Content is not specific to engineering project management. Lectures are slow and cover only the most superficial level of PMBOK material, not enough for test prep and not useful if you have already taken the test. Furthermore, I finished the material but there were no assignments to grade, and was told that I had to keep paying for the course until there were assignments for me to grade. Absolute waste of time. There are much better courses out there for a lot less money.

The content is relevant, but the delivery is conventional, frontal, and at times not careful. The quiz tests are often too trivial to be a useful exercise. Grading by peers is an interesting idea, but unfortunately it does not happen in timely fashion.

Very good course! Dynamic and very well structured. I totally recommend, it provides you notions of all aspects involving the first two stage of project. I look forward doing the other parts.

Great course. Would recommend it for engineers who have collected relevant engineering experience and look for whats next in their career. Looking forward to attend the other modules as well.

I like this course very well. Well formatted and easy to understand. The lectures are engaging. Overall I am enjoying while learning from this course :)

Engineering Project Management : Initiating and Planning is one of three courses of the specialization Engineering Project Management presented by RICE University. Anyone interested to advance the project management skills, planning to take the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification under the Project Management Institute (PMI) , and/or anyone interested in learning will find this course interested.

Coursera along with RICE university provided this course, that is very useful, easy to learn, properly organised and presented.

Thank you Rice university

Thank you coursera and I don't words to praise you. I love it.

Really good course with assignments that require quite an amount of brainstorming, leaving you with a good feeling of satisfaction and more knowledge than before.

it is great starting to project management . i had already background on that subject but it was good to review and remember all knowledge in order .

Very comprehensive with a good difficulty level. Overall the instructors are doing good, but sometimes it's a bit monotone.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course, I am very busy at work but I tried to always find the time to read even 30 minutes of all the material provided. The course is helping me to push forward in becoming a project manager in the future, the material and lessons are quite good and was never bored. I felt challenged every time which got me thinking and striving to achieved the goals proposed.

This course will give in-depth knowledge of project management. Peer-graded assignments will help us a lot to think in other ways how others will proceed and learn from their assignments too.

It is a very good course for beginners, but not only for them. This course is also very useful for the experienced project managers that want to learn, apply and get a certification from PMI. The course is very well structured with very good written and video materials. The professors from the video courses are very inspiring. I highly recommend this course.

Excellent. I learned so much more than I thought I was going to learn. Excellent videos, material is well organized and presented. Assignments are very helpful, and the case study is really good. Interaction with classmates really add value and helps in analyzing your own work.

This class was high quality over all. Instructors were knowledge and the presentations were well done. Few downsides, I think this was based on PMBOK version 4 since it seemed to stray from V5 PMBOK in some respects. Second, some of the questions were not very clear and the multiple choice could have been written with more clarity.

Great Course!

The content is up to date with market practices.

Professors know profession's day-to-day and bring greats insights for career.

This is a poorly veiled attempt at selling the PMBOK book. To be clear, the core lessons and definitions that the course provides are perfectly fine. But it's a better use of your time and money to just buy the PMBOK thing and read it and take notes. It will be cheaper and you'll not miss anything. (1/4 of the 'course material' is telling you to read various chapters of that book anyway. And even though they say it's optional, some exam questions are over things not covered in the videos.)

The exams are based on memorization of definitions, not a real understanding of the concepts (always an indicator that the course is not meant to teach things, but to fail as few people as possible). The assignment grading system is calibrated to a point where you can only fail if you submit a completely empty document, or a Gary Larson comic strip or something. For each section of an assignment, you can mark it with 1, 7, 8, 9, or 10 points. And the definitions are such that, if the section *exists* in the delivered assignment, you can't mark it 1. So, the *minimum* you can get from each section is 7 points unless you are a complete idiot.

And make no mistake, there are a LOT of idiots taking this course. Easily 1/3 of the assignments I graded were either completely irrelevant documents. I actually saw, (and I'm not kidding) "a schematic of a control building from the Republic of Iraq Ministry of Electricity" submitted as a deliverable. The sad part is, that is the only one I could easily mark with 1 point in every section. Half of the other assignments I reviewed honestly didn't deserve to pass, but the rubric is so poorly (or actually, *intelligently* calibrated) that I ended up giving them a passing grade. Because god forbid, this course fails *anyone* who is paying €40/mo on this mediocre waste of time.

Just buy the book, and send the "teachers" a message telling them you bought it. I'm certain they will feel happier and more content knowing they managed to peddle that book to one more person.

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the teachers are very good. Very clear and easy explanation.

The quiz assignments and peer graded assignments helped to boost further learning and understanding.

Would be taking the next topic too.

Thanks Professor Kaz and Prof Tom and Thank you Rice University for coming up with this wonderful learning program.

A big thank you once again.

In addition to being a great First Step towards the PMP Certification, Rice University Engineering Project Management Specialization is thorough, detailed, with valuable information from experienced PM's from Rice Center for Engineering Leadership Director Kaz Karwowski and Lecturer Tom Phalen.

Course was clearly explained from the beginning. All materials and presentations were easy to follow. Definitely met my expectations! I would highly recommend this course to others who are interested in Project management, and are also on the path to getting a certification.

This course has helped me building my project management skills to a next level. The course content, instructors and the learning environment is phenomenal. I would urge everyone to complete this course and move towards specialization.

Thank you for the excellent refresher course. All the videos and animations were well laid out with great information. I will be continuing the PM Specialization and more than likely other Coursera courses.

This course will give in-depth knowledge of project management. Peer-graded assignments will help us a lot to think in other ways how others will proceed and learn from their assignments too.

It was very amazing experience with this course of Engineering Project Management : Initiating and Planning. learned a lot regarding project and handling processes in initial phase.

A very good course explained clearly by the instructors by maintaining connectivity with PMI and the content was really helpful in initializing this specialization.