James N. Salapatas, PE, PMP

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Quality Management

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

James N. Salapatas, PE, PMP, Senior Partner, Quality Management Consulting is a consultant and trainer in project management and quality management. He has over 40 years of experience, having held executive positions in utilities, consulting, computer integrated systems, manufacturing, and transportation. On the senior faculty at Keller Graduate School of Management, DeVry University, he is a contributing author to The Implementation of Project Management Handbook and the third edition Industrial Engineering Handbook by Maynard. He was chairman of the ANSI committee on Flow Charting Standards, has a patent in the materials handling field, is listed in "Who's Who in the South and Southwest," and was a member of the State of Florida Governor's Commission on Management and Efficiency. He is a life member of the Institute Of Industrial Engineers and a thirty year member of Project Management Institute. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois and a Master of Science degree in Management from Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

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218-Managing Project Risk

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course is about managing project risk in an organization whether you are an engineer, senior manager or professional project manager. In the project world, managing risk is critical because every decision, every action taken contains some element of risk. Risk cannot be eliminated. Risk can only be controlled and accepted if the decision or action needs to be made. Understanding this concept becomes important when considering that practically everyone in an organization is involved in some kind of project work and makes decisions involving risk.

In the ideal project world, project managers are trained in project risk management. ¹In the real project world, many projects are small and assigned to engineers and managers with less than formal risk management training. Managing risks become critical to achieving project cost and schedule targets. This course presents three basic principles for managing project risk, namely, identify, quantify, and control. However, managing project risk still depends on experience and skill of the engineer or manager to identify, quantify and control the risk in order to manage it.

At the end of the course is a set of questions that highlights the take-aways for the reader to remember and use for managing project risk in their organization.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit

¹Project Management Institute, PMBOK — GUIDE Fifth Edition 2013 Project Risk Management, Chapter 11

183-Quality Project Management

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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This course is about improving the quality for managing project work in an organization whether you are an engineer, senior manager or professional project manager. In the ideal project world, project managers are well-trained professionals and assigned to a project at the beginning of the project. In the real project world, many projects are small and assigned to engineers and managers with less than professional project management training at any time in the life of the project.

For the engineer, senior manager or professional project manager the quality for managing project work should improve significantly by combining seven key tools with a basic feature from statistical process control, the control chart. The seven key tools, called The Seven Icons©, are presented in this course and will demonstrate how they can be used to improve planning and controlling project work.

The Seven Icons© are organized and connected in a structure that is easy to remember. The icon terms serve as a common language between managers, team members, and their bosses. This feature becomes most important when considering that practically everyone in an organization is involved in some kind of project work. Having an effective way of remembering and applying key tools to project work will improve communications throughout the organization and ultimately improve the quality for managing project work.

At the end of the course is a set of questions that highlights the take-aways for the reader to remember and use for improving the quality for managing projects in their organization.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit

356-Industrial and Systems Engineering - The Fundamentals

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course presents principles and practices of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) . The focus of IISE is Operations, namely; Operations Analysis and Design, Operations Control, and Continuous Improvement. IISE practices use science, mathematics, and engineering methods to analyze, design, and improve complex systems and operations. And, because these systems are so large and complex, IISE principles involve knowledge and skills in a wide variety of disciplines; require a broad systems perspective and the ability to work well with people.

A course about Industrial Engineering would not be complete without a brief description of why and how the profession began. The origins of Industrial Engineering began in the early 1900 as part of the scientific management movement. The definition of Industrial Engineering is:

Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, material, information, equipment, and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.

Accordingly, Industrial Engineering emerged as the foundation for connecting engineering methods and economics to set quality and cost standards for delivering goods and services in business and industry. Industrial Engineers apply their knowledge and skills to set operations process standards through the use of planning, design, statistical analysis, methods engineering, interpersonal communications, quality control, computer simulation, and problem solving. At the end of the course is a set of questions that highlights the take-aways for the reader to remember and use for solving operations and systems problems in their organization.