Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals (Virtual Classroom)

Are you ready to gain project management insights and learn to apply project management methods to your career as an engineer?

This Project Management for Engineers & Technical Professionals course looks at some common challenges engineers face and takes advantage of well-established traditional project management practices that will allow you to utilize big-picture thinking, create repeatable processes, and increase efficiency.

This course makes use of all the interactive features of our virtual classroom. Come prepared for team-based activities and participation in breakout sessions. You will work in teams to plan a real-world mechanical engineering project.

The team environment amplifies and accelerates learning and prepares you to manage projects in the work environment. Each team will build an individual project idea from design to completion, emulating the traditional project management life cycle.

This course is 100% compliant with the Project Management Institute's (PMI's®) current Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and introduces mechanical engineers to project management from a theoretical point of view.

By participating in this course, you will learn how to successfully:

• Differentiate between a project, program, and sub-project by identifying contrasting and related characteristics of each utilizing examples from engineering-specific industries.
• Employ an integrated, real-world engineering project to create deliverables, such as a work breakdown structure, project charter, scope statement, project network diagrams and time-driven schedule.
• Identify each of the following tools, techniques, or outputs using an automated project management tool: critical path, schedule compression, crashing, slack/float, fast tracking, and resource leveling
• Apply project scheduling concepts, geared toward typical mechanical engineering concepts, such as an activity Gantt chart, resource gram/histogram, resource spreadsheet, and resource-driven schedule.
• Compare and contrast project management to strategic management, operations management, and crisis management.

Topics include:

• Traditional project management principles and methodology
• Planning, controlling, and coordinating individual and group efforts.
• Contracts and procurement management
• Quality management.
• Structure and Culture
• Estimating Project Time and Costs
• Developing a Project Network
• Managing Risk & Group Activity
• Scheduling Resources
• Reducing Project Time
• Leadership
• Managing Project Teams
• Project Auditing
• International Projects
• Future of Project Management

Who should attend?

This course is primarily designed for engineers and technical professionals who have or will be assigned project management responsibilities. Project managers, project leaders, or anyone performing in those roles within the engineering industry will also find it useful.

Special Requirements

Participants should have basic management skills and have an understanding of basic accounting and budgeting skills, which will be utilized in budgeting project costs and practical exercises during the course.

Course Materials (included in purchase of course): 

Digital course notes via ASME’s Learning Platform

This ASME Virtual Classroom course is held live with an instructor on our online learning platform. Certificate of completion will be issued to registrants who successfully attend and complete the course.