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Dr Giorgio Locatelli

Accelerate your career by improving your project management skills. This Specialization delivers a rigorous exploration of the best practices for planning and delivering these major engineering projects. You’ll learn about the measures of success, how to resolve challenges of governance and typical financing approaches of these projects.

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Accelerate your career by improving your project management skills. This Specialization delivers a rigorous exploration of the best practices for planning and delivering these major engineering projects. You’ll learn about the measures of success, how to resolve challenges of governance and typical financing approaches of these projects.

If you are an engineer or a project manager and you aspire to get involved with major engineering projects, or you are already working on one, then this Specialization is for you.

Master your project management skills and prepare to develop your career in engineering.

This specialization is based on content from the Online MSc in Engineering Management. If you interested to develop your career further, take a look at our online degree.

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Three courses

Major Engineering Project Performance

(5 hours)
Manage large projects by identifying their key characteristics, examining the key factors and risks that affect their performance, and exploring methods to counter their impact on the successful delivery of projects.

Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope

(5 hours)
Gain confidence when dealing with stakeholders of major projects by learning to identify and manage those involved in planning and delivery. Explore project governance in theory and practice through real-life examples.

Financing and Initiating Major Engineering Projects

(5 hours)
To successfully lead major projects, you must understand typical investor and project financing approaches. In this course, you'll learn to interpret key contractual instruments for financing major engineering projects, ensuring their financial security. You'll explore the concept of "time value of money" and compute key indicators like "Pay-back time", "Net Present value", and "Internal Rate of Return".

Learning objectives

  • understand the key phases of a project life cycle and the main characteristics of major projects
  • Understand the key cost and time performance indicators of major projects
  • Understand the governance of major projects, its challenges and learn how governance informs project management
  • Understand major project financing and key financial indicators used in major project finance

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