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In ABCs of Engineering Ethics – The Project Management Triangle, you'll learn ...
- The three primary constraints of any project
- How the Engineers’ Creed and the Project Management Triangle provide Professional Engineers with a framework for understanding and solving complex problems in their day-to-day work
- Two case studies demonstrating how these two tools should be used together to help us determine the most ethical course of action possible
Overview
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Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 11 pages
Do you want to advance your engineering career?
If you are reading this, then your answer to this question is likely yes. As you advance your professional engineering career, however, your role will likely switch from purely technical to include a mix of project management. When this happens, the worlds of professional engineering and project management interact on a daily basis. In this course, we will explore this interaction from the perspective of engineering ethics.
Central to being a professional engineer is adherence to the ethical requirement to protect the health, safety, and/or welfare of the public. Said another way, the Engineers’ Creed opens with “as a Professional Engineer, I dedicate my professional knowledge and skill to the advancement and betterment of human welfare.” The Engineers’ Creed was adopted by the National Society of Professional Engineers in June 1954.
Central to project management is the tenet known as the project management triangle whereby the aspects of budget, schedule, and scope are balanced. For the professional engineer “project manager,” it is important to realize that before we can begin to study the trade-offs between budget, schedule, and scope via the project management triangle, we must first study the ethics involved. Failure to do so will lead the professional engineer down a dangerous path.
In this course, the student will be introduced to the project management triangle and study the interaction between the project management triangle and engineering ethics through case studies.
After completing this course, students will have an understanding of how engineering ethics should drive our project management decisions.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- The Engineers’ Creed (National Society of Professional Engineers)
- The project management triangle
- How engineering ethics should drive our project management decisions
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 1 PDH
Length: 11 pages
