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CEM Courses
The Vecellio Construction Engineering and
Management Program (VCEMP)
Course Number Course Name
CEE 3014 Construction Management
Fundamental elements involved in managing construction projects. Management structure, construction contracts, equipment and
labor productivity, scheduling, quality assurance, and cost control.

CEE 4014 Estimating, Production and Cost Engineering
Interpretation of plans and specifications, preparation of construction estimates, and cost control. Methods analysis, resource
requirements, and resource costs in building systems, including system components, and in large-scale civil engineering works such
as highways, bridges, and hydraulic structures.

CEE 4024 Construction Control Techniques
Techniques used to plan, schedule and control the construction process. Emphasizes manual and computer-based approaches.
Focuses on an analytical approach towards the construction process whereby good technical methodologies and solutions are
converted to reality through construction practices.

CEE 4064 Designing for Hazard Control in Construction
Design of construction projects and systems to control inherent hazards to the health and safety of construction workers, inhabitants
of the built environment, and the general public. The course will provide students with in-depth knowledge of the regulatory and legal
drivers pertinent to construction, the chemical and physical health hazards, the major classes of safety hazards, analysis tools, and
safety management processes.

CEE 4074 Construction Means & Methods
Construction means, methods, and equipment used to transform a particular design concept into a completed usable structure or
facility. Selection and optimization of individual units as well as the systems needed to produce the required work to the required
quality on time and on budget.

CEE 5010 Schedule Impact Analysis
Analysis of construction scheduling principles, scheduling specifications, contract administration, construction law, construction delay
claims, and of accepted methodologies for performing schedule impact analysis of delaying events. .

CEE 5014 Facility Delivery & Financing
Delivery and financing of constructed facilities with an emphasis uopn civil infrastructure systems. Design of project delivery systems
to encourage best value, innovation, and private sector participation. Public-private partnership strategies and factors that contribute
to success or failure. Fundamentals of project feasibility, evaluation, and finance. Case studies of large-scale infrastructure projects.

CEE 5024 Contract Administration and Claims Resolutions
This course provides students with a knowledge of the different types of contracts used in civil engineering construction. Contracts are
viewed as documents which assign responsibilities and allocate risks and emphasis is placed on contract administration as the first
step in reducing costs and easing the burden of dispute resolution. Techniques for quantifying and resolving claims are studied.

CEE 5054 Construction Performance Improvement
Skills for productivity improvement in construction, with special attention to techniques used to record and analyze operations as
required to develop and implement efficient and rewarding methods. Consideration of the human factor in generating and
implementing commitments to productivity improvements.

CEE 5064G Design for Hazard Control in Construction
Design of construction projects and systems to control inherent hazards to the health and safety of construction workers, inhabitants
of the built environment, and the general public. Regulatory and legal factors pertinent to construction, chemical and physical health
hazards, major classes of safety hazards, design processes and specificiations to control safety and health hazards, system
engineering risk analysis tools, and safety management processes.

CEE 5080 Infrastructure Asset Management
Comprehensive systems approach to civil infrastructure system and strategic-level asset management with emphasis on municipal,
highway, building, Dam, and bridge infrastructure. Course will cover various aspects of strategic-level infrastructure asset
management: systems thinking, needs assessment, information technology and GIS data management, risk and reliability
engineering, multi-criteria decision-making process, infrastructure sustainability and resiliency, demand forecasting, and renewal
engineering.

CEE 5084 Information Technology for Infrastructure and Environmental Systems
With the acceleration of the process of global revolution in science, engineering and technology, led by information technology, the
human society is in a gradual transition from an industrial society into an information society. As a new productivity with the greatest
potential at the present age, information technology has undergone great development. The incessant innovation in technology has
also urged people to make better use of it and apply advanced information technology to their own industry. In recent years,
Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Infrastructure has been transforming engineering and business practices in many sectors,
resulting in efficiency gains and improved services for the client. The infrastructure industry has been slow to utilize information
technology effectively and slower still to grasp the ways in which the multitude of design, calculation, specification, project
management, asset management, sensor technology, database and data analysis software applications relate to each other. This
course provides an overview of the range of Information Technology (IT) applications available to the civil and environmental
engineering professional throughout the life cycle of a project, from data collection and analysis through software, project
management, environmental impact analysis, visualization, and infrastructure asset management.

CEE 5130G Advanced Indoor Environmental Quality and Sustainable Facilities
Indoor environmental quality factors and associated sustainable design methods and approaches. Air contaminant sources, emission
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Indoor environmental quality factors and associated sustainable design methods and approaches. Air contaminant sources, emission
and dispersion patterns, health impacts, and control solutions. Methods of improving IEQ through material and ventilation solutions.
Applicable regulatory requirements and sustainability organization recommendations will be reviewed.

CEE 5984 (Fall 2014) Civil Engineering Network Dynamics
This course is designed to acquaint students with approaches to model the interconnections between (i) the people that live in, obtain
resources from, and travel across infrastructure, and (ii) the infrastructure over which these activities take place. A practical approach
to understand the myriad of connections that exist between people and infrastructure is to understand and analyze them as networks.
In this course, we will examine civil engineering network dynamics from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Theoretical
perspectives will be conveyed through discussions of published works on civil engineering network dynamics. We will discuss the
practice of applying network dynamics to civil engineering phenomena through assignments. The theoretical and practical elements of
the course will be synthesized in the completion of a semester-length network dynamics modeling project.



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