Engineering, industry & projects

1. Foundations and scoping
2. Planning scope and schedule
3. Resources, costs and procurement
4. Economic & financial analysis: earned value, project return, cash flow
5. Risk and quality
6. Agile: Scrum, Kanban and hybrid approaches
7. Steering, communicating and closing
8. Leadership, team and ethics
9. Certification prep and final review

Key labs

• Scoping a project: approach, stakeholders, scope
• Schedule and critical path
• Estimating under uncertainty: PERT and Monte Carlo

1. Reading drawings and tender documents
2. Quantity take-off
3. Estimating: direct costs, unit-rate analyses and selling prices
4. Works scheduling
5. Site management and quality
6. Site safety and environment
7. Economic & financial analysis: site budget, margin, cash flow, price adjustment and claims
8. Public contracts and FIDIC contracts
9. Case study: a four-storey building (fictional)

Key labs

• Reading a drawing: scales, areas, levels
• Take-off and bill of quantities
• Earthworks: bulking, cut and fill, plant

1. The end-to-end supply chain
2. Demand forecasting
3. Procurement: sourcing, tenders and negotiation
4. Inventory management: replenishment and safety stock
5. International trade: Incoterms 2020, customs and AfCFTA
6. Transport, freight forwarding and African ports
7. Warehousing and distribution
8. Economic & financial analysis: total cost of ownership, working capital, logistics cost
9. KPIs and continuous improvement
10. Risk, sustainability, digital and final review

Key labs

• End-to-end chain and the bullwhip effect
• Forecasting demand and measuring error
• Supplier comparison (total cost)

1. The QHSE system and ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001
2. Risk analysis and hazard assessment
3. Occupational health and safety in the field
4. Quality: processes, documentation and statistical control
5. QHSE KPIs and performance management
6. Accidents and nonconformities: root cause analysis
7. Environment: impacts, waste, regulatory compliance
8. Economic & financial analysis: cost of poor quality, cost of accidents, return on prevention
9. Internal QHSE audit, certification and final diagnosis

Key labs

• ISO standards & integrated system
• Risk matrix
• FMEA & bow-tie

1. Types of maintenance: corrective, preventive, condition-based
2. Reliability: MTBF, MTTR, availability
3. Reliability distributions and Weibull analysis
4. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
5. Organising: methods, planning and scheduling
6. CMMS and spare parts
7. Predictive maintenance: vibration, thermography, sensors
8. Performance: OEE, TPM and maintenance KPIs
9. Economic & financial analysis: life-cycle cost, downtime cost, maintenance budget
10. Case study: a food processing plant (fictional)

Key labs

• Criticality & maintenance strategy
• Reliability and availability calculator
• Weibull analysis

1. Telecom fundamentals
2. Mobile networks: from 2G to 5G
3. Propagation and link budgets
4. Radio planning: coverage and capacity
5. Optical fibre and transmission
6. Core network, IP and services
7. Towers, sites and power
8. Economic & financial analysis: site cost, ARPU, infrastructure sharing, profitability
9. Regulation, spectrum and mobile money
10. Capstone project: rolling out a rural cluster (fictional)

Key labs

• Signal, noise and capacity
• 2G, 4G and 5G rates
• Radio link budget

1. African value chains: cocoa, cashew, cotton, rubber, food crops
2. Production and productivity
3. Processing and quality
4. Marketing, prices and markets
5. Producer organisations and contracts
6. Economic & financial analysis: operating account, margin per link, crop financing
7. Sustainability, traceability and certifications
8. Case study: a cashew processing unit (fictional)

Key labs

• Value chains & price breakdown
• Yield, fertiliser & orchards
• Post-harvest & quality

1. Mathematical tools: tensors and vector calculus
2. Kinematics and strain
3. Internal forces: stress and equilibrium
4. Constitutive laws and linear elasticity
5. Classical elasticity problems
6. Energy methods and virtual power
7. Finite elements
8. Plasticity, fracture and fatigue
9. Dynamics and fluids
10. From analysis to decision: design, cost and risk

Key labs

• Tensors: operations, rotations, eigenvalues
• Kinematics and strain
• Stress and Mohr circles

1. From exploration to deposit
2. Resources and reserves
3. Open-pit mining
4. Underground mining
5. Ore processing and product sales
6. Cut-off grade and mine planning
7. Economic & financial analysis: mine model, NPV, mining taxation
8. Mining codes and agreements
9. Environment, society and mine closure
10. Capstone case: the Kouroufing project review

Key labs

• Exploration and sampling
• Resource estimation
• Cut-off grade and reserves