Courses

Broad view of concerns, activities, and objectives of people involved in construction: the owner, architect/engineer, contractor, labor, and inspector. Interactive gaming situation relates these people to the construction contract, plans/specifications, estimates/bids, scheduling, law, and financial management. Restricted to junior or senior Civil or Architectural Engineering majors only. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Civil (CVEN) or Architectural (AREN) Engineering majors only.

Integrated study of construction equipment, methods, and economics. Topics include equipment productivity, equipment selection, and construction engineering design within economic constraints. Examples include earthmoving, concrete formwork, and temporary construction. Recommended prereq., CVEN 3246. Restricted to Architectural or Civil Engineering majors only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Architectural (AREN) or Civil (CVEN) Engineering majors only.

Investigates the interrelationship between design decisions and building costs, and the impact of each major building system and building trade on project budgets and schedules. Gives students the opportunity to prepare technical, marketing, and financial packages for investors as well as regulatory and financial institutions. Culminates with detailed presentations of student-developed project prospectuses. Instructor consent required. Restricted to graduate student Civil Engineering (CVEN) or Civil Engineering Concurrent Degree majors only. Taught intermittently. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate student Civil (CVEN) or Civil Engineering (C-CVEN) Concurrent Degree majors only.

Interpreting commonly used financial reports in the construction engineering industry sector will be taught. Skills developed in this course will better prepare students to become competent consumers of financial information utilizing the same to influence future results the construction business. Models for financing public and private sector projects will also be explored. Taught intermittently. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Comprehensively studies quality and safety in the construction industry. Statistical techniques for quality assurance and control will be reviewed and applied. The course also extensively focuses on advanced safety management issues such as accident causation theory, economic modeling, safety risk quantification and analysis, design for safety, and emerging technologies. Skills developed in this course will prepare graduate students to be effective quality and safety managers or researchers.

Applies law in engineering practice; contracts, construction contract documents, construction specification writing, agency, partnership, and property; types of construction contracts; and legal responsibilities and ethical requirements of the professional engineer. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent required. Same as CVEN 4087. Taught intermittently. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Acquaints students with the fundamental principles and techniques of risk and decision analysis. Oriented toward project-level decisions in which risk or uncertainty plays a central role. Introduces students to Monte Carlo analyses, influence diagrams, and various types of multicriteria decision analyses. Culminates in a larger term project. Recommended prereq., CVEN 3227. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Considers topics associated with the effective and efficient design of construction operations. Topics include: front end planning; construction labor relations; productivity management. The course will emphasize construction productivity improvement by group field studies and discrete event simulation modeling. In-depth study of the way overtime, changes, weather, and staffing levels influence productivity. Industrial engineering techniques are applied to the construction environment to improve the use of equipment, human, and material resources. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines tools and techniques employed to control design processes and construction operations. Students apply advanced scheduling and estimating techniques, culminating in the concept of earned value project management. Introduces high tech project control tools. Recommended prereqs., AREN 4420 and 4466. Taught intermittently.

Explores organizational and managerial issues and concerns facing executives in engineering and construction organizations. Through readings, case studies, simulation exercises, and projects, students are introduced to and apply concepts of strategy, core competencies, vision, innovation, team dynamics, interpersonal influence, organizational design issues, and global projects to engineering and construction organizations. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Supervised study of special topics of interest to students under instructor guidance. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., Instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines emerging research in construction engineering and management. Students will consider and comment on research methods and designs based on their own work and that of CU faculty and other leading researchers. Aims to make CEM Ph.D students better researchers and evaluators of research methods and processes.