Project Management for Engineers

Engineers and engineering graduates taking on projects to run: site, design, plant, electrical and construction engineers. No project management experience is needed.

No. It uses some free public lessons from the Google Project Management Certificate, credited on each module, alongside construction lessons from Planning Engineer FZE and NPTEL lectures from IIT Roorkee. It is not affiliated with Google, PMI, Oracle or FIDIC and does not lead to their certificates, though it covers much of the same ground as their introductory material.

No. The course shows how to read a P6 schedule, and every calculation can be done by hand or in a spreadsheet.

Yes, at an introductory level: contract types and who carries which risk, change control, the FIDIC books and the 28-day claim notice under the 2017 editions.

Yes. Every module, the notes, the project and the final assessment. The only paid item is the certificate, if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you pass the final assessment, with a number anyone can verify on our site. It is not a PMP, CAPM or Google certificate.

About 5.5 hours of video lessons, plus notes and practice questions, taken at your own pace. The optional project takes about 8 hours more.

You act as the client's project manager for a 750 kWp rooftop solar plant at a factory: a charter, a schedule with the critical path, a risk register, a change notice and a week-10 status report with earned value. A complete sample pack shows each document.

Yes. Learning costs ₹0 in India: every module, the written notes, the practice tasks and the final assessment, with no card and no trial period. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion, ₹499 including GST for this beginner course, paid in rupees through Razorpay, and only if you want it after passing the final assessment.

The Project Management for Engineers course has 9 modules. It opens with "What a project manager actually does", goes through "Initiation: goals, feasibility and stakeholders", "Budgets and earned value", "Contracts, change and scope creep" and "Closing a project, and AI in project management" and ends with "Final Assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the Project Management for Engineers course: Explain what a project manager does and how it differs from engineering work; Write a project charter with SMART objectives, feasibility and a stakeholder map; Build a WBS and calculate the critical path and float. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the Project Management for Engineers course, software: A spreadsheet. Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project are useful but not required; the schedule exercises can be done by hand or in a spreadsheet. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

Project Management for Engineers is rated beginner. Beginner. For engineers and engineering graduates moving into project roles. Comfort with basic arithmetic and a spreadsheet is enough; no project management experience is needed. It is written for engineers taking on projects to run: site, design, plant and construction engineers, and has 5h 24m of video lessons at your own pace.

Skills from the Project Management for Engineers course (for example: explain what a project manager does and how it differs from engineering work) are used in project manager work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.