CEE 694: Management of Infrastructure Systems

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CEE 694: Management of Infrastructure Systems, Fall 2003 (Adams)

CEE 694: Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Fall 2003 (Wittwer)

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Catalog Description

694 Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems. II; 3 cr. Comprehensive systems approach to civil infrastructure facility and asset management with emphasis on highway pavements and bridges. Needs assessment, information management, in-service monitoring and evaluation, performance modeling and failure analysis, life cycle cost and benefits analysis, prioritization and optimization. P: Cee Sr st, Grad st, or cons inst.

Course Prerequisite(s)

See catalog description above.

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Engineering Economics

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Refer to Course Homepage for each Instuctor for the assigned readings and text.

Course objectives

Enable students to focus on infrastructure as an integrated system.
Inform students of the social, political, and economic contexts in which infrastructure is provided and decisions are made.
Prepare students for managing public works budgets, large captial investments, and maintenance expenditures.
Provide students with background on intergovernmental relationships and governance structures that affect the construction and operation of public works systems.

Topics covered

Needs Assessments, Impacts, Financing, and Performance Indicators: Factors affecting the demand and supply of public works services; Needs studies; Use analysis; Demand analysis; Impact of infrastructure on economic development; Strategies for financing public works; perfomance indicators and measures; project-level and network-level perspectives.
Framework for Infrastructure Management: Design for reliability, maintainability, supportability, and service life; Inventory and database management; Condition assessment; Performance modeling and failure analysis; Maintenance strategies, Life-cycle cost and benefits analysis; Prioritization, optimization and work programs; Maintenence Policies.
Bridge Management Systems: Project-level deterioration modeling; Bridge elements, inventory and rating systems; MR&R strategies; Agency and user costs; Network-level deterioration modeling; Optimal maintenance policies; Steady -state condition; Improvement optimization modeling.
Pavement Management: Pavement performance, condition and failure; Life-cycle cost analysis; maintenance and rehabilitation practices; Project-level and network-level concepts; condition indices and needs analysis; Prioritization and optimization when budgets are contrained; Impacts analysis.

Class/laboratory schedule

Students are required to attend two lecture periods per week. Class meets for 75 minutes twice per week.

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, but does not provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

The course includes the following considerations: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, safety, and sustainability

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

Developing teamwork and communication skills required for multi-disciplinary civil and environmental engineering projects. CEE694: Provides students with background on intergovernmental relationships and governance structures that affect the construction and operation of public works systems. Providing experiences in leadership, citizenship, and professionalism. CEE 694: Informs students of the social, political, and economic contexts in which infrastructure is provided and decisions are made. Continual improvement of programs and facilities to ensure responsiveness to the needs of civil and environmental engineering practice.CEE 694: Enables students to focus on infrastructure as an integrated system and prepares students for managing public works budgets, large captial investments, and maintenance expenditures.

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

See Course Homepage for Instuctor.

Person(s) who prepared this description

Teresa M. Adams

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Date last modified: 02-Aug-2007
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