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Project Management Certificate
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The Caltech IRC 10-Day Project Management Certificate
Take charge of your career by preparing for your next move now! Increase your professional value by improving your project leadership skills and earning your project management certificate from the California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center.
Our certificate program teaches technical professionals how to master the critical skills of project management techniques as part of their technical career development.
The skills developed in the Caltech IRC 10-Day Project Management Certificate Program apply to large and small projects, product design and development efforts, construction projects, IT projects, software development, and any project with critical performance, time, and budget targets.
Earn your project management certificate in only 10 Saturdays... Attend twice-monthly on the Caltech campus in Pasadena.
The Industrial Relations Center of the California Institute of Technology is a center of excellence for project management. Our approach to project management education offers proven, results-focused learning.
- Courses are developed and facilitated by professional subject experts with extensive industrial experience.
- Course emphasis is on providing practical skills and tools supported by relevant case examples.
| After you complete our 10-Day Project Management Certificate Program, set your goal on earning your Project Management Professional (PMP®) designation. Take our Project Management Professional Review course to help you prepare for the PMI® exam. We offer this course in January and June annually. |
Participants will earn 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for each two-day session attended. These PDUs may be applied by PMI Project Mangement Professionals (PMP®) towards their maintenance of certification under the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements Program.
Program Benefits
- A Caltech certificate of accomplishment is awarded upon completion of the five, two-day courses. Completion letters are given at the conclusion of each course.
- Our instructors have extensive industrial experience. They focus on providing you with practical skills and tools using relevant case examples.
- Each class is highly focused and promotes maximum interaction.
- You can network with other project management professionals from a variety of industries.
- Earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) for maintenance of certification under the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements Program.
It’s possible by enrolling in the Caltech Industrial Relations Center Project Management Certificate Program.
Don't miss your chance to earn your project management certificate from Caltech IRC. Register now to save your place.
2010 Spring Series: April 17 - September 18
1. Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection, April 17 & May 1
2. Project Organization and Leadership, May 15 & June 5
3. Detailed Project Planning, June 19 & July 10
4. Project Monitoring and Control, July 24 & August 7
5. Project Risk Management, August 21 & September 18
2010 Winter Series: January 9 - May 22 (The Winter Series is now full. Please join us for the Spring Series.)
1. Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection, January 9 & 23
2. Project Organization and Leadership, February 6 & 20
3. Detailed Project Planning, March 6 & 20
4. Project Monitoring and Control, April 10 & 24
5. Project Risk Management, May 8 & 22
Registration: Click on REGISTER button above for on-line certificate registration: Registration is for all 5 courses in the certificate
Fee: 2009 - $865 each course (all 5 courses $4325). Payment for each course is due 2 weeks prior to the start of the course.
2010 - $865 each course (all 5 courses $4325).
Credits: 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) earned per course completed
Hours: 16 hours of specific project management education per course completed, for a total of 80 instructional hours (PMI requires 35 hours of instruction)
*Payment for the 10-Day Project Management Certificate Program
If you want to pay for each course individually with a credit card prior to the course date, choose Invoice Me Later on the check out page. You will receive a separate invoice (via email) for each course once our program coordinator processes your registration.
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Caltech Industrial Relations Center is a recognized provider registered with the PMI Registered Educational Provider Program (PMI® R.E.P.).
PMI and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. |
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Contact us: 626.395.4042
Email: cstprg@caltech.edu
Course Instructors click for bios
Jerry L. Brown, PMP
Chris Christensen, PMP
Pam Wiedenbeck, PMP
 Preview the Project Risk Management course in this webinar with instructor
Chris Christensen, PMP, Project Risk Management in Risky Times, March 2009
Comments from Past Participants
“Well, I guess it’s official. I called the PMI office and they say I can now call myself a PMP! Thanks to all of you! You were of great help! I know I couldn't have done it without all of you and the program at the IRC!"
"Thank you all again. I will be taking more classes at the IRC soon."
Isaac Ephraim Gesser, PMP
Principal Automation Engineer
Medtronic Diabetes
"I just took and PASSED the PMP exam. I could not have done it without the help and support I received from the entire Caltech staff. It really all started a few months ago when you squeezed me into this program. From there, I was treated to a wonderful series of classes that inspired me to reach and grab this very meaningful certification."
"I am happy to once again be free on Saturday, but I will miss the terrific curriculum and interactions between the talented staff and students."
Brett Schumacher, PMP
Network Engineer
AcAdapter, Inc.
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Course 2
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Course 3
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Course 4
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Course 1: Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection
Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection teaches you how to develop essential elements required to initiate a project, including the business case and the project charter. The course shows you how to use selection criteria and models to evaluate project economic returns and the project portfolio.
You’ll practice using different estimating techniques that are appropriate for specific phases of the project life cycle.
