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. Students with a Business School Real Estate emphasis may be considered for this course. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 36+ units, 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. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CVEN 3246 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Architectural (AREN) or Civil (CVEN) Engineering majors only.

    Provides an overview of the development process and proforma, investigates the interrelationship between design decisions and building costs, and evaluates the impact of each major building system on the development budget and schedule. Provides a simulated development experience where students respond to a Request for Proposal, including proformas, design, estimates and outline specifications. Department consent required. Taught intermittently.

    Teaches students to interpret commonly used financial reports in the construction engineering industry sector. Skills developed in this course will better prepare students to become competent consumers of financial information and influence future results the construction business. Models for financing public and private sector projects will also be explored. Recommended restriction, graduate standing or department consent required. Taught intermittently.

    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. Recommended restriction, graduate standing or department consent required. Taught intermittently.

    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, and various types of multicriteria decision analyses. Culminates in a larger term project. Recommended prereqs., CVEN 3227 and graduate standing or instructor consent required.

    Considers effective/efficient design of construction operations. Front end planning; construction labor relations; productivity management. Emphasizes construction productivity improvement by group field studies and discrete event simulation modeling. How 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. Recommended restriction, graduate standing or department consent required.

    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.

    Supervised study of special topics of interest to students under instructor guidance. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Provides an overview of the research process and research methods in construction engineering and management. Students will study and evaluate different research methods and designs in an aim to prepare students to conduct and evaluate research. Taught intermittently.