TCMP Courses

• CEE 431. Construction Contracting

  Prerequisite: junior standing. I, II (4 credits)Construction contracting for contractors, architects, owners. (1) Organization and administration; industry structure; construction contracts, bonds, insurance. (2) Planning, estimating, and control; quantity takeoff and pricing; labor and equipment estimates; estimating excavation and concrete; proposal preparation; scheduling; accounting and cost control. Students use contract documents to prepare detailed estimate.

• CEE 530. Construction Professional Practice Seminar

  Prerequisite: permission of instructor; mandatory satisfactory/ unsatisfactory. I, II (1-3 credits)Construction industry speakers, field trips, team projects. Student teams investigate construction technologies and work with construction industry clients as volunteer consultants to address industry, organization, and project problems. Teams prepare and present written and oral reports to seminar and clients.

• 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 CE E 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 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 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 539. Construction Management Information Systems

  Prerequisites: senior or graduate standing. (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.

• CEE 630. Directed Studies in Construction Engineering

  Prerequisite: graduate standing. I, II, IIIa, IIIb (1-3 credits) Selected reading in specific construction areas.

• CEE 830. Construction Engineering and Management Seminar

  I, II (to be arranged) Assigned reading and student reports on problems selected from the field of construction engineering and management.

• CEE 990. Dissertation/Pre-Candidate

  I, II, III (2-8 credits); IIIa, IIIb (1-4 credits) Dissertation work by doctoral student not admitted to status as candidate. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full-term candidacy enrollment.

• CEE 995. Dissertation/Candidate

  Prerequisite: Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral candidate. I, II, III (8 credits); IIIa, IIIb (4 credits) Election for dissertation work by a doctoral student who has been admitted to candidate status. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full-term candidacy enrollment.