Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Engineering Project Management, Rice University

Engineering Project Management: Initiation and Planning

Course 1

19 hours
4.7 (3,339 ratings)

What you’ll learn

The goal of the course is to provide you with tools to initiate a project plan, manage stakeholders and relationships, organize the team, develop a project initiation document, and build a business case for the project. At the end of the course, you will know:

• Conduct a project evaluation using information from previous projects and learn lessons
• Identify key deliverables according to business requirements while managing customer expectations
• Perform stakeholder analysis and create a management plan
• Analyze and develop a project organization
• Create a project initiation document
• Explain the business case for a project and calculate net present value
• Inform stakeholders about the initiative document and ensure everyone knows the required documents and expectations

In part of the course, you will prepare organizational charts, create a stakeholder register, and write a project initiation document based on an engineering project given to you in a case study.

The skills you will gain

• Category: Project Management
• Category: Planning
• Category: Project Initiation
• Category: Project Planning

Engineering Project Management: Scope, Time, and Cost Management

Course 2

23 hours
4.8 (1,347 ratings)

What you’ll learn

Scope, time, and cost management is the heart of successful project management. This course will give you the tools to develop project scope, schedule, and budget, and then track them to predict project performance. By the end of the course, you will know:

• Create a requirements document
• Create a project scope statement
• Identify ways to control project scope
• Break down the work and develop work packages
• Create a work breakdown structure (WBS)
• To Develop a Critical Schedule
• Go through types of cost forecasts and identify whether they are “top-down or bottom-up”
• Go over budgets, unexpected expenses, and reserves
• Calculate planned and produced values ​​to compare actual cost
• Perform cost and schedule analysis

Each week you will prepare a central deliverable for the project plan based on a given case study.

The skills you will gain

• Category: Schedule
• Category: Project Management
• Category: Acquired Value Management (EVMT)
• Category: Planning

Engineering Project Management: Risks, Quality, Teams and Procurement

Course 3

15 hours
4.8 (1,177 ratings)

What you’ll learn

Many project managers focus only on scope, schedule, and budget. However, a successful project requires risk management, document quality control, people engagement and management, and the procurement of products and services. By the end of the course, you will know:

• Identify positive and negative risks
• Develop risk strategies
• Perform a quality risk analysis
• Identify unexpected expenses and reserves
• Develop a quality plan
• Identify quality standards
• Use tools for cause and effect analysis
• Create a precedence matrix
• Develop a team management plan
• Develop a purchasing plan that includes contracts and incentives

All of this will prepare you to understand less tangible aspects of project management to achieve better overall performance.

The skills you will gain

• Category: Risk Management
• Category: Quality Management
• Category: Team Management
• Category: Procurement Management

Rice Engineering Leadership Center is a registered education provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete the course in the certification track will receive hours of professional development units, recognized by PMI as continuing education or can be counted toward the 35 hours of study required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification.

PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.