Professional Development Programs
Lifelong learning is a reality for every contributor, from young professionals to experienced managers. In order to thrive in today's competitive climate, individuals and corporations need to actively embrace continuing education. Earning a certificate in a specific discipline provides professionals with the knowledge, skills, and credentials needed for career advancement.
Your peers and employers recognize the value of a WPI credential. WPI's long and trusted reputation in engineering, technology, and business education represents best practices in the learning field and beyond.
Choose from over 50 workshops that offer a wide array of topics ranging from leadership and project management, to lean enterprise, geometric dimensioning, or Six Sigma. Earn a valued WPI certificate by completing five related workshops, or choose individual workshops suited to your needs. All of WPI's conveniently accessible workshops, most of which are one or two days in duration, may be taken as stand-alone classes or as part of a certificate of professional advancement.
Certificate Programs
Project Management
The workshops in this certificate series will help you save time and money by applying better project management techniques. Select, motivate, and lead project team members; acquire proven, workable techniques to help you solve your most pressing project problems; and learn methods for maintaining close control of your projects. Learn more...
Process Improvement
This set of measurable techniques shows any professional how to do work better. The focus of process improvement is to examine and change the ways of doing business so that you and your organization work more efficiently. The ideal outcome is that jobs can be done cheaper, quicker, easier, and more successfully on a regular basis. Develop the skills to reduce variation and increase customer satisfaction in this series of workshops - one of our most popular certificate programs. Learn more...
Lean Enterprise
Improving productivity, lowering costs, and bringing quality products and services to market more efficiently are hallmarks of a lean enterprise organization. Companies that employ lean enterprise strategies successfully create the industry standard of success. Learn the basic characteristics of Lean:
- high flexibility
- low inventory
- maintaining key measurements
- small (or no) repair areas
- high performance teams
- benchmarking
- strong leadership
Learn more about Lean Enterprise educational solutions at WPI.
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
This certificate program provides a means of specifying engineering design and drawing requirements with respect to actual functions and relationships of part features. Manufacturing professionals must thoroughly understand this universal engineering language to succeed in today's stringent environment. Learn more...
Leadership and Management Development
Whether you are a new manager, or an experienced manager seeking a refresher in a certain area, these workshops cover the principle areas of management:
- managing and leading teams
- communicating with and motivating colleagues
- managing resources well
- solving problems creatively
- negotiating effectively
- understanding the complexities of a global business environment
Learn more about our Leadership and Management Development workshops.
Six Sigma
This well-known quality initiative is a structured, quantitative approach for driving improvements in your organization through the use of defined metrics in manufacturing, service, and financial processes. Learn more...
Medical Device
This series of workshops offers training in the essentials of the unique demands of the medical device industry. Areas covered include
- market-driven product design
- quality assurance and regulatory affairs
- intellectual property
- international marketing
- forecasting and supply-chain management
Learn more about the unique Medical Device training opportunities available at WPI.
Access our comprehensive list of current workshops.
For assistance in selecting the right workshop(s) or certificate program, contact Sue Hicks, Senior Business Development Manager, at shicks@wpi.edu or +1-508-831-6164.
