Name: Engineering Project Management: Initiating and Planning
Brand: Rice University
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.7 (811 reviews)

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About the Course

The goal of the course is to give you the tools to initiate a project plan, manage both stakeholders and relationships, organize their team, develop a project charter, and build a business case for a project. By the end of this course you will be able to: - Perform a project assessment using information from previous projects and lessons learned - Identify key deliverables based on business requirements while managing customer expectations - Perform a stakeholder analysis and create a management plan - Analyze and develop a project organization - Create a project charter - Explain the business case for a project and calculate Net Present Value - Inform stakeholders of the charter and ensure all parties know the deliverables and expectations As part of the course, you will prepare organization charts, create a Stakeholder Register, and write a Project Charter based on an engineering project in a provided Case Study. The Stakeholder Register will outline the key parties to the project, their concerns and how you will manage their expectations. Your Project Charter will provide the key guidance your team needs to understand the scope, requirements and purpose for the project. All of this will position you for initiating and planning your first project and/or understanding how you can maximize your contributions on your next project team. 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 12 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....

Top reviews

Aug 20, 2017

Great course. Would recommend it for engineers who have collected relevant engineering experience and look for whats next in their career. Looking forward to attend the other modules as well.

Jul 6, 2020

This course will give in-depth knowledge of project management. Peer-graded assignments will help us a lot to think in other ways how others will proceed and learn from their assignments too.

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By CHANDRU

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Sep 19, 2024

good

By HDA

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May 9, 2021

Plagiarism in assignments is a huge issue and not clear if staff is actively working to combat this issue. I came across a repeat offender even when I flagged their submission before. Seeing people able to get away with this decreases the value and credibility of this course a lot.

Discussion forum is full of meaningless messages advertising guaranteed high scores for peer reviews in return for having their late submissions reviewed. Why is staff not weeding out such content and students from the class? What's the value such peers and their reviews to the other peers?

Significant inconsistencies in actual and advertised grading rubric, which causes uncertainty in what's expected of the submitted work.

By Jack T

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Apr 15, 2020

Not the most engaging course and not structured as well as I had hoped. Some explanations are unsatisfactory and require extra reading outside of the course material. In general I think the course content can be learned from reading the recommended texts alone, although the case study provided is a good way to elicit user input and to practice some of the techniques. Overall I would say it is not a waste of time, but also not great value for time and money.

By Sean L

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May 6, 2020

Information is useful, but assignments are all busywork. You should probably audit this course or just buy and read the textbook.

By Kayla C

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Nov 24, 2020

I don't know how effective the peer review is, the lectures are not very charismatic.

By Russell J

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Mar 1, 2021

Pretty basic, not sure if its worth 2 months ($55 per).

By Adil k

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Jul 14, 2024

This course is outstanding...

By Destinee D

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Aug 21, 2024

Poorly structured, incredibly boring (not because of the material, but because of the presentation), hard to follow and stay engaged with the content. Course instructors need to work on engagement and the presentation of the material as it is not very clearly laid out. The PowerPoint type animations used to present the info seems very outdated and there is too much going on with each "slide."

By Shannon R L

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Mar 25, 2025

There is nothing about this specialization that is "Engineering". This is just another project management certification with the same basic data. Very misleading.