Graduate Courses

CEE 531. Construction Cost Engineering
Prerequisites: graduate standing and preceded or accompanied by CEE 431. I (3 credits)
Cost engineering for construction organizations, projects, and operations. Construction financing; break-even, profit, and cash flow analyses; capital budgeting. Equipment cost and procurement decisions. Construction financial accounting, cost accounting, cost control systems, databases. Cost indices, parametric estimates, unit price proposals, measuring work and settling claims.

CEE 532. Construction Project Engineering
Prerequisites: graduate standing and preceded or accompanied by CEE 431. II (3 credits)
Project, company organization. Manpower planning, procurement; union, nonunion construction. Job site layout. Material equipment procurement. Construction operation planning, supervision, measurement, analysis, improvement, automation, robotics. Dimensions of performance: safety, quality, quality of work life, productivity, innovation. Examples, cases from construction.

CEE 533. Advanced Construction Systems
Prerequisite: preceded or accompanied by CEE 431. II (3 credits)
Human-machine interactions. Automation and robotics. Ergonomics, job analysis, and job design. Work physiology, environmental factors. Occupational health and safety with focus on underlying causes and prevention of illnesses and injuries rather than on regulation. Risk, safety, and loss management.

CEE 534. Construction Engineering, Equipment, and Methods
Prerequisite: junior standing. II (3 credits)
Major construction equipment and concrete construction. Selection of scrapers, dozers, cranes, etc. based on applications, methods, and production requirements. Power generation, transmission, and output capacity of equipment engines. Calculation of transport cycle times. Concrete methods include mixing, delivery, and placement. Design of forms for concrete walls and supported slabs.

CEE 535. Excavation and Tunneling
Prerequisite: CEE 445. II (3 credits)
Selection of methods of attack for excavation of tunnels and deep vertical-sided openings. Tunneling procedures based on behavioral characteristics of soil and rock. Study of tunnel boring machines, shielded and drill-and-blast operations, linings. Soil liner interaction. Deep excavation procedures related to support of excavation systems, methods of installation and dewatering.

CEE 536 (Mfg 536). Critical Path Methods
Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing. I, IIIa (3 credits)
Basic critical path planning and scheduling with arrow and precedence networks; project control; basic overlapping networks; introduction to resource leveling and least cost scheduling; fundamental PERT systems.

CEE 537. Construction of Buildings
Prerequisite: CEE 351. I (3 credits)
Material selection, construction details, manufacture, fabrication, and erection of building structures using steel, light wood, timber, cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, and masonry; and of building materials for roof, floor, and wall surfaces. Field trips to fabrication plants and construction sites.

CEE 631. Construction Decisions Under Uncertainty
Prerequisite: CEE 405 or a course in probability or statistics such as Stat 310 or Stat 311 or SMS 301. II (3 credits)
Construction project and organization decisions for the uncertain future. Selection of construction method, equipment, contract, markup, and financing alternatives having the highest expected values. Uses decision theory, competitive bid analysis, probabilistic modeling and simulation, and multiple regression analysis in managing construction.

CEE 633. Construction Management Information Systems
Prerequisites: permission of instructor. II (3 credits)
Design of computerized construction management information systems (MIS). Introduction to databases and information management systems for computer-aided construction engineering and management. Topics include engineering data modeling issues, relational and object-oriented models, and data mining for textual and graphical information systems. Students design and implement project control subsystems as an integrated MIS and apply to construction problems and case studies.