ABSTRACT

This book presents practical guidelines for university research and administration. It uses a project management framework within a systems perspective to provide strategies for planning, scheduling, allocating resources, tracking, reporting, and controlling university-based research projects and programs.

Project Management for Scholarly Researchers: Systems, Innovation, and Technologies covers the technical and human aspects of research management. It discusses federal requirements and compliance issues, in addition to offering advice on proper research lab management and faculty mentoring. It explains the hierarchy of needs of researchers to help readers identify their own needs for their research enterprises.

This book provides rigorous treatment and guidance for all engineering fields and related business disciplines, as well as all management and humanities fields.

chapter 1|13 pages

The Research Environment of Today

chapter 3|19 pages

Systems View of Research

chapter 4|30 pages

General Project Management Process

chapter 5|19 pages

Research Work Breakdown Structure

chapter 7|9 pages

Cost Concepts in Research Management

chapter 8|13 pages

Research Work Planning

chapter 9|13 pages

Research Risk Analysis

chapter 10|23 pages

Research and Innovation Technology Transfer

chapter 11|20 pages

Managing Research and Innovation

chapter 12|17 pages

Learning Curves in Research Management