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Free project management courses with certificate

Free project management courses for engineers: initiation, scheduling and the critical path, earned value, risk, contracts and change control on technical projects, plus Six Sigma and Lean methods for running improvement projects.

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3 courses · 39 modules · 31h 16m of video · Updated 27 September 2026
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Project Management for Engineers

Project management for engineers, from the charter to the handover: initiation and feasibility, stakeholders, the WBS and the critical path, budgets and earned value, risk, contracts, FIDIC and change control, Scrum for engineering teams, closing a project, and AI as a project manager's assistant.

  • Explain what a project manager does and how it differs from engineering work
  • Write a project charter with SMART objectives, feasibility and a stakeholder map
  • Build a WBS and calculate the critical path and float
9 modules 5h 30mView course
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Six Sigma Green Belt Training for Manufacturing

The Green Belt body of knowledge worked through in order, with the arithmetic done rather than described: sigma level from DPU and DPMO, the cost of poor quality, Define with voice of the customer, CTQ, charter and SIPOC, Measure with process maps, data scales and a crossed Gage R&R study, capability with Cp, Cpk, Pp and Ppk, Analyse with the seven quality tools, FMEA, hypothesis tests, ANOVA and regression, Improve with a designed experiment, and Control with X bar R and attribute charts and a control plan production can run without you.

  • Turn a month of reject data into DPU, DPMO and a sigma level, and cost the problem
  • Fix a project with a one-page charter and a SIPOC, and write CTQs that carry a unit, a target and limits
  • Run a crossed Gage R&R and judge the gauge by percent study variation and number of distinct categories
15 modules 14h 59mView course
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Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPM

The shop-floor half of manufacturing excellence, built in the order a line is actually improved: value and the eight wastes, gemba walks and bottlenecks, lead time and takt time, value stream mapping, flow and cells, pull and kanban sizing, standard work and 5S. Then the two numbers a plant manager is judged on. OEE calculated from a real shift, the six big losses behind it, quick changeover, and total productive maintenance through its eight pillars and twelve implementation steps.

  • Calculate availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift of real line data
  • Split a shift of downtime across the six big losses and name the one costing most
  • Draw a current-state value stream map with observed data boxes, then a future state you can reach
15 modules 10h 47mView course

Compare the Project management courses

CourseLevelModulesVideoBrand
Project Management for EngineersBeginner95h 30mVendor-neutral
Six Sigma Green Belt Training for ManufacturingIntermediate1514h 59mVendor-neutral
Lean Manufacturing, OEE and TPMBeginner1510h 47mVendor-neutral

How to choose

Project Management for Engineers covers the whole life of a technical project, from charter and WBS to earned value, FIDIC claims and closing. Six Sigma and Lean are here because both are structured ways of running an improvement project.

Questions

Is this PMP preparation?
No. It covers the practical foundations engineers use on projects; PMI's certifications have their own requirements and exams.
Who is it for?
Engineers and technical leads who run, or are about to run, projects.
Why are Six Sigma and Lean here?
Both are structured methods for running improvement projects, and engineers are often asked to lead one.
Is it free, and is there a certificate?
Every lesson, note and assessment is free. The EDWartens certificate is optional and paid, and you can finish without it.