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Project Management Certificate
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The Caltech IRC 10-Day Project Management Certificate
 Teaches technical professionals how to master the critical skills of project management techniques as part of their technical career development.
The skills developed in this 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.
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.
2009 Winter Series Courses
(Register for the Winter 2009 series today to ensure your participation)
1. Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection, January 10 & 24
2. Project Organization and Leadership, February 7 & 21
3. Detailed Project Planning, March 7 & 21
4. Project Monitoring and Control, April 4 & 18
5. Project Risk Management, May 2 & 16
Registration: Click on REGISTER button above for on-line certificate registration: Registration is for all 5 courses in the certificate
Fee: 2008 and 2009 - $865 each course (all 5 courses $4325). Payment for each course is due 2 weeks prior to the start of the course
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)
2008 Fall Series: July 12 - November 15, 2008 (July 12 & 26, August 9 & 23, September 13 & 27, October 4 & 18, November 1 & 15) (Fall series is now closed for new registrations)
2008 Spring Series: April 12 - September 6 (April 12 & 26, May 10 & 31, June 14 & 28, July 19 & August 2, August 16 & September 6) (Spring series is closed for new registrations)
*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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Course 1
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Course 2
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Course 3
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Course 4
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Course 5
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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 10, 2009 - Jan 24, 2009
May 09, 2009 - May 30, 2009
Jul 18, 2009 - Jul 25, 2009
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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 07, 2009 - Feb 21, 2009
Jun 06, 2009 - Jun 20, 2009
Aug 08, 2009 - Aug 22, 2009
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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
Sep 13, 2008 - Sep 27, 2008
Mar 07, 2009 - Mar 21, 2009
Jul 11, 2009 - Aug 01, 2009
Sep 12, 2009 - Sep 26, 2009
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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
Oct 04, 2008 - Oct 18, 2008
Apr 04, 2009 - Apr 18, 2009
Aug 15, 2009 - Aug 29, 2009
Oct 10, 2009 - Oct 24, 2009
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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
Nov 01, 2008 - Nov 15, 2008
May 02, 2009 - May 16, 2009
Sep 19, 2009 - Oct 03, 2009
Nov 07, 2009 - Nov 21, 2009
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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.
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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