Courses & Degree Requirements

Instructor: Yong-Woo Kim
Credits: 3
This course explores different methods used in the procurement and delivery of projects in the construction industry, including lump sum, unit price, cost-plus, design-build and construction management contracts.

Instructor: Yong-Woo Kim
Credits: 3
This course offers a study of cost management procedures applicable to the building process from the conceptual phase through owner operations, including conceptual estimating, project cost analysis and control, and value engineering and life-cycle costing.

Instructor: Joe Mahoney
Credits: 3
This course explores the site selection, permitting, design, construction and maintenance of energy infrastructure. It includes electrical production facilities and transmission, with a focus on the permitting and construction of renewable energy facilities, especially wind, solar and geothermal.

Instructors: Fady Masoud
Credits: 3
Information technology plays an important role in construction management and cost estimating. This course covers computerized construction, fundamentals of computer hardware, construction management software tools, web publishing, GPS applications and construction data management.

Instructor: Athan Tramountanas
Credits: 3
This course focuses on legal issues arising from design and construction services, with an emphasis on risk management and liability awareness. You’ll explore basic legal doctrines, the design professional/client relationship, contractor selection, the construction process and professional practice problems.

Instructor: Hyun Woo "Chris" Lee
Credits: 3
This course offers a study of heavy construction operations with emphasis on productivity enhancement. The focus is on an integrated approach to planning, modeling, analysis, and design of construction operations, as well as the use of simulation models and other analytical tools.

Instructor: Mohammad Malakoutian
Credits: 3
This course introduces construction-oriented financial management and explains why construction financial management is different than financial management in other industries. It describes how to account for a company’s financial resources and how to build the company’s accounting system. The course also examines how to manage the costs and profits of a construction company at the project level as well as at the company level; how to manage company cash flows; how to evaluate different sources of funding cash needs; and ways to quantitatively analyze financial decisions. This course requires a virtual conference with the class for approximately 1 hour per week.

Instructor: Julian Yamaura
Credits: 3
Introduces engineered lift techniques and development of support structures needed to assemble infrastructure projects on site. Major topics include determination of loads, environmental and site considerations, crane picks and rigging, use of temporary structures, and software involved in these tasks.

Instructor: Fred Aguayo
Credits: 3
This course offers the study of materials, methods and techniques associated with temporary structures used in various construction operations, including concrete formwork, scaffolding, underpinning, cofferdams, slurry trenches, earth-retaining structures and dewatering systems.

Instructor: Mohammad Malakoutian
Credits: 3
This course offers an overview of statistical measures used in various construction and materials decision-making processes. Course topics include data distributions, hypothesis tests (making decisions with statistics), regression analysis, sampling, quality control and assurance, and experimental design. The course uses construction data to illustrate these measures.

Instructor: Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Credits: 3
This course concerns the principles used in developing cost estimates for heavy construction projects. We’ll cover the interpretation of contract documents, quantity take-off, pricing, and preparation of unit-price bid documents. The emphasis is on developing cost estimates for highway projects.

Instructor: Hyun Woo "Chris" Lee
Credits: 3
In this course, we’ll examine the materials, methods and techniques associated with construction of major utility systems, including water, sewer, communications, natural gas and electrical. We’ll also explore the construction of central utility plants as well as major distribution and collection systems.

Instructor: Stephen Muench
Credits: 3
This course examines pavement construction, including pavement contracts and specifications, quality control and assurance programs, and plant and laydown operations. It includes a review of both national and international pavement construction practices.