Course Benefits:
- Establish the business case for your project
- Develop the needs analysis and the project charter initiating the project
- Understand how estimated project costs and risks impact the decision on whether or not to approve a project
- Apply cost estimation techniques for each phase of the project
- Understand the basic concepts of present value analysis and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
- Utilize project selection models, both numeric and qualitative, to evaluate the project portfolio
Course 2: Project Organization and Leadership
As a project manager, your ability to skillfully conduct projects within a matrix-type organization is critical. You must be able to demonstrate responsibility and provide leadership, motivational skills, and conflict resolution on a continuous basis. By attending this course, project managers and the project management team will learn how to move ahead when conflicting business needs arise.
Course Benefits:
- Identify the project manager’s key roles and responsibilities
- Survive and thrive in a matrix organization
- Build and manage effective cross functional project teams
- Build key leadership competencies and skills
- Resolve conflicts within the team and with other constituencies
- Avoid pitfalls that cause projects to fail
Course 3: Detailed Project Planning
Detailed Project Planning takes you through the key elements of project planning and integration. The project elements include the relationship of plans to corporate business goals, project objectives and constraints, and project scope.
Define project objectives and develop detailed project plans based on the project scope and Statement of Work (SOW)
By working through a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), you’ll learn how to effectively plan, integrate, and accomplish tasks.
You will also review the key tools of project time planning, such as Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and the Critical Path Method (CPM).
Additional tools you will learn to use include precedence analysis, activity duration estimating, cost planning techniques, and other project plan elements.
Course Benefits:
- Break large or complex efforts into manageable assignments, including the proper use of WBS
- Use planning and scheduling work tools, including PERT and CPM techniques
- Understand cost planning and estimating elements and contract management processes essential to complete project planning
- Integrate project scope, time, cost and resources plans
Course 4: Project Monitoring and Control
As a project manager, you must be able to measure the status of the project and resources consumed. Equally important is your ability to compare measurements to projections and standards and utilize this information for diagnosis and re-planning. Project Monitoring and Control will help you analyze your monitoring and control data so you can begin corrective action before it’s too late.
Course Benefits:
- Understand trending and forecasting in a project environment
- Monitor project progress and problems, utilizing data identification and collection techniques, and measurement and analysis tools such as earned value
- Exercise project control over resources, time, cost, and risk
- Report project performance and results in an effective way to project stakeholders
- Manage changes and re-plan work when necessary
Course 5: Project Risk Management
Given all of the uncertainties associated with projects, your ability to manage the many different types of risk is critical to the project’s success. Attend Project Risk Management to recognize the different types of risk you will encounter and how to appropriately respond to that risk. You will participate in classroom simulations and interactive exercises in this course.
Course Benefits:
- Identify what can go wrong on a project
- Determine what risks are important and warrant mitigation
- Prepare an effective risk statement
- Generate strategies to deal with critical risks
- Determine the expected value of a mitigation strategy
- Determine the size of the contingency reserve for the project
- Make decisions under uncertainty and risk
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Course 1: Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection
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Pamela Wiedenbeck
Jan 09, 2010 - Jan 23, 2010
Apr 17, 2010 - May 01, 2010
Jul 17, 2010 - Jul 31, 2010
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Pamela Wiedenbeck
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Pam Wiedenbeck, PMP, is president and founder of Plans Made Perfect, LLC. Ms. Wiedenbeck specializes in improving the communications and management skills of project managers. Her current clients include a major financial services company, as well as a start-up company she provides guidance to in marketing, sales, and recruitment. Ms. Wiedenbeck teaches two courses in the Caltech Industrial Relations Center project management certficate: Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection, and Project Organization and Leadership.
As managing director for SEI Information Technology, she managed all western region consulting and sales operations, and maintained client relationships for a multi-million dollar book of business.
Ms. Wiedenbeck specialized in large-scale, custom application integration and rollouts for clients that included Bank of America, Capital Group, McDonald’s Corporation, and Reuters.
Previously, she served as operations manager at SPSS, Inc., a statistical software company. Earlier, Ms. Wiedenbeck served as a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, working on design and development of innovative detectors for both medical and high-energy physics environments.
Ms. Wiedenbeck earned her MS in planetary science from California Institute of Technology, executive MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and her BS in physics from the University of Michigan. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and teaches for the PMI Los Angeles Chapter.
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Course 2: Project Organization and Leadership
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Pamela Wiedenbeck
Feb 06, 2010 - Feb 20, 2010
May 15, 2010 - Jun 05, 2010
Aug 14, 2010 - Aug 28, 2010
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Pamela Wiedenbeck
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Pam Wiedenbeck, PMP, is president and founder of Plans Made Perfect, LLC. Ms. Wiedenbeck specializes in improving the communications and management skills of project managers. Her current clients include a major financial services company, as well as a start-up company she provides guidance to in marketing, sales, and recruitment. Ms. Wiedenbeck teaches two courses in the Caltech Industrial Relations Center project management certficate: Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection, and Project Organization and Leadership.
