Course Title
Rating
Hours
Price
008-Foundations of Project Management - Streaming Video Course
4 $90.00
Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.
Course Description:
Even the smallest projects are multifaceted these days and the large projects are more complex than ever. Managing these projects requires a professional who is specially trained and equipped with the tools to meet the expectations of regulators, owners and the public. This course, lead by a world-renowned authority on project management, was created to give construction and design professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. Foundations of Project Management is the first in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.
The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit
Course Topics and timeline:
- 0:05:30 Introduction
- 0:28:15 Why Project Management
- 0:38:15 Project Scope Management
- 0:32:00 Risk Management
- 0:42:00 Basics of Planning and Scheduling
- 0:22:00 Project Tracking and Control
- 0:29:00 Project Close-out
- 0:10:00 Time allowance for test
- 3:27:00 Total Contact Time
- 3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH
The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:
- Control and assure the quality of the work product
- Anticipate the perils that will threaten the project
- Coordinate the work of the various disciplines involved in producing the project
- Apply the resources that are needed at the various stages of the project
- Control project costs and schedule in order to meet the owner's requirements
011-The Technical Side of Project Management - Streaming Video Course
4 $90.00
Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.
Course Description:
Participants in this course will gain a working knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques of project management through educational demonstrations, examples and illustrations.
Ten questions for Project Managers:
- Are your projects ever late?
- Are your projects ever over budget?
- Which task should you start next?
- Do you have enough people to complete your project on time?
- Do you have too many people to keep your project on budget?
- Do you know what tasks you must complete next week or next month to stay on schedule?
- Do you have a list of uncompleted tasks for your project?
- Do you know who will complete each of those tasks?
- Do you have a strategy in place to deal with the loss of key individuals or other resources?
- Do you lose sleep, worrying about any of these things?
This course will help you learn or relearn the skills of Project Management and end those sleepless nights.
This training program is a distance-learning course, created to give design, construction and manufacturing professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. The course is offered on Free Streaming Video. You earn continuing education credit by viewing the video and passing a 30-question online test.
The Technical side of Project Management is the second in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.
The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit
Course Topics and timeline:
- 0:04:00 Introduction
- 0:14:00 Work Breakdown Structure
- 0:37:00 Network Diagramming
- 0:12:00 Activity Duration Estimation
- 0:58:00 Developing the Critical Path
- 0:20:00 Crashing Projects
- 0:55:00 Monitoring Project Performance
- 0:10:00 Time allowance for test
- 3:32:00 Total Contact Time
- 3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH
The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:
- Understand and write a work breakdown structure
- Prepare and manage a network diagram for the project
- Estimate the duration of all of the activities in the network diagram
- Use the network diagram to establish the critical path for the project
- Differentiate between the effective and ineffective methods for crashing projects
- Monitor project costs and schedule
030-How Your Projects Will Go Wrong - Streaming Video Course
4 $90.00
Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.
Course Description:
Most projects fail to meet their cost and schedule objectives and only a small fraction achieve full success. This course offers practical advice and suggestions on how to recognize the warning signs that your project may be on the wrong path and what you can do to alleviate the problems. Just as the old saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" remains valid, the key to fixing project problems is through early recognition and effective solutions.
How Your Projects Will Go Wrong is the third in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.
The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit
Course Topics and Timeline:
- 0:10:00 Introduction
- 0:10:00 Causes of Project Failure
- 0:18:00 Poor leadership
- 0:31:00 Setting ourselves up to fail
- 1:00:00 Poor knowledge of Project Status
- 0:21:00 Ineffective solutions
- 0:33:00 10 Ways to ruin your project
- 0:08:00 Unwillingness to learn
- 0:05:00 Conclusions
- 0:10:00 Time allowance for test
- 3:26:00 Total Contact Time
- 3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH
Learning Objectives:
The learning objectives of this continuing education course are to give attendees a better understanding of major reason why projects fail, including:
- Poor leadership
- Setting ourselves up to fail
- Poor knowledge of project status
- Ineffective "solutions"
- The unwillingness to learn the correct lessons
