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Project Management for Technical Professionals Certificate
Project Management for Technical Professionals Certificate
  Can project management improve the outcome of your project? Learn the project management skills engineers and technical professionals need to know to manage the many responsibilities only engineers/technical professionals would understand.

Overview

  The Project Management for Technical Professionals Certificate is focused on project management in the engineering and technical industry. The certificate consists of seven courses: Project Management for Technical Professionals, Project Risk Management, Project Quality Management, Project Cost Management, Controlling and Planning a Project, Leadership and Team Building in Project Management, and Managing Effective Outsourced Projects. Participants will gain the skills needed to approach tasks or projects systematically in consideration to time, cost and performance. This certificate will take a look at characteristics of effective project management such as defining the goals of a project, designating resources, organizing specific tasks and resources, and providing a methodology for the project or task.

Benefits / Objectives

  Upon completion of the certificate program, participants will be able to utilize the project management skills needed to enhance their role in steering projects to successful completion. Participants will use a step-by-step process to plan, implement and evaluate their projects.

Course Information & Registration

Project Management for Technical Professionals
Project Risk Management
Project Quality Management
Project Cost Management
Controlling and Planning a Project
Leadership and Team Building in Project Management
Managing Effective Outsourced Projects

Intended Audience

  This program is primarily designed for engineers and R&D professionals. Anyone who is responsible for project management, including project managers, project leaders or anyone in those roles or soon to be in those roles would benefit from the program.



Awarded Certificate

  Upon successful completion of the seven courses, students will be awarded a Project Management for Technical Professionals Certificate.