WHAT 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.

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).

This course is eligible for EMCI PDUs