George Klimiashvili, a senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a recipient of The Charles L. Newton Prize which recognizes engineering students who show a special proficiency in an engineering subject and have conducted research, given a presentation or published a paper.
Outside of his major, George is completing a minor in Economics and has participated in UR Robotics. He has worked as a research assistant in the Wireless Communications and Networking Group, and has worked with Dr. Marvin Doyley on robust minimum variance beamforming through an independent study. George has also held an internship in Software Development at SITA Information Networking Computing USA Inc.
George will be attending Stanford University to complete a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering!
This course is designed to help business and engineering practitioners and students understand some of the greatest challenges that organizations face today – the effective and efficient methods for implementing projects in organizations. Project management, referred to by Fortune magazine as the #1 career choice for the coming decade, represents a skill that is in high demand by all companies, both domestic and international. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the skills needed and challenges to be faced in managing projects in organizations.
The course is divided into 14 modules, comprising a series of major topic areas relating to different elements of project management. After developing a sense of the strategic overview of project management, we will begin analyzing various components of project management such as project selection, planning, organizing, and project control. The goal is to shape the course to approximate the elements of project management and the challenges faced chronologically; that is, first considering how to plan the project and then, how to effectively run the project. The remainder of the course concentrates on making use of the theories by developing analytical and interpersonal skills in the students that will be useful to them as project managers.
This is an intensive seminar that will attempt to cover approximately one semester of material in 12 lectures. As such, the course will run from 8:00 PM to approximately 9:00 PM in the evening, twice a week.
The lecture will be on-line and recorded. It is open to R1 IEEE members at no charge, although they will have to register to the course.
This course is based on the PMBOK, however, it is not associated nor sponsored by the Project Management Institute and, as such, has not been approved as providing Professional Development Units ( PDU’s).
Course Topics:
Introduction and Expectations / Course Description:What is Project Management?, Historical context
Project Stakeholders, Strategy & Success and Organization Structure: Project stakeholder management, Strategic fit of projects, Organizational structures, Culture and projects
Important Announcement: The health and safety of students, volunteers and IEEE staffs are our top priority. Last night (3/10/2020), the IEEE Region 1 Student Conference Steering Committee reached the unfortunate conclusion that the current COVID-19 situation is beyond our control, and it has affected many schools travel plan. Hence, we decided to postpone the student conference either to December 2020, or early 2021. Once we have confirmed the new date, we will send out the e-notice, or you can check here for updates on the conference.
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