Overview:
Courses of construction engineering and management mostly include:
1. Introduction of CM
2. Structure related courses, such as steel or concrete structure
3. Construction related courses, such as maintenance, cost estimation and time
schedule.
4. Law related courses
5. Seminar
UC Berkeley
CE 205B Load Engineering:
CE 267F High-Tech Building and Industrial Construction:
CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment:
CE 268F Management of Technology: Engineering Leadership and Teamwork:
CE 268H Advanced Project Planning & Control:
CE 268I Business Fundamentals for Engineering:
CE 290A Human and Organization Factors: Risk Assessment and Management of
Engineered Systems:
CE 290E Construction, Maintenance, and Design of Engineered Systems:
CE 290L Law for Engineers:
CE 290M (will become CE268A) Lean Construction Concepts and Methods:
CE 290N (will become CE268B) Lean Construction and Supply Chain Management:
CE 290P Strategic Issues of the Engineering Construction Industry-Management of
Complex Projects:
CE 290Q Managing the Improvement Process in Engineering-Driven Organizations:
CE 293A Technology and Sustainability:
CE 298 Graduate Research Seminar:
CE 299 Individual Research or Investigation in Selected Advanced Topics:
From the courses of UCB we can see, the school’s target is to cultivate leading
engineers and managers in the whole world, probably because it’s the top best
university in civil engineering. For example, as to the courses “lean construction
concepts and methods” and “lean construction and supply chain management”,
both courses are derived from the popular modern concept “lean” in manufacturing.
It refers to an advanced management aiming at reducing the waste as well as
improving the production process.
UIUC
CEE320 Introduction to Construction Engineering and Management
CEE420 Construction Productivity
CEE421 Construction Planning
CEE422 Construction Cost Estimating
CEE598CS Construction Case Studies
CEE598CDM Construction Data and Process Modeling
CEE598CCR Construction Conflict Resolution
CEE598CEL Construction Engineering and Laws
CEE598COD Construction Optimization and Decision Making
Although the same top best university in civil engineering as UC Berkeley, UIUC’s
courses are not the same as UCB. Most of them are very fundamental but
comprehensive, from planning, cost estimating, to data and process modeling. One
of the courses provided is case studying, which is especially important in
construction management field. Once my teacher told me that as engineering
students, we don’t have to do experiment to do research about our field, we just
have to collect former materials and study from those cases.
UMAA
CEE 431 Construction Contracting (Fall)
CEE 431 Construction Contracting (Winter)
CEE 531 Cost Engineering
CEE 532 Construction Engineering and Project Management
CEE 533 Advanced Construction Systems
CEE 534 Construction Engineering Equipment and Methods
CEE 536 Critical Path Methods
CEE 537 Building Construction
CEE 538 Concrete Construction
CEE 631 Construction Decisions Under Uncertainty
CEE 633 Construction MIS
CEE 638 Sensing for Civil Infrastructure Development
CEE 830 Construction Engineering and Management Seminar
It seems that UMAA provides courses more specific than the above two universities.
UMAA is not generally discussion several aspects of construction which should be
paid special attention by management level. Instead, its courses relate to concrete
ideas, such as soil and concrete. Well, in this sense, the courses in UMAA is
inevitably relevant to materials and structural.
Virginia Tech.
A $1 million endowment has been provided for the Construction Engineering and
Management Program in Virginia Tech's Via Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
CEE 3014
Construction Management
CEE 4014
Estimating, Production and Cost Engineering
CEE 4024
Construction Control Techniques
CEE 4074
Construction Means & Methods
CEE 4984
Designing for Hazard Control in Construction (SPRING 2008)
CEE 4984
Systems Engineering of Construction Processes
CEE 5010
Schedule Impact Analysis
CEE 5024
Contract Administration and Claims Resolutions
CEE 5034
Construction Systems Design and Integration
CEE 5044
Construction Research Presentation
CEE 5054
Construction Performance Improvement
CEE 5064
Knowledge-Based Expert Systems
CEE 5074
Construction Engineering : Means and Methods
CEE 5084
Automation in the A/E/C Industry
CEE 5600
Civil Infrastructure Systems Analysis
CEE 5640
Highway Transportation Safety
CEE 6014
Project and Company Management
There is a special course called automation in the architecture/engineering/civil
industry, which connect civil system to architecture, is rare in other universities.
Another special course is knowledge-based expert system, which uses program
language as a tool. This course requires program language experiences from the
students who are applying to take it.
Pennsylvania S U - University Park
Core Curriculum
C E 432 - Construction Project Management
C E 531 - Legal Aspects of Engineering and Construction
C E 533 - Construction Productivity Analysis and Performance Evaluation
Technical Electives
Technical electives may include, but are not limited to:
C E 410W - Sustainable Residential Subdivision Design
C E 438W - Construction Engineering Capstone Design
C E 513 - Advanced Foundation Engineering
C E 581 - Pavement Management and Rehabilitation
C E 584 - Concrete Materials and Properties
Additional courses may be selected from other branches of engineering, statistics,
economics, management, or other appropriate areas in the case of interdisciplinary
studies.
PSU’s courses are particularly focused on technical field. Although as a student of
construction management field, he is required to select several technical courses,
including capstone design, foundation engineering, pavement and concrete
materials, etc. As far as I’m concerned, it’s important to master structural
knowledge to apply to this program in PSU.
UM
Core:
ENCE 661 Project Cost Accounting & Finance
ENCE 662 Introduction to Project Management
ENCE 664 Legal Aspects of Engineering Design & Construction
ENCE 665 Management of Project Teams
ENCE 667 Project Performance Measurement
Elective:
ENCE 600 Global Project Management
ENCE 601 Program and Portfolio Management
ENCE 603 Management Science Applications in Project Management
ENCE 607 Real Estate Investment & Planning for the Project Manager
ENCE 627 Project Risk Management
Etc.
UM has a curriculum of 5 required courses and 18 elective courses. From this
proportion we can see, the program pays a great amount of attention on issues
outside of management. As my teacher once said, an effective and successful
manager should not only master management skills and knowledge, he also need
to learn lots of other things in the construction area.
As to how are the graduates students doing in their career world, the only way
occurred on my mind is to send emails to current students. I’ve sent emails to
several of them, waiting for their replies.