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  Project Management
 
 

In a collaborative approach, project managers serve as the point of contact for the client companies and are responsible for project execution. Project managers lead multidisciplinary teams of student interns enabling companies to obtain the overall expertise needed to meet specific project requirements. They to analyze the scope of a project, define project requirements and allocate resources.

Project managers are the most unique educational element of the program. They are degreed engineers with over 170 years of collective professional engineering experience. 
 

The product development life cycle typically includes:

  Budget Tracking
  Conceptual Product Design
  Design Crystallization
  Detailed Project Definition
  Documentation
  Ongoing Client Communication
  Product Delivery
  Project Requirements
  Prototype Development

  

Project Managers - Key Asset

Successful project management depends on more than technical management skills — it depends on effective team leadership. The project managers build high-performance student teams through high-performance leadership in the following manner:

  Manage multiple projects at various stages of planning, design, and delivery.
  Create innovative learning environment.
  Provide overall project control to adhere to budgets, scope and schedule.
  Recognize and adapt to different organizational structures of clients and communicate differences with student interns.

  

Project Managers - Benefit Engineering Students

Student interns benefit from the knowledge and experience of working side-by-side with project managers. They take direction and advice from project managers who guide and mentor them through common entry level pitfalls. This opportunity allows interns to make the transition from exceptional student to exceptional employee.
 

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