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Prioritization of student project proposals : a multicriteria approach

Due to everyday burst of technological developments and their application in the field of project management, there is a lasting need for improvement in student teaching and assessment processes. Such place where engineering students can be challenged both creatively and by knowledge in complex project environment can be found in the graduate study programme under the course of Project Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Rijeka. As one of the course objectives is active work on actual project proposals, students are divided into supervised teams. Each team is responsible for the development of one project scenario for the Project Delta in the city of Rijeka, and is evaluated as the best project proposal among defined project teams and their proposals. Prioritization of project proposals deals with complex decision making. It is characterized by lots of participants, multidisciplinarity, huge quantities of information, limited budget, conflict goals, and criteria. In order to cope with such complexity and to help professors during decision making processes, this paper proposes the use of multi-criteria methods for solving priority setting problem. The starting point in this methodology is goal analysis and development of adequate criteria set. Evaluation of criteria importance is based on a set of experts’ opinions processed by AHP method, while all data processing is done by PROMETHEE multi-criteria methods. The end result is a priority list of student project proposals. By presented methodology specialized software is introduced into education process of construction management, thus innovating curriculum and assessment of the course.

decision support; multi-criteria methods; priority; project management

Rad je objavljen i u Knjizi sažetaka ; Institute of Structural Economics and Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, BUT ; 99-99 ; ISBN: 978-80-214-5050-9.