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Engineering Project Management: Scope, Time and Cost Management

Scope, time, and cost management are at the heart of successful project management. This course will give you the tools to develop a project scope, schedule and budget and then status them to predict project performance. Throughout the course, you will learn about change management and techniques to implement it. By the end of this course you will be able to: • Create a requirements document • Create a Project Scope Statement • Identify ways to control the scope of the project • Decompose the work and develop work packages • Create a Work Breakdown Structure • Develop a Critical Path Schedule • Review types of cost estimates and identify whether they are “top down or bottom up” • Review budgets, contingencies and reserves • Calculate planned and earned values to compare with actual cost • Perform a cost and schedule analysis Each week you will prepare a key deliverable for the project plan based on a provided Case Study. These deliverables include: • Project Scope Statement • Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary • Critical Path schedule sequence diagram • Bar Chart Schedule (Gantt Chart) • Project Cost Estimate • Project Status using an Earned Value Calculation All of this will position you to set up a plan to control your next assignment or your next project whether this is as the project manager or as an area leader. Rice Center for Engineering Leadership is a Registered Education Provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete this course on the Certificate track will be awarded 14 hours of Profession Development Units. These are recognized by PMI for continuing education or can be applied toward the 35 hours of education required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

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BeginnerCourse23 hours

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SC

5.0Reviewed Aug 11, 2020

Great strategies for managing projects. They build a good way of thinking when it comes to structure and analyzing the project.

IE

5.0Reviewed Apr 11, 2024

This course is very rich and practical oriented. Most pertinent project management tools were treated. Again, the assignment is very engaging with rich practical contents.

SP

5.0Reviewed Apr 6, 2021

This is the most comprehenvise course among all 3 in the engineering management specialization. There are some tools and insights that add lot of value and therefore a good starting point.

KS

5.0Reviewed Jun 22, 2020

This was good course and there is detail explanation video on project which is helpful to understand the conceptThanks

AA

4.0Reviewed Mar 18, 2020

I found this course very helpful, especially for beginners. The course provides all the necessary information that is required to be understood in a simple way.

ST

5.0Reviewed Dec 11, 2022

Engineering Project Management is a vast field. Coursera platform provided me with resources that helped me grow my management skills. Thank you coursera.

LV

5.0Reviewed Sep 17, 2018

Hands-on real-life experience because you produce all of the work products for a project. It's a very thorough well done, professionally produced series of courses!

HR

5.0Reviewed Aug 16, 2022

v​ery well organized, skilled and experienced instructor, practical examples and cases senarios helps to practice the real business cases. I gain so much from it.t​hanks.

MA

5.0Reviewed May 26, 2019

Really good course especially for engineers new to the field of project management and handling. I appreciate the hard work that has been done to put this course together. Thank You once again!

BM

5.0Reviewed Sep 26, 2017

Very good course, super practical which helps a lot understand the subject and how to apply techniques and methodologies. I totally recommend.

VP

4.0Reviewed Aug 3, 2020

The content were useful and case study assignments helped to work by oneself and get habituated to the concepts. Presentation delivered all imp. content.

DC

5.0Reviewed May 28, 2018

I was very satisfied by this course contents, and also by the way of teaching of the 2 Professors. I definitely recommend it to engineers who want to increase their knowledge on project management.

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