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Product Description Managing Externally-Funded Projects This book deals with the full spectrum of activities and skills involved in selecting the prospective client, to developing the proposal, and to executing the project at a brief but advanced level. This book encourages the performing organizations to think of externally-funded projects not simply as the efforts in preparing a proposal, but rather a continual cycle to encompass project execution and the efforts to continually improve the proposal-project cycle. This book addresses more efficient selection of proposal prospects, and more focused and more comprehensive proposals. Given that more customer-focused execution of the project, while maintaining a reasonable return on investment for the performing organization, are crucial components of this process, preferred practices in planning of project, managing the tasks, and monitoring of projects, are highlighted and discussed. About the Author Parviz F. Rad holds an M.Sc. Degree from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has over 40 years of professional experience during which he has served in governmental, industrial, and academic capacities. He has participated in project management activities and in development and enhancement of quantitative tools in project management in a multitude of disciplines including software development, construction, and pharmaceutical research. He has authored and coauthored over sixty publications in the areas of engineering and project management. Dr. Rad has been recognized as a Professional Civil Engineer, Certified Cost Engineer, and as a Project Management Professional. Dr. Rad is the former Editor of the Project Management Journal.