Managing an Engineering Project
In Managing an Engineering Project, you'll learn ...
- The key characteristics and challenges of engineering design projects and how project management practices are applied to meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality goals.
- How to develop a clear scope of work and project plan that defines deliverables, milestones, staff roles, and management expectations for engineering design projects.
- How to apply schedule and budget control methods—including critical path, percent complete, and earned value concepts—to monitor and maintain project performance.
- How to implement change, risk, and quality management practices to reduce rework, control scope changes, and improve overall design outcomes.
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 41 pages
This course focuses on addressing the unique demands of leading an engineering design project, whether as a project manager, design manager, or design lead. Engineering projects have unique challenges such as very structured stage gates, multi-discipline design teams, percent complete milestones, permitting, lengthy technical specifications, complex systems, performance risks, and construction cost estimating. This course provides an overview of project management that addresses these unique challenges.
Topics include engineering projects overview, staff organization, scope of work, project plan, staying on time, staying with budget, gaining commitments, change management, risk management, quality management, and inspiring the team.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Skills for managing the design phase of engineering projects
- How to develop a detailed written scope of work
- How to plan for new project
- How to manage the budget and schedule for a design project
- The benefits of gaining commitments from team members
- Tools for managing changes
- How to identify, document, and manage risks
- How to motivate and inspire the design team
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 15 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
| This course is applicable to professional engineers in: | ||
| Alabama (P.E.) | Alaska (P.E.) | Arkansas (P.E.) |
| Delaware (P.E.) | District of Columbia (P.E.) | Florida (P.E. Area of Practice) |
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| Maine (P.E.) | Maryland (P.E.) | Michigan (P.E.) |
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| New Hampshire (P.E.) | New Jersey (P.E.) | New Mexico (P.E.) |
| New York (P.E.) | North Carolina (P.E.) | North Dakota (P.E.) |
| Ohio (P.E. Self-Paced) | Oklahoma (P.E.) | Oregon (P.E.) |
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| Tennessee (P.E.) | Texas (P.E.) | Utah (P.E.) |
| Vermont (P.E.) | Virginia (P.E.) | West Virginia (P.E.) |
| Wisconsin (P.E.) | Wyoming (P.E.) | |
Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 41 pages
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