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Distance Continuing Education CoursesDistance Non-Credit Continuing Education Courses (CEU Credit awarded for completion) When you register for a course, you will receive a user name and password to access The University of Arizona distance site and can begin taking your course. The courses use a variety of interactive tools, including PowerPoint presentations, Word files, discussion areas, case studies, quizzes, audio, video and Flash animations depending on the course you take. You can print the text or slides used for the course modules or logon from any location with a web browser. Call R.D. Eckhoff at 520.621.4007 if you have any questions about non-credit distance education courses. Telephone: 520.621.3054 Distance CoursesPrincipals of Financial Management for the Technical ExecutiveFull video and text In today’s shrinking world with increasing competition and the financial market’s focus on corporate earnings, project managers are required to meet customer satisfaction, cash flow, profitability and other financial goals. If you are going to survive and excel in this ever changing and constraining environment, Engineers must know how finance and accounting techniques work and how they can impact your project. In addition, you will be required to report on the financial status of your project to your team, the customer and company management. This course goes into the details of revenue, total cost, budgets, committed, cost to date, open commitment, estimates to complete, and estimates at completion, not just from an accountant’s stand point, but from the engineer’s prospective. After completing this course you will have the confidence to report the financial status of your project, the problems you are encountering, your plan of action and the projected outcome. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a firm grasp of the financial management issues that affect your project results and controls your future. Learn How To
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Fee: $595 CEU Credit 3.0 PDH Credit: 30 About the Author James Abbott holds a bachelor's degree from Auburn University and is a registered professional engineer in the State of California. He is a senior member of Institute of Industrial Engineers and a member of the American Society of Quality. He is the author of 12 books, including Become the Manager of the Future, Optimize Your Operation and, a current best seller on Amazon.com, The Executive Guide to Call Center Metrics. Abbott is president of Abbott Associates Inc., a strategic process-engineering firm based in Greenville, S.C. For more than 20 years Abbott has taught and helped inspire corporate america in applying the principles of process and project management and the use of best business practices in his seminars. He has made a career out of taking technical topics and explaining them so that “the rest of us” can understand. A professional engineer for more than 30 years, James learned early that even the best methods are useless unless they are delivered in a fashion that allows their swift and effective implementation.
The Court Environment and EngineersText and audio Course Overview Engineers working as a technical consultant and/or expert witness in the legal environment must function as educators, evaluators, and investigators in a manner that appropriately supports the distinct needs of their employer/client. (And, employer/client requirements will differ depending upon whether the employer/client is the plaintiff, the defense, or the court itself.) Beginning as a technical consultant and/or expert witness requires a knowledge of both the law regulating the practice of engineering and the Canons of Practice, and of the development of a detailed resume that includes pertinent credentials; a fee schedule, billing philosophy, and a mechanism for billing if serving as a consultant; a philosophy on note taking; and a philosophy on how files will be maintained. When a case is acquired, the technical consultant/expert witness must:
Testimony in the form of a deposition provides the technical consultant/expert witness with a unique opportunity to offer professional opinions related to the case in the absence of a judge and jury – hence an ability to partially control the proceedings. Testimony before a jury requires that the technical consultant/expert witness display the best characteristics of a professional thespian. This course is addressed to:
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Fee: $225 CEU Credit: 1.0 PDH Credit: 10 About the Author David A. Conner holds BEE and MS degrees from Auburn University and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee and in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Conner is active in IEEE having served as a Delegate/Director and as Treasurer of the Institute. He has 44 years of combined experience in industry, academia, and government and has been an active technical consultant/expert witness in the areas of code application, manufacturing procedures, personal injury, product design, product liability, product transportation, and tax law. In addition, Conner is a member and Chair of the Alabama Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, advisor to a Governor and aide to a Congressman.
Developing and Managing a Comprehensive Set of Project ObjectivesText only How to establish clear criteria for a project’s strategic success! Project success is more than the completion of tasks, even if their completion is timely and within a budget. This tactician’s view of success is only one half of the project picture. A complete appraisal of project success must evaluate the project objective, the deliverable. A project manager, or anyone who contracts for a project’s completion is risking strategic failure if they do not begin with the development of a comprehensive set of project objectives. This purpose of this course is to understand the difference between strategic and tactical project success, to more fully understand the role and importance of project objectives, and to develop skill in their creation of use. Project Management skills are management skills. This program is intended for any manager who has or anticipates having oversight or operational responsibility for the successful completion of projects. In addition, anyone who contracts with a project manager to manage a complete a project on their behalf will benefit from this material. Course Modules
Fee: $225 CEU Credit: 1.0 PDH Credit: 10 About the Author Ron Parker is an expert in technology, systems architecture, and decision support. He has the ability to mine critical distinctions and actionable ideas from data, reports, and statistics to positively affect decisions and behavior. He has extensive experience in processes as diverse as industrial analytical and measurement labs, hydraulic valves, hot-metal injection molding, latex form and mold, consumer products, machining, fabrication, AC and DC electrical motors, parts assembly, automated (web/IVR) and agent-based customer support and call center operations, and information technology infrastructure. His consulting activities include strategic and tactical business metric planning, utilization improvement, increasing production from "maximum capacity" processes, project management consulting in the field of commercial facilities construction, process management consulting in the field of industrial laboratory statistics and measurement uncertainty studies. (This is the "new" successor to r&R studies; uncertainty is the broadest concept of measurement variation.) Parker has delivered hundreds of public seminars in a variety of technical, engineering and operations management topics through universities and other sponsoring institutions.
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