As managing director for SEI Information Technology, she managed all western region consulting and sales operations, and maintained client relationships for a multi-million dollar book of business.
Ms. Wiedenbeck specialized in large-scale, custom application integration and rollouts for clients that included Bank of America, Capital Group, McDonald’s Corporation, and Reuters.
Previously, she served as operations manager at SPSS, Inc., a statistical software company. Earlier, Ms. Wiedenbeck served as a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, working on design and development of innovative detectors for both medical and high-energy physics environments.
Ms. Wiedenbeck earned her MS in planetary science from California Institute of Technology, executive MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and her BS in physics from the University of Michigan. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and teaches for the PMI Los Angeles Chapter.
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Course 3: Detailed Project Planning
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Jerry L. Brown
Mar 06, 2010 - Mar 20, 2010
Jun 19, 2010 - Jul 10, 2010
Sep 11, 2010 - Sep 25, 2010
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Jerry L. Brown
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Jerry L. Brown, PMP, is principal of Project Methods, Inc. He provides project management consulting in the areas of financial management, risk management, project selection, scheduling, and certification preparation. His clients include Applied Biosystems, Boeing, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, Mobil, Motorola, Novartis, PacifiCare, Pfizer, Phelps Dodge, Sprint, Visa, and Walt Disney Imagineering.
Previously, Mr. Brown served as chief financial officer and vice president for Project Mentors, where he established a corporate infrastructure for growth including systems and processes for accounting, taxation, marketing projections, compensation, and operations. His corporate clients there included Amgen, Eli Lilly, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Trane.
Mr. Brown was the founder and president of his own wholesale supply company for industrial, commercial, and construction needs. He has over 25 years executive experience in banking. Mr. Brown teaches Project Management Professional Review (a PMP prep course) at the Caltech Industrial Relations Center, as well as courses in our project management certificate program, Detailed Project Planning, and Project Management and Control.
Mr. Brown is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a master of project management from George Washington University. He received his BS from Ohio State University.
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Course 4: Project Monitoring and Control
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Jerry L. Brown
Apr 10, 2010 - Apr 24, 2010
Jul 24, 2010 - Aug 07, 2010
Oct 09, 2010 - Oct 23, 2010
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Jerry L. Brown
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Jerry L. Brown, PMP, is principal of Project Methods, Inc. He provides project management consulting in the areas of financial management, risk management, project selection, scheduling, and certification preparation. His clients include Applied Biosystems, Boeing, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, Mobil, Motorola, Novartis, PacifiCare, Pfizer, Phelps Dodge, Sprint, Visa, and Walt Disney Imagineering.
Previously, Mr. Brown served as chief financial officer and vice president for Project Mentors, where he established a corporate infrastructure for growth including systems and processes for accounting, taxation, marketing projections, compensation, and operations. His corporate clients there included Amgen, Eli Lilly, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Trane.
Mr. Brown was the founder and president of his own wholesale supply company for industrial, commercial, and construction needs. He has over 25 years executive experience in banking. Mr. Brown teaches Project Management Professional Review (a PMP prep course) at the Caltech Industrial Relations Center, as well as courses in our project management certificate program, Detailed Project Planning, and Project Management and Control.
Mr. Brown is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a master of project management from George Washington University. He received his BS from Ohio State University.
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Course 5: Project Risk Management
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Chris Christensen
May 08, 2010 - May 22, 2010
Aug 21, 2010 - Sep 18, 2010
Nov 06, 2010 - Nov 20, 2010
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Chris Christensen
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Chris Christensen is a certified Project Management Professional specializing in advising, coaching and training executives, managers, and senior staff to more effectively manage their business with a focus on project management, futures research, quality improvement, product development, and strategic planning. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Quality Engineer, and Certified Quality Manager.
Mr. Christensen teaches the Successful Project Management course at Caltech Industrial Relations Center, as well as Project Risk Management in the project management certificate program. Preview the Project Risk Management course in this webinar Project Risk Management in Risky Times, with Mr. Christensen, March 2009.
For over 30 years, he was a project and program manager in the high technology electronic component manufacturing and systems integration industries. His projects developed air defense, intelligence data fusion, radar imaging, and satellite communication systems.
Mr. Christensen has worked with Ablestik Adhesives, The Aerospace Corporation, The Boeing Company, BP-Arco Service Stations, Courtaulds Aircraft Lacquers, Delco Machine and Gear, the Disney Store, Glendale Memorial Hospital, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, Havas Software Development (now Vivendi Universal), Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles Times, Martin-Marietta Aerospace, Pilkington Aerospace Transparencies, RAND Corporation, Raytheon, Southern California Edison, Tosco Petroleum Refineries and Pipelines, TRW Space Systems Group, and Unified Western Grocers.
He holds an MBA, an MS in engineering, and a BS in physics.
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