"Direct a project" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are talking about overseeing the process of managing and executing a particular project. Example: "Tom was given the opportunity to direct a project to create a new website for the company."
Britain's Mike Newell is in negotiations to direct a project that at one point had Ridley Scott attached, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In 1954, he left the Navy to direct a project that studied the effects of fallout from nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific on inhabitants of the Marshall Islands.
A material removal control (MRC), model to achieve the optimal cutting rate control of a cutting tool during machining is established in this study, which can direct a project towards reaching maximal profit.
For sponsored projects, this role is formally defined by University Policy to be the individual designated by the University and approved by the sponsor to direct a project funded by the external sponsor.
The one individual who is designated by the entity to direct a project or program and who is responsible to the entity for the scientific and technical direction of that project or program.
One is the story itself, and two is who chooses to direct a project like this.
Her mother directs a project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that introduces people with disabilities to careers in science and engineering.
Clay Carson, who now directs a project to archive the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers at Stanford University, was 19 at the time.
Patterson directs a project that produces a simpler, cheaper, faster approach to the design of computer central processing units (CPUs).
"We are living much more cloistered lives in terms of class," said Thomas Sander, who directs a project on civic engagement at the Kennedy School at Harvard.
The dueling negotiating menus represented "maximalist" positions that may make eventual agreement more difficult, said Scott Kennedy, who directs a project on the Chinese economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
