Practical Project Management for Engineers: Foundations
Delivery: Online
Enjoy this program from anywhere in the world.
Schedule: Synchronus
Learn and grow alongside ambitious colleagues through scheduled classes and coaching sessions.
Duration: 12 Weeks
This is a 12-week program with class time, coaching sessions, and independent work each week.
Perfect for: Individuals and Organizations
Anyone can enroll in an upcoming public session. Organizations may alternatively opt for private cohorts.
About the Program
Practical Project Management for Engineers: Foundations is a group program deigned to help engineers learn and apply the fundamentals of project management.
Many, if not most engineers work in project-based environments. This means that an understanding of the basics of project management is essential for anyone leading tasks, teams, work packages, control accounts, or even entire projects.
This program is designed to equip engineers with the language, skills, and knowledge they need to plan, execute, and control project-based work.
Why You Should Enroll
Program Structure
The Project Management Foundations Program takes place over twelve weeks. It includes:
- Weekly interactive learning sessions to understand the core concepts
- Weekly group office hours to have questions answered and to learn from peers
- Biweekly individual coaching calls for irect support
- Completion of a small independent project to reinforce what is learned.
Students will also get access to class presentations, video replays, worksheets, and templates for use throughout the couse. All materials are kept on a dedicated website for the cohort of students to use throughout the program.
Week 1: Introduction to the program, overview of projects and project management
Weeks 2 – 5: Planning and launching projects, including management of scope, schedule, cost, risk, and communications, and establishing important registers and documents.
Weeks 6 – 10: Execution and control of projects, including assigning work, measuring progress, managing change, managing communications.
Week 11: Closing a project, including project handover, managing lessons learned.
Week 12: End of program, review of key concepts.
Enroll Today
Contact us today to learn how you can enroll in an upcoming public session, or to organize a custom program for your organization.
Instructors
Pat Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, CSEP, PMP
President, The Engineering & Leadership Project
Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.
Prior to launching The Engineering & Leadership Project, Pat spent 13 years in industry. His work focused predominantly on leading and managing engineers through complex systems integration projects in the rail and defence industries. He's worked as a product manager, project manager, systems engineering manager, and as the head of configuration management at a large naval combat systems integrator.
Pat has a bachelor of engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He's also a professional engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Canada, a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI).