We live in a world of global economy. In this day and age, it is hard to encounter an engineering project that does not deal with multiple countries and cultures. This book covers the challenges that an international engineering project manager encounters during the life of an international project and provides real cases to expand on these challenges. Each chapter ends with a summary checklist to provide the project manager with a list of reminders.

Chapter 1 deals with the factors that characterize an international engineering project. These factors range from technologies, virtual teams, traditions, economies, and politics to legal issues.

Chapter 2 details the responsibilities of an international engineering project manager in his worldwide environment. These responsibilities cover international team(s) leadership, motivation, filtering, being an ambassador, communications, time management, and supervising the project honeymoon period.

Most engineering project managers get involved at the technical proposal write-up phase of an international project. Chapter 3 provides pointers and tips about how to prepare a technical proposal. It also details the ways to a winning project bidding process.

When an international project is given the green light, planning the project takes an enormous amount of effort from the project manager. Chapter 4 details this initial phase of an international project. Selecting the domestic and international team members, creating a summary of project specifications and standards, creating the work breakdown structure, generating the initial project schedule, setting up the project information management system, having the project kickoff meetings, and setting up project schedule...