Project Management (1.040)
MIT's 1.040 covers construction project management through theory, quantitative methods, and hands-on practice. The course frames a project life-cycle of organizing, planning, monitoring, controlling, and learning from past and current construction projects, and teaches the tools and methodologies needed at each stage. Case studies, field trips to active job sites, and lessons drawn from real construction practice ground the framework in practical decision-making. By the end, students are expected to apply the framework to manage a construction project within an architecture, engineering, or construction organization. Materials come from MIT OpenCourseWare and include readings, assignments, and course notes, free to access under a Creative Commons license, with no certificate offered. The course sits within MIT's Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems curriculum, aimed at students preparing to manage real building projects rather than abstract management theory alone.