PD467 - Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals

Length: 3 days    CEUs: 2.30    PDHs: 23.00

You Will Learn:

This 3-day course is focused on the mechanical engineering industry, and provides an overview of project management fundamentals and techniques using lecture, small group case studies, discussions and hands-on simulations geared towards mechanical engineers and their industry.  This program is not classroom lecture.  Participants will work in teams to plan a real-world project in the area of mechanical engineering.  The team environment amplifies and accelerates participants learning.  It also prepares participants to manage their projects in the work environment.  In addition, this course allows each team to build an individual project idea from design to completion, emulating the project management life cycle.  This course is 100% compliant with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s®) current PMBOK.

Outline
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Who Should Attend and Prerequisites

This course is primarily designed for mechanical engineers (MEs) who have or will be assigned project management responsibilities; for project managers, project leaders or anyone performing in those roles or soon to be performing in those roles within the mechanical engineering industry.

As prerequisites, participants should have basic management skills, be involved or planning to become involved with project management.  Participants should also have an understanding of basic accounting and budgeting skills, which will be utilized in budgeting project costs and practical exercises during the course.

The course introduces mechanical engineers to Project Management concepts from a system theoretic point of view.  The role of project manager highlighted as a person who plans, controls, and optimizes a multi-task project towards a singular goal in a timely and cost-effective manner.  The science and the art of project management is discussed in settings where scarce resources, risky decisions, and conflicting tensions continually require sensible and effective compromises.  Concepts and applied techniques for cost effective management of both long-term development programs and short-term projects are discussed. Topics include project management principles and methodology with special focus on planning, controlling, and coordinating individual and group efforts. Other topics include contracts, procurement management, and quality management, as well as hands-on lab instructions of Microsoft Project (when available, otherwise an extensive multimedia demonstration will be shown instead).

Take this course and PD496 "Preparing for the Project Management Professional Certification Exam" and save up to $525.00 by enrolling into PD629 "Project Management Combo Course."

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• Course Type: Public Course
• Course Number: PD467
• Language: English

Instructors

Marcus Goncalves has more than 14 years of management consulting experience and practices in United States, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
He has more than 30 books published in United States (5 in Brazil and many others translated in several idioms, including Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, German, Spanish and Romanian) and is often invited to speak on these subjects worldwide. Marcus specializes on Knowledge, Project Change and Risk Management practices. Marcus is a member of the project Management Institute and a certified project management professional (PMP).

In 1989, Marcus was simultaneously awarded Who’s Who in the US Executives and in the Computer Industry by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundation.

Marcus holds a master degree in Computer Information Systems, and a BA in Business Administration.

Brian E. Porter, PE, PMP, USA has over a decade experience in project management, product development, engineering, safety listings, patent, business strategy and start-up management in computer sales, consumer products, hazardous waste industry, industrial manufacturing and retail product markets.

Mr. Porter has maintained his professional engineering license in the state of Illinois for several years. He also has multiple patents within the USA and numerous pending both domestically and internationally.

Brian is a member of the Project Management Institute and has credentials as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and is seeking his PgMP in the near future. His international efforts include working with firms in China, Canada, Mexico, Romania, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Israel, Great Britain, Egypt, Italy and Germany. Mr. Porter holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Masters of Science in Management with Specialty in Project Management from Boston University.