CIVIL ENGR 290: Construction Systems

Course focuses upon the building construction industry. Buildings include many engineered systems, such as foundations, structural, and exterior cladding. Course addresses construction methods and techniques for sitework, excavation, paving, cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, masonry, structural steel, and moisture protection. Course uses case examples of individual systems.

CIVIL ENGR 491:Legal Aspects of Engineering

Legal principles and institutions germane to engineering practice; formation and performance of engineer-client and owner-contractor relationships; preparation of technical specifications; surety bonds and insurance; construction liens; contract administration; construction contract remedies; intellectual property of engineers; engineers’ obligations to society and their fellow engineers.

CIVIL ENGR 492: Integrated Project Estimating and Scheduling

Principles of estimating and scheduling for the construction industry, engineer’s preliminary and final estimates’ quantity take offs and cost and duration determinations for major items related to a construction project; use manual and computer techniques.

CIVIL ENGR 496: Electrical Systems for Construction

Basic electricity, utility systems, standards and codes, electrical construction materials, branch circuit design, motor branch circuit design, feeder and service design, estimating and management concepts in electrical contracting, grounding, lighting, telecommunications.

CIVIL ENGR 497: Mechanical Systems for Construction

Introduction to building mechanical systems. Plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection, automation/controls and process systems. Introduction to mechanical systems design and cost estimating. Mechanical system management.

CIVIL ENGR 498: Construction Project Management, REQUIRED.

Characteristics of Construction Industry; project organizations; the design and construction process; labor, material, and equipment utilization; cost estimation; construction pricing and contracting; construction planning; cost control, monitoring accounting; and management systems construction.

CIVIL ENGR 592: Construction Labor Productivity Management

Comprehensive systems approach to construction labor productivity management and methods improvement. Productivity measurements including work sampling, crew balance charts, process charts, flow diagram and others. The course also includes external factors affecting labor productivity, such as change orders, overmanning, stacking of trades and weather. An integral part of this course is the impact of safety on productivity.

CIVIL ENGR 596: Constructability Analysis

Project facility delivery process; conceptual planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, construction knowledge and experience, analysis of facility design from a construction perspective, constructability concepts.

CIVIL ENGR 698: Architecture Design for Construction

Advanced topics of special interest to seniors and grad students in construction engineering and management.

CIVIL ENGR 698: Building Information Modeling

Advanced topics of special interest to seniors and grad students in construction engineering and management.

CIVIL ENGR 698: Construction Safety

This course is modeled after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Outreach Training Program’s 30 hr Construction Safety Training. The course is designed to introduce students to the basics of safety and health hazard recognition and prevention in construction. The course will covers to construction hazards, the OSHA standard(s) and best safety practices of the topics.

CIVIL ENGR 698: Leadership Development

This course starts with learning the various concepts of leading others to accomplish a common goal. Concepts we will cover include leadership styles with self-examination, human motivation, communication and problem solving. Students will put these learned concepts to work in their chosen project using feedback to improve their leadership effectiveness. Guest lecturers will present their personal views on the subject of leadership. The lectures will provide the framework with assigned reading providing the in depth review. Examples from experience in the construction industry will be used extensively for explanation and discussion; the discussion will be applicable for any industry or organizational setting.

CIVIL ENGR 698: Lean Construction

Lean Practices and Principles is an introductory class to Lean in the construction industry. The class starts with an understanding of the origins of Lean Construction and its connection to the Toyota Production System. The class is focused around understanding the term “Value” and the difference between value adding activities and non-value adding activities. The contrast to value is waste and understanding how to identify and eliminate waste. The other main objectives of the class include understanding the term “Pull” and why focusing on pull will produce higher value than focus on point speed, appreciating how delivering a “Lean” project requires a higher level of team collaboration than is common in the construction industry today and how the Integrated Project Delivery agreements provide the appropriate incentives, understand the value of cost being an input to design rather than a reaction to design and the use of a Target Cost Approach to project management and appreciating the use of BIM as a fundamental communication tool in achieving deep collaboration and Lean project delivery.

CIVIL ENGR 698: Sustainability Science, Technology and Practice

Advanced topics of special interest to seniors and grad students in construction engineering and management.