Construction Engineering

Mission

The Construction Engineering Program Faculty strives to create a high quality learning experience for our students. The principal mission is to:

1. Provide a broad engineering education to our graduates that will prepare them for both current and future professional challenges.
2. Promote a commitment to continued scholarship and service among our graduates.
3. Foster a spirit of innovation so that our graduates are positioned to take advantage of new technology in our profession.
4. Promote an environment that is inclusive and diverse.
5. To attain prominence in key areas of Construction Engineering graduate education and research.

Program Objectives

Within the first several years following graduation, graduates should:

1. Be successfully employed or employable in construction engineering practice, or related fields and/or be continuing their studies at the graduate level.
2. Show a commitment to ethical practice and professional development by extending their knowledge through continuing education and self-directed life-long learning, professional licensure, and service to the profession and society.

Educational Outcomes

1. Graduates will solve problems that involve differential and integral calculus, differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions, and statistics.
2. Graduates will solve problems that address engineering economics issues such as life-cycle analysis and the selection of alternatives.
3. Graduates will understand estimating, scheduling, project control, resource allocation, risk management, and legal issues.
4. Graduates will be exposed to the role of an engineer involving ethics, professionalism, engineering practice and registration.
5. Graduates will demonstrate the ability to conduct experiments, collect information, and analyze and interpret data.
6. Graduates will demonstrate an ability to communicate their ideas effectively through written and oral reports.
7. Graduates will demonstrate that they have worked in teams to solve engineering problems.
8. Graduates will be aware of the need to continuously update their knowledge through registration, continuing education, and participation in professional societies.
9. Graduates will be grounded in the design of construction processes, methods, and safety.
10. Graduates will demonstrate their ability to complete a real-world comprehensive construction engineering design project incorporating the use of design and regulatory standards, and realistic constraints that could include contemporary issues such as economics, globalization, societal impact and safety.