Planning

Complex processes and projects are generally time-restricted. Consequently, the student needs to learn to organize, plan, and manage processes to achieve the best results. The professional skill ‘planning and organizing’ concerns effectively determining objectives and priorities and scheduling the necessary time, actions, resources and people, by means of an efficient organization, to achieve the intended objectives. Practicing effective organizational and planning skills will help the student both personally as well as professionally. For TU/e students the professional skill ‘planning and organizing’ is about organizing own work with respect to their study and their projects (planning tasks ahead of time to bring the study or project to fruition).

Focus on individual study planning:

• Student is able to organize, plan, and manage his/her own study activities on day/week basis;
• Student is able to organize, plan, and manage his/her own study activities to prepare for exam weeks;
• Student is able to organize, plan, and manage his/her own study activities on BSc program level.

Focus on project planning for groups.

• Student is able to draft and implement a planning for a DBL course making use of a Gantt chart;
• Student is able to set priorities.

Focus on planning for for an individual research project.

• Student is able to  draft and implement a project plan for a larger and more complex (research) project making use of Gantt charts;
• Student is able to adjust the planning if required.