Who should attend?
The Engineering Leadership Institute (ELI) at the University of Texas offers the Engineering Leadership Certificate program for recently promoted managers. This program is designed for engineers who have become first-time managers – of projects or people. We know that jump from being a technical individual contributor to strategic manager requires a different skill set. The Engineering Leadership Institute is your answer – with just the right mix of lecture and interactive sessions to give you exceptional tools for success!

About the courses
This program helps you to identify the problems of leading technical professionals, and to resolve them effectively. The Engineering Leadership Certificate program helps you develop the skills required to successfully manage projects and people.

The Engineering Leadership Certificate program is presented in a series of four repeating 2-day sessions offered approximately every two months. Individuals completing all topics offered in each of the sessions will receive a certificate in Engineering Leadership.

Benefits:

You will learn:

• Strategies for getting buy-in from others
• How to build a sense of mission
• How to communicate clearly with others, both engineers and non-engineers
• Processes for building successful collaborative relationships
• Techniques for developing a communications plan
• How to deliver bad news

Course Prerequisites
Participants are expected to be professionally involved in management.

Please contact us at 512.471.4875 or send us an email: Professional Development