\":\"Students were not constrained to specific document types or tools. Teams avoided desktop-based tools and selected web-based platforms that enabled cloud document sharing and monitoring of task progress.\"}]","Project Management in Capstone Design Courses - Student Choices of Current Technologies | PDF",1789201508]