Electives
Additional Electives
Advocacy: Championing Ideas & Influencing Others (14 Hours) Enhance your communication skills and convince others of the value of your ideas while generating personal loyalty. Construct and deliver persuasive messages that work in any context.
Available through UT Cockrell School of Engineering’s Construction Industry Institute (CII)
42 hours required for Certificate completion The programs listed below are two-day courses
Financial Analysis & Measuring Business Performance (14 Hours) Consider how management decisions translate into value for shareholders. Learn a systematic approach for analyzing financial statements and evaluating the impact on profitability of a wide range of strategic decisions. Leading High Performance Teams (14 Hours) Be an effective leader. Know how to generate group cohesiveness, company loyalty and mutual respect and support. Develop new insights on what it takes to lead others successfully. Performance Management and Control: Creating a Culture of Planning, Execution, and Accountability (14 Hours) Deliver ideas that will help you promote better systems, challenge ineffective or inefficient metrics and create a lean measurement culture. Develop proven measurement techniques to address cost-benefits issues. Strategic Decision Making (14 Hours) Acquire a framework for analyzing decision problems by breaking them into manageable parts. Examine tools and methods available for structuring and modeling decisions and alternatives.
May be used to help fulfill the 42-hour elective requirement.
• CII: Front End Planning & PDRI • CII: Planning and Design • CII: Project Consortium & Start-up For CII course details and hours, visit lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/epd/prof_courses.cfm
Project Management Faculty Rayan Bagchi, Ph.D. Professor, McCombs School of Business Carlos H. Caldas, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cockrell School of Engineering Sharon Dunn, Ph.D. Lecturer, McCombs School of Business R. Britt Freund, Ph.D. Assistant Dean, Executive Education Director of Project Management Consortium Senior Lecturer, McCombs School of Business Eleanor Jordan, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, McCombs School of Business Christopher H. Meakin, JD Senior Lecturer, McCombs School of Business Michael P. Pappas, Ph.D. Lecturer, Cockrell School of Engineering James T. O’Connor, Ph.D. CT Wells Professor in Project Management Director, Center for Construction Industry Studies, Cockrell School of Engineering
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