An engineering-focused approach to project management techniques and strategies

Engineering projects are vital for modern society and global human survival, but many engineering projects fail, in large part due to poor and/or ineffective management. These failures have led to a desire to identify those techniques and mindsets that can lead consistently to successful engineering projects.

The first edition of this book, Engineering Project Management, has served as the essential overview to engineering-based project management methods, tools, processes, and mind-sets. Offering a practical, step-by-step guide to applying project management techniques in engineering settings, it draws upon active learning approaches and the author’s extensive experience to create a thorough and cutting-edge guide. This second edition is now updated to reflect transformative recent developments in both technology and project management, and remains an indispensable tool for project managers and engineers alike.

Readers of this second edition of Engineering Project Management will also find:

• Updated coverage of the social aspects of project management, along with other soft skills, throughout the volume
• Detailed discussion of topics including project life-cycle, identification and management of stakeholders, cost estimation, schedule estimation, monitoring of your project, engineering economics, engineering ethics, and many more
• A structure that aligns perfectly with a single-semester course, alternating lectures with facilitated lab sessions

Engineering Project Management is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors in courses in Engineering Project Management, as well as professional engineers and early career practitioners who need to brush up on their project management skills.

BETH MAZZA is a two-time entrepreneur and mom of four flawless, adult “kids,” who beg her weekly to stop sharing out her “inside thoughts.” She is also part of a crazy Italian family that makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like the Gilded Age. She’s launched and sold two strategic advisory firms, held her own in the boardrooms of Fortune 1000 giants you’d recognize instantly, and once lived through a client saga juicy enough to inspire two episodes of an HBO miniseries.

VICTORIA SIVRAIS is an entrepreneur, mom of five, and master of chaos. Her fearlessness was forged by a serial-entrepreneur dad, a lion-hearted mom, and four steadfast brothers. She leapt early from corporate to consulting, setting her on the path to build and sell Clermont Partners, while earning acclaim for guiding S&P 500 leaders through messy, make-or-break decisions—often with a kid on the hip. Her rule is simple: stay teachable, stay hungry, and above all, marry someone who always says, “You got this!”