Project Management
MIT OpenCourseWare's 1.040 Project Management covers the planning, execution, and control of construction and infrastructure projects, from inception through design, construction, and transition. The course is organized in three parts: project finance, project evaluation, and project organization, examining how large undertakings like the Central Artery Project (Boston's Big Dig) get financed, structured, and delivered. Materials include lecture notes, guest lectures from practitioners discussing current projects, assignments, and a construction site visit to MIT's Media Lab extension. The course draws the distinction between finite projects and ongoing operations, and builds skills in scheduling, budgeting, contracting, and risk management applicable to civil engineering and large-scale construction work. Free to access through MIT OpenCourseWare under a Creative Commons license, with no certificate offered.