Course Overview
More and more engineering and technical professionals are making career transitions from product design into project management.
This, however, requires formal training and a willingness to learn new skills. All the technical knowledge in the world will not deliver a project successfully, with the necessary level of quality, within cost constraints and on time, without proper project management skills.
Unfortunately, very few engineering professionals have any degree of formal project management training, which results in a great deal of personal stress as well as cost blow-outs and other woes.
To address this problem, the course will focus on the critical project-related activities such as work breakdown, scheduling, cost control, and risk management, and show how these can be performed with software to lighten the project manager’s workload.
You will learn how to introduce appropriate quality management procedures, keep your projects on track using the ‘Earned Value Analysis’ method, exercise an appropriate leadership style and keep team members creative and motivated, and avoid the pitfalls caused by a lack of understanding of the legal issues pertaining to projects.
Aspects such as team leadership and contract law are also covered. All topics will be supplemented with practical exercises focusing primarily on the areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, and mechanical engineering.
If you wish to do so, you can choose, as a basis for the practical exercises, small projects from your work environment.
Job Outcomes
Potential career outcomes could include:
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Project Manager
What You'll Learn
- Study critical project-related activities like work breakdown structure, scheduling, cost control, and risk management and their applications
- Learn about various quality management procedures, Earned Value Analysis method and ways to avoid pitfalls due to legal issues pertaining to projects
- All topics in this course will be supplemented with practical exercises focusing primarily on the areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, and mechanical engineering
Check out the course guide for more learning outcomes.
Study Method
- OnlineOnline delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
- BlendedBlended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
- In-classIn class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
- VirtualVirtual Delivery - Live and interactive classroom-style learning conducted completely online
Duration Study Load
- 3 months
Delivery
- This program is run 100% online
Course Features
- You may be eligible to claim CPD points through your local engineering association
- Receive a Certificate of Completion from EIT
- Learn from well-known faculty and industry experts from around the globe
- Flexibility of attending anytime from anywhere, even when you are working full-time
- Interact with industry experts during the webinars and get the latest updates/announcements on the subject
- Experience a global learning with students from various backgrounds and experience which is a great networking opportunity
- Get in demand skills in project management and leadership in the engineering field
- Study critical project-related activities like work breakdown structure, scheduling, cost control, and risk management and their applications
- Learn about various quality management procedures, Earned Value Analysis method and ways to avoid pitfalls due to legal issues pertaining to projects
- All topics in this course will be supplemented with practical exercises focusing primarily on the areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, and mechanical engineering
- This course will give you the opportunity to work on practical exercises, small projects from your work environment
Subjects
About Engineering Institute of Technology Pty Ltd
The Engineering Institute of Technology is one of the only institutes in the world specializing in engineering. We deliver industry focused short courses, diplomas, undergraduate certificates, bachelor’s degrees, graduate certificates, master’s degrees, and a doctor of engineering to students from over 160 countries.
EIT’s vocational programs and higher education degrees are registered and accredited by the Australian Government.
Our on-campus and online programs are delivered via a unique methodology that makes use of industry-based expert lecturers and state-of-the-art online technologies such as hands-on remote and virtual labs, simulation software and live stream web and video conferencing.
Engineering Institute of Technology Pty Ltd is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO #51971)
